Like a mixed martial artist, Souleye rhymes with an artful ferocity like he's eloquently dancing between words, sounds, and silence, intuitively and spontaneously landing each sick beat and verse in a rhythmically mesmerizing flow.

 

Souleye’s brilliantly crafted rap lyrics are a tapestry of cosmic consciousness woven with the everyday realities of life. Like a well-lubricated twin-clutch, Souleye can just as effortlessly and swiftly shift from observational daily musings to mystic rumination, reflecting on past life events while mindfully meditating on the present, and contemplating the mysteries of the future and the beyond.

 

Growing up in New England the acclaimed hip-hop artist had a fascination with hip hop music going back to his childhood. At the dawn of the 90s, amidst a backdrop of grungy flannel and the fall of the wall, Souleye would jump off his school bus, hightailing it home in time so that he could catch the latest episode of ‘Yo! MTV Raps,’ capturing them all on his boombox to listen to later. Souleye credits his mother with gifting him his very first rap album, Rap Beginnings – Volume I.

 

By his mid-teens, Souleye began freestyling and writing his first songs. At 20, while practicing a shamanic visualization meditation, Souleye was bestowed with his name 'Souleye' by a divine figure under the glow of a bright golden light. A couple of years later, after touring and performing with a collective of likeminded hip-hop artists known as the Transcendental Alliance, Souleye released his debut album, Soul Sessions, with underground artist Campaign.

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Since then Souleye has released nearly a dozen dynamic albums, including 2003’s Flexible Morality, which he wrote alone in the woods of Massachusetts following the death of his best friend to cancer; and 2004’s Universal Alchemy, after learning of his brother’s tragic suicide.