Get Your Umbrella Ready
Khalil Ismail is Giving You The Calm Before the Storm.
Washington, DC, May 22, 2009 --(PR.com)-- As Hip Hop new comer Khalil Ismail prepares for his first nationwide tour (May 23 – June 14 with Zain Bhikha), he’s decided to offer fans free music. But this is no regular snippet routine; entire tracks, including music from his debut LP, The Calm Before the Storm, will be available on his website KhalilMusic.com. How might an artist afford to giveaway such gems during a global-wide recession? “It’s called priority/God first, your family/Then comes the green,” he reveals on the song, “My Condition” inspired by the iconic Malcolm X.
Invoking the passion of fellow Baltimore son TuPac Shakur to deliver the peace-mentality derived from his Islamic upbringing, Khalil’s music personifies the dualistic life of a hyphenated American: he has a strong subculture message and a mainstream sound. On his ode to the genre, dutifully titled, “Hip Hop,” Khalil explains: “I wrote this track to congratulate rap/Who rose from the gutter to the top of the map, see/But with power comes responsibility/Imagine the change that we could make collectively… Music has the power to inspire new beliefs.”
The “new beliefs” Khalil hopes to inspire is a mainstream culture more reflective of who we can be rather than who we have been. “I’m not telling you how to live your life, I’m just saying we can do something else; we can take it a little higher!”
Khalil doesn’t shy away from pushing himself higher, either. The Calm... reaches beyond a boxed-in, one-note style of a typical new artist attempting define his sound, rather it moves seamlessly from gritty digital drums to jazzy melodies to go-go infused bass lines, all while maintaining a conscious lyrical focus.
On “Can’t Change” (featuring D’Angelo-esque vocalist L Debois and a patriotic guitar rift), Khalil explores what it’s like to be pious man in the Hip Hop world. On “Sometimes,” the piano-tickled track featuring Grammy Award nominated vocalist, Maimouna Youssef, he again expounds, “My lyrics penance for the mistakes I’ve made, I’m trying to change my ways… No time for immaturity, I’ve put down the game/I’m closer to Allah, He’s helped me gain faith.”
Khalil’s ability to find a flow between two worlds has gained him recognition worldwide as he recently performed at the Global Peace and Unity Conference in London England, and he’ll remain true to the personal responsibility that comes with his power to communicate by coupling his nationwide performance tour with lectures to young people about being a musical artist and maintaining artistic and personal integrity.
The Calm... releases this summer via The Enspire/Brown’sTone Recording Company. For more information and news updates, visit www.KhalilMusic.com.
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Invoking the passion of fellow Baltimore son TuPac Shakur to deliver the peace-mentality derived from his Islamic upbringing, Khalil’s music personifies the dualistic life of a hyphenated American: he has a strong subculture message and a mainstream sound. On his ode to the genre, dutifully titled, “Hip Hop,” Khalil explains: “I wrote this track to congratulate rap/Who rose from the gutter to the top of the map, see/But with power comes responsibility/Imagine the change that we could make collectively… Music has the power to inspire new beliefs.”
The “new beliefs” Khalil hopes to inspire is a mainstream culture more reflective of who we can be rather than who we have been. “I’m not telling you how to live your life, I’m just saying we can do something else; we can take it a little higher!”
Khalil doesn’t shy away from pushing himself higher, either. The Calm... reaches beyond a boxed-in, one-note style of a typical new artist attempting define his sound, rather it moves seamlessly from gritty digital drums to jazzy melodies to go-go infused bass lines, all while maintaining a conscious lyrical focus.
On “Can’t Change” (featuring D’Angelo-esque vocalist L Debois and a patriotic guitar rift), Khalil explores what it’s like to be pious man in the Hip Hop world. On “Sometimes,” the piano-tickled track featuring Grammy Award nominated vocalist, Maimouna Youssef, he again expounds, “My lyrics penance for the mistakes I’ve made, I’m trying to change my ways… No time for immaturity, I’ve put down the game/I’m closer to Allah, He’s helped me gain faith.”
Khalil’s ability to find a flow between two worlds has gained him recognition worldwide as he recently performed at the Global Peace and Unity Conference in London England, and he’ll remain true to the personal responsibility that comes with his power to communicate by coupling his nationwide performance tour with lectures to young people about being a musical artist and maintaining artistic and personal integrity.
The Calm... releases this summer via The Enspire/Brown’sTone Recording Company. For more information and news updates, visit www.KhalilMusic.com.
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