Draft:Serious Truth

Christian H. Godinho (born September 26, 1990), better known by his stage name Serious Truth, is an American musician and multimedia artist. Serious Truth emerged from Massachusetts underground hip hop scene in 2010. His debut hip hop singles Posted Up and Warning were released to iTunes and Spotify on August 14, 2013. His debut as an acid jazz keyboardist and composer came on January 15, 2020 with the release of As The World Spins. On November 3, 2020 Blaq Poet released an LP with Serious Truth titled Cultural Revolution reflecting on current events.

Early life
Serious Truth developed into a graffiti artist as a pre-teen and was subsequently sent to a reformatory boarding school for vandalism at the age of 14. He was sent to the Academy at Ivy Ridge where he played a minor role in 2005 Riot at Ivy Ridge. At the academy he started his transition from graffiti artist to becoming a songwriter and producer and multimedia and recording artist.

Aggravated Mayhem
Aggravated Mayhem was a hip hop group from North Shore founded by Serious Truth and his cousins MindState & Reality in June 2009. During the summer of 2009 they recorded an album titled Not Guilty which was later uploaded by Serious Truth to YouTube in mid-2012. Aggravated Mayhem split up as a music group in June 2010 upon the incarceration of MindState & Reality. They reunited briefly upon their release in 2014 to record a three-song EP titled Posted Up. After the group split up Serious Truth founded Aggravated Mayhem Records.

Productions and features
Serious Truth went on to collaborate on songs with notable hip hop acts such as Layzie Bone Buckwild, Reks and Termanology as well as producing music for Krumbsnatcha after his stint with Aggravated Mayhem. In 2011 he collaborated with Termanology, Reks and Krumbsnatcha on Truth Hurts. In 2012 he was a guest featured vocalist on a song titled The Show by Ryan K and Layzie Bone.

He has also been known to have his music played on DJ Premier's radio show on Sirius XM.

Collaboration with Sean Price
In late 2014 Serious Truth and Sean Price began working on an album together. With two songs finished on the album. Sean Price passed away in his sleep on the morning of August 8, 2015.

Cultural Revolution
Blaq Poet and Serious Truth released their collaborative album Cultural Revolution on November 3, 2020. In the wake of the George Floyd killing at the hands of police they released the first single off of the album called Wake Up (Revolt!). On July 7, 2020 they released a follow-up single called Heavy Industry featuring John Jiggs. They released two subsequent singles in September and October respectively called Man On A Mission and Born And Raised. The album was inspired by current events and focuses on returning to the original roots and cultural standards of hip hop. Cultural Revolution has become a cult classic among DJs and hip hop fans alike and amassed 120,000 streams across all platforms as well as frequently finding its way onto radio stations in United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium and United States.

Controversial
Charles Hamilton and Serious Truth released their collaborative album Controversial on May 25, 2021 to critical acclaim. As well as designing the cover art Serious Truth also played a piano and synthesizer and bass and drum machine on this project. XXL contributed this project to helping Charles Hamilton get back on track with his music career.

Solo work
Serious Truth made his first solo album in 2013 titled Masshole. On June 6, 2018 he released another album titled Means Of Production a mix of sampled instrumentals and songs with lyrics including a guest appearance from Krumbsnatcha. In 2020 he released two acid jazz composition albums. The first instrumental album was released on January 15, 2020 titled As The World Spins and the second album was released on May 4th of the same year and titled Fall From Grace. A third acid jazz instrumental album titled Audio Mural was released on October 5, 2021 garnering critical acclaim. On April 5, 2022 he released an orchestral score of the Ukraine Crisis titled Russo-Ukrainian War (Motion Picture Soundtrack).

Talib Kweli
In June 2018 Talib Kweli and Serious Truth entered into an intense and widely publicized feud with one another concerning political state of USA identity based social movements, popular culture, class consciousness and division of population over trivial ideological differences. What started out as intellectual discourse quickly spiraled into ad hominem, doxing and threats and involvement of fans taking both sides of argument once feud eventually spilled over onto social media outlets such as instagram. Celebrities such as Lil Scrappy, Ruste Juxx, Pete Rock, Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Busta Rhymes among others also joined in on the argument. Feud was eventually put to rest in mid-July 2018 with assistance of Charles Hamilton a mutual friend of both Talib Kweli and Serious Truth.

Personal life
After a show Serious Truth currently functions as the CEO of Aggravated Mayhem Records and as the lead audio engineer of Silver Sound Broadcasting. In his spare time he also designs informational posters, illustrates album covers and studies world history and political science. In December 2021 he reverted to Islam.

Albums

 * Not Guilty (with Aggravated Mayhem) (2010)
 * Masshole (2013)
 * Means of Production (2018)
 * As the World Spins (2020)
 * Fall from Grace (2020)
 * Cultural Revolution (with Blaq Poet and DJ Grazzhoppa) (2020)
 * Controversial (with Charles Hamilton)
 * Audio Mural (2021)
 * Russo-Ukrainian War (2022)

Singles

 * Wild (2012)
 * Truth Hurts (featuring Reks, Termanology and Krumbsnatcha) (2012)
 * The Show (featuring Layzie Bone and Ryan K) (2012)
 * Warning (2013)
 * Posted Up (2013)
 * Stay Away from Me (featuring Sean Price, Big Twins and Krumbsnatcha) (2020)