Saturday Morning Music - Episode 7

Rise Up Theme by VaryusWaise

"Rise Up Theme" - "Thanksgiving passed a few days ago. This year's was the best I ever had as I not only got to spend it eating well and having real, in-depth conversations about life with loved ones but I through those conversations, I realized that although this was a challenging year for me, I have much to be grateful for.

I've had the honor of being apart of the Rise Up Radio team for two years, come February 2012 and it's been a great ride along the way. I've gotten to meet so many interesting people from many walks of life and hear their stories and I wrote this song for them.

Although I wrote it last year, I never released it because I didn't want to come off as the arrogant new guy lol. Also, the second verse needed to change from the original. It's a new theme song I wrote as anyone who's listened to the show frequently knows, we've had the same theme for a long time and change is always a welcomed thing. Shout out to Outernational who created the original theme, 'Arise', we play each week and to Daru Jones who unofficially produced this song (I got the beat off one of his instrumental collections).

This will be on "Little Brother Syndrome" when it drops although I think I'm going to seperate the intro from the song on the final version. The intro comes the very first show I was on... as you can hear, I didn't quite have my radio voice at all. I don't know if we'll ever actually use it for our theme.

I'd like to dedicate this week to everyone out there fighting, whether it's on the frontlines through policy reform or community activism to those who are fighting through daily living. I thank you and am thankful for you."

Peace and Love...

VW