Member Since: 8/7/2006
Band Website: soundclick.com/crucifix
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Most people that have really taken the time to sit down and listen to My Life's Prayer in it's entirety would probably agree that it is nothing less than an undergound masterpiece. A work of art defined by the immense pain, anger and suffering that created it... laid together with hunger and delivered with a message so raw, honest and convicting that few have walked away looking at life the same. Those who have really taken the time to scratch beneath the surface and read between the lines would agree that it's spiritual and theological depth have been paralelled by no other album in the history of music.
So for the fans of the first album the questions begin to rise... How could a single disc follow up have half of the spiritual, emotional or theological substance of it's double disc predecessor? What about the next two chapters in the Maskilian Chronicles? Is this the final appearance of "My Life's Prayer"?...
To answer the questions I'll say this. Above everything else, be it in my career, my life, my art or simply in my reputation as an artist, my ultimate desire is to create raw, honest and emotional music that drives home a powerfull message without limitation or boundary. Speaking the truth regardless of who it touches or who it offends.
My Life's Prayer is one of the most personal and cherished pieces of art that I've ever created. With that being said, it's hard to step away knowing that it hasn't been pushed and promoted to it's fullest... that it hasn't reached yet it's full potential. But unfortunately the music industry is no longer a place for art or artists. Over the past ten years it has slowly become a preposterous, comatosed circus of talentless clowns parading through this lifeless, leach infested brothel we call the music industry. And though each finger puppet whore, sitting so pridefully with another man's hand up his ass, pridefully boasts the claims of their own self obtained wealth and sucess... they all return their leased luxury cars and spinning rims to the labels that pimp them once the videos are over.
But in the end, motives are justified, mouths are fed, empires are built, names are famed and money is made... Yet truely, has anyone gone any farther than where they started? A few more cars, so each is driven less, a bigger house so more space is wasted, a few more dollars so the next day you don't even remember what you spent it on. The more we gain, the more we must protect, because ultimately it only becomes the more that we have to lose.
So the lines have been drawn and each of us as artists make a decision which side we stand on... Industry or Ministry. Do we follow the paths of the followers before us? Or pave our own highway, raise our voice and stand for what we believe regardless of where it takes us? Because at the end of the day the pursuit of Ministry is nothing more than the defiance of convention. And by overstepping the slightly sketched lines of convention you accept for yourself the possibility that your art may never be seen, heard or appreciated. Rather, being that like the lost Mona Lisa that no one cared to notice until long after it's creator was dead.
I've been laughed at by men of title, hated by those of status and even told by some of the industries top record execs that none of this will ever work, simply because "there is no market for music with a message." But my purpose here is clear, and their mockery only entices my rage, strengthens my drive and fuels my fire.
I've drawn my lines. So for those of you who have been friends since I was young and homeless, chasing a dream with nothing but a message and a voice to speak it. To the listeners whose lives have been changed and spirits uplifted, simply by that one song that shed a little light in a dark time. To the fans who loved, followed and supported me since the first recordings of My Life's Prayer. I promise you this... I will never stop this walking this path, I will not ignore this calling, I will not taint my message, I will not compromise truth, I will not distort my music and I will not forget my purpose. And if the ultimate sacrifice of my stance results in becoming nothing more than a starving artist. I take comfort in this...
"A MAN WHO WANTS NOTHING IS INVINCABLE."
-Crucifix
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MY BIGGEST INFLUENCE AND INSPIRATION WITHOUT A DOUBT IS JESUS CHRIST. IT'S EASY TO LOVE SOMEONE THAT LOVES YOU. TRY TO LOVE SOMEONE UNCONDITIONALLY AS THEY'RE DRIVING SPIKES THROUGH YOUR WRISTS.
DAVID IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. A YOUNG BOY WHO HAD MORE FAITH THAN ANY MAN BEFORE OR SINCE. A TEENAGER THAT NEVER TREMBLED IN THE FACE OF DEATH. A YOUNG ADULT THAT TO THIS DAY REMAINS ONE OF THE MOST ANCIENT REMEMBERED SONG WRITERS OF ALL TIME. A MAN WHO KNEW GOD, FELL INTO SIN AS AN ADULTERER AND A MURDERER... AND YET STILL A MAN AFTER GOD'S OWN HEART. THE ORIGINATOR OF THE FIRST MASKIL.
MY FATHER. A MAN THAT FOLLOWED GOD NO MATTER WHERE IT TOOK HIM. A MAN WHOSE FAITH WAS STRONG ENOUGH TO LEAD HIS CHILDREN THROUGH ONE OF THE MOST HORRIFYING GENOCIDES IN HISTORY AND NOT DOUBT GOD'S PURPOSE OR CALLING FOR HIS LIFE. A MAN WHO I CAUSED TO SUFFER WITH MY LIFE AND STILL ALLOWED ME TO BE A PART OF HIS.
AS AN ARTIST I BELIEVE THAT ANY ARTIST IS NOTHING MORE THAN A REINCARNATION OF THEIR INFLUENCES. SO HERE'S MINE; KEITH GREEN, 2PAC, BONE THUGS 'N' HARMONY, PHIL COLLINS, GOODIE MOB, OUTKAST, BIGGIE, ELTON JOHN, CHICAGO, GEORGE CLINTON, ISLEY BROTHERS, MICHAEL JACKSON, MICHAEL W. SMITH, ALL MY MOTHAFUCKIN' HOMIES... ARTEL, GHOST, RED EYEZ, SHAWN SMITH, KHUJO & T-MO GOODIE, BIZZY BONE, ANTOINE,... AND LASTLY ANYBODY WHO'S WILLING TO MAKE MUSIC FROM THEIR HEART REGARDLESS WHERE IT TAKES THEM.
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Record Label: MASKIL RECORDS LLC
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