RELEASE: MEDINA BREAKFAST

AVAILABLE @BANDCAMP

NEW EP: JSMO OF BUNKS: PURGATORY

 

"Radio Lies, the opening track, is all business. I love this track. The beat is crisp and sick, and the electric guitars create the perfect mood for the song’s rebellious message. J.Smo is all too aware of how corrupted corporate (radio) music can be, and the damage it does as pop music is so often turned into just another marketing tool for less than wholesome agendas. The track features Bronx MC, Zion Antoni, a voice which seems to be born to spit. -

ARKOFMUSIC.COM

EP AVAILABLE @BANDCAMP

FRUIT:NEW SINGLE

Fruit

"The voice of Zion is distinct and original, and differs in all markets and record pools."-

E. Smith 

Available @ bandcamp and other engines. Released Nov 16 on Urban cry LLC and other distribution.

THE SEKOU THINK TANK: THE BOOK OF CHIRAQ

Concurrent observation of present day Chicago. The Urban Cry LLC, Author Freelance Journalist/Recording artist Zion Antoni.

THE URBAN CRY LLC PRESENTS: BROTHA'S KEEPER

THE GRAIN (PROMOTIONAL)

The Grain. Ny and Baltimore city converge over a healthy testament of the struggle. Ny grassroots catalyst zion antoni and dirt platoons snook lay hard jewels.

Urban cry branded and sealed.

LECTURE: POWER OF ATTORNEY PART II

Out of the of the Urban Cry LLC is issued another insightful lecture/article of urgency. The times have spoken gravely; challenging and controversial. Freelance Journalist/Recording artist zion antoni delivers POA II: a message that moves resolve through perspective.

  

DEAD PREZ(STREETS REMIX) OCK MILL & KY FEAT ZION

 South jerseys finest Ock milly and ky team with NY's grassroots catalyst zion antoni for a remix of "dead prez" off the 2014 "mind over matter" project. a three sided narrative of the dollar value in young urban america. Produced by one half prod. Team born scholarz Mutewon..the piano laced dead prez is nostalgic to the original brooklyn 96'anthem. Along with Ock's hook reflecting Nasir's coined ambition. But with original views to what "cream" represents. Thorobreds at work. Heres to the grind in the economic race-

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AN AMERICAN PLIGHT: THE URBAN PLIGHT SHOW

A synopsis of the voice of an American plight.

NY (MEDINA MIX) AZ Ft Zion Antoni

FOR PROMOTIONAL USE 

ASIA EP- ZION ANTONI: PR

Freelance Journalist /Recording Artist Zion Antoni releases the Asia EP: a 3 song Avant Garde stream project of perspective and survival in modern day urban America.  Being the first musical project released off his label, The Urban Cry LLC, it serves as a catalyst to the repetoire of The Urban Cry, in word experience and sound.

"The Asia flows in a stream of consciousness" says Zion about the latest project. "Its a personal, but essential view of survival, but progressive living in the gritty realities of the social issues of Urban America." The Asia concludes to reflect  the repetoire of the Urban Cry; from the company's publishing, hands on projects, to its musical stream.  the Asia is gritty; but rich, short and seems to maintain a standard of progress. The Asia is an installment of the enrichment of urban America, yet a window open to the world. Zion proves to be its Asiatic guide.-

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THE ASIA EP: FORTHCOMING EP RELEASE BY ZION ANTONI

ASIA EP- ZION ANTONI THE URBAN CRY LLC from THE URBAN CRY LLC on Vimeo.

FORTHCOMING  EP IN AVANT-GARDE STREAM OF 3 THREE SONGS BY FREELANCE JOURNALIST/ RECORDING ARTIST ZION ANTONI. EXPERIENCE THE ASIATIC VOICE OF THE INNER CITY. 

THE SEKOU THINK TANK est 2012

THE SEKOU THINK TANK from THE URBAN CRY LLC on Vimeo.

THE URBAN PLIGHT SHOW: ONE STREAM OF CONSCIOUS (PRESS)

New York, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/07/2014 -- In today’s social media age there are many components. The Highway of information is endless. In light of the times there are certain elements that don’t change; one of which being the general principles of business management. One element that Freelance Journalist/Recording Artist knows is dedication. The Urban Plight show (Podcast) is one extension to the His Company, the Urban Cry LLC that has seen the fruits of dedication, and yet still labors in the fields of progress.
“Yeah, the Urban plight show is an experience, but a narrative of the experience of any region of Urban America” He says. “It’s a man telling a story striving for better, but a story that the masses in this experience can relate to, good bad and ugly, this is us.” With grassroots elements, the show maintains a stream-of-consciousness delivery, addressing social issues, Urban America and broad, with the engine of music theory. Founded in 2009, it maintains a progressive format to be subsequent; and relative with times we live in. The Urban Plight Show airs 11pm on BlogTalkRadio Est. In The power of social commentary it is an experience in Urban Contemporary, and the world of Podcasting.-

PRBUZZ.COM

ZION ANTONI: JOURNAL OF AN EASTERN CITY(PRESS RELEASE)

ZION ANTONI: JOURNAL OF AN EASTERN CITY

 

Freelance journalist/Recording artist Zion Antoni brings another effort on behalf of Amercian inner cities. The trials and blights that has shapeshifted a city called Camden NJ has been defining for years. As any American city, drug trafficking, Homicide, to issues of below the poverty line living creates seemingly perpetual conditions. Zion delves deep into Camden NJ streets to bring a format of virtues, and vices within the american inner city blights. As a journalist, he presents this Essay/Ebook as a labor of love, and as an insightful look at an America some, don’t know.

“Camden has been under siege for decades” Zion says. “The work of a journalist brings pictures, and the narratives of life to the people”.  Zion offers what most has considered, and what has been branded as a poster child of American inner cities, Camden NJ, Documented In Ebook form free to the public as an educational and insightful project, of struggle, and solution. This Ebook illustrates that Industries, people, ethnicity and economics all play a part of the triumph and tragedy of  this south Jersey city. Another installment from the Urban Cry LLC, Zion Antoni offers insight on a troubled landscape.

         

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MARY MARTHA MINISTRIES 2013

 

Podcast extention of MMM. The needed, the agent of change in domestic violence.

 

 

 

 

FOR DEANDRE: THE STORY CONTINUES

The deepest pockets of west Baltimore have experienced years being impovershed. Streets possesed by the seaport drugtrade: black tops, bluetops, processed opium with high street value. Out of town wars, hot blocks with residents, customers dying slow, the drug trade of Urban America; A synopsis of death, poverty, incareceration and profits that descend into percentages.As a grassroots advocate and co labourer, and in the wake of black history month post 20th century, I wanted to bring the life and times, and contribution of De andre McCollough; the youth who contributed the realities of  his daily in the early nineties to Baltimore writers to depict a war, a race between humanity, drugs, politics,  and inner city culture.  The result was a masterpiece entitled The Corner. It grew into a HBO series, and a landmark in pop culture: The stain, the ever re occurring realities we face coast in urban America.  A novel thick with an account of two dedicated writers, a Baltimore youth infected with the perpetual reign of his environment, and his peers.  I  re present  this testament, knowing all those that know the struggle, and know the tragedy can swear by the truth of  this modern day scripture.  De andre recently passed last year, 2012, toward the latter of the summer. I in my occupation, and my administration wont let the testament sit in vain, but rather let it burn through propaganda, and perpetual inner city destruction.  Baltimore, “charm city” this is your Unsung hero. Honor his life by honoring the future of Baltimore At-risk inner city youth.-

Consciously Yours,

Z.A

WEIGHED IN THE BALANCES: DRUGS, THE AFRICAN DIASPORA, AND URBAN AMERICA

NEW EBOOK BY FREELANCE JOURNALIST/RECORDING ARTIST ZION ANTONI. A FIVE ARTICLE DISCOURSE ON THE INFAMOUS DRUG TRADE AND URBAN AMERICA.

AVAILABLE AT PAYLOADZ.COM

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THE SEKOU GENERATION EST. 2012

 

THE SEKOU GENERATION IS THE PERSON YOU ARE, AND THE PERSON YOU IMPART.

THE CORNUCOPIA : CULTURE SPEAKS

                                

      

           

Spending one weekend in Delaware, among my rounds I visited a Nanticoke Indian  heritage Museum. Humble in appearance, bordered by two large rooms divided by a deluxe sign in book, and lobby, filled with this Native American tribe’s relics, and elements of lineage.  On business with Family, I learned of business, land history and demographic, and the politics of the reservations thereof.  In my native American studies, I understand, fundamentally that all native Americans, as African Americans originate from the eastern hemisphere.  The east, where culture is the defining principle, the cream of society.  In one cubicle of the museum I stopped and saw a model scene, as to where, it was a fairly 19^th  or 18^th century depiction of an Indian village. Chief, elders, Brave’s engaged in rites of passage, squaw’s in development of womanhood, beauty and traditional practice.  I saw streams circle the village’s borders, and the village’s meat; host of cattle, spiritual ceremonies. The village’s bread, wheat, and husked corn. Standing there in admiration  I summed up, this scene, of this moment in time as a standard fundamental maintenance, of society, community, culture, a people.  Though this  societal standard I socially, politically, and culturally rally for, I am realistic. I acknowledge realities of history, economy, criminology and sociology.  I speak of our urban America. Our urban America is and was no utopia.  I ask for a call to struggling Families, Religious institutions, the grassroots, scholars, community advocates, urban studies departments,  schools and other resources to re iterate the cornucopia; the breadbasket.  A rally for our communities to refute the bread that exploits us, stereotypes us, degrades us, leaves us in lack, and profits off of us via industrial method.  This cornucopia, this bread, this harvest must come from within, to feed, nurture, and educate the community.  Fundamental enrichment is, cultivation.  A drill, past our current social ills to apprehend deeper roots.  I’m   willing to drill past our cemented communities, as phrased by Artist Sylvester Johnson, our “Concrete reservations” to find fortune; to cultivate a cornucopia to feed, us.  Systems, Industries, institutions, have only provided, to leave us, to perpetuate lack.   I state a clarion call for you, to re invest in your future, dig for the cornucopia for the next generation.  The cornucopia will feed. Urban America...eat to live.

Consciously yours,

Z.A