Still I Rise

A.B.G. (Adopted By Grace) is straight out of Tacoma, Washington, and their sophomore release entitled Still I Rise marks ABG as one of the hottest young Gospel rap groups on the scene today.  The album offers a sin-filled world a message of repentance, renewal, and victory in Jesus Christ. This follow-up to ABG’s freshman project Hell's Most Wanted brings a bodacious new flavor of street music to the forefront of Gospel music.

A.B.G. is a family quintet consisting of brothers Quick, Soljah, Snoopy Loc, Loco, and cousin B.L. Their love of music began when they were still children starting with beating on pots and pans and doing whatever their instincts led them to do to make music.

“I remember my grandmother buying us a keyboard when we were little. It was real corny but it was something to get us started and from there we just learned how to play and make beats. We fell in love with the music,” says Quick, the group's founder, and who at 25 is the oldest member of the group.

"My youngest brother Loco… God blessed him with the gift, honestly you can give him any instrument, and in about a month he’ll figure it out,” says Quick.

That’s really how the group got started. Loco kept playing that old keyboard until he mastered it. In an interesting reversal from the norm of a rap groups' evolution, ABG focused on the music long before they ever got into writing and reciting lyrics.

“We didn’t really start rapping and working together in a real way until after we met God. We got saved in 1996. When that happened I asked myself, how can I tell my homeboys about God so that they’ll really listen to me? We had to figure out a way to reach these cats because they’re not listening to us when we just talk about Jesus.

"My mother had remarried and my step-father is a Pastor, so I knew about the ministry.

"I was eager to get out there and start my own ministry, I knew I had this love for music and I had my brothers and my cousin. It was at that point that we all got together and it was like… this is it! This is what we need to do and music is how we’ll do it. That’s how we really came together as a group with a common focus and a shared mission,” Quick recalls.

Release Date:  2005

Song List:
War Time
Oh Yeah!
Welcome
Whoa!
The Last Days
Still I Rise
Ain't No Half Steppn
Smash
Dangerous Minds
Only God Can Judge Me
MY Life
Hope
Someday
Visitation
Without You
Connecting Da Game