Artist: Brother Shadrach
MC / Producer / Songwriter
Origins: East Palmdale, California
Style: East Dale Soul / Hip Hop
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True heads will testify that hip-hop is not just a type of music, but a way of life: a way to think, create, and exist. There’s no stopping this movement to rejuvenate the music and there’s definitely no stopping college graduate, recording engineer, DJ, lyricist, and beat-maker, Brother Shadrach.
With a Lancaster Jethawks fitted cap and a hoodie the color of royalty, Shadrach is taking on the hip-hop world and “restoring the essence” of what the culture was intended to be. His smooth beats and dexterous lyrics are like nothing you have ever heard before. They’ll take you into his ever-sober soul filled with passion, philosophies, and his campaign for a drama-free life. He prides himself on staying real, down to earth, and never forgetting his roots.
Shadrach fell in love with the hip-hop world (later than most) after hearing Little Brother’s The Listening. Starting at the age of 16, he began writing and recording original songs using a computer microphone and freeware in his parent’s living room in Palmdale, CA. Since then Shadrach has appeared on, recorded, produced, mixed, mastered, a nearly uncountable amount of projects. Brother Shadrach released three projects: Revisited and Beautiful Connections, and Holladay [A Christmas beat tape]) both of which are available online and receiving an immense amount of positive feedback. Currently exercising his newly acquired BA in Recording Arts Shadrach has found time to begin work on a new solo album titled Fixin’ the Shade.
Although Shadrach loves the days when he can step away from the rest of the world and immerse himself into his own music, he values getting involved in an ever-growing network of independent artists in California. He has teamed up with such acts as Dusted Phoniks, producing multiple tracks on their album 180 Miles. Shadrach was the Executive Producer for Eye-Que’s album Mainstream Underground as well as collaborating with artists like Willdy Diamond, Lynguistix, Tybox, Alyriki, & Dirty Menace. He has also become a member of the hip-hop duo, making a name for itself in across the West Coast, P.AND.A (Perspire and Achieve) who released their debut album Just Cubs in the spring of 2009 (also available online). This year there are rumors of a Beautiful Connection Vol. 2, Holladay 2, Fixin The Shade, as well as projects with Eye, Tay Diggahertz, Tae Stax, Inclined, and The Argonauts. Recently Shadrach made the move back to the Los Angeles area where he continues to perform, record, and produce.
