Revelation 13:18 - Topic

Actor turned music producer and artist, Revelation 13:18, is steady on the path of showing not just the music industry, but the world knowledge of self. Growing up in Louisville, KY (in the West End home of Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali), Revelation moved to Los Angeles's South Central Overhill and Slauson area where he started out as an actor, working on music video sets. The famed artists and music makers from Kentucky, like KY Engineering from Lexington, KY who engineered for Lil Wayne, Static Major, R. Prophet (Nappy Roots) and Muhammad Ali's 1963 spoken-word album "I Am the Greatest" which was regarded by some as an early example of rap and a precursor to hip hop inspired Revelation to create music. Revelation originally aspired to be an engineer, but he started out as a sample based producer, using resources like the site hiphopisread.com and the Kevin Nottingham Music blog to study the art of beat making. Revelation refers to himself as a new age, conscious rapper. Making music is at the core of his mission to spread conscious enlightenment to the inner city communities through the knowledge of self. Revelation's music is influenced by artists like Jay-Z, Nas, J Dilla, 2pac, Notorious B.I.G., Eazy- E, Nipsey Hussle, Master P and the 5 Percenter Culture.

On March 11 , 2014 Revelation released his breakthrough single, Wave feat. J Dilla. The track featured world famous record producer J Dilla. The instrumental from "Wave" was originally on J. Dilla's album "Donuts", the last album J Dilla released during his life. The instrumental album "Donuts," was released Tuesday, February 7, 2006, three days prior to his death. Four months after the release of Revelation's "Wave feat. J Dilla", the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture announced the donation of significant artifacts from the family of award-winning, hip-hop artist and producer, James "J Dilla" Yancey. The J. Dilla collection was donated by Dilla's mother, Maureen Yancey.

On January 17, 2014, Revelation released his debut instrumental EP Now's the Time recreating the famed 1985 Now's the Time painting by Basquiat as the album artwork designed by him introducing his Revelation 13:18 x Basquiat brand. Later that year on August 12, 2014, the anniversary of acclaimed artist Jean-Michel Basquiat's tragic death, Revelation released self produced "Old School". The song was a tribute to the late, world famous graffiti writer turned painter, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and feature