Deepspace5

Deepspace5is anunderground hip hopsupergroupformed in 1997 and currently composed of Beat Rabbi, Manwell?,Freddie Bruno,Listener,Mars ILL(a stand-alone duo consisting ofManchildandDJ Dust),Playdough,Sintax.the.Terrific,Sivion,andSev Statik.Deepspace5 also previously includedIlltrippand The Recon. Since its formation, the collective has sold over 100,000 copies of its recordings, and has performed withKRS-One,Atmosphere,andMF Doom,among others.

Deepspace5
Origin	Florida,United States
Genres	Christian hip hop,underground hip hop
Years active	1997—present
Labels	DeepSpace5, Uprok,Gotee,ILLECT, Mega Royal
Members	Playdough Manchild DJ Dust Fred B (Freddie Bruno) Listener Beat Rabbi Manwell? Sivion Sev Statik Sintax.the.Terrific
Past members	Illtrip Recon
Website	www.deepspace5.com

Career

Deepspace5 first coalesced in 1997 at an annualChristian hip hopconference called Cru-vention.Listener,Sev Statik,Sintax.the.Terrific,Manchildand Recon all met with each other at the conference and recorded anEP.Shortly afterward,DJ Dustand Manchild were signed to theTooth & Nailimprint Uprok Records as a duo project namedMars Ill,and they suggested that Uprok release a Deepspace5 project.PlaydoughandFreddie Bruno,who at the time recorded as a duo called Phonetic Composition, joined the group in 2000, after Playdough met with DJ Dust and Sintax in Atlanta. In the same year, the rapperBrailleintroduced Beat Rabbi to Manchild and DJ Dust, and Beat Rabbi was invited to join Deepspace5 a few months after Playdough and Freddie Bruno joined the project.

During the recording sessions for Deepspace5's first studio album,The Night We Called It a Day,rapperSivionjoined the collective. The album was released in 2002 to a warm critical reception. A second album,Unique, Just Like Everyone Else,followed in 2005.

At Scribble Jam 2008, Deepspace5 took 2nd place in the Music Video competition for "From the Outside", offThe Future Ain't What It Used to Be(released later in 2010).

Deepspace5 releasedBakesaleon April 29, 2008, exclusively on its website and SphereOfHipHop.com for CD or digital download, as a fund-raiser for its most recent album, entitledThe Future Ain't What It Used to Be,which was released on Mega Royal Records on April 27, 2010.

The group released "5:55" on October 20, 2017, exclusively on their new official webpage at BandCamp.comThe 5-song EP was their first album in over seven years.

Releases

• The Beginning, Is the Start of Everything(DeepSpace5 Records, 1997)
• The Night We Called It a Day(UpRok Records, 2002)
• Unique, Just Like Everyone Else(Gotee Records,2005)
• Deepspacesoulw/ Beat Rabbi (ILLECT Recordings, 2008)
• Bakesale(Deepspace5 Records, 2008)
• Greatest Beats and Unreleased(Deepspace5 Records, 2008)
• The Blueprint 3 Outtakes (Deepspace5 Version), aka "5Print mixtape"(Independent release, 2009)
• The Future Ain't What It Used to Be(Mega Royal Records, 2010)
• 5:55(BandCamp.com self-release, 2017)

External links

• Official website(Currently at BandCamp.com)