Underground Rise, Volume 1: Sunrise/Sunset

Tunnel Rats Present... Underground Rise, Volume 1: Sunrise/Sunset
Compilation album by
Tunnel Rats and Various Artists
ReleasedApril 25, 2003 (2003-04-25)
GenreChristian hip hop, underground hip hop
Length68:00
LabelUpRok
ProducerDert, Donovan Luke Henry, Jermz, Raphi
Uprok Records chronology
Uprok Records Mixtape, Vol. 1
(2002)
Tunnel Rats Present... Underground Rise, Volume 1: Sunrise/Sunset
(2003)
Uprok Records Mixtape, Vol. 2
(2003)
Tunnel Rats chronology
Tunnel Vision
(2001)
Underground Rise, Vol. 1: Sunrise/Sunset
(2003)
Tunnel Rats
(2004)

Tunnel Rats Present... Underground Rise, Volume 1: Sunrise/Sunset is a 2003 compilation album by Uprok Records in collaboration with underground hip hop collective Tunnel Rats. Around thirty-five rappers appear on the compilation, which features, in addition to the Tunnel Rats, numerous other underground hip hop artists and groups, Christian and non-Christian, including LA Symphony, LMNO and 2Mex of The Visionaries, Remnant, Mass Reality, Sekou the Misfit, and Deepspace5 members Playdough (also of Ill Harmonics), manCHILD of Mars Ill, and Listener. Production was handled by Tunnel Rats members Dert, Donovan Luke Henry, Jermz and Raphi (a.k.a. Shames Worthy). Most of the album was recorded over a single weekend. CCM Magazine noted that on the song "One Voice", the entire Tunnel Rats and LA Symphony crews come together, with seventeen rappers appearing on the same track.[1] Critics received the album well, noting that, it offered a diversity of musical styles and showcased the many talented artists in the underground and Christian hip hop scenes.

  1. ^ Smith, Tim A. (March 2003). "Good Moon Rising: Hip-Hops Brightest Young Stars Shine on a Crunk New Mix of Rhymes" (PDF). CCM Magazine. 25 (9). Salem Publishing: 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved May 20, 2014.