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The Edulution Album: Reflecting on Apollo’s Debut and the Education Revolution

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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 direction that follows the focus of Lyceum Recordz.

I'm not above making a lot of money from my music, and indeed that is the goal, but I wanted this album to be a reminder to myself, my fans, and everyone else why I'm really in hip-hop. And what better way to show that than dedicating my first album to the ideals of Lyceum Recordz (i.e., peace, love, and unity through truth).

The goal of my musical pursuit is to write book(s) about non-fiction social problems and use my hip-hop to popularize the findings and explain my concerns.  For this first album, I did it backwards. The Edulution Album now has an entire blog dedicated to it, and you can find a post for every song and act. [I also did this because the subjects I rap about are (popular) history, but no one knows history (period) so I made the blog as another medium of information so that people could know what I'm talking about and understand it's importance.]

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