Amon Re The 8th Sign

Amon Re The 8th Sign - born Jermaine Price - is a Forest City, North Carolina rapper who has spent the last several years perfecting his craft at his homebase in Chicago, Illinois. Averse to labels, he prefers to refer to himself as a “conscious” artist who uses his emotional acuity and skill for empathy to become a vessel for people’s struggles with self, society, or life in general. Channeling the experiences of others through music, his goal is to elicit in the listener a moment of visceral connection in the hopes of creating what he describes as “a soundtrack to your life.” Drawing inspiration from the everyday, everything including the vibrations and frequencies people exude on a simple bus ride can provide the platform for a song from Amon Re. Also using his music as an outlet for his own voice, Amon Re admits Jermaine Price was a shy kid, and Hip-Hop has provided the latter with a safe space in which to openly express his thoughts, whether offensive or enlightening. The middle child of five siblings, he experienced a tragedy in 2012 when his older brother was murdered. It wouldn’t be until he was 26 years old that he would meet his own father. It was around this time he went back to school, studying broadcasting a local community college, a drastic change in the life of a high-school dropout working odd jobs. He would eventually obtain a job as production assistant on Judge Mathis, working his way up to associate producer, a position he maintains today. But music has found its way back into his life. Having recently wrapped up his 5-track EP Let Us Pray, Amon Re is ready to release the material he’s been sitting on since 2015. “I just wasn’t in a good place with music mentally,” he explains. Mixed and mastered by Marsten House Recording’s Steve Sxacks in Philadelphia, the EP is buoyed with a lead single in the form of its title track, which will be followed up by “Lonely People,” which he describes as “my my personal feelings of loneliness and how society is a bunch of lonely people looking for a connection through social media without actually connecting with another human.” Amon Re is also working on New Strange Fruit, a collaborative project with Italian producer Dirty Meth Dopamina, slated for an imminent release on all major streaming and b