Music

Two projects, one voice — the same conviction that shows up in the pulpit and the classroom, carried into rap.

"Without You" — Jon Corbin w/ Eternia, Ill Seer and Relic

Ill Seer

Cyril's rap alias since 1995 — sparked by discovering Public Enemy on MuchMusic's Rapcity growing up in Sarnia, Ontario, and fronting a teenage alt-funk-punk-hiphop outfit called The Chevrons. While pursuing his MPhil at Cambridge, he co-founded the ten-man, five-country crew Delegates of Culture, releasing the Headcleaners and Resented EP vinyl records and drawing UK press from Muzik Magazine and HipHop Connection, before returning to Toronto to cut his teeth in the local scene alongside Jon Corbin, Eternia, Mindbender, Relic, and Shad — one of Canada's biggest rappers and host of Netflix's Hip-Hop Evolution. "Good Friday (Seven Last Words)," a feature with Drew Brown / Hymns for the Architect, won Rap Song of the Year at the 2019 GMA Canada Covenant Awards. Where Prophetic Poetic leans liturgical, this is the rawer, freestyle-and-cypher side of the same voice.

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Phosphatidylserine by ILL SEER

Doxological Freestyles Vol. I by ILL SEER

Prophetic Poetic

Launched in 2002, Prophetic Poetic is where the theology and the verse fully meet — hip-hop as a way of performing Scripture's own poetry. HOLY WEEK (2017) walks the Church calendar day by day, from Maundy Thursday through Easter Monday, produced by DJ Moves, Bee109, and Dorc. Habakkuk (2020) puts the prophet's own Hebrew complaint-and-answer into verse, produced by Theory Hazit. Both EPs were built inside a wider circle of collaborators that includes Delegates of Culture, Jon Corbin, and engineer Andrew Haughton.

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HOLY WEEK by PROPHETIC POETIC

The six-part video series that accompanies this album is on the home page.

Habakkuk by PROPHETIC POETIC

Singles

Lampin' in Lambton by ILL SEER (aka The Bronze Fonz)

A homage from a matured Seer, reflecting on his time growing up in Sarnia, and the influence his father's early transformation had on his own journey.

Award-Winning Feature

Good Friday (Seven Last Words)

Hymns for the Architect (Drew Brown) — feat. Cyril Guerette

Winner — GMA Canada 2019 Covenant Awards (40th Annual): Rap Song of the Year

Collaborations

Guest features on other artists' albums.

Day of Rest (feat. ILL Seer & DJ Sean P) by Jon Corbin

Round Two (EP) by Jon Corbin

X by Hymns For The Architect

A Brief Word by Jon Corbin

A New Direction by Jon Corbin

Every Day by Jon Corbin

Bassments of Badmen Volume 2 by Epic, Ill Seer & A.M.E. 109Explicit

Multi-Verse Vol 3 by Erik Stephen, Lady Dang, Ill Seer, CreateLadyJ, Swell RellExplicit

A Few Words More (EP) by The Runaway x Brett Klassen

2 Bit Fugue by Id Obelus

ILL SEER's 'Nectar' verse

ILL SEER — Fabricated Spaceman

Teen Titans Go Cypher — Erik Stephen x Lady Dang x Ill Seer x CreateLadyJ x Swell Rell (Nerdcore)

The Runaway — Spit Hot Fire feat. Sivion, ILL Seer, Shua James, Shad, Relic, Braille and Die Rek

Delegates of Culture

The hip-hop crew Cyril started with in England.

First ever Ill Seer recording on vinyl — Delegates of Culture — Promo, 1999Explicit

OFFICIAL MIXTAPE (Digitally Remastered Edition) by Delegates Of CultureExplicit

Cyril's favourite track

Inaccessible. (B Sides & Bootlegs) by Delegates Of CultureExplicit

Double You Slash Hackers (Original Mix) by Delegates Of CultureExplicit

Double You Slash Hackers (AxWax 2023 Remix) by Delegates Of CultureExplicit

Featured Spoken Word

The Eighth Letter to the Church of North America

Written for the 2010 Eighth Letter conference in Toronto (Epiphaneia Network), this piece went on to become primary source material for Letters to a Future Church: Words of Encouragement and Prophetic Appeals (2012). Released as "This is An Appeal to Zeal."