“Nectar” – music video from Ill Seer!
Ill Breaks Crew: What is the song about and why did you want to address it?
Ill Seer: The song is basically about feeling distant from God, being ready for a fight, feeling two sides of myself ripping me in two, and then realizing how crappy and undeserving i am, and how wonderfully Kind God is to me as such a belligerent servant.
Ill Breaks Crew: How did the video come about and what is the concept?
Ill Seer: The video came about because Darryl Augustine is an amazing Director, Photographer, and Editor and wanted to do something to get the word out about our "Fruit of the Spirit" sermon series at FreeChurch Toronto. He and our Associate Pastor, Kevin Makins, got together 9 artists to meditate on each of the qualities listed as the Fruit of the Spirit, and the rest is amazing history. This particular video was for KINDNESS, and it was a bit of a hiphop monk vibe we were aiming for, to show a pastor struggling in prayer and receiving the Kindest gift of the Ressurector's Nectar.
Ill Breaks Crew: Anything to do with how your faith comes through these.
Ill Seer: I think this shows that even as a pastor your faith is a struggle. How you sometimes lash out at God or feel stressed, but in the midst of it all God is showing you is Unhuman Kindness level. He is showing us the most crazy forms of Kindness without us even realizing it until we return to meditating on Jesus.
The Runaway’s “Round Two” now available!
From The Runaway:
"It is with great pleasure that I present my new EP Round Two. Round Two is my next step in using music to provide engaging conversation starters. This time around, the overarching theme is love – love for the music, the listeners, and for God.
Listen to the EP here: http://paywhatyouwantonline.com/Browse.aspx?opt=album&albumid=243
[You can buy the digital download there too]. Like iTunes, you will need an account to buy music, but you will ALSO find a wealth of solid Canadian indie music. Within this concept, you get to choose who you will support. You can allocate a percentage of your payment towards the artist OR social justice ventures Sketch & Urban Ex. ALL monies from Round Two will be going to support Urban Ex. More downloads from PWYW = more money for them. As Michael Scott would say, it’s a win-win-win.
Need more info on Urban Ex? Click here: http://www.urbanex.org
There will be more updates and more goodies to come. Be on the lookout for a February update, where hopefully I can report some solid record sales and testimonies of your enjoyment. You should also be hearing about my new website as well. Until then, enjoy the music!"
The Runaway live!
The Runaway will be part of a fundraiser to raise $100 000 for homeless youth. The show is part of a campaign launch by Pay Who You Want, with proceeds going to UrbanEx and Sketch.
When: Jan. 23, 2010 @ 8 PM (The Runaway is on at 9:45)
Where: Hard Rock Cafe, Toronto (Yonge and Dundas)
How Much: nothing, nada, free
Bonus: you can be the first to cop the download cards of The Runaway's new EP, "Round Two"!!
Reminder: you can download - for free - the instrumentals to Round Two by clicking here.
Review and Link to The Runaway’s Round Two Instrumentals
EastofLA.com has given a nice review of The Runaway's Round Two Instrumentals. Check it out here. The EP will be released in less than a few weeks! All proceeds are going to UrbanEx! You can download the Round Two Insrumentals here.
The Runaway: Round Two Instrumentals
The Runaway and Prophetic Poetic are proud to announce the release of The Runaway's new EP, Round Two. Following his debut project, A Brief Word, Round Two is another attempt at sparking conversation through intelligent and honest hip-hop music. This round focuses on the theme of love - love for hip-hop music, the listening audience, holistic romantic love as well as social justice. Round Two features production from Theory Hazit & Reflex of the Scribbling Idiots and guest spots from Braille, Shad, Sivion, Relic and more. And, with a unique twist, all money from record sales will be donated to UrbanEx, a budding social advocacy organization which has been producing some exciting results. We hope you will be excited as well with this dynamic musical endeavor. 
Round Two will be launched in conjunction with the indie music website Pay What You Want Online and their Music Without Borders Campaign in 2010. Their kickoff concert will be held at the Hard Rock Cafe in Toronto, Ontario on January 23, 2010. This will also mark the rebranding of the website into a social enterprise. From there, the EP will be available on January 26, 2010 at digital outlets Pay What You Want, Sphere of Hip-Hop and Bandcamp, as well as limited edition CD and book featuring lyrics from Round Two, A Brief Word and The Runaway Speaks, The Runaway's demo CD from 2005. Again, all money will be donated to UrbanEx.
In preparation for the release, Prophetic Poetic is releasing the instrumentals from the project for the listener's ear on Dec. 18, 2009.
Click here for the instrumentals and further links about this exciting new release.
http://paywhatyouwantonline.com/
http://paywhatyouwantonline.com/ConcertEventsListing.aspx
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The Runaway
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The Runaway Live!
Relic – “T.W.O.R.”
Download this free track by Relic, "T.W.O.R." by clicking here.
And in case you didn't know, his album, "The Green Light", is available on iTunes here.
Relic: Emcee. Deejay. Producer. Engineer. Singer.
Enjoy.
VS. – “Signs & Wonders” (Free Mixtape)
A polymath of musical genre, Andrew Huang is a Toronto-based producer whose work includes being frontman for the band Your Heart as well as an internet entrepreneur of for-pay by-request song-creation. And now, after appearing on a few of the label's projects, Prophetic Poetic is proud to release a mixtape of Andrew's hiphop manifestation as VS. Both producer and emcee, VS. displays a phenomenal understanding of the musicality of rap, taking advantage of the medium to forge new sounds and explore topics often overlooked in mainstream hiphop. The playful lyrics reflect a conscious perspective that combines a realistic reflection on the sickness in much of contemporary culture with a hopeful spiritual optimism that looks to the best possible world for the future of humanity. All said, “Signs & Wonders" is a sign that we can expect much more wonderful music from the versatile VS. down the road.
Free Download: http://www.propheticpoetic.com/downloads/VS%20-%20Signs%20&%20Wonders.zip
Andrew Huang is VS.
Pay What You Want for The Runaway’s “A Brief Word”
The Runaway is going to drop a new one soon. If you don't know about him, check out and cop "A Brief Word" on the site Pay What You Want here. You can also pick up the free live concert album here. Join the Facebook Fan Page too! Good music for your soul, y'all.