FiveTwenty Day 2023

Happy FiveTwenty Day 2023!

Over the last five years, May 20th has officially become “FiveTwenty Day” (5.20)

We try to do something special for each FiveTwenty Day and this year we feel like we have our best offering for YOU yet. FiveTwenty Collective is happy to give you…

FiveTwenty Day release, "The Soul Tape: Session One"

The Soul Tape, Session One: A Tribute to Deespace5 ‘Deepspace 5oul’

This 5-song release is the first of multiple upcoming mini-projects paying homage to one of our favorite groups, the groundbreaking Deepspace5! For Session One, the FiveTwenty Squad went all cypher-ry and also enlisted the help of our friends Eternity, iNTELLECT, YP aka Young Paul, and Dex the Nerd Who Loves Jesus to take you back to the 2000s and classic boom bap hip hop. DS5 member Sivion even blessed us with a cameo. We hope you enjoy it! Take a listen below…

FiveTwenty Day Free Music!

In 2008, Beat Rabbi and hip-hop supergroup Deepspace5 released Deepspace 5oul, an album paying homage to classic 90s hip-hip.

15 years later, we are is celebrating with a tribute of their own in the form of The Soul Tap: Session One!

Be on the lookout for future installments of The Soul Tape Sessions.

Special thanks to the whole Deepspace5 crew and to all of the artists who contributed verses for this tribute!

Listen to Deepspace 5oul here

All songs produced by Beat Rabbi

Engineering by iNTELLECT, Holly Boogz, Eric N. Boston

Sivion x Malex "What It Is"

Sivion & Malex have a new single to share that touches on what motivates them in their lives.

What It Is features Lady and is an unapologetic invitation for the listener. Find out what motivates the actions of Sivion and the way he moves in life from circumstance to circumstance.

“MALEX and I are equally yoked in this hope and the values that follow. It is our absolute honor to be able to share in full transparency, what fills our cup. Though our goal is that this message blesses you to the depths of your soul, it is “what it is” regardless…you can take it or leave it.” – Sivion

Sivion x Malex, "Heavy Gunner"

Veteran emcee Sivion and Grammy-winning producer Malex drop Heavy Gunner

With a joint project releasing soon via Illect Recordings, grab the new single now on Bandcamp.

“When I got this beat from MALEX, it reminded me of one of those chaotic Star Wars scenes. Where they’re out in space battling a bunch of Star Destroyers. There are just lasers flying everywhere…and from all directions.  Only something as powerful as The Force could keep you from getting annihilated,” explained Sivion.

“I feel like life is the same.  We’re constantly at war with negative thoughts and actions coming at us from all angles….and we have to have our deflector shields up and always “shoot for the stars” knowing that we deserve to be there.  Keep that Heavy Gunner locked and loaded at all times.” – Sivion

Heavy Gunner marks the first release of 2023 for both artists.

Sivion

Sivion is known for his conversational style, fusing jazz and funk while touching lives. He joined the super crew Deepspace5 in the early 2000s while transitioning into a career as a solo artist. Residing in Dallas, TX, Sivion was previously a member of the groups Phat KATS and Lost Step. His venture to developing his own solo identity spearheaded the writing and production of several projects over the years.

Malex

As a producer, Malex has worked on projects with many top artists. These artists include Common, Eminem, Gladys Knight, Raekwon, Dee-1, and more.

Sivion is back with a remix to Blinders. Brought to you by another longtime friend, rapper, and Canadian beatsmith, Jon Corbin.

This darker jazzy take on the original, compliments the lyrics well with a drum cadence that switches up the vibe a bit. With a message meant to bless with love bright enough to blind you, these two continue on Sivion’s original goal of illuminating wisdom and encouragement to help us through the darkness that seems to be so prevalent in all of our lives right now.  He not only brings the sax again, but also adds some flute and a sax solo at the end for the jazz enthusiasts that ride for that unique element in his music.  So keep on letting that message sink in, get you some of this light, and make that darkness flee from wherever it’s heaviest in your life…cuz we’re all meant to be Blinders.

The world is full of darkness right now with racial injustice, a worldwide pandemic, political mass confusion, and tons of hate, depression, disunity, and isolation. But through it all, we are called to be light in the darkness.

Sivion, Bavu Blakes, TheAre “S.L.Y.” ft. NickNack

Germaine Martel “The Trump”

Jentile “Brand New Day” ft. Json, Devin Thacker

KevRock “Unashamed” from Grace Notes: The Mixtape by Yari Music

DXVID “Reign Down”

Minister Squad “Low Prophets” ft. Mr. Uni Universal, iNTELLECT


Lush and smooth synthy grooves, personal tales of struggles, hope and optimism. Sivion, Dre Murray, and Sojourn remind us that things will get better.