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X-Clan tours with…Insane Clown Posse?!
Since reforming X-Clan a few years ago, Brother J has been doing what any elder statesman worth his salt does: tour all over the place and cash in on those golden classics. In the last year alone he’s toured with Jurassic 5 and Public Enemy, in addition to releasing Return from Mecca, the group’s first album since 1991’s Xodus.
Old timers who remember the Blackwatch Movement and the sometimes-rancorous debates they generated in early Nineties New York neighborhood politics may have blanched when Return from Mecca dropped via Suburban Noize, an L.A. imprint founded by Daddy X of rap-rock group Kottonmouth Kingz. Not very revolutionary, but at least they’re getting the music out there. But a tour with Insane Clown Posse?
Yes, on April 28 X-Clan will embark on a national tour with Insane Clown Posse, the Juggalo-promoting gangsta rappers who wear clown face makeup. Insane Clown Posse gets respect in some quarters of the Midwest for creating an independent music empire. But man…X-Clan sure has changed since Brother J rapped, "I once knew a cave boy who tried to act black/Give a gas face and you might get slapped!" Just saying.
Tour dates are below.
X-Clan & PE band for West Coast run
Can’t get enough of X-Clan? Missed Brother J and Co. during their opening stint on Jurassic 5’s summer tour? The Blackwatch raptivists are now opening for Public Enemy on their world tour. Try to keep your heckling to a minimum when PE hits the stage, though. Chuck D. won’t appreciate it if you ask him why he keeps defending Flavor of Love.
X-Clan postpones Mecca until 2007
In an Oct. 18 MySpace bulletin Brother J announced that X-Clan is postponing its comeback album.
"Suburban Noize and the X-Clan music group have both agreed that the best time for this product to drop would be February 2007," writes Brother J. Founded by Daddy X of Kottonmouth Kings, the rap-rock and funk-metal Suburban Noize imprint is releasing X-Clan’s Return from Mecca. "This album is not just an average release," Brother J promises. "It is the blueprint for the new millennium of conscious writers, artists, and music consumers that don’t have a consisent source to inspire them. This album feels pure like when I first recorded To the East, Blackwards in 1990."