Sho Baraka on Early days of 116 & Reach Records (Part 1)

today we got one of my favorite people mr. show hey what's going on this room table King's dream in t-dot-com the channel exists to encourage and power inspire you to live out God's dream gotta send a big shout out to all our patreon supporters we've been holding down this channel thank you so much this channel exists to help people in pursuit of their god-given walking so on that we cover all kinds of different topics all kinds of interesting people and today we got one of my favorite people I've known his brother for over 10 years man one of the dopest dudes in the CH h community touched a mic and he's gone beyond that and I'm excited for you guys to hear story ladies and gentlemen mr. show good people been asking for this interview by the way the five people that love me know a handful of people I pop it up stuff like on the YouTube absolutely community people asked for shale rock well god bless those folks man and before we get started I want to say that I I love really appreciate you I I like you I love you and I appreciate what you like and you love me like I love you too I probably should have said I love you I love you and I love what you do for the community thank you yeah yeah you under appreciate him oh man I appreciate that I appreciate you were one of the early people to start curating with your blog in that podcast early on we talked about hurting podcasting so I feel like you were kind of ahead of your time with a lot of stuff that we've seen happen in Ch H we'll see how much you want to unpack them but uh so I appreciate you man I think you've been an influencer from from behind the scenes for a long time me and you met through DJ Wade oh I don't know if you remember that I do remember yep you know what I do because they he would do a lot of the yeah you mix mixtape stuff it's before that it was before now this is 2008 2009 I just DJ way--do ever did okay I do remember like every time we would go to San Diego you just kick kickin it with you yeah and driving around with you yeah it'd be beneficial were you an official you just hang what you got play my Christian rap subliminal diss tracks saying that some artists are gonna be unnamed it was it was too DNA and that DNA was a DNA not DNA what's the joint jay-z did with oh yeah auto-tune auto-tune yeah so yeah I was like that was like oh wait oh nine yeah okay that was like oh eh oh nine I will say this man like I think I don't think people know that you guys you you know in particular were trailblazers as well alright like you were you probably didn't handle it in a way that you probably should have but I think you were asking questions and thinking things that a lot of people are now some folks don't even wrestle with like it's just it's their philosophy in the audiology you know yes it was such a different time in Christian hip-hop absolutely it was so different you got your start and you went to UNT right one of the college's I went to yes University of North Texas there was a couple colleges yeah what's it to skeet you first Tuskegee University okay are you originally from San Bernardino California though I am so sir yes I don't know that about they don't you so proud to reptile and when you get around Cali people talk about the fire I say ie all the time I'm not a shower so shout out to Ahmad and you know 4th Avenue Jones but when I was a new judge I'm trying to get him on this by word well let me tell you a story so when we isn't I was like maybe a junior high a modest word on the street is that he's from like Moreno Valley he's from the Inland Empire but he claims Los Angeles I've never heard this before and so apparently we don't get him to set the record so apparently he came to perform either in San Bernadino Moreno Valley one of those cities and everybody who booed him and like threw his records and like CDs at him because he always claimed Los Angeles and folks like you from the IE bro like represent I and so from that moment I realized where I'm from what is lit now because everybody from LA can't really exact record to live in LA cuz your vacation so a lot of cast is moving at least yeah folks live in a desert now like I never knew black folks to live in the desert and now you talk about Apple Valley all that it's like when I when I was in school we would play Apple Valley Victor video and all this folks it would be like a bunch of Negroes versus white people there's like it's hard to find a white Percy boat so you're originally from as San Bernadino when Tuskegee University and then you you write UNC yeah and those were the formative years I guess of one one six yeah and Reach Records what was that like that early on because I ended up doing a show at UNC like a decade later so yeah and it would didn't seem like there was really anything happening but it seemed like y'all really came out of that yeah we had like a cool Brotherhood we had it we had a very unique so it was funny you wearing a shirt outlier when you read the book outlier one of the things that you you you learn is that there's this nexus of hard work and opportunity and in kind of like Providence right yeah and for us there were these individuals like myself you know and Lucroy Tadashi who were students there who were gifted in some form of like you know musical expression right and there were other folks too and we were working hard but the providential thing that happened was cross movement had a pretty good relationship with my brother who my brother led a Bible study at the University of Texas school which he graduated years before us and he he was at Seminary and ambassador was in seminary at Dallas Theological Seminary as well and so he would like y'all got these little uh yeah I got my brother and his friends they love Jesus bro and they want to rap can you mentor him and he was like you know you know dude ah you know I'll think about and so anyway he will come and teach at our retreats him a Derrick Mason shoutout to Mason and so we just built a really dope relationship with him the other interesting relationship was Tripoli's so triply it was like best friends and I'm putting everybody's information I don't care Tripoli was best friends with Kirk Franklin's son really yeah okay we had a concert with the truth and it was just me Tadashi and Lecrae opening up for the truth and the truth and Kirk had a really cool relationship so backstage was you know the truth Kirk Franklin and his two young kids and it would happen to be tripping him one of his in Kurt's son and when we perform Tripp was like I like God man yeah cool I live with God so he was like well look man let's get up and him a little cray just hit it all and from there Kirk kind of like knowing about us a little bit yeah true you know it's connected to us a little way that the ambassador and you know Audie and so there was this natural path towards kind of mentorship in opportunity that's dope so Lecrae then subsequently ends up putting out real talk real talk then Tadashi puts out Kingdom people then we do a compilation album yeah but so but Lecrae put out real talk on cross movement right now it was first that was indie indie first it was empty and y'all did we did Tadashi and then we did a compilation album that was the first time that I whoa was that the one about like the third scene no no that was just called one with six compilation it was just like all the home lecrae was really adamant about trying to get all this homeboys to be on like anyone's he's he was like man I really want to start a label I was like man I really want because I was focused on film and television that's a film a television so I was like I'm I'm trying to get these these music videos try be Spike Lee out this month yeah and so eventually they were like we'll just do two songs in his compilation so I did the two songs and then eventually trip came around and did he signed with the label did an album and then comes like the 13 letters and then eventually like three four years later I was like alright and I was like 2007/8 and there was a record there was there was something they did with cross movement which kind of elevated their platform so yeah so before I signed actually Lecrae before his second album no I think by his second album he had signed with cross movement and for those folks who don't know you got you need to know cross moving on cross movement was like the they are the fathers of kind of like the the very Orthodox Christian hip-hop movement if you will if you hear logic that theologically didactic yeah Christ centered Christian hip-hop movement they are the that they are kind of like the progenitors of that sigh and obviously their people before them but they were the the figureheads and so an ad date they also took that but took it to a level of Commerce and Industry yeah like nobody else before had and they were yeah man and they just they really were they were open they were welcoming to us and what they did is they signed a deal with Lecrae and so I think it's second album and y'all can do to research I think his second album was with the label the B also after the music after the music stops yeah after the music stop was with cross moment and he also picked up Real Talk as well okay maybe relieved we released we'll talk okay but everybody else was still with reach but the this is will really benefit it though he started touring like they start touring with Reach Records he would open up or reach across movement record you mami yeah he starts with cross movement and then other artists start like other artists from restart tour across movement and that kind of opened up the opportunity some craziness so then you that they're building reach you finally give in you do the record with them that first retrospective me stop this or the answer lines like the Lions and lines lines I was into that yeah terminal life up was the first life up that's what I like most first one yeah and that record really I know like I was with what a party earlier and he was like show Baraka was the first reach artist that I'd listen to you know let's go heard he's a good dude I like him he's me met the other day like just bumped it to each other and he was like man I'm really nervous talking to you it's like like what really I don't know I don't I don't see myself like that but I remember the artwork being dope on that I remember like that just was a yeah that was a dope yeah you

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Length: 11min 27sec (687 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 16 2019