The Upside Eternal
Alert312
2015
The Upside Eternal is actually a Christian Hip Hop Concept album, and is a requiem for wrestling with the present realities of life and a hopeful anticipation for the future” as it explores the decaying and corrupt Chicago of today. It was basically the idea of being locally present but eternally born. Obviously ‘eternally born’ meaning spiritually born.
Alert312 elaborates further on the concept: “Initially, we had the idea for this record toward the tail end of Vice and Virtue. Boogalu had an idea of talking through a lot of the principles in Jesus’ parables and the upside down kingdom. ‘The Upside’ was initially short for Upside Down.”
“The eternal perspective came in when we wanted to address the different down sides we were facing. Originally the songs ‘Local’ and ‘Eternal’ were one idea. It was this simple introduction of facing our present struggles in the first half and the upside of looking towards eternity in the second half.”
Stand-Out Tracks
No Holds Tongue
The Wild
Kingdoms Falling
