Album Overview

First and foremost, let me apologize profusely for not making this album a priority in my review assignments. Here I am almost a full four years later and just now getting to it. I am sooooooo sorry that I did not take the time to highlight one of the rawest and truth delivering albums of our day. I guess what else would you expect from The Yuinon? This ministry is all about exposing false teachers (ings), equipping believers with truth, and standing up for the King of kings, Jesus the Christ as they trudge through the muck of our current society. So, if you are like me and were in a hole somewhere in a backwards universe you might not have Genocide yet. To reconcile this situation I am going to give you T minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 to put this album in your cart. No really, go do it now!

OK, got it? Cool. Now let's get down to business. I am absolutely floored by the "down to its roots" style of lyrical talent displayed on this project. If I was not already, I am so convinced now that doing anything, including hip hop, with a Christlike focus will yield enormous success. Case in point: Genocide is an action packed musical smorgasbord of snap the 7 cervical vertebrae in your neck beats; straight strike iron stones over timber lyrics; content that deals with the abyssal plains of social issues; and never back down from a fight (in the proper way/context) approach to preaching the Gospel. From "The Block" to "Takin it Back" you get nothing but a Limbus hip hop in which the purest things of its very nature come to fold. I know, I know, I'm always shooting mad props and hardly ever have a bad thing to say. I'll also concede it may seem my joy is so high at times that every Gospel album may look like the second coming to me in some of your minds. With Genocide though, I'm not that dude who cried wolf man! This joint is nothing but the absolute "illest" mixed album I've listened to in many moons. It's almost like I fell asleep and woke up in the sequel to "Beat Street: Great Commission B-boy Warriors" or something. The Yuinon movement consists of artist like Corey-Red, Precise, Jack, Maji, Mahogany Jones, Sistah Dee, EP, Diallo, Mark J, Temple, Seven, Steel Will, Light, and many more.
This project is filled with bangers. This project is made for real hip hop heads. This project is shock your momma real! I'd advise that if you have not heard Genocide yet and are hearing it for the first time, do your self a favor. Only play it in front of people that are willing to engage in serious, mature, and sincerely honest grown folk conversation about theology and the Bible. That means I hope and pray you are too. Really!

Spiritual Significance

What doesn't the Yuinon crew talk about on this album? Ummm, let me think for a moment. Nothing! The concept was to take a head on run at the secular hip hop culture and this is still relevant today. I guess getting paid, getting high, getting chicks, etc. is still somehow popular in our culture. What a surprise? It seems the response is to not only give our youth an alternative music to listen to but to tear at the fabric of merchandising sin and calling it hip hop. The purpose is for God to do a mighty work through this music and take hip hop back. I like that because then we can use it for what it should be used for. The genre is a medium for preaching the Gospel to the urban culture. I think spiritually you have to get fed with Genocide. The whole idea of killing the sin within hip hop then filling the genre with the Holy Spirit is deep all in itself. The manner in which it is done takes the perpendicular measurement of the culture downward from the surface even more. This is what I'm talking about. Most ministries that are geared toward the urban crown tend to not go as far over the edge when explaining a biblical worldview. In fact, a lot of articles, music, and other media they offer seem a bit watered down at times. Not The Yuinon. They don't try and change the wording of some of the terms used or subject matter discussed. Its extraneous and superficial matter has been removed to expose the listener to the same kind of reality they'll face in their walk. Life is not watered down for most of us, so why should reality or truth be? When we're talking about old temptations you may face, why not go the extra mile to paint the picture for the listener? When you hear tracks like "Narrow" then you'll fully understand what I mean. There are many other tracks that deal with our daily walk with Christ as a process as well. You will have to buy the album to listen for which ones, but trust me, this project is not lacking in content. It's not theologically meaty in the same way reading a book by Ravi Zaccharias would be, but it certainly deals with the issues.

This album is a musical simile to a Project Manager. I say that because their job is to handle issues at their point of execution. Obviously the artists rhyming are not going to physically be with their audience at moments of struggle or need of discernment. What can happen though is when a believer needs guidance in areas of encouragement, grace, or humility they can always reference a song or two to get them through. This coupled with reading their word, of course, will reach those who it is meant to reach. I feel like when you are listening you are not just dealing with theory. You are being invited into some very real life situations with believers that have a a heart to make their lives an open book for the sake of the Gospel.

Topics Covered

• Depictions of Urban Life that Corrupt the Youth
• Idolatry
• Being Irresponsible with your Tongue
• Fornication
• Prostitution
• Pedophiles
• Eternal Damnation
• Light of the Earth
• The Truth of Jesus the Christ
• Murder

...Trust me, I could go on and on, but, I won't.

Key Tracks

"The Block", "Preach", "Narrow", "All U Need", "Where's the Progress", "40 Bars", "The Son", and "Death to The Flesh"