Just para-DOX (Of Secta 7)

Who Am I?: I Am a fresh voice in Hip Hop! I’m a ASCAP registered hip hop recording artist, producer, promoter, publicist, published author, poet, freelance writer, songwriter, blogger, graphic artist and artist. I grew up Oceanside, CA, my family resided in Dallas, TX for about 10 Years, we are in the process of moving to Santa Barbara, CA. I picked up the nickname AddLibbz for my ability to flow on any topic and ad-lib of any comment and freestyle. I have made mixtapes and have put out mixtapes that have been listened to over 90,000 people under the Dj alias Dj XDC (X-Dark Child) through Tripple H Mixtapes. I started making mix tapes (when they where still actually tapes). I’ve had a few brushes with my 15 minutes of fame, starring in episode of Beach MTV in 1993, along with receiving some local news coverage. In 2002 I spent two month traveling Western Europe with a Traveling drama groups performing a play before hundreds of audiences in Spain, Luxembourg, Belgium and Holland as well as visiting France and Switzerland.

My Experience in Music: my first live performance doing rap that I had written over a beat I produced was at a Mars Music store open mic a friend invited me to. He failed to mention it was put on by CMT, I placed well & got recognition for my writing abilities. I placed better than a friend of mine who did an original rock song and another friend who did an original acoustic song. I started rapping as full time as am emcee in 2003 with a group we formed called SoulFIRE. I supervised the independent release of our album Fired Up on my XDC Record label. I also promoted us statewide and nationally, getting us on a cable battle of the bands on the Damascus Road Show in which we received second place performing a song I wrote and produced. After moving on due to members getting married and moving I started the Dallas/Fort Worth Hip Hop Alliance to bring artist together we did some really successful shows Faze1 Final Fridays & Faze1 First Fridays, along with others shows in conjunction with other local promoters. We also had local meetings for artist to network, build and grow. For a season I worked for Dj Maj’s Virtual Frequency as their Dallas representative, helped get the show back on the air, as well helped plan and promote a Virtual Frequency Christmas show at The Neotropolis in Carrollton, TX. After that I started working for Tre-9 and Much Luvv Records as their Marketing and Promotion Manager, getting “The Next… Now!” album reviewed by the likes of OkayPlayer & into such store as Under Ground Hip Hop as well as putting out mixtapes to promote Much Luvv Records releases. I promoted to magazines and radio CY’s The Ringleader as his publicist for a while. I have also worked for the Texas Holy Hip Hop and All Eye’s On Me Achievement Awards as their Media Manager and Red Carpet Coordinator for three years. I have been a featured panelist and speaker on a few panels about Christian Rap, Dj'ing and other topics for the Gospel Announcers Guild and Texas Holy Hip Hop / AEOM Awards. I started the Right-Just Rap Foundation For Social Justice to raise awareness about Social Justice caused and created avenues for change and involvement. The Right-Just Rap Foundation For Social Justice is a community seeking justice for those affected by genocide, human trafficking, poverty, disease, illiteracy, poverty & civil rights. I started Tripple H Mixtapes to reach the lost with ministry minded mixtapes. I am a freelance writer for Rapzilla, The Message Mag, Dasouth, Marital Bliss Magazine and para-DOX parABLEss.

My Crew (Secta 7): I with Secta 7 a crew of underground emcee’s who’ve been in the industry for years. We are an underground group that has credentials going back to the 80’s including the Ministers Of The Underground TV. I’m one of the newest members. We are Intellectually Deep crew, We are battle emcees, we’ve honed our skills in Rap Cyphas. We address issues such as Politics and Social Justice. We can lyrically hang with and handle the roughest and toughest emcees.

The JEM Stone Times Latest News

My Latest Project:

My Next Project: that I am working on is the "DOX Don't Bust No Glocks Mixtape." This mixtape is going to be featuring Andre “007” Barnes (of the 5th Ward Boys), Applejaxx (of Nureau Ink), Gibraan (of Nureau Ink), Khul Rhema, Tre-9, C Micah, S.O.M (Soldiers On a Mission), ICECE, Cy, Tha Heata, Nate G, Truth Seekah, Ron Daniel & Big Moose. Plus of course yours truly 'Just paraDOX', rapping for the first time since 2003 when I gave up rapping for a season and moved more into promotion, planning, hosting events, running the JEM Stone Promotions, the DFW Hip Hop Alliance and Faze1 First Fridays. I then moved into being the marketing and promotions Manager for Much Luvv Records and being the media coordinator for the Texas Holy Hip Hop Achievement Awards which is going national in 2008.

Here is the front cover

This will be my first solo project as a mixtape to reintroduce the world to Just paraDOX, the new reformed and rearmed and reenergized, showing a diversity of rap styles and writing ability so people can get a little taste of what’s to come and how diverse I am as an individual, so when I start working on my first solo album people will already have a fever for the flavor. I am a very diverse and eclectic individual and I think on this mixtape you will see some of that with a dance hall track, a rock track and diversity of hip hop styles and raps. In the meantime I decided to put out a mixtape to see if cats where feeling me and if I should continue to work on a full length album. And it’s been awesome to see Gods hand move and the people who have said they would like to be involved it really moves me to know that people would be involved with a project with me and believe in me. Thank you. And we shall see what God does with this project.

The content of the mixtape is current world events, the power of life and death in the tongue, ending beef in hip hop, not returning violence with violence, secular hip hop dying, holy hip hop bringing a rap renaissance or rap revival as the Raiders Of The Lost put it and Christ redemptive power in tough situations whether in the hood of life in general.

Here is the back cover (Rough Draft)

Here is the Rough Tracklist
1. World War III featuring Cy & Walter Kronkite (War What Is It Good For? Absolutely Nothing!) (Intro)
2. Window Shopper (Remix)
3. I Still Have A Dream featuring Dr MLK Jr, ICECE & Bigg Moose (Remix)
4. Things I like featuring Tre-9, KJ-52 & Kuhl Rhema (of Ziklag Boyz) (Remix)
5. DOX Don't Bust No Glocks (NWA Express Yourself Remix)
6. Shot Down (Remix)
7. Whats Beef (mad-USA) (Beef III Snippet - Interlude)
8. Takin The Streets Back featuring 007 (of 5th Ward Boys)
9. Rap Renaissance featuring Gibraan (of Nureau Ink) & Propaganda (of Tunnel Rats) (Hip Hop Is Dead Remix)
10. Imagine featuring Applejaxx (of Nureau Ink) (Remix)
11. The Art Of War (San Soo Gung Fu)
12. Dying To Live featuring C Micah (Remix)
13. Broken Tablets (Golden Rule)
14. Go Hard featuring Nate G (Remix)
15. Talkin Gibberish featuring Tre-9 & ICECE
16. War Drums featuring Matisyahu (Interlude)
17. The Rules Of War
18. Won’t Stop Now featuring Tha Heata
19. What He Says I Am
20. Get The Club Crunk featuring SOM (Soldiers On a Mission)
21. Here We Go Again (The Government Is Moving Drugs Again)
22. Murder Ink (Suicide Note)
23. You Know How My Squad Do featuring Tre-9, ICECE & 007 (of 5th Ward Boys)
24. Chunk Up The Deuce (Twist The Dub Up)
25. CREAM 2007 (Remix)
26. Warfare Training 101 featuring Bruce Lee (Interlude)
27. Get Down
28. Push It To The Limit
29. We Need To Help The Hood (Interlude)
30. With The Help of Almighty God
31. Hidin In My Heart
32. Lord Give Me A Sign featuring Ron Daniel & Truth Seekah (Remix)
33. Lights Out (Game Over) featuring POD (Remix)
34. Teach Me Lord
35. Lord Have Mercy (Lifter Of My Head) featuring Elisheva Shomron (Outro)
36. Aaronic Benediction by Rabbi Marty Waldmen (Prayer)
37. Takin Over featuring Bigg Moose (Bonus Cut)

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Albums

Just para-DOX made his first full length appearance on SoulFire's - The Fired Up EP feat Emcee para-DOX1 (2003) released through paradox's XDC reCORDz. I am currently working towards releasing my first full length solo project "The DOX is in..." while releasing a couple advance mixtapes.

Mixtapes

Just para-DOX has several mixtapes in the making:

DOX Don't Bust No Glocks Mixtape
The current project that I am working on (2008).

Dirt DOX : The Healing Mixtape
Is a mixtape (2009) focused on healing the whole mind, body, soul and spirit through dealing with the issues of life from a biblical perspective. This project will take you through some of the pain I've been in life and lessons learned along the road.

Guest Appearances

Plus the para-DOX can be found as a guest on Bigg Moose’s mixtape with the track "Takin Ova".

para-DOX Performance & Promotions History

December 20, 2008 - Rescue Zimbabwe @ Life In Deep Ellum In Dallas, TX

June 22, 2008 - All Eyes Of Me Achievement Awards @ Copperfield Church In Houston, TX

November 24, 2007 - Texas Gospel Announcers Guild @ Hyatt Regency In Austin, TX

August 24, 2007 - CrossMovement HIStory Tour @ Highpoint Church In Fort Worth, TX
June 24, 2007 - All Eyes Of Me Achievement Awards @ Copperfield Church In Houston
June 24, 2006 - All Eyes Of Me Achievement Awards @ Copperfield Church In Houston, TX
June 25, 2005 - Da Convertication ’05 @ Paul Quinn College in Dallas, TX
May 7, 2004 - Faze1 First Fruit Friday @ Club 412 in Irving, TX
Apr 9, 2004 - Dallas Holy Hip Hop ConvertCation @ The Neotropolis In Carrollton, TX
Jan 30, 2004 - Faze1 Final Friday @ Club 36:9 in Dallas, TX
Dec 24, 2003 - Virtual Frequency @ The Neotropolis In Carrollton, TX
Nov 13, 2003 - Chi Alpha Campus Outreach @ Navarro Community College In Ennis, TX
Jul 27, 2003 - Damascus Road Battle Of the Bands - 2nd Place Winner, TX
Jul 25, 2003 - SoulFire CD Release Party @ The Door Club Dallas In Dallas, TX
Jun 29, 2003 - Homeless Outreach @ Seek The Lost Street Church in San Antonio, TX
Jun 22, 2003 - Troubled Youth Outreach @ Waco Center for Troubled Youth In Waco, TX

A Word Of Encouragement from para-DOX

G-d is looking for a people in the last days would to move in the spirit as Elijah and John The Baptist preparing the way for the L-rd to visit the earth in power. We as the church must have a desire to have an ear to heart what the spirit of the L-rd is saying to the churches and declare it from the roof tops, Rev 2:7. G-d is always doing something fresh and new in the spirit, in worship and in our ministry styles.

G-ds desire is for a living body not a dead stagnant religion. He wants a live, full relationship. Acts 2:19 says, "Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the L-rd." G-d searches to and fro the earth visiting people and churches to see if He can find a faithful group of people that He can show Himself strong, so that He can set up a place of habitation. A place where people can constantly find healing, love, acceptance, power and transformation. G-ds desire is to send seasons of refreshing from His presence however we must repent, pray and obey so that G-d can make His name a praise in all the earth through us - 2 Chron 7:14. That which we sow in tears we shall reap in joy, for He will turn our mourning into dancing and our sorrow into joy.

para-DOX Personal Story

How Dr Dre’s Lyrics Motivated Me To Stay Out Of Gangs, Off Drugs & Kept Me From Going To Jail. Growing up in southern California I was into gangsta rap, I hung out with gangstas. I had the chance to get jumped into a couple gangs. I grew up in southern California, everybody was in a gang or had a click your rolled with. I lived in Deep Valley, We had the Deep Valley Crips, Deep Valley Bloods, Mesa Locos, FruitTown, Insane Crip Gang, Crip Mobb Gangstas. Me being a white dude and a minority in the hood I gew up in, pretty much could pick and choose who I clicked with but had to fight a lot and hung with dudes that robbed, and stole, did drugs and acted a fool. I had plenty of chances to get down with them, I did some robbing & vandalism. I had to fight a lot to prove myself, I was a mad good street fighter. I had to. being the minority in the hood and all. I was more of prankster and trouble maker than a gangster.

My freshman year of High School some of my best friends were DVC and I hung with them everyday. They asked me if I wanted to get jumped in I had been listening to NWA and a lyric stuck out to me that made the stop and think. On NWA's Express Yourself part of Dre's verse goes like this, "I still express, yo, I don't smoke weed or a sess / Cause its known to give a brother brain damage / And brain damage on the mic don't manage / Nuthin' / But makin' a sucker and you equal / Don't be another sequel / Express Yourself... It's crazy to see people be / What society wants them to be. But not me!...Come on and do it / Express Yourself / From the heart." I was thinking about that and then there was an innocent church girl that got shot in a drive by at the corner store, some Mesa loco got shot at the end of my block and one of my boy Malcoms friend had did it. Ghetto bird was flying all over and finally swopped in and found him. The thing is that I said no to getting jumped in and in a matter of weeks they got caught some serious causes. Johnny B got 20 to life for being 17 1/2 and violently beating a dude over 60 times with fist, a board and stomping him in the ground, Malcom got 2 years in Juvi and 2 Years probation. I would have been with them that day had it not been for God through that verse making me stop and say now do I want to end up like them.

Then not long after that I was in the school library and this dude Junior from the DVB pulled a gat on me in the library at school and was like give me your money or I'll bust a cap in you. I was like man I don't have anything for you, put that down. He kept insisting and I said go ahead shoot me, put the gun down and leave me alone I don't have nothing for you, if you shoot me you won't make it out of this library and you will spend a long time in jail. knowing full well I had money but I wasn't about to give it up. Anyways he backed down and almost every time I saw him after that he was like, "you want me to jump you in my gang," I was like "no."

I didn't want to get shoot up, on drugs, OD or in jail because if I live that life I'm a either end up in jail, dead, shot or strung out on drugs. I decided that life is not for me. It was that lyric that started me toward a path away from all that and I decided to live above that. God eventually got ahold of me and the rest is HIS-story. Thats a trip that verse from a lost cat God could use to save me from drugs, crack, jail and death.