Mixtape Methodology

The R.E.S.T. Mixtape was created for those who are done with empire’s version of faith—but not done with God. In a world that’s increasingly post-Christian, multi-faith, and spiritually curious, this experience offers a new wineskin—something flexible enough to hold what’s sacred without being bound by what no longer liberates.

 

R.E.S.T. stands for Radical, Ethical Spirituality Tethered to Wisdom—four elements that serve as a compass for spiritual fugitives, cultural creatives, and those living on the edge of tradition. Through scripture, music, film, somatic practice, and ancestral memory, R.E.S.T. helps us unlearn diseased imagination and remember the sacred technologies our people used to survive, create, and believe.

 

For me, this journey is deeply personal.

My love of hip-hop, my spiritual curiosity, and my relentless search for meaning shaped a way of seeing the divine in places others overlooked. I first had to see it in myself—which was hard to do in a body constantly ridiculed and with gifts too often ignored.

 

I learned to find Jesus where most weren’t looking—in the cipher, in Eastern Christian tradition, in the secular classroom, and in the lyrics and lives of hip-hop artists. Griots that the church and academy often dismissed. I found myself—and I found God—by extracting the elements of R.E.S.T. in the beats, the questions, the bars.

 

R.E.S.T. Mixtapes are born from the sacred ground of finding treasure in what the church and the world call trash.

Mixtape methodology is an act of conjuring—blurring the line between sacred and secular, ancient and emerging. It’s the spiritual technology that birthed the hush harbor and hip-hop.