“Musical Alchemy” is my newest musical project, as well as first released as Rebel Spirit since I took a break from music a few years back in order to really redefine the vision and mission of my music and the Rebel movement. Been working on this project for the past few months in order to get it out before 2018. Every track on here is meaningful to me in some way, so I hope you all enjoy! You can stream, download for free, or donate for the album if you so desire HERE. All support is definitely appreciated!
On this tape I tried to finally move toward a more conscious approach, several tracks being about specific topics I wanted to deal with, and cutting back on unnecessary or pointless rhymes. I think music, especially hip-hop, is about expressing the unexpressed, inspiring the uninspired, and just basically saying what needs to be said. It’s about expression, connection, rhythm and revolution, and this tape is a bold statement of that. Remember, good music with meaning is not dead, you just need to pay attention and be willing to look a bit!
One Love, God bless!
~ REBEL SPIRIT
www.OFFICIALREBELSPIRIT.com
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A month after my solo project MOVING MENTAL MOUNTAINS was released, Lil’ DG and I released our first mixtape as RRG (Running Rebel Gang). We had been working on the tape for most of the year, and the sessions we had at his studio were some of the most memorable times of my life, the raw energy and love for rapping that we shared, how we would work for hours non-stop, and even the relaxed times when we were just chilling, blazing and jamming to our finished tracks, or even tripping and going crazy over how we were gonna make it, how we had to make the dream come true. These days. after a lot of growing and learning, a lot of observing, I no longer share a lot of the ideas that I had back then, that I expressed in the RRG tapes. It’s been ten years, and although I can’t vibe with some of the lyrics we spit in those days, having grown up and matured, the tracks still go hard and they reflect the reality we were living and feeling at the time. The beats were mostly produced by DG, and I made some as well. Sadly, DG has since passed away. He was a brother to me though, and his memory will live on with me through these tapes we put together as Running Rebel Gang.
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Most of the beats are produced by French beat-maker Dela, but I wrote and recorded these raps on my own, without his explicit authorization, upon falling in love with his style of beats and just getting to work. I wrote my raps to fit them perfectly, and I hope one day I get to purchase the rights to release this album on streaming platforms.
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R.A.P. (RHYTHM AND POETRY) was the first album I fully completed. It was released on November 20th, 2011, 5 days before my 17th birthday. Although I feel that my flow and writing skills have improved since then, I can’t help but admire the fire I had burning in me back in those days, the passion with which I can hear myself spit my rhymes over these beats. Back then I was only making music for the sake of it, because I loved it, and I had a huge collection of beats I’d accumulated, so I chose the ones which inspired me the most, which resonated with the lyrics and themes I explored in this tape, the chillest beats, the rawest or the jazziest beats. A lot of the ideas expressed in this tape marked the beginning of an amazing personal and spiritual journey for me, so while I was writing these rhymes I wasn’t concerned with making money, with how the tape would be released and all of that, but rather with sharing a concrete piece of art with the world, expressing my deepest thoughts and emotions through poetry and music. Honestly, I can say I succeeded in creating what I had in mind, but because the beats I used weren’t beats I’d purchased, I couldn’t post my music onto streaming services, so these deeply personal tracks couldn’t be released to a wider audience. Nevertheless, this album is very special to me since it marks the start of my discography, and so it remains available on YouTube and here on Bandcamp.