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Tha Pumpsta : alphabitize the nation!
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Analog Hip Hop and Ass shakin' bootie bass.
Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap: Southern Style
Release Date: 2005
alphabitize the nation!
Tha Pumpsta
Record Label: Tha Pumpsta
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2. emotional flows 2:10 + MP3 $0.99
3. DP w/ black peter 3:15 + MP3 $0.99
4. Downtown w/ avenue d (pumpy mix) 4:22 + MP3 $0.99
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7. napalm tears 6:01 + MP3 $0.99
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Birthed in the fiery heat of Phoenix, Arizona, Tha Pumpsta entered this world a screaming, bloody mess. To this day, his ultimate mission in life is to make as big a noise as possible, wherever he goes. Thankfully, he's cleaned off the afterbirth.

Tha Pumpsta moved at an impressionable age to the repressive lands of Cobb County, Georgia---home to Newt Gingrich and white folk who embrace life in the form of SUVs and all-you-can-eat buffets. Tha Pumpsta knew there had to be more to the world. He ventured often into the wilds of Atlanta, and was a regular attendee of Freaknik. There he was intrigued by the booty music of Luke, 2 Live Crew, and Kilo, as well as offers from well-endowed ladies to "bounce their asses on his head for ten dollars." Unfortunately for Tha Pumpsta, he was broke.

Integrating this love of hip-hop in all its forms into the lifestyle of a middle-class, white boy was no easy task, but Tha Pumpsta managed by becoming a master vocalist in the Marietta boys choir and playing trumpet in his high school marching band. There he battled such notorious marching bands as Southwest Dekalb High School (famous for their appearance in several Outkast videos.) Although originally harboring dreams of joining the Morehouse College Marching Band, Tha Pumpsta settled for a life of mayhem and mystery in New York, where he began playing with the Williamsburg, Brooklyn consciousness by spray-painting the phrase "Kill Whitie" on various pieces of garbage. Soon the message was everywhere and Tha Pumpsta decided it was time to open the floodgates and promote a party that few could envision, but none would forget.

Influenced by the hip-hop spirit of Atlanta and Miami, Tha Pumpsta, and his baby cousin Lil Rae-Rae, set about crafting a party that would appeal to an ample audience and bring a hot and profound dance party to a largely rock n roll neighborhood. Kill Whitie, the party, was created in the humid and sexy summer of 2001 and attracted a massive cross-section of society, from young lesbians to old Dominicans. Although it played to a wildly diverse collection of people just looking to shake their asses, and drew such esteemed bands and DJs as TV on the Radio, Ghost Exits, Avenue D, Kudu, Black Peter, Dragons of Zynth, and Celena Glenn, the parties also drew their fair share of controversial nay-saying, climaxing in an inflammatory piece from The Washington Post (2005).

Thumbing his nose at the biased and uptight malaise that plagues the country to this day, Tha Pumpsta continued the parties, which acted as a catalyst for musical projects like Quieve and Tha Pumpsta and Durty Nanas , comprised of Tha Pumpsta, Da Wondaho, Sha Na Na Na, Lil Rae-Rae, and recently added Muslim keyboardist, J Dawg. The impeccably matched outfits of the Durty Nanas are matched only by their explosive sound and hot, dance beats.

Tha Pumpsta continues his solo musical crusade with regular shows throughout the country. His first album, Alphabetize the Nation!, was released in 2005 and is available in select stores and at www.pumpsta.com . While he is currently hard at work on his second album, hes also focused on recording the Durty Nanas debut album tentatively titled The Chronicles of NAR NAR. Issue 6 of K48 Magazine also showcases Tha Pumpstas collaboration with the band Aqui for the track, Freeky.

Like so many pop idols and media darlings, Tha Pumpsta has been seen in rags and magazines from Toledo to Timbuktu. Hes appeared in The Washington Post, The Village Voice, Time Out NY, MSNBC, and has been heard on NPR Boston and NPR New York, and WJFK FREE FM in Washington, DC. The Durty Nanas were recently spotted in ArtForum and Tha Pumpsta has been mentioned on a very poignant page at DavidDuke.com.

Never letting the cultural and artistic ramifications of his actions be forgotten, Tha Pumpsta has hosted a benefit to raise money for Norman Siegel and show support for the North Brooklyn Alliance during the Williamsburg, Brooklyn 2004 re-zoning. And although Lady Fame has allowed her sluttish favor to fall on Tha Pumpsta, he has stayed true to his humble origins: "My first car was a 1987 Ford Tempo Sport. I saved money by working at Baskin Robbins to pay for it and the 12-inch subwoofers I had installed in the trunk."

Both a musician with talent and a first-class human being, Tha Pumpstas ready to transform the world and make it the kind of place where free-style bumpin and grindin breaks out on an almost constant basis. Hes got the beats to do it. And hes not afraid to use them.

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REVIEWS

PUMPSTA WILL MAKE U SHAKE YOUR ASS UNCONTROLLABLY!!
author: ANDRADE/nyc
                            
Right from the get go this is some bootylicous southern hiphop infused w electronika & funk! Pumpsta will take you back to when hip hop was about partying carefree with strangers in an abandoned laundry room somewhere "Downtown"- B prepared to get beaten over your head with some crazy baby making lyrics from beggining to end!!. "Emotional Flows" is my favorite with the porno beat & the mark twain harmonica. Listen to this album at full volume and tell your neighbors "THATS RIGHT MOTHAFUCKERS IM LISTENING TO SOM HOT SHIT THAT WILL MAKE UR GIRL GET SO HORNY HER OVARIES ARE GONNA BURST OUT OF HER CERVIX"!!!!
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fresh sounds, good beats
author: Courtney Leese
                            
This cd is awesome! I really enjoy it and recommend it for anyone who wants to hear something new and different.
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Intense Hip Hop shit that makes you shake your ass
author: Snake
                            
This CD has some crazy beats to go along with the intense lyrics that you could only understand if you went to a Kill Whitie show. I love the style that this DJ has turned to, it's unique and has a hint of southern hospitality written all over it!!! Dont know who the hell this Pumpsta is but i like his style.
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author: The Village Voice NY
                            
Enough of you jokers armchairing your "I don't know the guy, but man oh man this irony party stuff racism blacks Brooklyn privilege dancing fagbags" bullshit from afar. What you are about to read, if you so choose, is an account of a real Kill Whitie party, in Williamsburg, that happened a few days after the Washington Post published that piece about Jeremy Parker's "all-white parody of black culture" extravaganza. This is not some on the corner shit--I am not a journalist, not Common--just some straight-up cheetah-by-the-riffhorns, a moment-by-moment account of Riff Raff actually killing the whiteness inside. First: An Interview with Jeremy Parker a/k/a Tha Pumpsta, and Shannon Funchess a/k/a Sha Na Na Na, two founders of Kill Whitie RR: Shannon, why were you not mentioned in the Post article? SF: I didn't fit into the view of an all-white parody of black culture, I guess. JP: And I quote the Post, "all-white parody of black culture," all-white, when Shannon was clearly interviewed with myself in the same setting. [Shannon is a black woman.] Whitie, not Whitey Parker explains, he initially misspelled the word, but by the time he realized the mistake he had printed up flyers for the first party and silk-screened a bunch of t-shirts with KILL WHITIE. So it stayed IE. In a Riff Raff Universe When I walk through the doors of Savalas, I see a bunch of black dudes wearing skinny ties, playing air guitar to the Strokes. Behind the boards? Dizzy fucking Gillespie, wearing a hockey helmet. In the Actual Universe Riff Raff gets a headstart on killing the whiteness, and promptly orders six Stolis. While this magical potion eats away the melanin, an Asian dude gets up on the side of the bar and starts doing the dance when you open your legs and close them and open them again. The bartender sorta digs this and says, "That's it!" to nobody in particular, but if I had to guess she was probably talking to the Asian guy. She jumps up on the bar with him, and starts pushing her bottom into his crotch at a rapid pace, with motions so expert, so on point and well-rehearsed, the crowd watching the two weren't turned on so much as mesmerized. This wasn't black vs. white, white on black, irony or parody or even prosody; it was young vs. old, sex vs. sex, something else at least. Dancing? Ten minutes later she jumps off the bar and starts serving drinks again, mouthing along with every ad lib and chorus. I recognized "Pump That Pussy," "My Chrome," "Stay High," "Bombs over Baghdad," a few others; she knows every song. RR: Do you like rap and booty bass ironically? JP: No, not at all. That's all I know. I grew up in Atlanta, in suburban Georgia, where that music was marketed to me. That's all the music I know. SF: It's what I listen to, it's what I dance to, it's what I like to spin as a DJ. RR: What about the people going to the party? JP: Honestly, the core people who have been coming to Kill Whitie have been coming for four years. I've known a lot them from Atlanta, that's just the music they listen to. It's about dancing and it's a very sincere thing. People come to Kill Whitie ready to dance, and they're so amazed at how many people are actually dancing in a city where nobody dances, where you can't dance. SF: We've had people's mothers at our parties shaking their asses. JP: We have had no problems, 100% support from everyone involved--hipsters to local people, neighborhood kids, yound, old, ugly, cute as hell, fat, skinny. Original Hipsters From Wikipedia: "In the purest sense, the original hipsters were the hip, mostly black performers of jazz and swing music in the 1940s and 1950s, at a time when "hip" music was equated with African-American-originated forms of musical expression. Although hipsters could be black or white, the term later and more predominantly came to be used to refer to whites who were aficionados of the music, groupies and members of the so-called Bohemian set, or Beat Generation. Because the jazz scene had long been integrated, hipster culture, too, became integrated before much of the rest of society. The use of the term "hipster" for whites who had an affinity for the avant-garde and for African-American culture was popularized in Norman Mailer's 1956 book The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster. Hipsters sometimes were referred to as beatniks, a combination of "beat" and "nik," a Yiddish suffix meaning "person." From Something I'll Have to Hunt Down, Can't Find it Right Now for Some Reason: A hipster is someone who abuses subculture, cashing in on its social currency (i.e. what it means to be associated with that subculture) without properly engaging or even taking an interest in the subculture per se Or, maybe: A hipster is someone who bullshits his life-- no interests, just interests in interests--empty gestures, namedrops, function follows form, talking loud, saying nothing Mohawks, Fauxhawks Don't know what Garcia saw, but I saw no bling, no jesus pieces, and the only fauxhawk I saw was totally a mohawk, and the dude was black too. As for the white girls dressing up like black women, apparently another thing Garcia saw, I can only assume she was talking about those two girls with tight, curly hair I see at pretty much every party around Williamsburg. We all go to the same gym, actually--no tease, that's totally their real hair. RR: So this is a dance party. Why all the rhetoric, all the things you said about irony? JP: If there was any mention of irony, it was the fact that I'm a white person throwing a party called Kill Whitie. I mean, that's ironic. That's all I was getting at. We had no strong intentions, no manifesto, no blatant manifesto. It was a dance party. In a culture when I grow up and I listen to hip-hop music because it's mass-marketed and it's on every radio station, is that a conscious appropriation of black culture? Alanis Morissette Her song "Ironic" includes this example: "It's like rain on your wedding day." Which is not ironic, just coincidental. Which, if you think about it, is ironic. RR: So 'Kill Whitie' is just a catchy, mildly offensive name? JP: Whitie means to me Establishment, the Man--the fucking city that doesn't let you dance is Whitie to me. Inhibitions, that's Whitie. Kill those. That's a very clear message that people get when people come. SF: We're like, what do we call it? Kill Whitie. The waiter interrupts. "Did you guys want sparkling water, or Sparks? RR: Let's pull back from race and talk women. As a woman, how do you feel about putting women clapping their butts on posters? SF: If you're asking me, Do I feel like I'm subjugating myself or exploiting women--it's about time we did ourselves instead of having other people do it to us. Hmm... Hmm. Put Differently Nick Barat a/k/a DJ Catchdubs, New York DJ, poster and cover artist, and editor at The Fader: "Mainstream club rap imagery is really over-the-top to begin with. If you play club music, women in bikinis, stuff like that--that's the iconography." "Planet Rock" It came on, somewhat pointedly, after a DJ Sha Na Na Na rant about the recent proceedings and some "Kill Whitie, now more than ever" rhetoric that earned a "Shannon, shut the fuck up!" from the bar. I'm hesitant to bust some shit here--especially since the "Zih zih zih" line gave us Clipse's "Zen", and that's the best song of the year--but all's to say: Can we really speak of hip-hop, at least the construction of the music, as a strictly black thing, when one of its groundbreaking works samples white culture in the form of Kraftwerk? Would it be more prudent to discuss this in terms of young vs. old, creative commons, the accidental morality of sampling, and proceed from there? Parthian Shots JP: This just proves that racism is alive and well and kicking in America. And the only thing that we're trying to fucking do is address those issues by bringing people together and making them dance. SF: It's ridiculous that people don't have anything better to do than to sit on the computer and blog Kill Whitie. RR: ... Ideas First they insist it's just a party, then they talk about how they're addressing "those issues." Ugh. Listen, when people are forced to understand the mechanics of what they do--a thing journalists ask of their subjects--people often say really stupid, pseudo-philosophical stuff, the implications of which they don't really understand. Maybe I'm being generous here, but I think that's what happened with Kill Whitie, and that bums me out. So many awesome, truly unconflicted things about Parker and Funchess's party--the biggest being, it's fun! how about that?--now in trouble because their hosts start having ideas about them. Parker got griff'd--jeez, same publication and everything. Take away the offensive name though and this is just another dance party in a city filled with plenty of good and cheap ones if you look for them. Parker and Funchess can throw down, and Kill Whitie is as diverse of a party as I've been to, by no means exclusively white, or exclusively young, straight, or gay. Like at Hollertronix, people come to dance, maybe hook up; nobody comes to laugh, and nobody seems remotely uncomfortable listening to hip-hop on the loud. Why should they? At least everyone under 26 has experienced rap not as an exclusively black thing, but as a pop thing--and for the last few years, as the most popular pop thing. The Moral: Riff Raff Kills Whitie I'm two-stepping off "Violator" when DJ Sha Na Na Na Na pins me against the wall with a three-minute krump, not backing off until I krump back. "Are you having a good time?" she asks. I'm too busy krumping. "Listen, let me introduce you to CocoRosie."
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