Artist description Zearle is the musical finger of a political fist. He has been creating hip hop out of the Bay Area for 10 years. Red Dagger has lyrics for all. If you enjoy real lyrics! Red Dagger wants to make your head nod, foot tap and brain WAKE UP. Political hip hop is making a comeback through such artist as, The Coup, dead prez, Common Sense, Black Star and many others. Help the intellectual hip hop movement by downloading and buying CDs. This will allow us to continue and survive in the underground. In Solidarity!

Music Style Words, bass and drum. Our message is our style.

Musical Influences All musicians that show love for the masses.

Similar Artists We've pulled together hiphop and roots reggae to start a new sound.

Artist History The wanderer Zearle was born in the boot heel of Missouri, a few miles from where the Mississippi and Ohio rivers meet, in a tin shack, during a fierce winter blizzard. No doctor attended; his mother pushed him out and his father cut the cord. The new family had to move on to Arkansas a week later, since the FBI was closing in on them. Zearle's father was a Vietnam War draft resistor. Zearle's first years were spent underground, going from one small town to another, as his parents followed the crops as migrant workers in the cotton fields and the apple orchards of the deep South and Midwest. By the time Zearle was 15 years old, he had traveled thousands of miles, zigzagging across the map, from small Southern towns to the big Northern cities, from New York to Florida, Tucson to Chicago. Experiencing the country as a fugitive and a wanderer made a huge impact on Zearle, his perceptions cut through the typical American boosterism and he saw the real pain and anguish behind the facade of bourgeois prosperity, the underbelly of the beast. Zearle also cut through rock and pop to get to hiphop music, the music of Black and youth rebellion. This was the music that inspired him, moved him, and for which he began to write lyrics. By the time he attended high school in Berekely, California, Zearle was making rap tapes at a friend's studio, laying tracks to the new West Coast beats. Zearle's lyrics, however, differed from the pack because of the content, a far cry from the bombast of gangsta and glitter rap. Zearle's lyrics reveal a sharply intellectual view of the world, delivered acerbically with the ready wit and slang from the urban streets. The music tracks he uses are mostly created by unsigned hiphop beatmakers with R&B/soul, reggae, folk, and acid jazz backgrounds. An avowed Marxist, Zearle strikes hard against oppression, imperialism and racism. In a torrent of words, he praises fallen heroes, educates the players and flays the greedy rich, in a stream of eloquent phrasing, pulled from the rich center of his revolutionary spirit, which is love. Today Zearle maintains his own Reddagger studio, and is building a worldwide audience for his advanced style of conscious hiphop. His music is now available for free downloads on two websites, mp3.com/classlifezearle, and reddagger.com.

Group Members Zearle, OldHipE, Moe, Cheena, Rocky Windsong

Instruments Everything a unsigned MC forced to produce can get!

Albums Class War, Love and Revolution, Class Life and coming soon

Press Reviews Bumpin Like What!!!!!What a bad ass song!!!! This rapper flows great, his delivery is smooth, but has hard edges, and the beat rolls you right down the late nite street. The lyrics are ingenius, and he makes some really true commentation on life. Wish i could give this more than just a 5, I wanna see this dude with an album out! ZndProfet - Kayenta, Arizona The Rap world taken over!!I just want to know why cash money or no limit don't have you there already!! No shit!! Why are you on here!!! DAMN!!! Esay575 - Louisville, Kentucky "I'm glad someone can rap about reality, instead of the normal mind programming music the industry puts out. Keep making songs"

Location Canal, San Rafael, CA - USA

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