Rod Wallace "Regalia" [ALBUM]

01. Prologue

02. The Sun Gets In Your Eyes feat. Quan Neloms

03. I Can Deal With That

04. Busy Body feat. DJ Clark Da Spark

05. Oculus

06. Regalia

07. Can't Make It Up

08. His Hands feat. Quan Neloms

09. Dawn feat. Chill Place & Jacob Carter

10. Goodies feat. Mr. P-Dro & Dave Colder

11. Mixed Messages

12. Recondo feat. LI Tha Don & D'EtNam

13. Let The Trumpets Blow

14. Faith feat. Mama Sol

15. Hear Me Out feat. Queso Tone & Zanyé

16. Outer Heaven (Epilogue)

This album is a primary artifact of an academic research project. Its core purpose is to document, preserve, and analyze the cultural narratives, lived experiences, and socio-economic information pertinent to middle-aged Black men in America. The use of any copyrighted material (such as audio samples, news clips, or cultural references) is strictly for educational and transformative purposes. It serves to provide social commentary and historical context that adds new meaning and insights to the original works within a scholarly framework.

Regalia is a non-profit, educational endeavor. While the medium is a musical album, its function is that of a scholarly report and ethnographic study. The project prioritizes factual and cultural documentation over commercial marketability, utilizing the hip-hop medium as a pedagogical tool to reach its target demographic and the broader academic community.

Any copyrighted material incorporated into Regalia is used in limited, specific portions necessary to facilitate the research objectives. Great care has been taken to ensure that no more of a source work is used than is required to convey the intended cultural or social critique, thereby respecting the "heart" of original compositions while establishing a new, distinct creative identity.

This work does not intend to, nor does it, substitute for the original market of any sampled material. As an academic project focused on a niche sociological demographic (middle-aged Black male educators), it occupies a separate market space from the original copyright holders. The dissemination of this album is intended to foster public discourse and academic scholarship, which traditionally increases the cultural value of referenced works rather than detracting from their commercial potential.