TAILORED SILHOUETTE: FASHIONABLE MUSIC : THE SOULS OF LIBERTY TAKEOVER

Music is definitely the must have accessory to any wardrobe. Most musicians are seasonal and few are legendary. New hip-hop group Souls of Liberty are definitely legends in the making. I sat down with Tenelle Bufford whose legend name is Tenelle Donta and Ryan Brown otherwise known as Ryan Escobar about their new destiny. The group recently launched a mixtape entitled Carpe Diem, which has definitely started a buzz. With their sense of style, amazing charm, and charasmatic humor Souls of Liberty is a automatic hit. The St. Louis natives will definitely dominate the music industry so GET TO KNOW SOULS OF LIBERTY.

Q: How did the group Souls of Liberty begin?

Tenelle Donta: Well the name came from history class. We learned about the sons of liberty who were colonial patriots fighting for freedom and we took it and ran with it.

Ryan Escobar: We both started rapping at a young age. We went through several different stages of Souls of Liberty. Spring Break '09 we were just playing around at steak and shake and listening to a song we thought was funny. We saw a girl with a big booty and started making raps, which is when we thought to come up with a mixtape. Not too long after that we released two mixtapes called "Long locks and Nike socks" and "One Soul At A Time".

Q: There is a song on the mixtape entitled "5 shots". What is the content of the song?

Ryan Escobar: People really didn't take us seriously at first as rappers. The context of the song insist that no matter how many shots people take at us we are here to stay. We are just going to get better in the rap game and once people realized how serious we are they started to change their minds.

Q: What separates Souls of Liberty from other rappers in the industry?

Tenelle Donta: We are more of artists than hip hop. We want to leave a legacy and our mixtapes are like a documentation of our lifelong brotherhood. A lot of people in the music industry are doing the same thing and we are a little different and stay true to ourselves while trying to find our way.

Ryan Escobar: The problem with the rap game is that everyone compares each other. We took jazz, pop, and rock which are all different sets of genres. There are different types of genres in hip-hop in which all come together to make up the genre. The group U2 is definitely ideal of what we want to accomplish. Their music is timeless and we want to eventually be greater than them.

Souls of Liberty definitely gets the fashionable approval of Tailored Silhouette. The mixtape "CARPE DIEM" is a must hear. Coming up next from the dynamic duo is the mixtape "Music, Money, and Memories" and the more traditional mixtape entitle "Part Time Student".