July 8, 2009.
By this time, I’d already arrived.
The Anti-Virus had dropped a year prior, introducing The Futureverse to my sound, my story, and my spiritual code. But in 2009, I wasn’t the same man. I had gone through a season. One that dimmed the lights, both around me and inside. So when I emerged with my sophomore project Reboot!, it wasn’t just a continuation, it was an evolution.
This wasn’t an album meant for mass appeal. It was for the ones who needed to hear it, in the dark. The depressed. The disconnected. The ones between systems, identities, and beliefs. It was for the preacher's kids like me, struggling with inherited purpose and the weight of representation. For the creatives spiraling through the early internet, searching for soul in a space optimized for speed.
The Sound of a System Restart
The project opens with an Apple-like boot-up sound, a sonic metaphor for what the EP was: a system restart. Not a return to factory settings, but a hard refresh. A chance to show up to the Nureau Underground with new intel, fresh perspective, and cleaner signal.
The cover art told the whole story: the official 2.0 logo, redesigned, in high definition and backlit by a G-type main-sequence star—our sun. A quiet nod to the archetype of Superman. Because like him, I’ve never really felt like I was from here. And like him, my strength came from the Son.
Reboot! was a reminder: I’m powered by something divine.
Sonically, this project lived in the shadows. Not in a hopeless way but in a real way. It was moodier, more introspective. I was drawing from darker corners of the internet and even darker corners of my own experience. The glow of MySpace was dimming, physical media was dying, and the industry was trying to figure itself out. So was I.
The music reflected that shift.
There were the expected Nureau fingerprints, of course.- Omega Mythologist contributed verses and beats, RoTone from the EARTH Crew added his signature production sauce, and Bizzy (before becoming B.Slade a year later) dropped a dizzying hook that still lives rent-free in my mind. Bizzy and I were both building something new back then - our offices were walking distance from each other in Lemon Grove, just across from The Ink Spot, a Nureau-themed creative lounge that doubled as the incubator for The Futureverse ideas. That place was sacred. A pressure cooker for creativity.
No Discs. No Charts. Just Transmission.
Reboot! didn’t push units. There were no physical copies sold, no major blog write-ups, and no big launch. It lived almost entirely on MySpace Music—streamed, shared, and passed hand-to-hand in digital format. That was intentional. The industry was in flux, slowly abandoning CDs and shifting into iTunes, Amazon MP3, and the Wild West of streaming. Print-on-demand copies were available for a short time through one of Amazon's seller platforms.
In a weird way, the album wasn’t just about me rebooting. It was about the whole industry rebooting. It was the sound of transition.
And standing tall in the midst of that shift? That mohawk, now inches high, was less a hairstyle and more a statement. A symbol. It became a cornerstone of the 2.0 brand. A signal that this wasn’t your typical preacher. I was a warrior in the studio and a disruptor in the pulpit. My presence often forced older generations to reconsider what a young minister could look, sound, and act like. I was the face of the next generation, building bridges in preparation for what was coming.
Looking back, Reboot! was never meant to outperform The Anti-Virus. It wasn’t about performance at all. It was about processing. Documenting the in-between seasons. Naming the pain. Honoring the transition.
It was a spiritual upgrade tucked inside a moody digital mixtape.
It might’ve been short. It might’ve gone under the radar. But for those who found it? It was a signal: DAVID 2.0 is still here. Still transmitting. Still evolving.
And this wasn’t the end. Just another system restart.
2.0
Reboot! (2009)
Tracklisting
- Reboot!
- 2.0 Anthem Feat. Omega Mythologist
- Vertigo Feat. Bizzy
- Enter The Dragon
- Toy Soldiers
- End Of Man
- Partéx Feat. TON3X (Bonus Track)