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Colma is a small incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, at the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 1,792 at the 2010 census. The town was founded as a necropolis in 1924.
With most of Colma's land dedicated to cemeteries, the population of the dead outnumber the living by over a thousand to one. This has led to it being called, "the city of the silent," and also has given rise to a humorous motto, now recorded on the city's website: "It's great to be alive in Colma."
The community of Colma was formed in the 1800s as a collection of homes and small businesses along El Camino Real and the adjacent railroad line. Several churches, including Holy Angels Catholic Church, were founded in these early years. The community founded its own fire district, which serves the unincorporated area of Colma north of the town limits as well as the area that became a town in 1924.
Colma became the location of a large number of cemeteries when San Francisco, the town's powerful neighbor to the north, passed an ordinance in 1900 outlawing the construction of any more cemeteries in the city (mainly because of increased property values making the cost of using land for cemeteries prohibitive), and then passed another ordinance in 1912 evicting all existing cemeteries from city limits. A similar scenario prevails in New York City's borough of Manhattan, where there are only two active cemeteries, both in the recently gentrified Lower Eastside, with marble-lined, underground vaults that pass Department of Health codes. The relocation of cemeteries from San Francisco to Colma is the subject of A Second Final Rest: The History of San Francisco's Lost Cemeteries, (2005) a documentary by Trina Lopez.
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La Alta Escuela was one of the pioneering formations of the rap in Sevilla, Spain. Formed by Tote King (mc), Juaninacka (mc) together with Juanma (MC) (mc), Dj Randy (dj) and El Tralla (mc) (the one who left the group before extracting his only one LP En pie de vuelo).
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They began as a group of several friends doing music to amuse their selves. It was consisting of Tote King, Juaninacka, Juanma and Dj Randy. They had in project extract a model but Acción Sánchez listened to his work and thanks to him they obtained the necessary contact to turn the above mentioned model in what it would be his first and only one LP En pie de vuelo (1999). This work today is considered by some as the classic one of the Spanish hip-hop, in spite of small repercussion that had in his moment. The group dissolved between other reasons due to the fact that the distance was complicating them to realize the tests. Nowadays every component follows his career in the world of the hip-hop with his own projects.
In November, 2008 Tote King confirmed that it will return to launch a disc together with Juaninacka, Juanma (MC) y DJ Randy as La Alta Escuela coming soon. In addition in Tote King last LP we find a so called topic "La Reunión", in which Juaninacka collaborates, referring to the return of the group. And in the LP 41100 Juaninacka's Rock can listen to a qualified topic "La Alta Escuela rulez" in which they inform all the members of the group.
tengo que volver a casa (I have to go home) (coming sooon)
(Full Album) Buckethead - Colma
Buckethead - Colma
LA GOTA QUE COLMA - "Mordiendo el Micro" [Disco Completo] | 1998
the city of the silent | Colma, CA
Colma Stays
10 SFDK - Pánico (con La Gota que Colma) [Siempre Fuertes 1999]
No hay rebaja - La Gota que Colma & Mala Rodríguez & Nach
al asalto - la gota que colma
Buckethead - For Mom - Colma
La Gota Que Colma - No Hay Rebaja
La Gota Que Colma - Dando Guerra (La Mala Rodriguez) 1998
SFDK La Gota Que Colma, La Mala y La Alta Escuela..
One the surface of the lake
Thousand sunbeams playing their game
The line marking it's own way
Through the mirror of the day
And the boat is gliding slow
Early in the morning glow
The flash of silver will follow
Is calling the green beast from below
Soon it's tail raises the mud
The beast is ready for attack
The reel screams the line beings to run
And the struggle shall begin
Bites the lure a massive bonehead
Pulling hard Blending water
In the boat a firm man standing
The fight is one to hook the monster
And with butter it will be fried
Gulped down with great desire
But soon this tall and fairy man
A fishbone in his throat he will fall
Bites the lure a massive bonehead
Pulling hard blending water
In the boat a firm man standing