Advent: The Intro Blog

Just put in that Robust album. Not that new shit, but that 'Potholes in Our Molecules'. And in that statement, I'm by no means dismissing new things, but I'm reflecting upon what was so that what will be is that much better. Sometimes, we don't do that. We try to divorce our past from where are now, and because we can never achieve this, we expend needed energy swinging swords at the wind. I've done this. I've been the most guilty of this.

In Advent: A Modern Bible, I, along with I B Fokuz, return to a consciousness of what I tried to split myself from. It's really a consciousness of the fact that it didn't go anywhere. What I tried to split myself from was/is the spiritual. By the spiritual, I don't mean warm feelings you get when you jump around in church and your blood is flowing rapidly. By the 'spiritual', I mean the background realm that pushes us to embrace that which we can only run from by embracing death (word to Qwazaar). It surrounds us. In it we live, move, and are. Advent, this record, is a prayer in hip-hop language . It's an admission that we don't know shit about this all-encompassing, never ending event we call God, yet we are open to any way to become aware of how that which contains our present, past, and future sustains and changes how we live. This involves, the social, economic, the political, the artistic, the cultural, the athletic, the recreational, and oh yes, the religious.

Advent: A Modern BIble is about leaving a mark on the world that those who come after us can follow, leading the next generation into a tomorrow that is more just for all races, colors, creeds, religions, cultures, social and economic stratification, and more. In a nutshell, Advent is the striving toward justice for all, humbleness for ourselves, and walking hand in hand with our universe.

Each week, we will be featuring a song from the Advent album on the myspace page (http://www.myspace.com/adventishere), and I B and myself will offer a commentary of the song on this blog. You are invited to listen, discuss the song, and share in the journey with us as we learn something new about our own work. Your feedback is strongly desired, and important. If you want to post a few words or write a whole scholarly article, we want to hear from you. With that being said, I'm gonna go enjoy this sun and get to working on beats for Collasoul Structure. Talk soon.

Gilead7