Anubis5 (born Stephen Christopher Moss II, 1985) is a hip hop artist. Anubis5's style of unique imagery and stories of developing concepts featuring multi-syllabalistic wordplay and punchlines with a classic droptone influence have increasingly spread throughout underground communities across North America stemming out to Europe.


== Overview ==


Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, Anubis5 found a form of poetic expression through a commercial culture and dug deep into it's underground roots to utilize his own sound. Using music as a part time job through high school he recorded and released his first independent record Genesis (2003), as a somewhat personal coping tool in the grief of his best friend's sudden death. Moving on to be a volunteer grief councillor, Anubis5 started looking into people's personal lives to draw inspiration from and put a story on every personality he crossed. Evidence on this transition is showed on his joint projects with Andy Able throughout 2004 to 2006, where the duo introduced themselves as Exit Theme. During this time he was also making regular college radio appearances and Much Music independent hip hop airings.

Exit Theme's debut album, When The Grey Fades (2004), was a gem bringing forth a brand of acoustic and classic rock integrated with a subtle dose of hip hop. Never heard before in Canada, Exit Theme's album was quickly picked up by Legendary Entertainment. A label notorious for starting Langford B.C.'s own Moka Only and emcee Kyprios of Sweatshop Union. The album featured prominant songs such as "The Bus," going in-depth of stereotyping between previous generations and our youth, and "Elaine," a solo love story of Anubis5 where he meets the girl of his dreams only to lose her during childbirth. The album sold well and pushed Exit Theme into the hungry eyes of underground fans where they developed a strong following.

Late the next year Exit Theme through Legendary Entertainment brought-forth another record. Random Verses (2005). Random Verses showed maturity through style in a more aggressive approach. The album touched on topics from the watchful eyes of internet predators to the ignored culture of the original Nintendo. The album was a number one best seller on the label's website for over a month.

While Anubis5 contracted chicken pox during the recording of Exit Theme's Random Verses album, he was intensely putting together his first solo project in two years. Black Market Designer Drug (2005) was released October 31st, a day after attending his uncle's funeral. The album brought together a blend of boom-bap and mixed it with aggressive outleashes and attacks on modern day society. Far from the Anubis5 known to fans from Exit Theme, Black Market Designer Drug boasted up-rhythm songs such as "Four Reasons" and "Territory". Lyrical exerpts from "Four Reasons" include: "propel the tree of knowledge I laid aroot upon the ashes, got sick of reading so I opened up the book of matches, and burned the whole kingdom straight to the fucking devil and claimed it the land of the ones below sea-level." The high-energy intensity was consistant throughout the LP and knocked off Random Verses as the top-selling album six weeks before it was even released. Black Market Designer Drug then went on to be Legendary Entertainment's best-selling album for 24 weeks outshining every other Legendary Entertainment labelmate at the time. The album had guest features from Andy Able (Exit Theme), Tykus (ex-Plague Language), Kain Marko (Foreign) and Celestial Perception with a enhanced CD version that showcased a freestyle session of Anubis5 and Ill Seer (Delegates Of Culture).

In October of 2006, Anubis5 stated through internet that due to personal and creative differences, Exit Theme would no longer be working on their next album with Sony Music Canada or together at all. It was stated however, that he would be in the process of creating his next solo installment for 2007 entitled The Dove In The Rosebush. The name is supposed to be a play on Anubis5's past to near current situations in leaving Legendary Entertainment to personal relationships with friends and other artists that he has heated situations going on with. The most notorious are Noah23 and Livestock of Plague Language. The two tracks released at the current moment show a light-hearted guilt driven emcee (Rusted Cloud with Eekwol of Innersoulflow) to an all the way transformation of a hungry, battle driven full-throttle lyracist in "The Hangman's Noose". Guest spots are to include Eekwol, Selfhelp (Bending Mouth), Celestial Perception, Dreddy (Staylefish) with production by Kain Marko and Deceo Ellipsis, a man known for ten years of production for Moka Only. Featured songs will be on a reality television show debuting about extreme surfing.


== Personal Life ==


Anubis5 lives with his girlfriend Laura Hayward in east London, Ontario. He often visits Guelph and St. Catharines, Ontario to see family and regularly travels to Vancouver, British Columbia and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He smokes cigarettes but doesn't touch drugs.


== Independent Releases ==


Genesis (2003)
Past To Present (2004)


== Legendary Entertainment Releases ==


When The Grey Fades (2004)
Random Verses (2005)
Black Market Designer Drug (2005)