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BRAILLE - Lifefirst: Half the Battle

The existence of a Christian oriented hip-hop subgenre being now granted, in the US, it was only a matter of time before someone really talented would emerge from this. Such a guy, actually, does exist. He is coming from Portland, Oregon, his name is Braille, and in 1999, when he was 17 only, he released Lifefirst: Half the Battle, an album that many praised, in the indie scene. This scene being now made, for a large part, of White middle-class boys concerned with hip-hop's respectability, and hostile to its more materialistic tendencies, it just made sense that they would enjoy this more spiritualistic approach to their favorite music.

Published on Tuesday 10 April 2001 at 22:31 in Albums
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