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‘Northbound’
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It’s not a glorification o f som e o f the pit-
falls o f urban life for A frican A m ericans,
W aco says, but a spotlight on w hat can be an
acutely-skew ed experience living as a black
m an in w hat has been statistically show n to
be the w hitest big city core in A m erica.
“ You got the hipsters, they out there gettin ’
m oney, and all everybody else is w orried
about is gangbanging and intim idating people,
w alking around with a m ean m ug on their face.
E verybody else ju st w ants to have fun, th e re ’s
beautiful girls out here m an, w hat y a ’all d o ­
ing,” he says.
T he self-d escrib ed “D irty N o rth K id ”
w ears a gas m ask to prom ote his brand. H e
purchased the gas m ask from Israel as a
sym bol to represent Filtering negativity into
positivity, som ething he hopes listeners w ill
get from his tape.
“W hat I ’m doing is flipping the stereo ­
types,” he says. “Like so-w hat I ’m a D irty
N orth K id but look w hat I ’m doing. I ’m gonna
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more project entitled 'Northbound’ sees him dropping a host o f nods to the city,
with a knack for innate storytelling.
W aco’s 17-track project is not all focused on
the city. O n the song “H um ble” he lets listeners
know about the time his little sister was hit by
a car and hospitalized on life support. It ’ s a laid
back track produced by V ancouver-stationed
LunchTime Legends with Portland’s own Blakk
Soul belting across the chorus m aking for a
touching highlight o f vulnerability.
T o close out the album , W aco trades m u l­
tiple verses w ith R asheed Jam al and M ic
C apes, the tw o other m em bers o f his hip hop
collective called ‘T he R esistan ce.’
E ach m em ber brings som ething to the track
titled ‘D ojo,’ w ith their distinctive lyrical spars
m ixing doses o f lig h th earted n ess in betw een
bars that w ill send listen ers’ thum bs to the
replay button. T h o u g h not directly tied into
the them e o f the city, the track m an ag es to
standout as a fitting en d to the story o f
“N o rth b o u n d .”
T he album is online fo r free at datp iff.co m
a n d a ls o a v a il a b le f o r p u r c h a s e a t
glenn w aco 101 .b an d cam p .co m / for $ 10. Y ou
can follow G lenn W aco on T w itter @ G lenn
W a c o an d “ lik e ” h im o n F a c e b o o k at
faceb o o o k .co m /g len n -w aco .
King Rawzky, also known as
Antonio PettyJohnBlue.
Rapper King Rawzky
Makes Splash
B o m w ith alco h o l and dru g s in his sy s­
tem , A ntonio P ettyJonnB lue says the w orld
d eem ed h im a lost cau se b efo re h e could
w alk. N ow , th e 31 -y ear-o ld n o rth east P o rt­
lan d n ative is p u sh in g a sig n atu re style
h e ’s d eem ed “rh y th m and p leasu re” under
the stage n am e K ing R aw zky.
W ith early influences like M ichael Jack-
son, P rin ce, M arv in G ay e, an d S tevie
W o n d er h e h opes that h e can ch an n el the
talen t o f these leg en d s to b eco m e a super-
star vocalist an d p erfo rm er him self.
F ueled b y the in stab ility o f b ein g a fo s­
te r ch ild c o u p led w ith the h ard sh ip s o f
liv in g in w hat w as once one o f P o rtla n d ’s
g hettos, K ing R aw zk y says it h e is a b etter
artist b ecau se o f th ese pains.
“M y m o th e r’s side o f the fam ily is w here
I d ev elo p ed m y ab ility to m o v e and ser­
en ad e c ro w d s,” h e says. “M y fa th e r’s
m usical gift as a p ro fessio n al p erfo rm er
and teach er o f m u sic is w here I g o t m y soul,
rhythm , and fu n k .”
A s the c h ie f ex ecu tiv e o fficer o f his ow n
label, R aw zk y R ecords, K ing R aw zk y says
h e lo o k s to serve as a ro le m o d el to the
y o u th on a jo u rn e y h e h opes also b ring h im
stardom .
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