Rock and roll has been awaiting the coming of Game Rebellion for a long time: An all Black, all outta Brooklyn band whose metal, punk and rudeboy skanking licks sound as credible and crunchy as their Hip-Hop lyrics and head-bobbing bounce. Game makes the difficult sound effortless and the miraculous seem second nature: A hard rock band with a B-boy MC who can actually spit? No problem. A street worthy mixtape of hiphop anthems created by a band that actually rocks and flows? No problem.
Game Rebellion has been making big waves on the New York Afro-punk/Black Rock scene for about three years. In that short time they’ve ventured out even further out to slam heads rock houses and muddy the lilywhite waters of alt-rock from NYC and Cali to Puerto Rico and the UK. They just may be the best-kept secret in music right now (their vaunted endorsement sealed with a kiss from Sade notwithstanding).
A band of rowdy brothers with higher education pedigrees — Yohimbe and Netic have college paper, Chief Med is a qualified acupuncturist. They’ve got skills on the mic with book learned brains and aren’t afraid if today’s dumb and dumbered-down Hip-Hop knows it. The rebels are no strangers to the classroom, the rehearsal studio, the protest line or as one might suspect, the police.
So when are you gonna give their brand of gangsta-militancy a listen?
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Chief Med knows acupuncture? Excellent– and better than that dude “Doctor Fink” who used to play with Prince! I’ve not a nagging shoulder issue to get checked out, gotta have a strong left hand to take DP in spring handball season.