FRIDAY UP N' UP PRESENTS "DRIPZ"

Matthew Aaron Clive "Dripz" is an artist, producer, founder of author, and a Christian signed to Bountiful Records the label he founded. He is the son of musician. He was born in Etobicoke, ON, raised in Church of The Holy Spirit, Anglican Church. Dripz began rapping at the age of 13 rapping to over Eminem and 2pac songs. His teenage life was full of angst and he rebelled against authority and got in trouble with the law. Not having a steady father figure led Dripz to idolize the gangsta rap lifestyle. Eventually God called Dripz out of the wordly life of drug dealing and abuse. Dripz decided he would become a Christian rapper but it was a struggle to completely stop sinning. Dripz has never felt completely accepted by religious people but always knew God loved him. After much hardship and struggle Dripz has finally been allowed the opportunity to release his music and start his record label. Dripz used to be a wordly reference but now symbolizes the blood of Jesus that drips over and cleansed Dripz life, professionally and personally. Since accepting his call he is working to spread the word of God through his music. He is currently working on new mixtape #JESUSWAG which is due to drop at the end of June. This mixtape is set to blaze the path for a slew of mixtapes and songs and a tour around the world spreading the Gospel of Christ. He plans to make his record label Bountiful Records an international label that has no boundaries bringing people all over the world for the glory of God.
Full Artist Profile, Links, and Interview after the Jump!

REASON ONE LIVE IN BOSTON MA 06/30

If you happen to be in the Boston area this saturday make sure you come to Reason ONE LIVE!
Artists Performing are Bobby Bishop, Rocket Sunrise, Numa Talk, Light Waves, and Antidote.
Reason one live is a event planing ministry looking to bring dope variant local christian music to be used as an outreach to the broken/non-believers/lukewarm Christians. A battle cry from within to truly infiltrate the culture but the correct use of the gospel, getting rid of judgement by appearance and reaching out to the ones who have never really been discipled to.
https://www.facebook.com/reason.onelive 
https://www.facebook.com/events/387089981334118/

Adress: 4000 Mystic Valley Parkway, Medford MA
June 30th 7 PM EST

KB 'WEIGHT & GLORY' PROMO VIDEO PT. 2

Pre-order and more info on 'Weight & Glory' here: http://bit.ly/M1QQxL

WIT JOINS COLLISION RECORDS AS AN A&R

 Collision Records announced a new edition to the Collision Records family! Elvin “Wit” Shahbazian will now be serving as A&R for music at Collision. Wit will be heavily involved with production and artistic development on future Collision Records projects. Collision was privileged to have Wit produce “Mirage” from Swoope’s debut album “Wake Up”. And they are looking forward to having Wit be a part of what God is doing at Collision Records. I feel that Collision is building a foundation and are making smart moves. They have Christon Gray and Swoope already signed to the label, now they add a great producer to the list. A man who has produced one of the hottest tracks out right now, and not only that but a man that can executive produce the next albums that come out from the label. Why build a roster full of artists when your artists still have to seek producers to work with. They are saving time, money, and talent with an in house producer/A&R. Bold but Smart move by Collision Records!

FRIDAY UP N' UP PRESENTS "BATTLEGROUND CITY"

Battleground City Members: The Messenger (DOB: Sept. 10 1977), The Ark (DOB: Nov. 13 1981),
Bloodbeth (DOB: Apr. 30 1992), Psalm Star (DOB: Dec. 31 1987)

Battleground City is a community development program that is devoted to providing events that will promote personal growth in the youth of Tucson, Arizona. Our purpose is to educate, equip, and establish young people to make an impact in their local communities. Through hip hop
we intented to reach this goal. Some of Arizona’s top Christian Hip-Hop artists and some never before heard artists are featured. We intended to impact the youth not only in Tucson, but Arizona as a whole to show them who they are in Christ and also encourage fellow believers to impact the people around them. 

Full Artist Profile, Links, and Interview after the Jump!

LIL PROPHET "REVOLUTION" FEAT. KAS

Pre-order 'The Revolution' on iTunes: http://bit.ly/K15phU

NO MALICE "JUNE" FEAT. ERIC DAVID

No Malice - June feat. Eric David
New material by one of our favorite rappers and a man who wrote one of the most inspirational christian battles that a man can withstand. Author of the book "Wretched, Pitiful, Poor, Blind & Naked", executive at Play Cloths, and member of the RE-UP Gang and Clipse Musical Group, NO MALICE! After delivering a great verse on Lecrae's Mixtape #ChurchClothes he comes out with a song of his own in the Month of June titled June..
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BIZZLE AND BUMPS INF SET TO RELEASE MARTYRS IN THE MAKING

Ending a lengthy hiatus, God Over Money artist Bizzle is finally set to release his 5th free project…this time alongside label mate Bumps INF. Martyrs in the Making contains hot features from artists such as Mouthpi3ce, Sevin, PDub aka Willie Moore Jr., and production from Grammy award winning producer Boi-1da. The project will be available on Tuesday, June 26th as a FREE download.
Look for much more to come from God Over Money this year, including a debut album fromBumps INF this summer and a sophomore album from Bizzle.

FRIDAY UP N' UP PRESENTS ALEX "TRE" EDWARDS

At age 14, Alex “Tre” Edwards is an unsigned music artist with a great, new sound and vibe. Born into a family of music, Alex “Tre” Edwards has been making music his whole life. Tre records in his loft room as of now and mixes his music himself. He has designed his website, album covers, facebook page, and twitter. Recently joining the Christian hip hop music scene in 2011, he wants to make a change in music to glorify the Lord. He has been blessed with a talent to write, rap, sing, design, create, and produce on his own. He continues to deliver new music to the world and his fan base is growing larger every day. His inspirations go from Lecrae, Andy Mineo, Swoope, Trip Lee, KB, and Flame. Tre has been featured on NewH2O.com with his debut single, Awesome. Tre is an independent artist that is still young and has so much room to grow, but in order to do so he need to continue taking his calling seriously and with importance. Being so young and already having 2 complete tapes under his belt, he definitely has an advantage against other cats that are thinking about stepping in to the Christian Hip-Hop scene.
Full Artist Profile, Links, and Interview after the Jump!

LIL PROPHET 'THE REVOLUTION' ALBUM PROMO

"The Revolution" In Stores June 26th.
Digital Pre-Order: http://bit.ly/IG3Esz
Hard Copy Pre-Order: http://bit.ly/LhMa54

"A Revolution starts with Eph. 4:23. A daily renewing of your mind and spirit. We a lot of times want to make an impact in our cities, states, countries, etc., and that's great! This album will challenge the believer to come to grips with their daily actions and thoughts. Asking themselves, "Do I have a personal daily relationship with Jesus Christ?" And if you do? PRAISE GOD! If you don't, now is the time to humble yourself, lay down all pride and, submit to Jesus Christ proclaiming he is Lord over your life."
-Lil Prophet

Facebook.com/iAmProp
Twitter.com/LilProphet
www.TheRealWordRecords.com

SHO BARAKA "THE FEATURE MIXTAPE"

Sho Baraka and Dj Pdogg team up to bring you The Feature mixtape. This project is a collection of verses by Sho Baraka that were featured on projects from a variety of artists. You will hear verses from songs like "High" (Lecrae), "Lion and Lamb" (Kareem Manuel), "WLAK" (Swoope) and more. Dj Pdogg is hosting and mixing this project so you can expect to hear a lot of air horns, mixing and scratching.

www.thisishigh.com | www.djpdogg.com

Twitter: @Amishobaraka @DjPdogg
Download:
http://noisetrade.com/?dc=Hqa3n2
or
http://noisetrade.com/djpdogg1

COLE BROWN - ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE ME

Cole Brown provides a brief overview of the first chapter of his book Lies Hip Hop Told Me, releasing July 2, 2012. In Lies Hip Hop Told Me Cole Brown examines 14 slogans from the music he loves, in light of the teachings of the God he loves. Interacting with rap lyrics, Christian Scripture, history and other data, Brown addresses such famous slogans as “Only God Can Judge Me,” “Christianity is the White Man’s Religion,” and “Bi***es Ain’t S**t.” Brown is the founding pastor of Emmaus Church in Portland, Oregon where he has served for six years. He previously worked as an A&R for legendary Hip Hop producer Teddy Riley (Heavy D, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg). It is his personal identification with Hip Hop music and culture that makes his critique of it unique. “I did not write this book to move people away from Hip Hop culture,” Brown explains, “but to move people toward redeeming what is broken within it.

LECRAE STOPS BY THE COMPLEX OFFICES FOR AN INTERVIEW

Here is Part of the Interview Lecrae had with Complex Magazine:
Lecrae Moore wants to make two things clear: He’s a man of God. And he's hip-hop. “If I was a plumber, I wouldn’t say, ‘I’m a Christian plumber,’” said the Houston-born rapper during a recent stop by the Complex offices. “I’m going to say I’m a hip-hop artist. You're going be able to tell the filter that my art goes through by listening to the music.”Apparently folks like what they hear. His latest mixtape Church Clothes, hosted by Don Cannon, has been downloaded more than 200,000 times so far. He’ll release his debut album Gravity this fall, before going on a tour he calls "Unashamed." And if the idea of "gospel rap" leaves you uninspired, know this: you won't be ashamed to listen to it. “Not to say that my music is going to be me reading the Bible and reading you a scripture on every song,” he says. “It’s just saying that this is who I am in the same way that other rappers have their faith and they believe what they believe. You still hear them as an artist articulating what they want to articulate.” Lacrae spoke about the wild life he lived before turning to God, how not all church kids are squares, and potential collabs with Lupe Fiasco and Kendrick Lamar.
Part of the Interview After The Jump

FRIDAY UP N' UP PREVIEW

Here is what I promised Ladies and Gents! THE FRIDAY UP N' UP! A brief preview of whats to come this Summer of 2012. Every Friday we will post an artist profile on people we feel are establishing great movements or others who are destined to generate fans in their home markets. With these continuous weekly posts you will get a taste for the artist sounds like and what the artists vision is in regards to their craft, think of this as a weekly healthy dose of music you were not aware of before, that makes me your music doctor. I won't reveal the names of the artists you'll encounter on our blog on the weeks to come but I must say we have a wide range of talent, age, walks of life, and musical feelings. This editorial does not necessarily mean that these artists are unknown to the community, some have great movements others have just started, we are just sharing stories and music that deserves to be heard. So get excited, and if you're a huge fan of Christian Hip-Hop like we are here at the blog, please share and give us some thoughts in the comments section!
*If you feel you know an artists that should be included in our line up please Follow our TWITTER and tweet at us the artist's name or comment on this post and I promise you that we will reach out and try to get them on this blessed editorial.

KB "GO OFF" FEAT. ANDY MINEO & TEDASHII

KB - Go Off (feat. Andy Mineo, Tedashii) by Rapzilla

The second single released off KB's upcoming debut album 'Weight & Glory', set to release July 17, 2012 on Reach Records. Produced by Alex Medina and Co-produced by GeeDA.
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ANDY MINEO "YOUNG" FEAT. KB VIDEO

Andy Mineo Releases another video from Formerly Known, which is now available on itunes!

KB 'WEIGHT & GLORY' PROMO VIDEO PT. 1

Here is the first promotional video for KB's debut album! Be on the look out for a single soon!

LECRAE XXL INTERVIEW

Lecrae stopped by the XXL offices recently, where he spoke on his Church Clothes mixtape, his tattoos, his thoughts on Jesus pieces and plenty more…
Source: http://www.xxlmag.com/video/2012/06/lecrae-talks-new-mixtape-musical-influences-jesus-pieces-and-tattoos-video
 Video After The Jump!

BEAUTIFUL EULOGY 'SATELLITE KITE' TRACKLISTING & COVER

Humble Beast is preparing to release 'Satellite Kite', the debut album by Beautiful Eulogy. You probably know who they are now if you didn't prior to the last few weeks. They were on Lecrae's 'Church Clothes' free project and are one of the stand out tracks on that album, "Misconception." The group consists of Hip Hop veterans Braille and Odd Thomas, and beat maker formerly known as Xperiment, Courtland Urbano. Check out the tracklisting after the jump.

1. Hello from Portland
2. An Open Letter To Whoever's Listening
3. Covet
4. Take It Easy ft. Catalina Bellizzi
5. The String That Ties Us
6. Entitlement
7. Anchor ft. Josh Garrels
8. Satellite Kite
9. Wonderful ft. Propaganda
10. Motive 1,2
11. A Bridge Between
12. Surrender ft. Lee Green
13. Beautiful Eulogy

The trio are on their own independent label, Humble Beast which is based in Portland, OR. Beautiful Eulogy is preparing their first group album entitled 'Satellite Kite' and I anticipate that it will be one of the stand out albums of the year. Tune in to Rapzilla.com on Tuesday June 5th at 6PM PST. You can pre-order the album on iTunes now!

KB 'WEIGHT & GLORY' ALBUM COVER

KB's debut album Weight & Glory coming 7.17.12!

ARE CHRISTIAN RAPPERS LAZY?

Okay I know what you're thinking, what gives me the right to make a statement like that? Well a lot of folks don't like when you compare the work ethic of secular rappers to christian rappers they say that I shouldn't be doing so. But the truth in the matter is that new believers and non believers constantly compare christian rappers to secular rappers and one thing they might notice is the fact that releases and news are kind of slower when it comes to the christian hip hop world. Rest of the Article after the Jump!

"SATURDAY MORNING CAR-TUNEZ" Episode 4

The final episode of #SMCT!
Watch Andy Mineo And friends (Rich Perez & Izz) remix "all about the Benjamin's." special guest producer Tyshane Thompson. Im kind of actually surprised that he is only doing 4 episodes, I was expecting like 6 or 8. Does anybody know why he is cutting this off so quick? Respond in the comments section below.

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