Muja Messiah

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Muja Messiah

| image =

| image_size =

| landscape =

| alt =

| caption =

| birth_name = Robert Hedges

| alias =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1976|12|10}}

| birth_place =

| origin = Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.

| death_date =

| death_place =

| genre = Hip Hop, R&B

| occupation = Singer, Rapper

| instrument =

| years_active = 2000–present

| label = {{hlist|Sound Verite Records|Black Corners}}

| associated_acts = {{hlist|Raw Villa|Villa Rosa|I Self Devine}}

| website =

}}

Robert Hedges{{cite web|url=http://www.startribune.com/music-never-mind-the-bullets-here-s-muja-messiah/16341796/|title=Music: Never mind the bullets, here's Muja Messiah|work=Star Tribune|first=Chris|last=Riemenschneider|date=March 6, 2008|accessdate=August 7, 2019}} (born December 10, 1976),{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/mujamessiah/status/13422589967859713|title=Its my born day.|work=Twitter|author=Muja Messiah|date=December 10, 2010|accessdate=August 7, 2019}} better known by his stage name Muja Messiah, is an American rapper from Minneapolis, Minnesota.{{cite web |last=Scholtes |first=Peter |date=September 10, 2008 |title=Muja Messiah Lists His Favorites |url=http://www.citypages.com/music/muja-messiah-lists-his-favorites-6759054 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127103924/http://www.citypages.com/music/muja-messiah-lists-his-favorites-6759054 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 27, 2016 |accessdate=January 5, 2015 |work=City Pages}} He has been a member of the groups Raw Villa{{cite web |last=Madden |first=Michael |date=October 18, 2017 |title=This is 40: Muja Messiah on his relentless grind and hip-hop family |url=http://www.citypages.com/music/this-is-40-muja-messiah-on-his-relentless-grind-and-hip-hop-family/451322643 |accessdate=August 7, 2019 |work=City Pages}}{{dead link|date=May 2024}} and Villa Rosa.{{cite web |last=Swensson |first=Andrea |date=September 12, 2011 |title=Maria Isa and Muja Messiah unite as Villa Rosa |url=http://www.citypages.com/music/maria-isa-and-muja-messiah-unite-as-villa-rosa-6624636 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190807012045/http://www.citypages.com/music/maria-isa-and-muja-messiah-unite-as-villa-rosa-6624636 |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 7, 2019 |accessdate=August 7, 2019 |work=City Pages}}{{Cite web |last=Harper |first=Sarah |date=April 19, 2012 |title=Villa Rosa: It takes two |url=https://mndaily.com/245651/arts-entertainment/music/villa-rosa-it-takes-two/ |access-date=September 13, 2024 |website=The Minnesota Daily}} Vibe named him in "51 Best MySpace Rappers" and URB named him in "Next 1000." City Pages also named him the best Minneapolis hip hop artist of 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/muja-messiahs-new-adventures-hip-hop/|title=Muja Messiah's new "Adventures" in hip hop |work=Twin Cities Daily Planet|first=Justin|last=Schell|date=July 27, 2008|accessdate=May 2, 2015}}

Career

In 2008, Muja Messiah released a mixtape, Mpls Massacre Vol. 1, and then released his debut album Thee Adventures of a B-Boy D-Boy the same year.{{cite web|url=http://www.reviler.org/2010/09/09/muja-messiah-m-16-mixtape-review/|title=Muja Messiah: M-16 Mixtape Review|work=Reliver|first=Josh|last=Keller|date=September 9, 2010|accessdate=October 4, 2013}}

Two years later in 2010, he released the album M-16's.{{cite web|url=http://www.citypages.com/calendar/muja-messiah-6738701|title=Muja Messiah|work=City Pages|first=Jen|last=Paulson|date=July 23, 2008|accessdate=September 13, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160217030612/http://www.citypages.com/calendar/muja-messiah-6738701|archive-date=February 17, 2016|url-status=dead}}

In 2014, he released God Kissed It the Devil Missed It. It was listed as one of the best Minnesota rap album of 2014 by City Pages.{{cite web |last=Spencer |first=Jack |date=December 12, 2014 |title=The Best Minnesota Rap Albums of 2014 |url=http://www.citypages.com/music/the-best-minnesota-rap-albums-of-2014-6635036 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629003833/http://www.citypages.com/music/the-best-minnesota-rap-albums-of-2014-6635036 |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 29, 2015 |accessdate=July 12, 2014 |work=City Pages}}

The next year in 2015, he released the album Angel Blood Soup{{cite web|url=http://breaksxlakes.net/angel-blood-soup/|title= Muja Messiah Pours Personality Into Angel Blood Soup|work= Breaks X Lakes|first=Derek|last=Ehlert|date=July 30, 2015|accessdate=December 10, 2015}} and the collaborative album 9th House with I Self Devine.{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21320-9th-house/|title=Muja Messiah / I Self Devine: 9th House|work=Pitchfork|first=Paul|last=Thompson|date=November 30, 2015|accessdate=December 16, 2015}}

On December 7, 2020, legendary emcee, rapper and actor Ice-T retweeted the Muja Messiah song "Covid" produced by Orikal Uno to his 1.9 million followers on Twitter https://twitter.com/FINALLEVEL/status/1336292669031673856

Discography

=Studio albums=

Thee Adventures of a B-Boy D-Boy (2008)
M-16's (2010)
God Kissed It the Devil Missed It (2014)
Angel Blood Soup (2015)
9th House (2015) {{small|(with I Self Devine)}}
Lucky Bastard (2019)
Cooler Heads Prevail (2022){{cite web | url=https://mujamessiah.bandcamp.com/album/cooler-heads-prevail-2 | title=Cooler Heads Prevail, by Muja Messiah }}