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"In my early life, I forced break-throughs in danger to myself. I left these methods behind after realizing that everything I needed for self-discovery was already within me. I purged the facets of my being by compartmentalizing them into these living representations: The Beholder's Trinity . I needed to know who I was in order to understand who I could be. "AYAHUASCA" is my journey of self-understanding. It is my absolution. It is my sacred ritual," Occult Rap originator Mahatma Crowley wrote within a recent statement. "AYAHUASCA" is the first part of a seven-part "visual story that will play out over the course of 2017" to accompany Crowley 's 2015 debut, THE BEHOLDER'S MARK [PROJECT 1] and its recently unveiled follow-up, iLLMAGIC [PROJECT 2] . I'm ecstatic to be premiering "AYAHUASCA" today, here at The Witzard , on December 22nd, The Winter Equinox —as was iLLMAGIC released on The Autumnal Equinox , Septemb...

" [PROJECT 2] is a concept mixtape that covers the themes of fame, isolation, Armageddon , suicide, immortality, dark magick, and Christian mysticism. "Glass Half Empty" is the mid-point of this story and deals primarily with the emotion of helplessness... How do you see the glass? Can you see it any other way? Will my visions ever change? [PROJECT 2] on the horizon," self-described Occult Hip-Hop emcee Mahatma Crowley wrote within recent Facebook and Soundcloud statements; both mysteriously hashtagged "BEHOLDTHEMARK" and "SOLSTICEWEEK," which would be this upcoming week, to be exact, the impending Autumnal Equinox , Thursday, September 22nd (a potential release date). Mahatma Crowley 's ghoulish delivery vaguely reminds me of his grizzled bark predecessors DMX , Ja Rule, Rick Ross , Yeezus-era Kanye, and at times, even Death Grips' frenzied frontman MC Ride . Upon first hearing Crowley & The Beholder's Trinity '...