2016 Schedule

Interactive: March 11–15  •  Film: March 11–19  •  Music: March 15–20

Presented by: Kosha Dillz Presents: Oy Vey

Sir the Baptist

Thursday, March 17
11:40PM - 12:05AM

Sledge Hammer
503 E 6th St

Artist-8343

Listen to Sir the Baptist - Raise Hell

We all know that religiously strict families birth the worst rebels. This cross-cultured fact has become the creative fingerprint of Sir the Baptist and the inescapable thought of religion across the globe explains why this is an emerging artist with a universal market. Sir the Baptist is an Indie American Renaissance Artist noted as “one of the chosen ones”. If 2Pac was our first urban Prophet, he’s our first glimpse at an urban hymnist with that same ghetto gospel.

In the 1950’s Ray Charles was rebuked by the church for bringing gospel music to the secular/pop world with hit song “I Got a Woman”; well Sir is the second coming of that twisted faith. He’s a game-changing fusion artist of the secular and sacred – with a message that’s refreshingly progressive, delightfully innovative, and sometimes unapologetically necessary for today’s socio-political climate. Nevertheless, he’s the best of hip-hop aggressiveness, just ...

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