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The anti-hero is back for the holidays in Harold and Kumar’s 3-D Christmas. DANNY TREJO has acted alongside Hollywood’s most famous actors such as Johnny Depp, George Clooney, Al Pachino, Robert Dinero, Nicholas Cage, and many others. His journey to stardom is one most people would not want to travel. From armed robbery, heroin addiction, and serving 11 years in prison, where he’d win boxing titles in San Quentin. He recently starred in his first starring role at age 51, but the questions most people are asking often “Is his machete getting rusty or his he just sharpening it up?” (continued on page 40)

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CALLE 13 Entren Los Que Quieren Plenty of hubbub —everything from comedy, politicks, to controversy—follows the Puerto Rican hip-hop

duo Calle 13. Their penchant for high jinks not with standing, the stepbrothers have consistently given voice to an underlying ethic of resistance, one that’s never been quite as vociferous as it is on their fourth and latest album, “Entren Los Que Quieran.” In “Calma Pueblo,” lead vocalist/MC Rene Perez Joglar (a.k.a. Residente) takes aim at everyone from the pope and the White House to Sony Music, the group’s record label. Rock-rap beats and freak electric guitar shore up the invective, the latter courtesy of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of the Mars Volta. Resolutely global in scope, the expansive village that Residente describes is anything but quiet. Updating the eerie atmospherics of spaghetti western soundtracks, “La Bala” (Spanish for bullet) paints bloody scenes evocative of drug wars and military coups — and of the violence-steeped prose of Cormac McCarthy. In the head-bobbing “Digo Lo Que Pienso,” Residente boasts that he always speaks his mind, regardless of the ill effects that such defiance might have on the group’s popularity. Crafting the beats is Residente’s stepbrother, Eduardo Jose Cabra Martinez (a.k.a. Visitante), whose music is as globally conscious as the band’s message. Bollywood and reggaeton, for example, converge on the libidinous “Baile de los Pobres.” Indigenous Latin American wind and percussion instruments add mystical overtones to “La Vuelta al Mundo,” even as ska and other rhythms drive “Vamo a Portarnos Mal,” their exuberance - and revolutionary fervor - making Calle 13 sound like Puerto Rico’s answer to the immigrant punk collective. Bill Friskis-Warren

BODEGA PLAYLIST VINNIE PAZ: KEEP ON MOVIN’ - FYAHBWOY: ALIANZA NO TRATA - SLAUGHTERHOUSE: PUT SOME MONEY ON IT REMIX feat THE LOX ANITA TIJOUX: OBSTACULO - PITBULL&SENSATO: LATINOS IN PARIS - MAYHEM LAUREN: I GOT THE FEVER - GAB GOTCHA: HUMILITY - CEROMUNDO: CHICHA NACH: VOCALES - IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE: YOUNG LORDS feat JOEL ORTIZ, CF, PUMPKINHEAD - SICK JACKEN: THE SICKSIDE feat B-REAL - MURS: FIRST LOVE

Voy a partir de cero / Los últimos de la fila luego serán primeroQuien sabe si el villano luego será caballero El traje sólo tapa lo que se encuentra por dentroDentro y afuera quemare mis cartuchos / Sentir la pólvora quemando de mis puchosDe poco a mucho, aplastar la mala racha / Si la vida me apunta mi autoestima se agacha Cha, cha, cha, cha, cha...Para partir muriendo / salir de los escombros y reírme en mi entierroAbraza mis demonio cuando querías mi asiento Pero el puesto está ocupado nena llámate mi miedo.Voy a partir mirándome, Por ésta boca se rima y por ésta boca se comeMi boca come y rima y ya no hay quien me la controle Es parte del todo y de mi mejore roleOh que, luego, para partir en quinta, Mi estanque se llena sólo cuando le pongo tintaQue no freno sólo acelero de forma distinta, Lo que te capacita es la potencia que te habita

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IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE THE MARTYROne of the few consistent artists and is hardly an emcee that floods the Internets with disposable

nonsense. In fact, it’s been quite the opposite. ‘Tech is an artist who releases just enough quality music to leave the public hungry for more. While his next full official album, The Middle Passage remains a work in progress, Immortal Technique returns with The Martyr, a free album that puts most commercial releases to shame. From the outset, he instructs—because it is more of a directive than a suggestion— listeners to “burn this for every single mutha f***a you know.” From there listeners are taken on a 15 track opus that finds the Viper Records head at his best. The beauty of listening to an Immortal Technique album is that you’ll either a) learn something new that requires further reading b) hear something of histori-cal significance rarely spoken of in hip-hop or c) a combination of both. Immortal Technique is like the super cool high school history teacher that teaches out of the approved text book, but tells you which passages are suspect. Lyrically, Immortal Technique is sharp through-out, but the album’s features add an extra punch. Styles P pops up on “Black Viking,” and Joell Ortiz lends a verse to “Young Lords.” But it’s Brother Ali who comes through the hardest. On “Civil War,” alongside Chuck D and Killer Mike, Ali goes to bat for American Muslims, “Heard you need putting fear inside your heart, make you burn Qu’rans and tell me not to build a mosque. Me, my wife and babies we ain’t never made jihad, we just want to touch our heads to the floor and talk to God, ask him to remove every blemish from my heart..” On “Rich Man’s World,” he abandons the role of rhyming in favor of the underdog to assume the role of the corrupt one percent. The sinister, bouncy delivery puts this track among his best work. Elsewhere on the album, Immortal Technique tackles pop culture and dismantles traditional physical aesthetics on “Natural Beauty.” It’s substantive enough for hard core hip-hop fans with a mellow beat. If you want to introduce your female, radio addicted friends to I.T., this is the song.While the album doesn’t break any new ground, it doesn’t have to – I.T. was light years ahead of most of his peers, subject wise, from the beginning. Despite that, The Martyr goes hard from start to finish, —Anthony Springer Jr

New York is the mecca to many music movements from broadway, punk, and to the

Hip-hop culture. A lot of clubs have some kind of open mic event. La Conekta is building a cult following for the open mic scene and is changing the way showcases are organized by creating a networking atmosphere and allowing artists to get connected to photographers, producers, studio engineers, lables, etc. La Conekta has paved the way for underground artist that rap in different languages or that come from different countries to unite and be part of a movement. It was first organized by Calle Cardona a Colombian rapper from Corona, Queens and Dj O-Incredible. The first Conekta event was presented at the famous Bowery Club in Manhatten. Monthly it will have established artists such as

The Beatnuts, Cuban Link, Afrika Bambata, Sadat X, Reychesta, Gab Gacha, Del Patio, Triple Seis, and many others be the headliner and upcoming or local talent on the bill. La Conekta has branched out into different citys like the Washington DC area, Boston, Philadelphia, and Miami. La Conekta allows artist from each of the citys to network so that the local artist have the opportunity to visit other citys and gain a new fan base. In December of 2011 the Washington DC area celebrated their 3 year anniversary event. It turned out to be a great success and it inspired people to listen to different type of music other than what they hear on the radio or what they see on the TV. For a lot of new and upcoming artist it was their first time seeing a real live Hip-Hop show. It seperates the rappers from the mc’s. Estevan Palasquesea

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