“This Week With Jasiri X” the groundbreaking Hip-Hop news series has taken the rap world by storm. Each Episode of “This Week With Jasiri X” features Your Hip-hop News Anchor Jasiri X reporting the National news over the hottest beats. For weeks Jasiri X has provided a rapidly growing internet audience with a most creative and interesting delivery of the weekly news. Using lyrical skills, controversial subject matter, and phat beats, Jasiri X shows and proves that real Hip-hop is not in the least bit dead. Chuck D of Public Enemy once boldly declared that “Hip-hop was the CNN of the ghetto”, no artist has better embraced and embodied that concept than Jasiri X.
Jasiri X is a MC, Activist and Entrepreneur. He recently burst on the National and International Hip-Hop scene with the controversial hit song “FREE THE JENA 6″ which was played on more than 100 radio station across the country and over 500,000 times on the internet ,was named “Hip-hop Political Song of the Year”, and won “Single of the Year” at the Pittsburgh Hip-Hop Awards.
He followed that up with a searing commentary on the Sean Bell murder titled “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH”. Featuring two videos produced by two of Hip-Hop most decorated veterans X-Clan’s Paradise the Arkitech and NYOIL, “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH” spread like wildfire across the country and lead to Jasiri X’s first performance in New York City and a taped appearance on BET’s Rap City.
As President of LYRICS Inc. Jasiri successfully navigates communication with youth and adults showing the pros and cons of this growing phenomenon called Hip-Hop. He recently became the first Hip-Hop artist to receive the August Wilson Center for African American Culture Fellowship. Jasiri released his debut album \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"American History X\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" in December of 2009. Featuring an all-star lineup of international producers \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"American History X\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" made several best of 2009 lists and was named \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"Album of the Year\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" at the Pittsburgh Hip-Hop Awards.
A 6 time Pittsburgh Hip-Hop award winner Jasiri is currently working on Season 4 of his highly successful series “This Week With Jasiri X” and preparing to release his sophomore album “The Ascension” with acclaimed producer Rel!g!ion on Wandering Worx entertainment.
This was part of a song Me and Paradise the Arkitech had intended to do as coverage of Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally, as well as Al Sharpton’s “Reclaim the Dream” rally. The plan was to spit a rhyme from both perspectives then end with a verse from Dr. King himself. We [...]
Paradise the Arkitech of X-Clan and Jasiri X go on location to New York and Chicago to show the world who the Real Gangstas are, you know the ones who collapsed the economy and were rewarded with billions of dollars. Produced my GM3 “Real Gangstas” is not meant to be a diss song, but a [...]
Jasiri X Responds to Critics of His Video “What if the Tea Party Was Black?”
July 20, 2010 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – With over 115,000 Youtube views and well over 2000 comments Jasiri X’s video “What if the Tea Party Was Black?” has officially gone viral and shows no sign of slowing down! This [...]
This weekend I took the fam to the movies at a mall outside of Pittsburgh but ironically called Pittsburgh Mills. After the movie we took a walk through the mall and I saw these T-Shirts at a store called Spencer’s Gifts that I did not find the least bit cute, funny or sarcastic.
The first shirt [...]
A few months ago, Tim Wise wrote a widely circulated article called, “Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black “ which challenged America to take a close look at the hypocrisy of the Right Wing. Now, a Pittsburgh rapper is accepting his challenge in true Hip-Hop form.
Jasiri X has released a video called “What if [...]
Paradise Gray directs this scathing critique of the current climate of rap music featuring Isada Tariq and Living Proofe and produced by Idasa Tariq. I edited the video myself so whoever got a problem with it let me know…but you know it’s true.
In this video I respond to criticism of the video Just A Minstrel, including do me and Paradise of X-Clan have a problem with rappers from the South, are we hatin because these rappers have money and major label deals, blogs afraid to post the video and what are our future plans.
Jasiri X releases “Universal Ruler” off of the Malcolm X tribute album NECESSARY!
NECESSARY! a tribute CD in honor of Malcolm X will be released this summer as a prelude to the three unpublished chapters of the autobiography of Malcolm X. Ilyasah Shabazz, Malcolm X’s daughter, has agreed to write the foreword to three chapters [...]
This was part of a song Me and Paradise the Arkitech had intended to do as coverage of Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally, as well as Al Sharpton’s “Reclaim the Dream” rally. The plan was to spit a rhyme from both perspectives then end with a verse from Dr. King himself. We eventually decided to scrap the idea and concentrate on our next video. However, this article by Legendary Hip-Hop Journalist Davey D inspired me to record my Dr. King verse to Kayne’s Power and create a video around it.
Written from the perspective of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jasiri X responds to Glenn Beck’s rally and the growing racial and economic divide in America. From the police’s brutal beating of Jordan Miles in Pittsburgh and murder of Oscar Grant in Oakland, the increasing poverty and joblessness, to the ever expanding racial division lead by the rhetoric of those like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin…Dr. King’s dream has turned into a nightmare.
