#10 Bobby Exodus- Hiphop, Meditation, Sexual Energy

This episode is featuring the quick witted rap master Bobby Exodus. Bobby is a musician, artist, lyricist and philosopher. I love talking to him because he can speak on every level very intentionally. He is a master of words and a devious little redhead with the kind of sense of humor that wins over most people given enough time. In this first part we talk about his music and some of the struggles growing up trying to do the right things and fighting natural instincts. Bobby is another one of my favorite people in the world so first I wanted to share some of his music and lyrics before we get into the interview. So I play Cloud Noise and Matter Batter by Magic of Science and Bobby Exodus.

I talk with Bobby about doing music and one of his projects Magic of Science with Bobby Exodus.

Bobby talks about learning how to program beats on cakewalk and rap on cheap computer mics. We talk about how music helped curb his appetites for earthly pleasures. 

Coming up in hiphop with Maurice Barret and Maurice Bishop with a group called Royalty. He talks about feeling like you’re doing something worth while through creating music.

Bobby tells us that writing and surrounding yourself with the right people is crucial for growth. 

We talk a bit about battle raps with Spoken Nerd (Nathan Conrad), rapping on the streets as promos for shows, and learning to hold your own lyrically in a cypher.

Bobby says writing rap helped to identify questions which drove him towards God and the church, becoming involved in church and preaching through his music. 

Instead of talking about belief systems Bobby asks himself “What is a belief? Is a belief even important?”

Christianity became an identity and a way to belong to a community for him. 

Bobby eventually broke away from the church feeling unfulfilled. 

He talks about how abstinence affected his walk with God. Replacing sex with unhealthy ways to exercise pent up sexual energy like drinking. Feeling like he was being cheated by being abstinent. Not knowing how to talk to girls, expecting the wrong things from women because of the poison of pornography. 

He talks about finally giving up and giving himself permission to experience the sexual part of life he stayed away from. Bobby speaks about feeling a need to play catch up on being social and sexual with women. Wanting an ultimate love, to feel close to someone. 

Bobby tells us about calming sexual energy through meditation, cultivating feminine energy, and personal mystic work. 

Experimenting with meditation- “I felt like I had a new toy.”

He walks us through the microcosmic orbit meditation introduced by Thomas Anderson and his experiments with manipulating his experiences during meditation. 

Randall Thomas 2019 randallthomasmusic@gmail.com What A World Podcast whataworldpocast.com randallthomasmusic.com Bobby Exodus Solomon 

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