Urbanbuzzmag.com
By Nigeria Anderson
Kingdom Music Is For Everyone
Digital Native (Supa Dave West) is an accomplished record producer and virtuoso drummer with a rugged, melodic and neck breaking sound that has offered a fresh canvas to a number of mainstream and underground artists throughout the years. His musical journey started at a young age in the church. His Pentecostal Holiness upbringing exposed him to music and arrangement. His unique approach and gift has allowed him to travel around the world as a tour drummer for notable artists in the music industry. Digital Native produced a single titled, Goodness Praise Break featuring Pastor Jason Hendrickson for the Mirror Ball Recordings and B.D.M. Music Group collaboration. The single reached #2 on the legendary Traxsource.com Soulful House chart, where it continued to chart for over eight weeks straight. Top House and Dance Music DJs listed Goodness Praise Break as a song that they included in their sets. Goodness Praise Break, is considered a Gospel House track which essentially expresses spiritual lyrics predominantly under the Christian genre. Gospel House music is a Christian alternative to dance music. Gospel House is one of my favorite Christian genres of music. Digital Native full album will be released later this year.
Digital Native has been the best kept secret and backbone of the Hip-hop group De La Soul’s sound. He made major contributions to the De La Soul releases from the 2000s. Including De La Soul’s ninth full-length studio album, the 2017 Grammy nominated album Anonymous Nobody for Best Rap Album. Digital Native has also contributed his talents to film and television and most recently collaborated with ROVIO games with a track called Action featuring De La Soul for the Angry Birds video game The Big Pig Update. He even signed a deal for his group Hot Sauce with Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest. Digital Native has worked with a host of notable artists, such as Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common, E40, Ghostface, Snoop Dogg, including Michelle N’Degeocello and Eric Roberson. He even placed a song he produced with Mystic in the Biker Boyz movie and the soundtrack for Dreamworks. We had an awesome conversation about kingdom music and answering God’s call, even when people don’t know what He told you. Welcome our new KeyPlayer Digital Native. You can connect with him on IG @digitalnativeman PUSH PLAY
