Features : Roofer turned hip hop artist releases genre-bending new album

SAN DIEGO, Calif — A roofer by day and music aficionado, singer and song/writer in his off hours, hip hop artist, singer and song-writer Levi Grxce is putting his all into an album that he hopes will break through and build his future as a musician.

Grxce, who recently legally changed his name to his artists name, is going all in on his new 16-track album called “Rise to Grace,” and working to take himself to the next level of his musical career.

The album was scheduled for release on Sept. 1, 2023 on all platforms.

“This is my 19th project and I usually do somewhere around 15 or 20 singles in a project,” Grxce said. “But this was my first project that I really wanted of keep the stream going with it, and I wanted it to be cohesive. If I'm going to be performing this album and and this is going to be the one that kind of takes me to the next level. I want to be singing stuff that I truly mean and that I really feel and not trying to play an act. This album was really a chance for me to try to put other people's opinions aside and create what I wanted to hear.”

Grxce said he chose the name “Rise to Grace” for the album because things seem to be falling into place for him in his life after a difficult time with relationships that resulted in him being hospitalized for a short time.

One song that’s out on Spotify now, called “Take a Break (Jaden’s Song), will get a new name on the album, “Don’t Care (Jaden’s Song Part 2)” and is based on a time of his life where he went through a hard breakup.

“It was about nine-month relationship and it ended with me in a psych ward,” Grxce said. “I was in there for 48 hours, and that's not a long time, but for a guy like me who's not used to something like that, it really gave me time to reflect on a lot of stuff and decide something needs to change. I can't keep doing what I'm doing.”

People can find a list of the songs on Grxce’s feed on the site now called X and formerly called Twitter.

Grxce said was the middle of five children in a family with a single mom and he felt the need to be loved pushed him to seek out the wrong kind of crowd.

“I'll be putting a lot of energy into people who probably aren't the right people and it ends in disasters every time,” he said. “So I'm at this point my life where I need to stop chasing love and trying to find a person because I am that person. I have everything I need.

“With this project, it's me taking myself to the next level and, you know, being like let's not focus on relationships so much right now and let's focus on this career and actually doing something with it because this is what I want to do and no one's going to do it for me besides me.”

Levi Grxce is an independent recording artist who has spent the better part of the last decade amassing an impressive volume of work. Since he was a teenager, the singer, songwriter, and rapper has released 18 albums of genre-bending alternative hip-hop. He cites a wide-range of artists as inspiration for his sound, from Johnny Cash to Kendrick Lamar.

Grxce said he’s not a real religious person but he found himself praying more since his hospitalization and some of that comes through in the album.

“I have found myself in these last few weeks, I think after the psych ward incident, kind of talking to the big man a little bit, actually praying,” Grxce said. “I’m really sitting down with my hands together and just saying some stuff or just randomly throughout the day out loud saying thank you. So I guess 'Rise to Grace,’ it's kind of a religious, you know, grace, religion and all that.”

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