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Jack and older brother Duke make up the chicano (Mexican-American) hip-hop group that has long reigned as the undisputed king of the Los Angeles underground scene, cultivating an army of devoted fans known as the Sick Soldiers.
The first seeds of Psycho Realm were sown in the tough downtown Pico-Union neighborhood, right across the street from Doheny Park. First-generation Americans and the eldest two of the four Gonzalez boys, Jack and Gustavo, a.k.a. “Duke,” grew up in the contentious neighborhood in the mid- and late-1980s.
“Our side of town is the ‘Sick Side’ of town. They have the South Side, North Side, East Side, whatever. Our side is the Sick Side,” Jack explains over a lunch of Argentine Lomo and Mimosas on Hollywood’s Melrose Avenue one recent Sunday, fresh off a series of concert dates in Italy.
The patriarch of the Gonzalez family came to the U.S. from Mexico at the age of 15 and supported his family by painting cars. Their house was filled with music: classic oldies, which surface prominently in Psycho Realm’s tracks, along with regional Mexican music and giants of the 1960s and ’70s like Creedence Clearwater Revival, Led Zeppelin, and Jimi Hendrix.
Immersed in hip-hop as a middle-school student, Jack’s neighborhood friend, Yonjo, got ahold of a record featuring a guy out of Miami rapping in Spanish. They threw it on the turntable and, inspired by what they heard, the boys wrote a Spanglish rap about all of the friends they grew up with and the growing specter of neighborhood gang warfare that would crest just a few years later in the early 1990s.
The first seeds of Psycho Realm were sown in the tough downtown Pico-Union neighborhood, right across the street from Doheny Park. First-generation Americans and the eldest two of the four Gonzalez boys, Jack and Gustavo, a.k.a. “Duke,” grew up in the contentious neighborhood in the mid- and late-1980s.
“Our side of town is the ‘Sick Side’ of town. They have the South Side, North Side, East Side, whatever. Our side is the Sick Side,” Jack explains over a lunch of Argentine Lomo and Mimosas on Hollywood’s Melrose Avenue one recent Sunday, fresh off a series of concert dates in Italy.
The patriarch of the Gonzalez family came to the U.S. from Mexico at the age of 15 and supported his family by painting cars. Their house was filled with music: classic oldies, which surface prominently in Psycho Realm’s tracks, along with regional Mexican music and giants of the 1960s and ’70s like Creedence Clearwater Revival, Led Zeppelin, and Jimi Hendrix.
Immersed in hip-hop as a middle-school student, Jack’s neighborhood friend, Yonjo, got ahold of a record featuring a guy out of Miami rapping in Spanish. They threw it on the turntable and, inspired by what they heard, the boys wrote a Spanglish rap about all of the friends they grew up with and the growing specter of neighborhood gang warfare that would crest just a few years later in the early 1990s.
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donpablo73 wrote:
Locoteeeeeees!
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Foggster wrote:
there's always a sick siiiide...
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Cohetzatitla wrote:
BIG DUKE+SICK JACKEN+BREAL= PSYCHO REALM
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Sold1er wrote:
ее психи возвращаются в 2010-ом
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JuStR4pper wrote:
http://www.lastfm.ru/music/The+Psycho+Realm/+images/35652357 take new pic
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jr_odm wrote:
love from the sick sideeee
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ClydeDaf wrote:
Yeah, new album (with Cynic & B-Real) would certainly be great.
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havLord wrote:
"We’re working on a full length Unreleased album right now, so there might be a few songs on there that you might not have heard. Stay tuned for that..." ( http://www.brownpride.com/articles/article.asp?a=494 ) ---- if i get this right, they are after many years finishing the Unreleased album ... that would be FOCKING AWESOME, because those four tracks are just FLAWLESS. but even if it was a whole new album, i'm crazy excited.
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Count_Blah wrote:
first day of freedom has a pretty cool beat
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Braindead_69 wrote:
the best!
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el_delga wrote:
el mundo es un barrio !!!!
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GeniousHardcore wrote:
Peace,to each existant Tag of you.I'll R.i.P. it.1City 3 Days and it is done.
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d4lz wrote:
nice
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salvatore_88 wrote:
eee aqui la buena mierda!
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GeniousHardcore wrote:
Peace to Sick Jacken,but Cyborgs are no robots.Signed Gameborg-Chip-Holder a.k.a.:5th Fam-Member of A.H. a.k.a.:Air-Junky a.k.a.:GSG 666=6,12,18,9,6
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hoodchrist wrote:
COMMING TO THE SICK SIDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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hoodchrist wrote:
WHAT TYPE OF DRUGS DO YOU DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Legioner_svk wrote:
реальные черти...!
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Raw!
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AndreaISLame wrote:
We came to drop these styles, it's no shock We rock 'til the cops come and rock non-stop
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