SOS:Songs of Struggle - The Introduction

(Why spiritual over secular? Krukid? Christian? What the? What just happened?)

First off I hope you, whoever you are, are having a good and blessed day. Thank you for taking the time to read this, seeing as you didn’t have to. This is not a self help programme (oh yeah, I spell stuff how you’re supposed to spell it, let’s just get that out of the way from jump). I’m not even sure how much of an explanation this is going to be. I just know that I’m real good for springing what some would call extreme changes in my daily life on people, even when they’ve been in the works for months on end. This would be a case in point.

Let’s recap. 05 put out Raisin in the Sun, did an east coast Midwest tour in 06, put out AFRiCAN with Rawkus in 07, put out the free album Shining Guns Shooting Stars in 09, round the time i start working with my good friends M.anifest, Budo, becoming A.R.M, and the 4 Shades in 09/10, not to mention most things prior that were done with Garenne, including the unreleased Memoirs of a Mannequin, tapes with Gene and IDL, and me and Brady being the Antiheroz and working together since to me what feels like forever. I have what I believe to be a classic album, my heart and my opus named lifelines more or less done and about ready to put out. I have though, opted to put it on hold to work on and put out this project called SOS:Songs of Struggle with Guerilla Cross (http://www.guerillacross.com/) and a few of my friends. And to say this project has underlying to overtly Christian themes in and all over it may or may not be an understatement. This isn’t the most extreme change for me, but it is a change, and as such I feel it needs explanation.
Now most people reading this know it already but for the sake of argument let’s say you don’t. I’ll clue you in because you should. I can rap. Everyone says that these days it seems. Here’s the difference between me and them. In the humble, honest opinion of me and quite a few others, i probably rap better than most anyone you know. Pick a top ten list, pick a rap genre, pick a style, pick a cadence, pick a speed, pick a subject. Google me, youtube me, itunes me, who knows. When i sell a story, people pay attention. I will dead horse beat any concept you can come up with back to life. As a result this is the dream, culture and profession i pursued. Wholeheartedly. How hard, how much and how well I pursued it has made me some of your favourite artists’ favourite rappers. The problem is that life is far from one dimensional and EVERY other dimension in my life was slowly falling to shambles.

Now I can’t continue this story without tying in a few others, like being East African Ugandan born and raised and winding up in the United states. That or my history with God, Christ, faith, religion, doctrine and how all these words relate to my life prior and so far. I say that to say I’m about to get deep here in a second, and if you’re a shallow swimmer, a wader or even a floater, I suggest you invest in some scuba and airtank gear or just slowly wade on out the pool. I’m going to say some things. How I got here. Where I’m trying to go. What I think. What I believe. Vice versa. I’m not going to preach, but I will tell the truth as I know it to be. It’s called Songs of Struggle because I struggled and these songs came out of it.

And so we begin..............