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| ABG (Adopted By Grace) |
|  | | Country: | United States |
| Website: | http://www.myspace.com/adoptedbygrace |
| Releases: | [Still I Rise] [Hell's Most Wanted] | | Info: | A.B.G. is a family quintet consisting of brothers Quick,
Soljah, Snoopy Loc, Loco and cousin B.L. Their love of music
began when they were still children starting with beating on
pots and pans and doing whatever their instincts led them to
do to make music.
Grandmother
“I remember my grandmother buying us a keyboard when we were
little. It was real corny, but it was something to get us
started and from there we just learned how to play and make
beats. We fell in love with the music,” says Quick, the
groups founder and who at 25 is the oldest member of the
group.
Videos
Quick: “We listened mostly gospel music growing up, but my
mom was a single parent and she wasn’t always around, and
when she wasn’t, we would watch videos on BET and MTV. And
we listened to the radio, you know! Things she wouldn’t
normally allow us to listen to, but we listened anyway.
Our Music
We do all of our own beats. People that are from Tacoma, we
call it the Tac, know that if you want to stay out of
trouble, you stay at home. So we made good use of our time
at home by practicing our music. My youngest brother Loco…
God blessed him with the gift, honestly you can give him any
instrument, and in about a month he’ll figure it out.”
Focused
That’s really how the group got started. Loco kept playing
that old keyboard until he mastered it. In an interesting
reversal from the norm of a rap groups evolution, ABG
focused on the music long before they ever got into writing
and reciting lyrics.
Saved
“We didn’t really start rapping and working together in a
real way until after we met God. We got saved inn 1996. When
that happened I asked myself; how can I tell my homeboys
about God so that they’ll really listen to me? We had to
figure out a way to reach these cats because they’re not
listening to us when we just talk about Jesus.
Ministry
My mother had remarried and my step father is a Pastor, so I
knew about the ministry. I was eager to get out there and
start my own ministry, I knew I had this love for music and
I had my brothers and my cousin. It was at that point that
we all got together and it was like… this is it! This is
what we need to do and music is how we’ll do it. That’s how
we really came together as a group with a common focus and a
shared mission.” Quick recalls.
Albums
ABG released their debut album Hell's Most Wanted on
Christsyde Records in 2002 as well as the sophomore record
Still I Rise (2005). |
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| Release: | Still I Rise |
|  | | MyHHHdb | |
| Media: | [Audio CD] | | Released: | 2005 [ Listen to HHH from this era on Spotify ] |
| Recordlabel: | Christsyde Records |
| Info: | 1. War Time
2. Oh Yeah!
3. Welcome
4. Whoa!
5. Last Days
6. Still I Rise
7. Ain't No Half Steppn
8. Smash
9. Dangerous Minds
10. Only God Can Judge Me
11. My Life
12. Hope
13. Someday
14. Visitation
15. Without You
16. Connecting Da Game |
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| Release: | Hell's Most Wanted |
|  | | MyHHHdb | |
| Media: | [Audio CD] | | Released: | 2002 [ Listen to HHH from this era on Spotify ] |
| Recordlabel: | Christsyde Records |
| Info: | 1. Intro
2. Here we come
3. Interlude
4. Giant Slayer
5. What people do 4 love
6. Demon Killa
7. I'll go
8. interlude
9. Mission of war
10. I don't deserve your love
11. letter to the homiez
12. True Love
13. Testimony
14. True Soldiers |
| Rating: | Our users rated this release: 7 out of 10
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