Beat Cartel Presents: Boycott Christmas Hip Hop producers release single off new album
December 17, 2014 – San Diego, CA With just 8 shopping days left before Christmas rapper Truth is telling consumers to “Boycott Christmas,” a song released off the new album Beat Cartel Presents: The Fifth Column.
The song opens up with media clips stating, “Another young black man shot and killed by police.”
Rapper, and social activist Truth spreads his message in the song to “Boycott Christmas” as he discusses “our babies” being killed, but the police officers are not paying for their crimes. He asks that black people not spend their money during Christmas to protest the injustices happening in this country.
“My motivation for writing Boycott Christmas was the activities that took place leading up to the unrest in Ferguson Missouri,” said Truth.
“By boycotting retail this holiday, we remind America just how important our consumerism really is to the American economy.”
Rapper Truth goes through the names of the most recently publicized stories of unarmed African Americans that were allegedly killed by police officers. Timothy Russell of Cleveland, Ohio, Kendrec McDade of Pasadena, California, Jordan Davis of Jacksonville, Florida, Oscar Grant of Oakland, California, Trayvon Martin of Sanford, Florida, Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri and Kimani Gray of Brooklyn, New York.
“Since working with Truth on this song, he mentioned to me how the list of murdered blacks teens by police has more than doubled,” said producer E-NYS of Beat Cartel.
“The social relevance to this song speaks to the current times in America,” said E-NYS. “The anger in rapper Truth’s voice, is an anger that I myself feel as well as others in the Hip Hop and African American community.”
To listen or download: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/beat-cartel/id320343147
About Beat Cartel: Beat Cartel began in 2001 by two brothers E-NYS and JOB, who took their love for Hip Hop; the music and the culture, to produce beats. Beat Cartel’s sound is versatile, incorporating the styles of old school hip hop, while adding a new school flavor to their hypnotic beats.
E-NYS and JOB live Hip Hop and want to bring the music back to its roots. They believe that the origins of Hip Hop were to deliver a message, and somewhere along the way the message was lost.
Both brothers have put together their skills, knowledge, influences, and love of the Hip Hop culture to produce the most potent and addictive drug to hit the streets, MUSIC.
Beat Cartel: www.beatcartelmusic.com
About Truth: Rapper Truth born and raised in Pasadena, California started rhyming in 1987. He has been compared to Big Daddy Kane and rapper Rakim. He has a true West Coast flavor. He is well-versed in multiple Hip-Hop styles and he prides himself on being a master lyricist. Battle, Studio, Stage presence? Truth is the total package! His hardhitting, socially conscious music is poised to become the soundtrack of a revolution!
