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Too Deep (T.D.I.G.G.) Collaborates with Urban Cognative for his Latest Song Release - Agyeman

Agyeman, a name of Ghanaian origin from the Ashanti tribe is the title of TDIGG’s latest release. Following his previous release “Case Closed”, this song is an uplifting piece infused with humor.

In transliteration, Agyeman (which is the title of the song) sarcastically means “Saviour Of The Nation”. In that regard, the motive behind the song is to encourage the ill-hearted and hopeless who are at the verge of throwing in the towel due to some unbearable circumstances they’re facing / have been facing in life. TDIGG reiterates that he writes timeless songs. In that, whenever one listens to his music no matter the time / moment / season, it must have relevance / make positive impact.

The concept behind the cover art / illustration is as follows : the Ship is symbolic of Humans (Vessels). The Freedom and Justice monument is symbolic of the Nation (Ghana), where TDIGG hails from. In essence, the monument being carried by the ship is a visual metaphor for humans carrying all sorts of weights (being stress, depression, hopelessness, shame, anxiety, past mistakes, regrets, failures, disappointment, etc.) - which do not benefit us positively, but instead drown us deeper / cause us to sink deeper in misery because of the weight.

In that regard, the morale of the song as inspired by the Bible Scripture - Proverbs 3:5 which says, “ Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding…” - is that we should learn to cast all our cares / burdens unto the LORD, Who is the most agile sail we can be rest assured on, to navigate us through the tides while pursuing life’s tough journey.

The music (instrumental) was produced by Oduro Anyan, popularly known as Christ Image (C.I.) - a Ghanaian Christian recording artist and music producer - as sampled from Nina Simone’s record, “You’ve Got To Learn”.

TDIGG defines the sound as “Soulternative Rap” and claims it’s a sound which shows his versatility by far as it’s his first time infusing the Ghanaian Akan dialect with pidgin English. This is because TDIGG has been known to rap in English for most of his records. He hopes his supporters will appreciate and embrace “Agyeman” from an objective perspective.

LINK (AUDIO) :

https://soundcloud.com/deepthesis/agyeman-prod-ci-feat-nina-simone

To create more awareness about the need to live stress free lives, TDIGG has collaborated with Urban Cognative (XRBAN CGNTV) - an emerging clothing brand, to release some merch for “Agyeman”.

You can preorder your merch now via @urbancognative (IG).

IG : @deepthesis @urbancognative

Twitter : @T_DIGG @urbancognative

Soundcloud : @deepthesis

Cover Art / Concept by Julian Baisie (Visual Metaphor)

Music Produced by Oduro Anyan.

#agyeman #toodeep #soulternative #rap #soul #ninasimone

Too Deep (T.D.I.G.G.) Reveals the Cover Art, Theme and Concept Behind His Next Release After Months of Silence.

This is an unexpected one from T.D.I.G.G. (familiar as Too Deep), telling his story about situations he has been through in the past few months. Essentially, this song is an answer to all the rhetorical assumptions, speculations and scuttlebutts regarding the long silence pertaining to Deep Music.

Too Deep gives a summarized account on how his faith has been scarred, tried and tested in diverse ways, while he paints a vivid picture of memoirs. He explains how the situation has made him wiser and stronger in facing more battles to come on this journey of life with an unwavering hope in Jesus Christ.

He has also come to embrace and appreciate the magnitude of grace more and believes he has gained insight as to how to deal with persons within and outside the body who need restoration and love through the affirmation of GOD’s grace.

Too Deep is indeed one of the very few brothers within the body who views the body through the lens of pre-Christians (unsaved) or unbelievers, hence considered controversial. Too Deep explains the comparison of the life of JESUS CHRIST to modern day Christians, thereby drawing a conclusion that there's so much work Christians need to do.

Most importantly, Too Deep expresses profound gratitude to his friends and family (some unmentioned) who stood with him and interceded on his behalf, while he was going through his wilderness. He also proclaims his forgiveness and love to those who castigated him and threw him into the lions’ den to suffer more. He is rather grateful after going through the wilderness and looking back at it all, because he believes without a shadow of doubt that it was all meant to prepare him to be the man of purpose whom GOD predestined him to be, and to impact lives, essentially.

(Psalm 71 : 21, 24 - “You shall increase my greatness and comfort me on every side...My tongue also shall talk of Your righteousness all the day long; For they are confounded, For they are brought to shame; those who seek my hurt.”) - NKJV

The concept behind the cover art, as illustrated by Too Deep is the overruling of the law by GOD’s grace. The broken gavel depicts how GOD tampered justice (the law) with his mercy on behalf of Too Deep.

This song ties in with the storytelling journey off the eclectic body of work - This Path I Chose 3, which will be released later.

SONG RELEASE DATE : MONDAY, JANUARY 08, 2018 (08.01.18)

Photography by Jeffrey Osei-Tutu || Music Produced by G.P. / Dvine Muzic || Recorded by Decorus || Cover Art Illustration by Too Deep || Executive Producer - Julian Baisie || Creative Direction - Julian Baisie

Written and Published by Julian Baisie || January 6, 2018

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Father Figure

This goes out to my father – Joseph Kwasi Baisie, one proper and correct Fante man. Agya Bay, nts3 wala enim.

Verse 1: Laying on my bed in the middle of the night, transcribing these heartfelt thoughts about a figure/ A good man, head of the home, most of all a true brother/ Never have you shunned away from your responsibilities, like none other/ True governance, with CHRIST as the center/ Sown seeds of love and selflessness to the helpless/ Your selflessness is effortless, even when you are pennyless/ Thinking less of yourself, your genuine love is true wealth/ I pray for you and your destiny helper, longer life and good health/ By far, my imperfections may not be a reflection of your perfections, but through it all you tell me it’s a lesson/ And that all I’ve been through on my journey are meant to shape me and make me the man GOD wants me to be to my generation – a blessing/ At the end of the dark tunnel is a blessing, and I get it/ Sigh! Because I’m still growing, and these experiences will jet it/

Verse 2: Having a conversation with Aunty Trudy, I said to her you are to me, black Jesus/ The uncountable number of times you have forgiven my foolish ways/ Not only me, even more for people who you have no blood relation with/ To be honest, I’m trying my best to follow your examples and your ways/ But you know to whom much is given, much is expected, so I’ve had to deal with all these pressures/ You’ve set the bar so high, I’ve had to fail many times at keeping up/ Yet you still believe in me and assure me the best is yet to be accomplished/ You and mummy have had a really good marriage/ With the onus on me in that regard, I pray I do no damage/ I pray the pressure and self doubt do not lead to my defeat/ Because my dad sparked the fire, so I’m expected to keep it burning, if possible go higher/ They say give honour to whom honour is due/ Gratitude is a right attitude, so for being my hero, I give you the props that’s due you/

Verse 3:

This one’s for all the father figures, who take care of their own/ Do not shun from responsibility even when they don’t have the means/ I’m talking about all the GODly men who set GODly trends/ Apart from the man who walked the face of this Earth/ The very second man I hold in high esteem is my biological father/ It takes a lot to be a mother, but it takes wisdom to be a leader/ Not saying women are not wise, but men were made to lead/ I heard a rapper say a woman brings you into the world, but a man helps you stay in it/ You are an evidence, ‘cos I’m seeing it/ To every woman who has had to father your children alone to a woeful man/ To elder siblings who have also had to father in the absence of your father/ Let these words be the fuel to keep you stronger/

Credit: Photography by Robbie (Instagram: @lifenlenses), Concept and words derived by Julian Baisie.

Written and Published by Julian Baisie || June 19, 2016

#fathersday

Father Figure

This goes out to my father – Joseph Kwasi Baisie, one proper and correct Fante man. Agya Bay, nts3 wala enim.

Verse 1: Laying on my bed in the middle of the night, transcribing these heartfelt thoughts about a figure/ A good man, head of the home, most of all a true brother/ Never have you shunned away from your responsibilities, like none other/ True governance, with CHRIST as the center/ Sown seeds of love and selflessness to the helpless/ Your selflessness is effortless, even when you are pennyless/ Thinking less of yourself, your genuine love is true wealth/ I pray for you and your destiny helper, longer life and good health/ By far, my imperfections may not be a reflection of your perfections, but through it all you tell me it’s a lesson/ And that all I’ve been through on my journey are meant to shape me and make me the man GOD wants me to be to my generation – a blessing/ At the end of the dark tunnel is a blessing, and I get it/ Sigh! Because I’m still growing, and these experiences will jet it/

Verse 2: Having a conversation with Aunty Trudy, I said to her you are to me, black Jesus/ The uncountable number of times you have forgiven my foolish ways/ Not only me, even more for people who you have no blood relation with/ To be honest, I’m trying my best to follow your examples and your ways/ But you know to whom much is given, much is expected, so I’ve had to deal with all these pressures/ You’ve set the bar so high, I’ve had to fail many times at keeping up/ Yet you still believe in me and assure me the best is yet to be accomplished/ You and mummy have had a really good marriage/ With the onus on me in that regard, I pray I do no damage/ I pray the pressure and self doubt do not lead to my defeat/ Because my dad sparked the fire, so I’m expected to keep it burning, if possible go higher/ They say give honour to whom honour is due/ Gratitude is a right attitude, so for being my hero, I give you the props that’s due you/

Verse 3:

This one’s for all the father figures, who take care of their own/ Do not shun from responsibility even when they don’t have the means/ I’m talking about all the GODly men who set GODly trends/ Apart from the man who walked the face of this Earth/ The very second man I hold in high esteem is my biological father/ It takes a lot to be a mother, but it takes wisdom to be a leader/ Not saying women are not wise, but men were made to lead/ I heard a rapper say a woman brings you into the world, but a man helps you stay in it/ You are an evidence, ‘cos I’m seeing it/ To every woman who has had to father your children alone to a woeful man/ To elder siblings who have also had to father in the absence of your father/ Let these words be the fuel to keep you stronger/

Credit: Photography by Robbie (Instagram: @lifenlenses), Concept and words derived by Julian Baisie.

Written and Published by Julian Baisie || June 19, 2016

#fathersday

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAtE23qjbNM

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Trapped Behind Bars: Concept and Video Release Update

The central message / concept behind Trapped Behind Bars is a double entendre, an unapologetic duel explicated by two humble beasts who were humbly brought together by a conversation that was instigated based on Humble Beast. For the sake of a layman, the word “Bars” figuratively refers to “Lyrics / Poetic Lines”.

From two perspectives, viewing music and the art of writing / artform through a wide-angle lens, that is within the walls of the church or the body of Christ and beyond the walls of the church – which is non Christian / secular, T.D.I.G.G. (Too Deep In GOD’s Grace) who hails from Ghana - West Africa and Escalone who hails from Columbia delivered their bars as explicated respectively below:

From T.D.I.G.G.’s perspective, he creates awareness about how there’s a constrain in self expression with the art of writing within the body or the walls of the church. He explicates how some religious artists stifle their poetic licenses they have been endowed with by the Creator, due to the fear of being perceived as sacrilegious. In that regard, artists play diplomatic by subliminally seeking validation, which thereby culminates into self validation. This is not farfetched from people pleasing. T.D.I.G.G.’s message in regards to his verses elaborates the need to be earthy and honest with a sincere motive sometimes when necessary, as the Christian walk is not meant to be a life of ease, according to scriptures. He also touches on the fact that many Christian artists or artists within the body are pursuing the path or what they term “ministry” with disguised intentions or motives. Perhaps that may be relative to the individual level of maturity spiritually and in regards to each person’s understanding of the grace granted through Jesus Christ. He figuratively expresses himself metaphorically without abusing his poetic license granted him by the Creator through his lyrics. For a fact, Trapped Behind Bars is a thought provoking title for a song, furthermore quite controversial.

From Escalone’s perspective, he creates awareness about how most secular artists who do not actually live certain luxurious lifestyles in real life portray the facade in their art, creating an impression that they do. Also, there’s a frowning against the glorification of violence, societal menaces and immoral acts, which negatively influence music fiends subliminally as music is a window to the soul. Trapped Behind Bars could be deemed controversial in the public’s eye from a biased stand point specifically in relation to the aspect of the need for artists to be honest / transparent with the artform. This is because a secular artist who makes music that glorifies negativity could arguably defend the fact that it is his transparency, hence he’s not responsible for any negative actions taken by his listeners. However, the objective of Trapped Behind Bars is farfetched from that. In this context, the objective is rather to ensure that the morale of the story told will be to edutain music fiends in a positive light.

In summary, Trapped Behind Bars is a figurative phrase that encompasses the idea or concept of artists being trapped behind their own lyrics and having to keep up with it – be it a facade or truth, irrespective of whether the artist is within the body (religious) or not (secular). In simple words, artists are trapped behind the paradigm they create in the minds of their listeners, which they in turn have to keep up with, be it negative or positive.

The motion optical for Trapped Behind Bars is set to be released by late September or early October, hopefully. It was directed and scripted by Julian Baisie. Filmed by Chardin Roy. Let’s anticipate.

Credit: Director of Photography – Chardin Roy

Written and Published by Julian Baisie || September 10, 2016

DOWNLOAD the mp3 here: https://soundcloud.com/deepthesis/trapped-behind-bars-prod-ear-to-the-beat-tdigg-feat-escalone

#deepmusic #mtpp #tbb #rap #bars #hiphop #boombap #lyrics #theartform

Indeed "HE is..."

With dexterity, it sure takes a lot of guts to play with fire when crossing fire. Barry, a member of Crossfire - a group of lads from Ghana with a voracious appetite for worship - launched his solo debut album on January 3, 2016.

One may be wondering, based on the school of thoughts that usually informs the anticipation of fans, whether Barry's project as a solo artist will meet the standard of the group he belongs to. Well, to all the skeptics and critics, he has well defied the conquest of independent artistry with his album, "HE is...". On this album, he explicates and exclaims the magnificence of our Sovereign LORD Jesus Christ through his eclectic approach to worship.

For a debut, the lad deserves to be commended for the confident risk taken and especially for the dedication and time he devoted to the body of work. You can tell by the fruit. It's not just a walk in the park especially when your project has more than 5 songs. The onus is on the artist to break monotony in that regard, especially when working under an overarching theme.

Although I've always been advocating that true artists put their lives on the lines when writing their lines, without bias, in the case of Barry, I would attest to the fact that he managed to escape that route successfully. I say this because as a solo debut, it's only right he dedicates to GOD that which he has been given. However, let's wait and hope that after this project, he'll be inspired by his wealth of experiences in life, while he matures on his journey. Of course, as I always mention, there are a few exceptions with the topic of inspiration. Barry, I believe and perceive to be more of an urban worshipper, who treads on a terrain of multiple genres, except for hiphop. That however could be a wrong perception. Again, it is his debut and he's a young lad, so we never know what to expect on his next project, that is if there will be another one.

Production wise, thumbs up, likewise the features. He also inculcated his local dialect - Ga, from his Ghanaian background and Twi as well on one song. He also delivered an element of spoken word, showing a bit of lyrical supremacy with wordplay. On second thought, I must say Barry could be a promise amongst many other young lads who are truly gifted with the artform on the Ghanaian contemporary Christian music scene. Overall, perfection was uncompromised. Of course, there is also an undulating epic feeling throughout the entire project if you listen in chronological order. What stuck out to me as I listened to the body of work was the humble and simple signature the lad goes by, "You can call me Barry!" I like his concealed wittiness. He must have a good sense of humour, I believe.

In retrospect, Barry's album, "HE is...", I would consider the best neo-contemporary worship album from Ghana at the moment. I feel a sense of optimism for the scene from the talents that are springing forth. I must say 2016 looks promising, as all the bodies of work released so far are far from mediocrity. This clearly implies there's hope for the Ghanaian urban gospel music scene. The album is available worldwide on every digital outlet.

His website is: www.barryministry.com

Written and Published by Julian Baisie || January 5, 2016

#HEis #barry #worship #contemporarychristianmusic #trueart #ghana

Setting the year off with a thought provoking song, IamKwaMe, from the camp of Boss Africa, is set to release his first single, “Irrelevant” on the January 10, 2016. The song emphasizes on the need to include God in all we do else every effort comes to naught... (Prov. 3:5-6). It’s a must we rely on the source of all know how if we want life at its brightest. This song is a means much to and from the artist IamKwaMe, due to the fact that it falls on a very special day..... Hold on as we anticipate the release of the song.

Follow him on instagram: @spreadtruuth

#Irrelevant #BossAfrica #Abrante3GuyGuy #HPM #BetterRecognize #EyesToTheHeavens #CloserWalkInc

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