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Beat Rabbi decides to fly solo this time around.Although "Deepspace5oul" releases in 2008, it has been in the making since 2003. As Beat Rabbi envisioned an album paying homage to classic hip hop, funk, and jazz, the DS5 crew laid down the lyrics, after the fact, ending up with the finished product of "Deepspace5oul." A twenty-two track collective effort that features all Deepspace 5 emcees including Manchild, Playdough, Sivion, Listener, and newcomer Illtrip, "Deepspace5oul" is exemplary of the talent that can arise when forces come together.
In 1997, members from underground hip-hop crews the Pride and Labklik, along with solo artist Sev Statik, all hooked up at A Christian Hip Hop conference called Cru-vention Gathering to work on some music. The result from those insane sessions became the group's first independent release, a five song EP that sparked much interest in the underground hip hop subculture. Pulled from many different areas of the country, the collaborators in Deepspace5 have now synergistically combined their diamond-sharp
talents to simply make their first full-length debut album for Uprok. Featuring fifteen tracks of creative and sharp experimental hip-hop,
"The Night We Called It A Day" goes beyond the strict song-structures of overly commercial rap albums, expanding into true street art.
Malachi:I can tell you're a very well read person and you love books. I’m the same way, I love to collect old books too. I even have a few by W.E.B. Dubis. What are your 7 favorite books?
Sho Baraka: Oh Wow, Umm, I would say in no particular order, I’d start off with (The) Lord of The Rings, the whole trilogy. I just call that as one book. I just believe the creativity and the imagination in that book is just like an amazing journey. And then also when you think about the morals, the social and the spiritual nuances in that book are so thick, so rich. Tolkien did an amazing job. How Should We Then Live? By Francis A. Schaeffer is just another book that I love. It gives a very healthy balance of this whole secular, sacred but then also how should a Christian live in this world and culture that’s constantly changing. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. is a book thats always challenged me. It’s all about leadership, it’s all about a man of sacrifice and wisdom. That book is amazing. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis is another one. That’s one of these books that you have to read like more than once because theres so much, oh my God, it’s so thick...
One thing that we know about Lecrae is that God has given him the ability to make great music. Music that will have you riding with your top down listening to some Jesus music. Or you will be bouncing, throwing your hands up, quoting you are a “F-A-N-A-T-I-C”. Now as the Reach Records roster, ministry, and music catalog widens, Lecrae comes to further push the cross of Christ with this new CD.
The most exciting young college player in forever talks about why he chose Duke, being perceived as a dunker, and that time he gained 100 pounds in two years.
You’ve seen the dunks. If you haven’t, let’s pause here. Go watch the dunks. (This one too.) Around this time next year, he’ll be doing them in the NBA Dunk Contest, and if for some reason he declines the invitation, Adam Silver will rent a Greyhound bus and drag him there by his fingernails. With any luck—for us, not necessarily for him—he’ll be jumping over two Kias that night in a Knicks or Hawks or Cavs or (God help him) a Suns jersey. It doesn’t really matter. Everyone who cares about sports will be watching.
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