As some of you have noticed I reviewed Change’s The Stimulus Plan and the album is featured on this podcast along with other tracks that a dark sound production wise, but a very strong message lyrically…I call it The Lyrical Stimulus Plan! Take A Listen!!!

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Track (Artist)- Album

Family Ties produced by Anno Domini (Change)- The Stimulus Plan

Crippling feat. R.U.S.H (Cas Metah)- Providence Road

If I Don’t Make (DeepSpace5)- Unique Just Like Everyone Else

Mama Don’t Cry (Surreal)- Pardon My Dust

Savior (Change)- Same As It Never Was

Dedication feat. Praverb (Change)- The Stimulus Plan

Inside Out (Mars ILL)- Backbreakanomics

Remember (The Tunnel Rats)- Tunnel Vision

American Fado feat. Renee Alston (The Procussions)- 5 Sparrows for 2 Cents

Forgive Me (Sharlok Poems)- Blooming Sounds

An Excellent Few feat. Sintax and ManChild produced by Mouf Warren (Change)- The Stimulus Plan

Perspective (TheBreax)- Restocked

Girl, Interrupted produced by Flynn (L.A Symphony)- Unleashed

Together (Theory Hazit)- Lord Fire produced by Vintage

Bonus Track feat. 3rd Degree (Cas Metah)- Guest Room

Seasons produced by JustMe (Motion Plus)- The Sound Protest

Not A Stranger feat. Elias (Change)- The Stimulus Plan

Sev Statik…Tunnel Rat, DeepSpace5 member and accomplished solo artist. Sev Statik has been a guest for many other artists in the Christian Hip Hop realm (Dokument, Forgotten Heroes, Kaboose, LPG, Paradox, Theory Hazit, TheBreax and others). So here’s an hour show for those of you who don’t know “Da Pointman”

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Track (Artist)- Album

Intro (Sev Statik)- Speak Life

Sev Statik (The Tunnel Rats)- Tunnel Vision

Altitude (Sev Statik and Dust)- Back To Dust

Sock Full of Batteries produced by Dust (DeepSpace5)- BakeSale

Poor Penmanship (Sev Statik)- Speak Life

Thinking by Numbers (DeepSpace5)- A Night We Called It A Day

Hungry As Sin produced by MuzeOne (Sev Statik)- Shotgun

Global feat. LPG (Sev Statik)- Speak Life

Burn (The Tunnel Rats)- The Tunnel Rats

Invisible Bars (Sev Statik)- Speak Life

Line Finish (The Tunnel Rats)- Tunnel Vision

Invisibullet (Stu Dent)- Act of God 1

Timeless feat. Has-Lo (Sev Statik)- Shotgun

Equation (Stu Dent)- Act of God 1

The Godz (Sev Statik and Dust)- Back To Dust

For The Heads (The Tunnel Rats)- Tunnel Vision

Putcha Name On It feat. Supastition (Sev Statik and Dust)- Back To Dust

Speak Life (Sev Statik)- Speak Life

So I’ve been on the Sphere forums for about six months (don’t worry I’ve been into SphereofHipHop for the past three years) I remember when I first jumped on the forums I saw advertising for Change’s album an EP whose name escapes me and had guests from everywhere. I decided to investigate and actually downloaded Change’s LP, Same As It Never Was and loved it. So naturally when I got Change’s new FREE EP The Stimulus Plan in my email I was psyched to hear it.

Change has an ability that many artists lack and only a few artists have mastered (Braille, JustMe, Theory Hazit some prime examples), the ability to strongly relate to the listener. I honestly believe Change is the best in that department, his lyrics convey the pain that we all go through in our lives and how we have to follow God to get through this pain. Does Change’s The Stimulus Plan provide the lyricism that the mainstream hip hop economy lacks (hehe see what I did there)?

Now people who’ve listened to his LP Same As It Never Was should remember the song “Savior” (my favorite song off the album). If you liked “Savior” then The Stimulus Plan is an EP made in heaven for you. Most of the album has that dark sound and lyrics guaranteed to hit home for the listener. Anno Domini handled the production on four of the seven tracks on the album.

I won’t ruin the entire EP for you so I’ll go over three of the songs but I will say this album is worth downloading the most of the songs we’re downright amazing from both production and lyrical standpoints. I will say though the only song I wasn’t feeling was “Stick Up” just because of the beat the lyrics were fine. “Family Ties” produced by the previously mention Anno Domini and this track showcases Change’s amazing storytelling talent with three different (or maybe one big) story of issues within families that are legitimately happen in real life, this track just made me think of how blessed I am to a family that loves me and doesn’t hurt me.

“Dedication” is the track that follows “Family Ties” and features Praverb and basically it covers why Change and Praverb rap. They don’t rap for money, honeys or the chains that go with it, but they rap to show that they’re people like us that go through the same things as us. It’s the one track on the EP that doesn’t have that dark sound the rest of the album portrays and it’s a good track.

My favorite track of this EP is “Not A Stranger” once again produced by Anno Domini and goes back to the dark sounding beats. However change brings along Scribbling Idiot Elias to drop a verse on this track. Now I don’t know why, but every and I mean every track Elias is on it turns into a classic (I have yet to hear a bad track that Elias is on). The one thing about Anno Domini’s production is the utilization of the piano it adds to the dark sound and it’s just awesome. If I have the song’s meaning correct (which I’m not sure I do) Change is possibly rapping about the problems that happen during relationships and how even though the problems are hard to get through, the key is that we can get through them and we should still love our relationship partner anyway. In a couple words Elias’ verse says “best friends can turn into strangers”.

This EP is an amazing effort from everyone involved in this EP, Change’s lyrics are easy to relate to. Anno Domini’s production is top notch and we even get guest appearances from Praverb, Elias and a Mouf (sorry I refuse to call him Mouth) Warren beat on the last track which also features DeepSpace5 members Sintax and ManChild. The EP is great and should be downloaded by ALL Christian Hip Hop fans, now if only we can get Change to release a full LP.

The Good

The dark production works well with the dark realistic lyrics of Change
Change is the master of relating to the listener and it shows on this EP
One Word FREE!!!
“Not A Stranger feat. Elias= EPIC!!!”

The Bad

“Stick Up”

Rating: 4.5/5 (So Close To A Classic)

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Uhh…hello people the album is FREE!!!

In honor of Cas Metah’s new album Guest Room I’ve compiled some of my favorite guest appearances and put them together to make one of the longer podcasts I’ve done almost 2 hours long! Features artists from all over the Christian Hip Hop spectrum, 2mex, Mouf Warren, The Strange Fruit Project, K-Drama, Cash Hollistah and so many more! So take a listen and go get CAS METAH’S GUEST ROOM ALBUM!!!

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Live As It Gets feat. Theory Hazit and Playdough (Move Merchants)- Move Merchants

Planes and Trains feat. Pigeon John and Blueprint (Mars ILL)- Backbreakanomics

Falcon Plume feat. Scribbling Idiots (Sintax)- Curb Appeal

Def Tole feat. Theory Hazit, Cas Metah, Kas (EDM)- Def Defying Mixtape

Down But Never Out feat. Sev Statik, Manchild, Sintax, Illtripp and Listener (Sivion)- Mood Enhancement

Season of Tears feat. Zane and Elsie (Sev Statik)- Speak Life

I Wouldn’t Do It feat. Big Rec, Surreal, Sivion, Theory Hazit (Braille)- Box of Rhymes

Seasons Change feat. Mouf Warren and Ruffian (Cas Metah)- Providence Road

We Got It feat. Sojourn, Sivion and Theory Hazit produced by Ohmega Watts (Sharlok Poems)- Blooming Sounds

Let Go feat. Supastition and The Masterminds (Braille)- Shades of Grey

You Don’t Want That feat. ManChild, Playdough, Jurny Big, Macho and Raphi (The Tunnel Rats)- Underground Rise: Sunset/Sunrise

Let Me feat. Phat K.A.T.S, Freddie Bruno and Playdough (Sivion)- Mood Enchancement

Let Go feat. Bracey, Dre Murray, Jacob Izrael, and R-Swift (K-Drama)- Boombapitism

Heart and Soul feat. Lyriz and MotionPlus (Cas Metah)- Providence Road

Nobody Say feat. Raphi and Braille (Theory Hazit)- Lord Fire produced by Vintage

The Treatment feat. ManChild, Braille and Big Rec (Ohmega Watts)- The Find

Surprise Cypher (remix) feat. Adam L, Surreal, Sivion, Sojourn and Sharlok Poems (Lightheaded)- Wrong Way

Posse on Burnside feat. Ethic and Othello (Acts 29)- Underexposed

No 2 Ways feat. Triune, MotionPlus, Cas Metah, Griffin and Relic (Sev Statik)- Back to Dust produced by DJ Dust

Killin It feat. OneLife, Cash Hollistah and Big Rec (Scribbling Idiots)- Idiomatic Mixtape Volume I

Outro feat. Red Cloud, Sojourn, John Reuben, Pigeon John and ManChild (Lightheaded)- Pure Thoughts

Remember The Day feat. Dax, 2mex, Neogen, Dert, Big Rec, Mouf Warren, Dokument, Chosen 1, Griffin, Lazarus, Raphi, Drastic, Propaganda and Macho (The Tunnel Rats)- Underground Rise: Sunset/Sunrise

Low Budget feat. Rush, Cas Metah, MotionPlus (JustMe)- One Man’s Trash

My Suitcase feat. Sojourn and JustMe (Ajax Starglider)- Middle Class Broadcast

Just Raps feat. Future Shock and Scribbling Idiots (JustMe)- One Man’s Trash

Broken Heart feat. The Strange Fruit Project, Ragen Fykes, Thesis (Braille)- Cloud Nineteen produced by S1

Freaky Flow feat. L.A Symphony (Flynn)- In Like Flynn

Get Ignorant (remix) feat. Braille, Theory Hazit, Sev Statik, Nomis, R-Swift, Proph1 (The Breax)-Restocked

 Sintax the Terrific has been around for quite a while and has established himself as the best Lawyer Rapper in the world. Sintax has two albums out his first being Simple Moves and his sophomore album being Curb Appeal. He is also part of the super group DeepSpace5 who has released four projects. And he’s done multiple guest appearances with artists, Mouf Warren, JustMe, Ajax Starglider and many others. Here’s a podcast dedicated to SINTAX THE TERRIFIC!!!

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Song-Artist (Album)

Curb Appeal- Sintax (Curb Appeal)

Ziontific- DeepSpace5 (A Night We Called It A Day)

Cruel Tutelage: An Unauthorized Biography- Sintax (Curb Appeal)

Sensational- Sintax (Simple Moves)

We Got To feat. Sintax and Sev Statik-DeepSpace5 (DeepSpace5oul)

Make Believe- Sintax (Curb Appeal)

They Say- DeepSpace5 (Unique Just Like Everyone Else)

Turnabout- Sintax (Simple Moves)

Park Bench feat. Sintax- DeepSpace5 (DeepSpace5oul)

Your Biggest Fan- DeepSpace5 (Unreleased)

Ur Everything feat. Sintax- Freddie Bruno (Hold Music)

Blowing Smoke- Sintax (Simple Moves)

Bi-Polaroid feat. Sintax- Ajax Starglider (Middle Class Broadcast)

One More- Sintax (Curb Appeal)

Chain Fight produced by Dust- DeepSpace5 (BakeSale)

Ad Infinitum feat. Freddie Bruno- Sintax (Simple Moves)

So you wish you had a podcast that you could but in your stereo and crank to 11 well this is that Podcast. ALL BANGERS for the entire podcast…so enjoy.

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Song-Artist (Album)

DL Drop- L.A Symphony (Unleashed)

The Fall produced by Beat Rabbi- Sivion (The Spring of the Songbird)

Freaky Flow feat. L.A Symphony- Flynn (In Like Flynn)

Makin’ Cake produced by DJ Manwell?- DeepSpace5 (BakeSale)

Rock of Ages- Sev Statik (Speak Life)

Unconditional- Lightheaded (Wrong Way)

Joy- New Breed (Nine)

More remix by Theory Hazit- Mars ILL (Hip Hop For Dummies)

Simply Ill feat. Klarity, Freddie Bruno and Sivion- Theory Hazit (Lord Fire produced by Vintage)

Emergency Broadcast- Playdough (Don’t Drink the Water)

Stand- Da T.R.U.T.H (The Faith)

Microphone Rush feat. ManChild- Braille (Shades of Grey)

Starving Artists feat. JustMe- Sintax (Simple Moves)

Southern Skies feat. Theresa Jones- Dokument (Planet Dok EP)

Permanent Ink feat. Sivion and Braille- Surreal (Future Classic)

For the Heads- Tunnel Rats (Tunnel Vision)

So you all know I’m obsessed with Guest Appearances and Cas Metah has made my dream come true with his new Album Guest Room, a release date hasn’t been confirmed but Cas says it should come out this year. Over 40 guests are on this album (not including the producers). Here’s the stellar tracklisting.

Beats by:
- PlayDough: 1
- JustMe: 2
- MattmaN: 3, 13
- 4th Disciple (Wu-Tang Clan): 5
- Vintage: 6, 12, 14
- Deacon The Villain: 7, 18
- Dust: 8
- Sean P: 9
- Theory Hazit: 4, 10, 16
- Muneshine: 11
- SCO ATK: 15
- Re:Flex the Architect: 17
- Dert: 19

All turntable scratches by:
- EF Cuttin, except on “Don’t Doubt” by Theory Hazit.

1. Intro
2. I Strain – featuring CunninLynguists & JustMe
3. Front Runner – featuring Ahred, Sinxtax.the.terrific, Griffin, Sev Statik, Ajax Starglider, JustMe & Sojourn
4. Told You So – featuring Theory Hazit, JustMe & Masta Ace
5. Real – featuring Mouf Warren & Holmskillit
6. I Will Go – featuring LMNO & manCHILD
7. Die Tryin’ – featuring Chapter13
8. Rhyme Life – featuring Ruffian & Listener
9. Find Time – featuring BC & Playdough
10. 2nd Second – featuring Every Day Martyrs & Deuce Complex
11. Laying The Foundation – featuring Lightheaded
12. Gravity – featuring Adan Genesis
13. This Can’t Be True – featuring T-Mo Goodie (of Goodie Mob) & Jawz of Life (of Dungeon Family)
14. Get Right – featuring Soul P. & MotionPlus
15. Goodbye – featuring SCO ATK
16. Don’t Doubt – featuring Theory Hazit, k-Drama, Wonder Brown, Kaz, Mouf Warren, Intellect & Griffin
17. Up And Coming – featuring Sivion & Praverb
18. Cream Of The Crop – featuring Witchdoctor (of Dungeon Family)
19. Cross Country – featuring JustMe, Change, Mr. SOS, Mellow Drum Addict, Zero Basement, Lyriz, Capture, RhymeWise, Freddie Bruno & 2-Tone
20. Bonus Track – featuring 3rd Degree

Yes after many months drooling over Tunnel Vision by The Tunnel Rats I was finally able to get the CD and for those of you who haven’t heard of them get to hear one of the best Christian Hip Hop groups around today. Tunnel Vision is considered one of the best Christian Hip Hop albums of all time. Towards the middle of the podcast I also include an instrumental track by Muneshine (Lightheaded’s Producer) from his album A Walk In The Park (an instrumental album). ENJOY!!!

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Track Name- Artist (album)

A Long Road- The Tunnel Rats* (Tunnel Vision)

Tr’z- The Tunnel Rats (Tunnel Vision)

I Apologize feat. Listener- Sev Statik (Speak Life)

Reach the Sky feat. Kaboose- MotionPlus (The Sound Protest)

Ur Everything feat. Sintax- Freddie Bruno (Hold Music)

It Won’t Last feat. Othello and Pigeon John- Braille (Shades of Grey)

Ladies- The Tunnel Rats (Tunnel Vision)

Threshold (instrumental)- Muneshine (A Walk In The Park)

Line Finish- The Tunnel Rats (Tunnel Vision)

Let It Ride feat. Ruffian- JustMe and Cas Metah (Are Unemployed)

Tomorrow Starts Without You- DeepSpace5* (A Night We Called It A Day)

Brotherly Love produced by MattMan- Falling Tsar* (Falling Tsar)

Border Patrol- Braille, Surreal and Ohmega Watts (4 Days In Geneva)

Listen feat. Supaman- Kaboose (Bits and Pieces Mixtape)

2 Cents- The Tunnel Rats (Tunnel Vision)

* The Tunnel Rats (in 2001) are Dax, Jurny, Elsie, Zane, Sev Statik, Raphi and Macho with all the beats produced by Dert

DeepSpace5 (at the time of The Night We Called It A Day) is Listener, ManChild, Sev Statik, Freddie Bruno, Playdough and Sintax

Falling Tsar is Theory Hazit, Sev Statik, Wonder Brown and JustMe

DeepSpace5 in technical terms can be called a group of groups, DeepSpace5 contains: Phonetic Composition (Freddie Bruno and Playdough), The Pride (Sintax, ManChild), Beat Rabbi, Mars Ill (ManChild and Dust), Labklik (Listener and Illtripp) and Sev Statik. Sivion wasn’t part of the group when their debut was made and Illtripp wasn’t able to be with the group during the time of recording. Their debut set the groundwork for everything that they’ve made after their debut. The Night We Called It A Day shows that this group has potential to go very far in their career as a group.

One of the most important factors of this album is the time each artist has with the microphone, with six members in the group, DeepSpace5 does a superb job giving each member equal time with the mike. Another part of the album I like is small, but very meaningful, at the ends of some of the tracks you’ll hear a short freestyle by one of the group members. The freestyles are witty and clever and gives the listener a chance to see the style of each member in the group.

The album begins by introducing the group as business company, then the album flows into the first full-fledged track. The title track is a whopping 7 minutes long and is one of the best intro tracks I’ve seen. Every member of the group is present on this track and gets pretty close to 16 bars on the track. Production in DeepSpace5 is handled by Beat Rabbi and DJ Dust and they do a great job with the beats on the album and this track is no exception. Standouts in this track and the album in general are ManChild and Listener, they seem to outshine the rest of the group in this album (no I’m not saying the rest of the group is bad they just stood out more).

“Stick this In Your Ear” is a clever track featuring the talents of Playdough, Listener and ManChild. While Playdough and ManChild’s verses are solid it’s the Listener that takes this track. Listener raps his verse by literally saying the punctuation where it would be placed in the sentence. Now some might say, “What’s the big deal about that,” but I’d like to see some of you guys rap by throwing in the punctuation. Here’s part of the verse:

“You love who you are period, I love who I am period

But when it comes liking parenthesis yourself

you have a question mark period, new paragraph, what?

I have a solution semicolon I have a fresh point dash of hyphen view period

I apostrophe am punctuating boundaries….”

Listener’s verse in this song shows how his style can change and the creativeness behind his lyrics.

“This Curse I Bear” is another standout track on this album, Playdough, ManChild, Listener and Sev Statik handle this rhymes. The track covers how all of the artists are talented and yet aren’t really seen by the mainstream because of their content. However they see this as a good thing since they want to distance themselves from the mainstream because of their content. It’s one of favorite tracks lyrically and shows what the members of DeepSpace5 go through to release their music.

“Murder Creek” is also another track that stands out lyrically and production-wise. The beat has the deep bass line with a either a clarinet or bass clarinet playing after the bass line is finished, of course the bass drum comes in afterwards. “Murder Creek” is a metaphor that could be for a lot of places (our country being one of them). Murder Creek is depicted as a depressing place with barely any freedom and a land filled with sin (sound familiar?). The chorus shows part of the message:

“On the banks of Murder Creek where hurts hearts to speak

I wonder if it’s worth all the nights I’ve lost sleep

Still at peace with the breeze the globes been given

Yo we’ll trudge Murder Creek to keep this life worth living”

A Night We Called It Day is solid album with no overbearing flaws, the only thing I can say is the production on the first album isn’t as energetic as the production on Unique Just Like Everybody Else. The sophomore album has more bangers, but still keeps the lyrical talent, the debut isn’t as energetic as the future albums. Now this isn’t to say that the debut has no energy just not as much. The debut is still a really good album and any fan of DeepSpace5 or Christian Hip Hop fans in general should pick this up.

Good

The group meshes well together everybody gets equal mic time

ManChild and Listener standout

Beat Rabbi and Dust’s production ROCK!!

Bad

Not as much energy as their future releases

Rating: 4.5/5 (Almost Classic, Go Get It)

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Murder Creek

Stick This In Your Ear

This Curse I Bear

Elementary

F-Words

If you’ve been keeping tabs on many of the Christian Hip Hop artists you’ll learn that there are many veteran artists and groups coming out with new material. There are also many rumored releases that have yet to be confirmed all this will be covered in the next couple of paragraphs.

 Modern Marvels (Theory Hazit)-This album was rumored to be coming out in November of this year, but unfortunately pushed back to the summer of next year. Theory has two solid releases already in Lord Fire and Extra Credit, I expect Modern Marvels to continue to show Theory’s prowess as a producer and rapper. I don’t expect this album to be as good as Lord Fire, I expect it to be the same if not better than Extra Credit.

Cloud Nineteen produced by S1 (Braille)-Braille has many albums under his belt however I believe Shades of Grey was his best work and he hasn’t hit that level since that release. Now I’m saying his work after that (Box of Rhymes, The IV Edition, Scatterbrain) was bad it’s just lyrically he has sort of strayed away from the religious aspect of his rhymes. But with this release Cloud Nineteen Braille brings Strange Fruit Project producer S1 along for the ride. A lot of this album has been kept under wraps as of late but the album is set to release in March of 2009. Braille’s single Frankenstein is up for download at Rapzilla.com.

The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be (DeepSpace5)-DeepSpace5 has been on a roll ever since they released their debut (The Night We Called It A Day). While the group slipped just a bit with their DeepSpace5oul release the group is back with a new feature-length album and I truly can’t wait for this release. This album is more under wraps than Braille’s new album, most have no idea when it will be released, what guests might appear on the track and the group hasn’t released a single yet. The less we know about this album the more excited I get about this release.

Dirty Words (Sharlok Poems and Dust)-ALLOW ME TO EMPHASIZE THAT THIS ALBUM HAS NO CONFIRMED RELEASE DATE IN FACT IT MIGHT NEVER COME OUT! THIS IS AN ALBUM I WISH WOULD COME OUT!! Poems and Dust have been collaborating since about 2001, however the group has never released an album. If you go to Dust’s website you can see a music video the group has made, a video and song that should convince any listener that the group should release an album.