On Feb. 11th the Anti-Mall came to Downtown Santa Ana, CA. at El Centro Cultural de Mexico. Taino Sunz were more than happy to come through and perform for the artists, vendors and everybody that was there.
I put together this video from the footage I got at the event.
ENJOY!

From the debut EP release “The Break of Dawn” by Taino Sunz
Lyrics: HecVortex & Quique Cruz
Production: Quique Cruz

DOWNLOAD HERE:
http://ebsmuzik.bandcamp.com/album/the-break-of-dawn

A mixtape the Joint Chiefs put out in 2010, featuring some of the banginest Dilla Dilla, Beats Beats! This was Prime Meridian & Quique Cruz’s first collaborative effort as the Joint Chiefs. 

Click the pic to DOWNLOAD the FREE Mixtape

Or just listen HERE:

Here  are the videos that were done from the joints in this mix. KEEP IN MIND that these are my 1st video productions… so… Please… NO CLOWNING!!! HA!

We are now at a point in history where it has been made quite apparent that the recolonization of Afrika is in full swing.
I, Quique Cruz, wrote & recorded this song to uplift the spirits of Afrikan people… on the continent… and in the diaspora.
I invited long time friend & traditional Afrikan drumming instructor Jah-Amen Mobley, brother to the legendary Leon Mobley, to help me give this song a REAL Afrikan feel. And that’s exactly what he did. Shout out to Knox Stedy for coming through with the beat.

“We Give it up for the Motherland/
We live it up for the Motherland/
We stand up for the Motherland/
We give it up for Mama Afrika/”

DOWNLOAD HERE:

A romantic compilation of EBS Muziks love joints. Featuring the underground classic by Quique Cruz “I Still Love You” with Dcap Won & LDonTheCut
Including a special remix of I Still Love You… beat provided by Kiza (Belgrade, Serbia).
Also, the sensual smasher “Come On” by Savvy featuring Quique Cruz

AVAILABLE NOW!!!

El Centro Cultural de México & El Puente..hacia la esperanza invites you to join us for the first ‘Anti-Mall: People B4 Profit’ marketplace in Santa Ana! One of a kind items made by ARTivist & Cooperatives.

FREE Family Event! / GRATIS para toda la Familia!
Sat. Feb. 11th 2012 from 11am to 5pm

***LIVE MUSIC/PERFORMANCES*** ***FOOD/COMIDA***

The Anti-Mall marketplace is produced by ‘El Puente…hacia la esperanza’ to provide a space for ARTivist, Performers, Organizations & Conscious Consumers to come together and invest their money, time and energy into putting PEOPLE b4 Profit.

Partial List of Performances:
* Son del Centro – http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/sondelcentro
* Nancy Sanchez – www.nancysanchezmusic.com
* Taino Sunz – http://ebsmuzik.bandcamp.com/album/the-break-of-dawn
* DJ Michelle – www.ocweekly.com/bestof/2011/award/best-dj-1143943/
* El Centro’s Youth Folklorico Group
* Aparato! – http://www.reverbnation.com/aparato
and many more.

Partial List of participating vendors:
* Emma’s Hip Bags and mobile thrift store
* Jose Ramirez – prints, calendars, magnets and more
* Areceli Silva – all hand made silver jewelry
* Yerberia Mayahuel – hand made soaps, oils and more
* Ana Sanchez – Luna Marina Creations
* Jacky Elastica – bags and more made of recycles plastic bags
* Martha Hernandez – jewelry inspired by nature
* Diana Tellez – unique clothing and accessories
* Javier Orozco – jewelry for both her and him
* Nayeli Guzman – BlackGold
* UrbanXic
y muchos mas

Check our website for the list of ARTivist Vendors that will be selling their great products and services that day. There you will also be able to link to their sites and check out their work.

Get event updates at:
www.theantimall.weebly.com
www.facebook.com/antimall1

Taino Sunz on a mission!!!!

Dedicado a la gente que sigan luchando por la independencia de Borikén!
QUE VIVA PUERTO RICO LIBRE!!!

Hasta Poder Vencer (remix) feat. Morbius, Sha-King & MC Natra (Produced by Quique Cruz)

Dedicated to people who continue to fight for the independence of Borikén!
FREE PUERTO RICO!!!

Graphics work in the video by Vagabond.

DOWNLOAD NOW: Taino Sunz "The Break of Dawn"

The Taino Sunz are Quique Cruz and HecVortex, two sunz of Boriken who have risen in the East and settled in the West. Through community activism and Hip Hop they shine their light and
fight for what’s right… ’til the Break of Dawn.

The 8 track cd, features the heat of traditional Boom Bap beats by Quique Cruz
and fiery bilingual lyrics by Quique and Hec, as well as collaborations with Morbius of The Sargonites (NYC), Sha-King (Pittsburgh, PA), and MC Natra (Vieques PR).

The Taino Sunz will surely turn up the temperature with blazing new
music… ushering in a new dawn.

AVAILABLE NOW - Joint Chiefs "Joint Venture" EP

It’s the Joint Chiefs! Quique Cruz, Prime Meridian & Phrymestar teamed up to bring to you some good, old fashioned, hardcore Hip Hop… fully loaded with hard rhymes, raw beats & dope cuts. Featuring tracks from Flip The SoulFisher & Knox Stedy. Also, featuring Santa Ana veteran Maylay Sage. The EP is free to download, just submit your email and you’ll be sent a link. Or, if you would like to make a donation to EBS Muzik to be invested into future releases, feel free to name your price. Thanx to all for the continued support.

So, please, do yourself a favor and get this album… NOW!

Knowledge the Wisdom

DOWNLOAD NOW: "Truth Translator" by Supreme Logic Bo'Kem Allah (Quique Cruz)

FREE DOWNLOAD: Download & Share with your friends…

Truth Translator (Lyrics)

Verse 1:
I’ll take a deep breath ’til there’s no more oxygen left to inhale/
And hold it until my skin pale/
Then exhale like the sex well/
You know I keep the birds chirpin like Nextel/
I flex well call me the God Body Builder/
I build with words and spill the verbs/
All over the track like maple syrup on a short stack/
I did it from the giddyup like a horseback/
I force cats to forfeit get off it/
I swear on any other beat I’ll be like off wit… his head/
But this one here imma cool out/
Why pull a tool out when I could pull a jewel out/
Why go the fool rout like an 85er/
If you’re a savage I come to civilize ya/
I wax poetics give you Supreme Alphabetics/
My Borikemetics will work your mind like calisthenics/
I’m Aziatic deal with Supreme Mathematics/
I’ll make the satanic panic and run frantic/
Across the Atlantic back to the island of Patmos/
I gave you an inch and you ain’t even that close/
To the Universal Translator translating/
Universal truth through the microphone both/
You want proof the Blackman is God/
I’ll show & prove yo it ain’t that hard/

Chorus:
It’s in my nature to be a truth translator/
It’s in my nature na, na, Natty by Nature/
It’s in my nature to be a truth translator/
Standing at the podium ready to debate ya/
It’s in my nature to be a truth translator/
It’s in my nature na, na, Natty by Nature/
It’s in my nature to be a truth translator/
The Blackman is the owner and the maker/

Verse 2:
Now, that’s an actual fact/
A scientific observation placed upon a track/
That’s right & exact, just check the facts in your history/
And realize that God is not a mystery/
Allah is seen and heard everywhere/
The Arm, Leg, Leg, Arm, Head never disappeared/
So, listen here cuz the truth is crystal clear/
Yo, it’s like scientific non fiction diction here/
From genetic dominance to historical prominence/
To knowledge who is God takes common sense/
Question: Who fathered civilization across the planet?/
Who taught all the sciences of life and mathematics?/
Who built societies of freedom, justice and equality?/
Answer: The Asiatic Blackman, no apology/
Supreme Bein all eye seein/
The Blackman is God and the devil is European/
If you’re agreein then say Y Equals Self/
If not then do the knowledge, take the book off your shelf/
Question: Who systematically raped robbed and ravaged/
Original people around the world like a savage?/
Question: Who managed to damage our self-esteem which is lower than average
Answer: The Whiteman with his emotional baggage
From having to suffer throughout the Ice Age
And we were chillin in the sun not knowing what was to come

Chorus:
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released 31 December 2011
Written by Supreme Logic Bo’Kem Allah (Quique Cruz)
Beat by KIC
Produced by Quique Cruz
Mixed & Mastered by Quique Cruz
Featuring Divine Understanding Born Allah

Dylcia Pagan is a former Puerto Rican Political Prisoner and Prisoner Of War who served 20 years in US prisons for struggling to free her country, Puerto Rico from US colonial rule. This short film is a brief highlight of her life as told by Dylcia herself.

For more information on Dylcia check out her website…

http://www.dylciapagan.com

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Dylcia Pagán was born in 1946 at the controversial old Lincoln Hospital, in the Bronx, in New York City. At the age of two she moved to El Barrio – East Harlem. From the time she was five until the age of 12 she performed on “The Children’s Hour on NBC TV, every Sunday morning. Having lost her parents at the age of twenty, Ms. Pagan became an independent woman and activist in her community of East Harlem.

Her involvement began in the civil rights movement, participating in voter registration drives and doing community organizational working in the areas of housing, health, youth development and research. She also worked for (CDA) Community Development Agency evaluating poverty programs throughout the City of New York. In the late 60’s Ms. Pagan ran for public office as a candidate for District Leader. She also ran as a delegate to the Democratic Convention on Shirley Chisholm’s ticket during her presidential candidacy.

In 1969 she decided to attend Brooklyn College on a full time basis after attending Hunter College at night. As a student at Brooklyn College she was one of the founders of the Puerto Rican Student Union which resulted in the formulation of a student-controlled Puerto Rican Studies Department, which is still in existence today.

By the early 1970′s, she worked with the Puerto Rican Media and Education Council, filing a series of lawsuits against the major television stations which facilitated the local public affairs programming that still exists today. She is the first Puerto Rican Woman TV producer in New York City and has worked as a TV producer, writer, and filmmaker developing investigative documentaries and children’s programs at NBC, ABC, CBS, and PBS. She also worked as the English editor for the first bilingual daily, El Tiempo and wrote a daily, popular column, for the same newspaper.

In 1978 she established a film and photography school in East Harlem and was subpoenaed to a grand jury concerning the arrest of her, then companion, William Morales. At the time of his arrest Dylcia was three months pregnant and refused to testify becoming a Grand Jury Resister. After the birth of her son Guillermo, she worked for El Museo del Barrio producing a series of summer concerts.

Sometime in 1979 she went underground with her son and was arrested in 1980,  charged with Seditious Conspiracy, for fighting for the Independence of Puerto Rico and was sentenced to 63 years of imprisonment in state and federal facilities in the USA.

When she was arrested in 1980, her young child, whose safety she feared for, was hidden from the government. In prison she developed educational and cultural programs for the other inmates, has taught aerobics classes, hand formed ceramics and block printing. She also created a theater company “The Caged Bird Players” which presented eight theatrical productions. She was a member of the Steering committee for the Children’s Center, organized and coordinated “Children’s Day”, an annual day dedicated to the children of the inmates who were allowed to visit inside the prison and share activities with their incarcerated parent.

Ms. Pagan was also responsible for creating a Holistic health program for the female inmates who provided a series of workshops in many self healing aspects including creative writing, painting and expressive skills. She provided the Spanish speaking inmates with weekly holistic workshops for the 500 hour drug preventive program. During her lasts four years of incarceration she organized and coordinated an annual Art Show so that the female inmates could exhibit and sell their art to the public that were allowed to come and view the exhibit.

During her prison stay she also worked on and was featured in three documentaries. “The Pleasanton Five”- about the five Puerto Rican political prisoners including herself, housed in the Federal facility of Pleasanton California at that time. “Woman’s Voices” a documentary about several woman who participated in a therapeutic holistic program at the prison. She and her son are featured in this half hour piece. And “The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez”- the award winning documentary that aired on PBS nationally on July 30, 1999 about the year that she and her son get to know each other after many years of separation. It also contains a historical political overview of Puerto Rico and the reasons Ms. Pagan choose to defend her country.

On September 10, 1999, Dylcia Pagan was released from prison after serving almost 20 years for fighting for the Independence of her homeland Puerto Rico. Her release came after a long campaign in the US, Puerto Rico and internationally, which pressured President Clinton to give her and nine of her co-defendants, a Presidential Conditional Clemency.

Since 1999 Dylcia has been residing in her native Puerto Rico where she was received by thousands of supporters as a national hero. She has worked for one of the major film companies, Paradiso Films, co-producing the commercials for the Independence Party Gubernatorial candidate, Dr Ruben Berrios Martinez. She has also worked for the International Book Fair as the producer of a CDROM and also has been the producer/co-director for Farrique Pesquerra Studio, involving photography shoots for commercial products and commercial print work.

In 2001 she worked at Tech Group Inc. a Puerto Rican Women owned IT Solutions company which has been in operation for the past 18 years, as the Director of Web Development and Multi-media. In this capacity she has artistically directed numerous websites for private and governmental agencies, written and produced several CD-ROMs and has made presentations on Website Development to the Chamber of Commerce of Puerto Rico.

Since 2002 to present  she has  been working as director and producor of a one an a half hour, bi-lingual documentary titled “Mujeres N Women”,about the five Puerto Rican Nationalist Women; Isabel Rosado, Blanca Canales, Doris Torresola, Carmin Perez and Lolita Lebron, all considered to be National Heroines. She has received numerous grants for the project from the following: from El Institute of Culture of Puerto Rico, The Women’s Office of Puerto Rico. Councilwoman Margarita Lopez, and several other foundations in Puerto Rico and the US. The trailer for this documentary is scheduled to be completed by Spring 2009.

Dylcia Pagan: Borikwa patriot and former political prisoner