Andre Johnson made himself known to the public more for some private events than for the quality of his music offered during a twenty-year career in hip-hop. RZA signs the Black Knights of North Star in the late nineties with Wu-Tang Records, then the collective splits into two distinct groups, Black Knights on one side and North Star on the other, and Christ Bearer continues to record music in this latest group along with Meko the Pharaoh. The RZA heavily produced record released in 2003 should throw them into the circuit, but that just doesn't happen: wikipedia puts among the "professional" reviews an amazon one in which there's someone who had the bold to write that the music of North Star is in summary the Wu Tang who meets Dr. Dre. Unfortunately, there's nothing further from that phrase, having listened to the North Star album.
In 2016, Christbearer releases his first solo disk, it's the first of a trilogy, and behind him is the mind of Shaka Amazulu the 7th and his Black Stone of Mecca label. The production is entirely created by Skarekrow of Da Monstar Mob and the guests are names you may never have heard, except Black Knights of North Star, who reunite in "Time & Time Again", one of the two best choices on the record, where Christbearer, Rugged Monk, Crisis the Sharpshooter and Meko alternate on a production that is finally honest and livable. The other highlight of the album is represented by "The God": Skarekrow finds a cheerful rhythm and the rapper spits bars for less than two minutes, in one of his best career tracks. The rest of the tape doesn't sound fine, the rhythms are missing something and the rap isn't the best you can hear from the performer.
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