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Native Guns


June 08, 2007 | Tags: Hip Hop, West Coast, Dope, Native Guns, Bambu, Kiwi

                So I’m talking to my homeboy that records rappers, I’m telling him how the internet has a million and one ways to market your music for free. MySpace, YouTube, all that, then he goes “Oh, you gotta check MySpace for these cats I seen at a show, look up Native Guns” So I look them up, they’re cool, but I don’t pay that much attention. Fast forward to a month later, I’m thinking to myself, since I have the opportunity, I should do more to promote this west coast shit. Not the same old shit that everybody has already heard, some all new shit. After really listening, I knew I had to come with these cats first….



“Never dumbing this down, I know you’re smarter than that…”
Kiwi “Kombat”



                Native Guns are a testament to what I’ve been saying since day one, the west is diverse. The Native Guns consist of Bambu and Kiwi, two Filipino emcees holding it down for L.A. /San Francisco. Their DJ holding it down for the Chinese Americans, is Dj Phatrick. There CD “Barrel Men” which dropped last year starts off with a gang initiation (into the Native Guns) then goes everywhere. From the anti-war marches to Southeast Asian sweat markets, the Native Guns takes you there. “Barrel Men” has a little of everything, an ode to the groups favorite hip hop acts (“1995”), joints to bang (“Champion”), storytelling (“Treason”), battle raps (“Kombat”), and of course the dedication to the opposite sex (“Right There”), and none of it comes off as forced. This isn’t that “I wish things were different, cuz things should be better” type of rap, this is “I’m out trying to get shit changed” hip hop. “Barrel Men” brings lyrics, beats, and purpose consistently, something that a lot of these “major” label releases don’t do.



“How many Republicans does it take to screw a bulb in?/ One to buy the bulb and the other to direct the Mexican/The El Salvadorian or the… Filipino/Any other brown yellow or black people/How many Democrats does it take to screw a light in?/None, you do the light, they take the credit for the trying”
Bambu “Funny”



                Native Guns have done two mixtapes, “Stray Bullets Vol. 1” and “Stray Bullets Vol.2”. I haven’t heard Vol.1, but Vol.2 is definitely laced with dopeness. They have remakes like “C.R.E.A.M” or “Cash, Roof, Eat A Meal”, “Cake” (where they give the beat what it should have had from get go), and originals like “Til We Free”, the posse cut “Gangstas and Guerillas”, and one of my favorites “Funny”. On “Funny” the duo flips known jokes to fit reality, and reality into jokes. The CD also includes remixes of tracks from the CD “Barrel Men” like the jackin for beats version of “1995” done by their DJ Phatrick. Phatrick flips the beats of the artist they’re rapping about on the beat, and throws in a Dilla tribute near the end. Throw in a collabo with a respected underground emcee of the same nationality, Roscoe Umali, and the mixtape is complete.  You can check “Til We Free” on the Native Guns MySpace. The duo of Kiwi and Bambu are hella dope…now for the good and the bad….



                The good, Native Guns will be hitting twice as many spots. The bad, they won’t be doing it together. My original plan was to go heavy on these kats, but after “Stray Bullets Vol. 1” “Barrel Men” and “Stray Bullets Vol. 2”, the Native Guns are going there own separate ways. I haven’t heard Kiwi’s upcoming mixtape yet, but I have a copy of Bambu’s second album “I Scream Bars for the Children”…quite dope. It has that same Native Guns feeling, except more street, more political. Bambu gets his Dead Prez on with tracks like “Pull it Back” where the track ends with him chanting “Now burn a flag, burn a flag”. I don’t want to go too deep into “I Scream Bars…” cuz I can’t bring you shit from Kiwi’s solo project (go to his MySpace page and check out “Imagine” off his 2003 solo, then with that, imagine how vicious his solo will be if he brings more  songs like that), so I might have to bring these dudes back another Friday with an update on Kiwi, and more info from Bambu’s solo.



MySpace pages: 
Native Guns
Bambu
Kiwi
DJ Phatrick




                Do yourself a favor and check these dudes out. Cali is far past active, it’s just a shame we don’t have artist like this representing in the mainstream, but that’s nothing new. I’m gonna continue to bring you the dope west coast underground/indie/unsigned kats bringing the quality music every Friday.



 



 



 



 







 





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