The EDULUTION Album!

EDULUTION: The Education Revolution Album is the premier record from Apollo, the founder of Lyceum Recordz. The album represent an epistemic shift in thinking about the world and American history. It will broaden your scope of knowledge about the cultural ethos with eclectic vocabulary, elite lyricism, superior sound, prestigious cadence, and a hard-hitting delivery. It's a classic and you should hear what it's all about!

Purchase the CD at LyceumRecordz.com or the Album is available on iTunes, and Spotify. 

EDULUTION is a concerto and truly a work of art! Taken by chorus and verse the lyrics heighten the intellect, please the ear, and leave the listener satisfied but wanting more. Taken by song, the composure, focus, and dynamic comes into view. But it is only when the songs and their combined meaning become an interdependent story does the essence of the message come forth. Just as a painting with a million dots, the further you stand back, the more you see how the flow and mess of colors coalesce to paint a picture that says more than a description ever could.

With 6 acts; 10 music, 10 lyrical spoken-word, and 2 “clip” tracks; EDULUTION is a woven mess of lyricism and cultural expression creating an allure of thought provoking entertainment. The entire project flows with a coherent story line: Lyceum Recordz (Intro), Unity, Peace, Truth, Digression, and then Love--are the acts in respective order. The project is meant to fully capture the human experience and help nurture an epistemic shift in thinking from a ridged narrow-minded black-and-white view of the world  to an en-lighted understanding of the American ethos.

Sometimes it feels as if the composition is more of a philosophical treatise than a debut hip-hop album. It is easy to get lost in the story that is being told. However, it isn’t until Apollo’s artistic ensemble (EDULUTION) is looked at (or listened to, rather) as a whole, does the music, reference, and idea come full circle interlacing ideas and building a thought structure predicating axioms of understanding.

As with any good piece of art, the more you listen the more you will hear, and more you know, the more you will “see” and understand. To put it simply, EDULUTION is designed to inform citizens, tell the truth, create unity, and  popularize science, literature, and philosophy--in a contemporary framework from an American egalitarian perspective--through  musical expression and the use of cadence, lyricism, wit, and word play! If you like hip-hop, books, history, lyricism, the truth, love, peace and/or unity, you will love Apollo’s debut album, EDULUTION!

Track List: 

Key:

Regular:                Music Track
Bold & Italic:     Spoken Word Track
Underlined:          Clip                        


1. Wild!
4. Apollo

Act 2: Unity  

5. M.V.P. (Most Venerable Poet) 

Act 3: Peace

11. JFK

Act 4: Truth

14. RFK
16. Edulution                                                               


17. E$
18. Puss & Cush (Nintendo) 
19. Superhoe 

Act 6: Love

20. Hey!

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