Jacken

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Sick Jacken
Birth name	Jack Gonzalez
Origin	Pico-Union, LA
Genre(s)	hip hop
Occupation(s)	Emcee
Associated acts	Psycho Realm, Sick Symphonies, DJ Muggs, Street Platoon

Jacken, mostly known as Sick Jacken, is a Chicano emcee of the group Psycho Realm and Sick Symphonies. He is known for rapping about police brutality, poverty, and government.

[edit] Psycho Realm

Sick Jacken appears on all the Psycho Realm albums. In 1999 his brother Big Duke, also a member of the group, got shot, and left him parlyzed from the neck down. They were in the making of an album that year, and Sick Jacken had to finish it alone. Quote:

He got shot back in '99, right there in Los Angeles where we're from, it left him paralyzed from the neck down. For a few years after he got shot, we were just trying to make sure he got better and things like that. Now that he's better, he handles the whole internet operation. All our fans, he's pretty much, man these fans love this dude, he pretty much keeps in contact with all the fans. He does our website, he handles all our merchandise online. He is helping me do the Spanish record that I'm starting to work on, you know he's paralyzed from the neck down, so he can't really step in the booth like he used to. But a major role that he played in the record that we did before, I do the music, he comes out with the concepts, we each write our own verses, he comes up with the majority of the hooks. So he's actually stepping back in and doing that for these projects that I'm doing. I'm going to do an English record with him also. He helps out with different projects we have out, Street Platoon project, the Sick Symphonies one we put out last year.