This is another post I wrote back in 2012 to promote my first album EDULUTION: The Education Revolution, which has its own blog at  http://edulutionalbum.blogspot.com/ . I released a whole mixtape to promote it called "The Prefatory Mixtape." I made a couple of hundred dollars off the release of this album. I had no idea what I was doing, though, and didn't market it. This was promising, and then I became mentally ill, and all the momentum I had garnered got ruined by my own self-sabotaging and debilitating mental illness. You can find my early work as Apollo by following the links at FIENSE.com/music. Here is what I wrote in 2012 The EDULUTION album is Apollo's premier hip-hop album. This release is a blueprint for future projects and will always be returned to for guidance and inspiration. The goal of this album was to present an official first release that was designed to be of historical worth (rather than just popular) and make the project flow in a ...

Like with all my blogs in the month of March 2026, I am updating all my posts.  On other sites like The PsychoSocial Philosopher , I published posts that were in the banks, posts that got taken down, or posts I started and finished. This Lyceum Recordz blog is no different. I will be putting out some of the blog posts that explain my old moniker, Apollo, and business and persona-related posts I made more than a decade ago. This one is no different.  Originally, this was like five posts, one about each character and dichotomy; this post is about the characters I made as Apollo, my old hip-hop moniker. As I remember it, Apollo was the main character and was the personification of the Greek God Apollo and his command as the god of truth, light, and music. Dionysus was his intellectual opposite. While Apollo was about clean living, Dionysus was about debauchery. It was a dichotomy I came up with based on Fredrick Neitche's work about how he thought there was a dichotomy in Greece ...

2012 Lyceum Recordz Mission Statement : To provide attentive or astute audiences with music that's entertainingly educational and molded by the ideals of Ancient Greek philosophy. Lyceum Records is the most unique record company in the world. My dream has always been to be able to do scientific or journalistic research (or both), publish a book about it, and then make a hip-hop album popularizing the findings. My ambitions as an artist were born from a love for hip-hop but will always remain an extension of my sociological pursuits. This means that whatever I do in hip-hop is to further my career as a scientist of society. Although the overall goal is a scholarly ambition, this does not detract or discourage me from my pursuits as a hip-hop artist. I love doing hip-hop, I am extremely talented at the craft, and have deeply committed myself to the art form so that it will become synonymous with my name, company, and ambitions.  Although the aim is ...