Nephilim: Act of God 1
| Nephilim: Act of God 1 | ||||
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| Studio album by Stu Dent | ||||
| Released | November 14, 2003 | |||
| Genre | Christian hip hop, underground hip hop | |||
| Length | 56:26 | |||
| Label | Illect | |||
| Producer | A-Typical, Beat Rabbi, Fred B, Ironiclee, JB!! a.k.a. Dirty Moses, June 22, JustMe, Kut-O, Mattman, Terakoza | |||
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| RapReviews.com | 7/10 |
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Nephilim: Act of God 1 is the second studio album by hip hop musician Stu Dent, released November 14, 2003 through Illect Recordings. Stu Dent is an alternate moniker for Albany, New York artist Sev Statik, real name Joseph Evans. Evans originally created the Stu Dent pseudonym in order to release the album Altered State in 2001 without breaking his contractual obligations with Tunnel Rats, a hip hop musical collective of which he is part. Nephilim follows up on Altered State and the 2002 Sev Statik release Speak Life. The album includes production from Beat Rabbi and Freddie Bruno, fellow members of Deepspace5, a group Evans co-founded, and production and a guest appearance by JB!!, also known as Dirty Moses, a member of All Bully, another group that Evans helped found. Nephilim met with a highly positive reception from critics.
Joseph Evans was active as a rapper in the Albany area since the early 1990s, under the name Sev Statik. After the dissolution of Master Plan, a group he was part of, in 1996, Evans released two solo EPs. In 1997, he co-founded the supergroup Deepspace5, and joined the Los Angeles-based collective Tunnel Rats. He began recording music for a Sev Statik studio album, Speak Life, in 1999, but this project was held up due to problems that he and Tunnel Rats had with their current label. As Evans had promised Tunnel Rats that he would not release any solol material as Sev Statik until that group's Tunnel Vision album was released, he instead adopted an alternate stage name, Stu Dent, and released a different solo album, Altered State, in 2001 through Deepspace5 Recordings.Speak Life ultimately was re-recorded and then was released in 2002 through Uprok Records. Nephilim follows up on that release, and was originally intended to be the first installment in a three-part trilogy.
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