great drop bro. do you have any of his cd's? yeah i know i should support him by buying his shit but i dont buy shit on the internet.
Nope, said in the initial post I had just heard of him...
Damn brothers are really waking up!!! More please!!!
African American Hip-Hop artist shatters stereotype tackling age old theological positions in unique form of Rap.
http://www.soundclick.com/pro/view/01/default.cfm?BandID=577007
Debut Album: The Compton Effect Release June 5th, 2007
PHOENIX, AZ Rhyme and reason are boldly and intelligently combined inGreydon Square's debut release The Compton Effect. Prepare to be inspired, provoked, delighted, and surprised by Greydon Square's unique form of "Intelligent, skeptic based, free-thought Rap."
Written, produced and recorded by Greydon Square, The Compton Effectuses Atheism, Critical thinking, and rationality with hip hop to spread free-thought and education about the dangers of faith and religion. It's a giant step towards the enlightenment of urban culture's dependency on religious indoctrination.
"This is music that transcends genres," Says Greydon. "This is bigger than just hip hop, these are cultural issues that need to be addressed before humanity can safely take another evolutionary step. I am the minority of the minority, an African American atheist, from a community that does not tolerate threats to the status quote unless it's based on religion. This album is the manifestation of the thought, research, and education that has been used to free myself from the shackles of religion."
Greydon Square has appeared on nightline, on a special about online atheism that focused on the Rational Response Squad's "Blasphemy Challenge". Greydon, a member of the Rational Response Squad, has also earned the attention of well-known atheists Penn Jillette, and Richard Dawkins, best selling author of
The God Delusion.
Raised as a legal orphan in the Department of Children & Family services system of southern California, Greydon Square is a native of Compton, grew up in gang life, and is an Iraqi war veteran among other things. Greydon, born Eddie Collins, left Compton in May of 2001, to enlist in the United States army. Then a theist, he served in operation Iraqi Freedom in 03/04 even attending online classes that would help him become a better Christian and even teach the word of god.
It was while attending college he learned about the logical inconsistencies of a god, why one isn't necessary, and the fallible nature of the bible in which he was raised to believe in. He started an online series of video blogs on youtube.com entitled "Atheist Nation", where in the 3rd video he performed a song live that he had written called "Extian" which made the front page of digg.com, and Richard Dawkins website as well.
Greydon began representing atheism and debating theists on the youtube circuit, and was eventually recruited into the rational response squad by organization co-founder Brian Sapient, and began immediately working The Compton Effect and preparing for a June 5th release. He created his own company in which to distribute the album after being approached by several independent record labels and one major.
The Compton Effect is available on thecomptoneffect.com, itunes, musicnet, rhapsody, as well as sonyconnect and napster, for $11.99 via physical distribution on his homepage, and digital distribution through the others (
aka BGOL-- Costanza).
A snippet to the song "Squared" (not working on MySpace for me, but that song), an intro to it, good representation:
[FLASH]http://youtube.com/v/hCnmRVImdtI[/FLASH]
Second verse is better, check it out...
http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=5422513&q=hi&ref=2
I'll post more music as I come across it.
