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Supaman
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Born: Christian Takes Gun Parrish
Affiliation: Apsaalooke, Crow Nation
Growing up in southeast Montana on the Crow Nation reservation near the town of Billings, Christian Takes Gun Parrish (a.k.a Supaman) had a childhood plagued with the usual vices of reservation life.
“You live for today,” Wilson says, “You get your check and then it’s gone the next day.” In hopes to create more jobs, the tribe has been considering increasing coal mining activity, an industry that currently generates about two-thirds of its budget.
In this harsh environment, young Christian quickly fell into a life of crime, ironically influenced by rap music.
The way hip hop influenced me in my early years is in a negative way…We were wannabees, trying to be like, these rappers on the rez. In 1997 he bought a turntable with the money he made working on a hotshot fire crew out of Helena, Montana. No prep for YOU!
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But, Supaman says, that kind of control is necessary. A Seattle-based record label took an interest in him and he soon launched out of the reservation to a full-blown national tour, leaving his wife and baby at home.
On tour, a moment of infidelity after a show in New Mexico shook Supaman to his core. Though his message became all about peace, Supaman originally kept his Native life and rapper life separated.
“I practiced for hours and hours,” he says, “until the paint was coming off the mixer [under] my fingernails.”
He sent a demo to Litefoot, who was also drug and alcohol free, and the duo began touring in 1999. Like many Native American children, Supaman’s parents were alcoholics, leaving young Christian to bounce between foster homes until his grandfather finally took him in.
The Crow have over 12,000 enrolled tribal members with over 2.2 million acres of land.
Indeed, the video had 1.7 million views on Facebook by mid-November.
“Good music is going to go where it’s going to go,” Supaman says.
The song, inspired by Jadakiss’s 2004 release of the same title, mirrors the New York-based rapper’s questions about hardships in life. “It was just nonsense,” Supaman says, “it was gangster rap or something.
This is Supaman, accompanied by Acosia Red Elk, in his latest hit music video, “Why.”
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A native Apsaalooke from the Crow Indian reservation in southeastern Montana, Christian Takes the Gun Parrish, aka Supaman, released the recording late one night in September 2015, and is confident in its success. The unemployment rate on the reservation teeters between 45 -50%.
Wearing a brightly colored regalia of feathers and a headdress, dancers compete at popular powwows.
Now, 20 years later, Supaman performs around the globe and sees evidence of a miseducation about his culture in each place.
“The ghetto, the rez,” he says, “there are similar struggles.” At the time, he was committing petty crime, breaking and entering, and theft. “You can do anything in life that you want to,” he says. His parents were alcoholics and he spent a difficult childhood in foster care.
“I’ve been drug and alcohol free my whole life,” Supaman said in an interview after a riveting performance during the TEDx convention at the MSU-Billings campus in October 2015.