Out The Mud is the moment Chi Rho Syndicate steps away from the church and into the street version of the same testimony. A standalone hip-hop single about coming up - and what you carry with you when you do.
The track
The most straightforwardly hip-hop track in the catalogue: hard drums, no choir, no liturgical samples, just the rapper telling the story of where he started. The genre tag on this one is hip-hop rather than gospel - and that's deliberate. Out The Mud is the testimony version of the Chi Rho Syndicate worldview, the one where the gospel arrives in the verses without being announced in the hook.
The story
A bridge between the two albums of the project. Where Alive Again approached its faith from inside the room, Out The Mud talks to the listener who's still outside it.