| Yak Ballz | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Yashar Zadeh |
| Born | April 13, 1982 |
| Origin | Flushing, Queens, New York, United States |
| Genres | Hip hop |
| Occupations | Rapper |
| Years active | 1998 - present |
| Labels | Fondle'em Records Eastern Conference Records Definitive Jux Records FloSpot Records |
| Associated acts | The Weathermen Cardboard City |
| Website | Yak Ballz Myspace |
Yak Ballz, born Yashar Zadeh is an American independent hip hop artist, who was brought up in Flushing, Queens, New York. He is one of the original members of The Weathermen. He is also a member of Cardboard City.
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Early life [link]
In his youth, Yak spent a lot of his time using his imagination and creativity to draw and paint. He became enamored with the rebel art of graffiti. He was inspired by Cost, Revs, Uend, and his TCK (True City Killers) brethren. Yak turned to writing as an outlet for expression and a form of therapy due to his mother being overprotective about their neighborhood in Queens at the time. Thanks to his best friend’s older brother, Vaz (of 89.9-FM WKCR’s legendary “Night Train” hip-hop show), while in high school Yak landed a gig interning at Bobbito Garcia’s Footwork store in downtown Manhattan where he saw a myriad of flyers promoting Hip Hop shows all over the city. At the age of 16 he entered the Braggin’ Rites MC battle; he took second place and was the youngest person in the competition. Yak would go on to achieve first runner-up honors two more times after that, but more importantly, the aspiring MC grabbed the attention of several interested people in attendance, including Armando “Mondee” Torres and Brett Scott, who approached Vaz about getting Yak to appear on their new mixtape.[1] At the urging of Vaz, the MC agreed to work with Mondee. This would lead to a lasting music relationship.
Breaking Out [link]
Bobbito Garcia, world renown radio personality known for breaking records and introducing new talent in New York City during the Indie Hip Hop boom in the mid to late 90’s, liked Yak’s demo, Flossin’, so much that he put it in rotation on his CM Famalam show on 89.9-FM WKCR in New York. He later invited Yak to appear on the show in 1998. After a few impressive appearances on WKCR, and Flossin’ gaining regular rotation, Bobbito approached Yak about some new original music. Yak's lyrics caught the attention of Cage, who was impressed enough to reach out to him; making him an original member of The Weathermen.
Followup Releases [link]
Soon after, Yak released his first 12-inch, Homepiss in 2000, courtesy of Bobbito and his Fondle’em label. His 4-song EP was released featuring Flossin', The Plague, Nasty or Nice, and Homepiss.[2]
The Freakshow [link]
In 2001, Yak followed up the EP with a stand-out 3 song vinyl 12-inch, The Freakshow,[3] which was one of the first ever 12-inch releases by the indie Hip Hop label Definitive Jux.Vinyl specialty stores and Web sites quickly sold out of the three-song 12-inch that featured cover art by TCK brother Ewok One 5MH.[citation needed] El-P even included The Freak Show on 2002’s Definitive Jux Presents 2 compilation album.
While You Where Sleeping [link]
In 2003, he released While You Were Sleeping b/w The Drill 12-inch with Traffic Entertainment. Once Eastern Conference Records, then home to fellow Weathermen; Cage and Tame One, heard of this single they moved to sign Yak to an album deal. After working on The Weathermen’s Conspiracy mixtape (2003)[4] Yak Ballz released his first album, My Claim[5] in 2004 with guest appearances from both Cage and Tame One. He worked with producer Mondee for production and engineer Joe Raia. His lyrical content on My Claim was fueled by his Queens life and college experiences. After leaving Eastern Conference, Yak put out a mixtape in 2005, The Missing Cassettes consisting of rare and unreleased material.
Scifentology [link]
In 2006 he released Scifentology, a mixtape put out by Yak himself and Scifen clothing company which features cover art by Ewok One 5MH.[6] Yak’s lyrics became more introspective and the beats changed on Scifentology by relying more on rock and synthesized instrumentation[citation needed]. The mixtape started as an innocent idea and promotional tool to help cross-market Yak with the Scifen clothing brand, but it quickly became one of the most talked-about mixtapes of the year within the indie Hip Hop world in ‘06[citation needed].
Scifentology II [link]
January 2008, Yak released his sophomore effort, Scifentology II[7] on FloSpot Records in conjunction with Scifen Clothing. Scifentology II features production from the likes of Aesop Rock, the late Camu Tao, Mondee, Chapter 7, Adept, and Chris Maestro TCK. It also has guest appearances from Cage, Tame One and Slow Suicide Stimulus. The album is packed tight with cathartic rhymes of grit, wit, shuddering images, and has received critical acclaim[citation needed]. Ewok One 5MH, premier urban artist and senior designer for Scifen clothing, also designed Scifentology II's full-color cover. Feb 2009, “Dirt Empire,” produced by Aesop Rock, won the MTVu Best Freshman Video with over 40,000 views.[8]
Current Work and Education [link]
Currently, Yak is working on a extended play called 'Gas Galaxy', due out on Definitive Jux sometime in fall of 2009. Yak has performed the title song in support of Cage's Depart From Me tour. Yak is a graduate from New Paltz State University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management.[1]
Selected discography [link]
Albums [link]
- My Claim (Eastern Conference Records/Caroline - 2004)+
- Scifentology I (Scifen Records - 2006)
- Scifentology II (FloSpot Records- 2008)
- "onomatopoeia" featuring Johnny 5
12 Inch Releases [link]
- "Homepiss" / "Nasty or Nice" b/w "The Plague" / "Flossin" (Fondle'em Records - 2000)
- "The Freakshow" b/w "For the Critics"/ "Reign" (Definitive Jux Records - 2001)
- "The Drill" b/w "While You Were Sleeping" (Jersey Roots Entertainment/Traffic - 2003)
Compilations [link]
- “Flossin” - Farewell Fondle'em (Definitive Jux Records - 2001)
- "The Freakshow" Definitive Jux Presents II (Definitive Jux Records – 2002)
- "5 Left In the Clip" with The Weathermen - Eastern Conference Allstars III (Eastern Conference Records - 2003)
- "Let the Games Begin" feat. Vast Aire - Eastern Conference Allstars IV (Eastern Conference Records - 2004)
Appears On [link]
- 2003: "5 Left in The Clip" b/w "5 Left in The Clip Remix" 12-inch from The Weathermen album (Eastern Conference Records)
- 2004: "Got Wet?" from the Leak Bros (Cage and Tame One) album Waterworld (Eastern Conference Records)
- 2004: "High Fidelity" from the Tame One album "O.G. Bobby Johnson" (Eastern Conference Records)
- 2005: "Get Da Duh" 12-Inch with Kosha Dillz (Matza 4 Yo’ Mouf Records)
- 2005: "Left It To Us" from the Cage album Hell's Winter feat. The Weathermen (Aesop Rock, El-P, Tame One, Cage, Yak Ballz) (Definitive Jux Records)
- 2006: "Antidote" from the Slow Suicide Stimulus album Slow Suicide Stimulus (FloSpot Records)
- 2006: "Say Cheese" from the Slow Suicide Stimulus album Slow Suicide Stimulus (FloSpot Records)
- 2009: “The Baskervilles (AmpLive Die Hard Remix)” from the Fight Night Round 4 Soundtrack feat Aesop Rock and Yak Ballz
- 2009: "Corruption As Usual" and "Chromatics (CCM)" from the Chapter 7 album "The Color Scheme"
Mix CD's [link]
- 2005: The Missing Cassettes
- 2006: Scifentology: The Mixtape
Notes and references [link]
- ^ a b Cusenza, M. (2007, Dec 27). One of Flushing's Finest Drops Second CD. Queens Tribune
- ^ Piroli, M. (Vol. 5 Issue 56). "Yak Ballz". Elemental Magazine, 68-70
- ^ allmusic (((Freak Show)))
- ^ allmusic ((( The Conspiracy Overview)))
- ^ allmusic ((( My Claim Overview )))
- ^ Herman, M. (Vol. 7 Issue 79). "Team Scifen". Elemental Magazine, 50-51
- ^ allmusic ((( Scifentology II Overview)))
- ^ MTVu (((Dirt Empire)))
External links [link]
https://wn.com/Yak_Ballz
No Escape (1994 film)
No Escape, released in some countries as Escape from Absolom, is a 1994 American action/science fiction film directed by Martin Campbell and starring Ray Liotta, Lance Henriksen, Stuart Wilson, Kevin Dillon and Ernie Hudson. It was based on the 1987 novel The Penal Colony, by Richard Herley.
The story, set in a dystopian future, concerns a former Marine who is serving life imprisonment on an island inhabited by savage and cannibalistic prisoners. It was shot in Queensland, Australia.
Plot
In the year 2022, the penal system is run entirely by corporations, with prisoners seen as assets. Highly trained ex-marine John Robbins is imprisoned for life for murdering his commanding officer, who in 2011 ordered him to kill scores of innocent men, women and children in Benghazi (Libya). The event haunts Robbins over a decade later.
Robbins had escaped from two Level 5 maximum security prisons and is now incarcerated in a Level 6 facility. A fellow prisoner tells him about "Absolom", an island where they send the worst prisoners—a place feared more than the prison. The warden, after he is held at gunpoint by Robbins, is convinced that Robbins is a threat and exiles him to the island.
No Escape
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See also
No Escape (2015 film)
No Escape is a 2015 American action thriller film directed by John Erick Dowdle, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother, Drew Dowdle. The film stars Owen Wilson, Lake Bell, and Pierce Brosnan, and tells the story of an expat engineer trapped with his family in an unidentified, fictitious South-East Asian dictatorship, during a violent uprising.
The film was released on August 26, 2015. The film had special sneak previews in the Philippines on August 16 and 17, 2015, as well as multiple pre-screenings throughout the United States before its official release on August 26, 2015 by The Weinstein Company.
Plot
In an unidentified Southeast Asian country, the Prime Minister closes a deal with a representative of Cardiff, an American company specializing in water systems. After the representative leaves, a group of armed rebels initiate a Coup d'état and kill the Prime Minister.
17 hours before the coup, Jack Dwyer (Owen Wilson), a new Cardiff employee, is flying to the country with his wife Annie (Lake Bell) and two daughters Lucy (Sterling Jerins) and Beeze (Claire Geare). After landing, they run into a Briton named Hammond (Pierce Brosnan) who offers them a ride with him and his friend Kenny Rogers (Sahajak Boonthanakit) to the Imperial Lotus, where many foreigners are staying. At the hotel, Jack learns that the phone line, television and internet are down all over the city. He stops by the bar and chats with Hammond.
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Homepiss
by: Yak BallzYak'll came out the crevices, homepiss, yeah yeah
Its like, my man Mondee. (Yak'll came out the crevices, homepiss)
That's my homepiss
You know what I'm sayin, its like, I drink a little bit, too much
I take a homepiss, word up, you know the deal
We're Yak Skywalker (Yak'll came out the crevices, homepiss)
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yo when Yak is near you feel the magic in the atmosphere
There's many forms which I appear to be, but they ain't really me
Aiyyo this beat is off the meter
that's why I'm blessin it with messages off hand like a palm reader
If you feelin this then spark the cheeba cheeba, just relax and blaze an L
The peanut gallery has spoken so crawl back into your shell
My first heaven to hell, whether or not the parallel
so concentrated and peep my whole brain levitate
mediators through God and ????? regulate
and set you all motherfuckers straight
I walk through heavenly gates
with a nuclear bomb strapped to my chest ready to detonate on contact
mad megahertz like Copywrite78
supreme database you might of heard me radiate
So toxic plastic surgeons can't even save face
it fucks your head up like ????? laced kooleys ?????
dropped on your girls tongue courtesy of yours truliest
quite confused and don't disillusioned
I'm a specialists in mic abusing and brain intrusion hold your neurons hostage
so your sensory devices are forced to pay homage
Can't even hold mic so what you tryin to spit (dick)
Skywalker take over Time Warner, and plans to televise the apocalypse
spawnin life forms you know I'm capable of rockin this
leavin opponents heartbroken
temporally off the potent word spoken
get out of control when I'm zonin
You know my steez when it comes to MC's
I keepin them roastin 89.9 degrees
embalmed after the track is torn inhale a trong
Yak Ballz's a tactician like James Bond
chop off my hands and I still bear arms
so people peep my Marine like machine type mechanics
miraculous, vanderous, cancerous
bars leave your brain scarred I'm being charged for damages
There's no more to explain, its simple and plain
Just remember the name