Deepspace5 first coalesced in 1997 at an annual
Christian hip hop conference called Cru-vention.
Listener,
Sev Statik,
Sintax.the.Terrific,
Manchild and Recon all met with each other at the conference and recorded an
EP. Shortly afterward,
DJ Dust and Manchild were signed to the
Tooth & Nail imprint Uprok Records as a duo project named
Mars ILL, and they suggested that Uprok release a Deepspace5 project. Deepspace5 released
Bakesale on April 29, 2008, exclusively on its website and SphereOfHipHop.com for CD or digital download, as a fund-raiser for its most recent album, ''The Future Ain't What It Used to Be'', which was released on Mega Royal Records on April 27, 2010. The group released "5:55" on October 20, 2017, exclusively on their new official webpage at BandCamp.com The 5-song EP was their first album in over seven years. ==Releases==