Got a couple more tracks coming that didnt make ExiSTANCE, here is the latest.

In prepping my 2011 album ExiSTANCE, I recorded several tracks to choose from. Obviously not all of them made the cut. Here is the first track of this bunch that I decided to share. Vocalize….

Many thanks to Aaron and Hector over at Consciousness Mag for the review…

A scholar is defined as a pupil and student who chiefly perfected him or herself in some branch of learning and engages in advance study knowing a great deal about one or more subjects. The Maryland native and emcee Scholarman is the pupil of groomed and proficient verbal intercourse providing antediluvian soul resonance that hip-hop once had in Existance.

“Lyrical Baptism” as the title to Scholarman’s thesis verbally defining the new parameters of Big L (Rest In Peace) “Ebonics,” where he serves as schoolmaster to naïve Hip-Hop 101 students.  It is a “Ritual” for hip-hop to have a Graduate With Honors and he proves he is that dude to hold that diploma.  The impulsive “Reign Drops” further enhances his Existance as an emcee carrying the slogan “Power and Respect > Money.”  Scholarman looks in the mirror and paints high drama with “Ces Pool Reflection,” a single that dissects chilling street tales of life in the dark side.

As a scholiast of the genre, Scholarman accepts his purpose of delivering the masses, the youth, and primarily the hip-hop community from the fragments of disparity founded in society as he “Embrace Horizon.”  Hip-hop is Scholarman’s school mascot and pleasure as he freaks her beauty with detailing emotion in “Si Vu Ples” and he releases his sign of escape after entering her “Lighthouse” and submerges “Unto You” with heavily lyrical/soulful cargo.

The album proves real hip-hop is still in Existance. While many scholars of the game try to master the skill of rhyming to perfect their craft or the art of emceeing, no one comes close to its creative and genuine scholasticism.  Scholarman got his schooling from the “Hard Knock Life” schoolhouse academy where the mic is his subject skillfully dissecting the parts that make up the device.  He is the architect of scholastic verbiage spelled in acronyms K.W.U.I (prounounced koo-loo-eye): Knighted With Understanding and Knowledge.  Substitute the prefix of the album title “e-x-i” with “s-u-b” and you get an album and artist with “Substance.”

4 out of 5 (****)

Rating: Conscious

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..so not long after I shot the video for “Lyrical Baptism” I played around with ideas for a second video, but I couldn’t make up my mind on which song to shoot. Lagbara and I talked a few times and threw out several ideas for a couple of the tracks, but I was inspired to nix those (at least for now) ideas and do an animated video. I decided “Reigndrops” was the best song on my album for an animated presentation. The song is somewhat politically driven as well as simply life-inspired (if that makes sense) so it was easy to visualize some of the elements in the video before hand.

Check out some stills and development work…

Ladies and gentlemen, the new work exists. Get your copy of ExiSTANCE below! Many thanks to TrueBless, Kahli Abdu, Anonamas, Silent War, Lagbara and Christopher Lands for the assistance. Rest in peace to my pop who passed while I was creating this work.

Check out the latest taste from my new album ExiSTANCE “S.T.K.” that features the homies TrueBless and Kahli Abdu.

The newness is in – “Lyrical Baptism” from my upcoming album ExiSTANCE. I got with my homie Marques of Que Films again for this, played around with a few ideas/concepts and here is the final product.

We shot this in Ellicott City, MD, at an undisclosed location. Many thanks to Marques, David, Dawn, Evie, Kelsey and Leslie for helping make this happen. The new album drops January.