Trample the Weak

Start searching the floors of public bathrooms or alley ways in your local town for an old issue of the Battle Creek Enquirer. Thursday’s issue featured another one of our bi-weekly columns, penned by sir Jeremy Martin. This week we featured Trample the Weak, a hip-hop group hailing from The Creek that is working hard to make a name for itself.

Check out the full version over at the Enquirer’s web site, and make sure to grab a copy every other Thursday for whatever brilliance we have to spew.

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It has not been an easy road for Trample the Weak. Members of the Battle Creek hip-hop trio have spent the majority of their adult lives fighting against conformity and battling for acceptance from a city that has been slow to recognize their talents.

More than a decade of toil would have been enough to crush lesser artists, but the group comprised of rapper Eric “Beanzarelly” Thompson, producer Howard “Carnije” Weatherspoon and vocalist Shaun “Hot Sauce” Houseman, all Fennville High School graduates, have learned the hard way that everything comes with a price, especially stardom. [ READ FULL STORY ]