aggressively, progressively pro-hiphop, the first song off my 2013 solo release...

INVERTED Album - Kinetic

A Collaboration With Abstract Rude, Featuring Young Marley on the tables. Production by R33 Sound!!! off the allbum "Inverted"

If I hurt ‘em I didn’t mean to
It’s not in my demeanor
Conception’s immaculate
I take ‘em to the cleaner
See how fast we just eliminate the cheaters
Agitate the state like um, egg beaters
Wait. Shaped like bass and tweeters
Vibrate seismographic earthquake readers
First get inside like headache fever
With a deeper creative pain reliever
It’s insane to see these so-called leaders
Act like they don’t need us
I peep the game of hide-and-seekers
Keep ‘em wide-eyed and scrutinize for their finest features
Preachin’ as if a halo had the head beneath i
My self-pride won’t allow me to accept the teachings and the secrets
Had me thinking I’m a cretin
These creatures of deceit will see defeat if
We read ‘em like a folded sheet and
Just press out the creases
These beatles bug me
I look liberty in the face and say that don’t believe or trust

People
Every time I grab the mic
Strivin, strivin, strivin, strivin
People, keep on, risin, livin
Strivin, strivin, strivin strivin, 
dig it



We’re not your enemies brother
We’re your illegitimate sons
The products of your baby mothers
Get it fitted it’s ‘cuz reality’s not for the faint of heart
Now get out of people’s way if you’re not gonna play your part
The help you can hand us, still our elders don’t understand us
They call us out, reprimand us, causes reactions by David Banner
I’m feelin’ this answer, they vilify us abandon us 
Sex and violence wasn’t born on BET’s cameras
So don’t try to run on me sista, you want to say voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir
We’ve seen our pimps turn principles our crips turn cops
Women of Brewster Place the queen of the media and we don’t stop

Chorus:
People
Every time I grab the mic
Strivin, strivin, strivin, strivin
People, keep on, risin, livin
Strivin, strivin, strivin strivin, 
dig it

If I work it it’s ‘cuz I need to
Some answers you don’t speed to
Oceans become shallow but the problem gets deeper
I use whatever medium I need to reach ya
Pull you out your mental prison and introduce you to the ether
Either we all agree to believe in no discrimination or slavery
Subjugation or poverty or we will all perish eventually
Now mentally I do not see that that was meant to be
We annihilate our own species, please makes no sense to me
And doesn’t reflect our assumed intelligence 
consumed by irrelevance then innocently
distracted from our intent which was I believe to truly get free
recognize the cage and its ways the patterns displayed 
but the actions remain the same reflections of insanity
induced by deceptions and calamity
abuse their weapons out of vanity
the concept accept the duality
inferior superiority complex when
nothing is a subjugate, better than any other
they don’t want us to see
I want to hold technology out the hands of a corrupted government
and wield it for the betterment of all people.
keep on, every time i grab the mic
strivin, strivin, strivin, strivin
people, every time i grab the mic
strivin, strivin, strivin, strivin, dig it.





Strivin feat Abstract Rude

Off The Smell The Urgency Album, Production By Luke Vibert 2002

Wobbly Stiltz

This is a live raw recording of a live set with Marc Ayza. 
All improvised lyrics as the songs were written with another vocalist. 

MARC AYZA set feat BluRum 13 9 3 13 JAZZ CLUB 1PART

The track featuring some of Zanzibar's finest emcees. The songs discusses the influences of fashion on people and perspectives.

Fashion, week 5. featuring Nick Kunta, KIng Kaya, and Ed zanzi

A muted trumpet pulls you into the classic 90's feel and atmosphere. Your head begins to nod to the infectious rhythms adn the Swahilli language fits perfectly on its sonic backdrop.

hiphop week 4- featuring Ed Zanzi, BluRum13, King Kaya..

This is the results of the first 10 weeks of the Blurumstudios weekly challenge. We make a song every week following a process of picking a topic making an instrumental and recording the track.

52 weeks

unity vibe (pamoja) week 4 feat Edy Zanzi King Kaya and BluRum13

schooled - week 7 feat. BluRum13 Edy Zanzi and ,King Kaya

master the craft- week 1 feat. King Kaya and EDy Zanzi

happiness track - week 3 feat Edy Zanzi, King Kaya

environmental - week 2 feat BluRum13 Edy Zanzi and King Kaya

This track was produced By BluRum13 for the sake of soothing my soul. many thanks.  I love the vocal sound and ability of Sade and when my man Joey Codex sent me an a'capella .

Free Spirit

emcee feat Sade

A Steel Drum Driven lyrical extravaganza  production by Fenna Rhodes of True Ingredients... available online...

<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/7e56d6'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

Still Living


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BLUCONNSPIRACY - Fly Love Song feat: Sam I Am Montolla and Jai Nitai Lotus
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“Fly Love Song” is the first release off the BluConnspiracy project. The long-awaited collaboration between Conn Shawnnery and BluRum13 does not disappoint. The duo produce an eargasmic blend of manic synths, smooth hooks and crafty vocals. BluRum13 states "I rock for the music infused with the boom bip, the bee bop and blues spirits..." The passion is palatable as he explains his perspective... Montreal’s Jai Nitai Lotus and Sam I Am Montolla round off this sonic masterpeice. Jai Nitai's verse confirms BluRum13's need to revere his inspirations and Sam I AM brings the anthem-like hook that makes this one so sweet. The title “Fly Love Song” refers to a lyric by A Tribe Called Quest. Rest In Power Phife Dawg.

BluConnspiracy Fly Love Song

BluRum13 and R33 team up to create some dopeness, when you fiend for freshness in a modern era...

Trace

The speedy speaking flow and the non-stop phrasing in the track make this a special one..

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Bio
Prodigious and prolific emcee James Sobers, known professionally as BluRum13, has had an iconic career as a solo artist and a collaborative artist. He’s released two solo albums, done over 1,000 shows, and worked with such luminaries as Us3, One Self, Reverse Engineering, Bullfrog, the Russian Percussion, Resin Dogs, Ez3kiel, Groundworks, True Ingredients, and The Funginears. His legacy is celebrated in St. Petersburg in the form of a mural immortalizing the members of One Self. 
It’s been a dazzling and dizzying career trajectory heightened in the last 6 years by fan demand for a new solo album. Behind the scenes, BluRum13 took time off to creatively recharge. In this time he experimented with drum and bass and electronica, and sought inspiration in the revolutionary evolutionary philosophies in Zecharia Sitchin’s The 12th Planet and in the writings and teachings of Lloyd Pye. The lesson learned: Art that truly connects with the outside world comes from within, free from any expectations or music biz demands. Fittingly, BluRum13’s latest, Inverted, is a masterwork of kaleidoscopic creativity.
BluRum13/James Sobers was born in New York, but grew up in Maryland where he established his distinct aesthetic, a mélange of acrobatic rhymes, poetic profundities, and silken, sensually sung melodies. His texts are empowering and enlightening, encompassing physics, metaphysics, astronomy, astrology, existentialism, social commentary, and uplifting introspection. 
Sobers chose the moniker “BluRum13” because of its vague and mystical qualities. It’s a name that cannot be tied down artistically, it can apply to a band, a solo artist, a rock group, a hip-hop posse—it perfectly suits his fluid, multi-genre artistry. But pressed for a definition of the title, he breaks it down thusly: “Blue, from the primary color, a foundation that can’t be created; Rum, representing intoxicating fluidity; and 13, the proven numerical link to the cosmos.”
BluRum13’s music has been featured in Cirque du Soleil, CSI, The Family Biz (Canada), and Skins (UK). As each of his creative identities, he’s shared the stage with such diverse and respected artists as Maceo Parker, Herbie Hancock, Phish, KRS1, Public Enemy, De la Soul, Diggable Planets, the Fugees, Prince Paul, Cool Herc, and Jeru the Dama. He’s recorded at Abbey Road Studios and performed as a guest artist on behalf of UK tastemaker Gilles Peterson. He also founded the group WaterPower (featuring Keyez, Primo the Cinematic and, Resyte Theez), and he’s worked with esteemed producers and DJs such as DJ Vadim, Luke Vibert, DJ Grandtheft aka GT, Kid Koala, Ben Mono, Miss Ill and PM.


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