. >> over the course of the past few years, dc based group soldja sold 150,000 items headlined largeheaters and getting ready to release their new album strength to survive they join us to talk about the journey and their music and play a little bit as well. this is a big group i like the looks of this group i am joined by jacob the lead singer how are you. >> doing well. >> thanks for coming in. tell me about the album first of all the title, strength to survive. >> yeah, the last album we did was kind of -- we talk a lot about social issues the last was called born in babylon a lot of the humanitarian issues going on in the world this one is strength to survive more about the environment and if the human race can pull together, stop competing over imaginary barriers and dollars and stuff like that and start working together as one team it sounds impossible but that is the point of the album. >> one interesting thing about your group all this that you have accomplished and done it all yourself seems to be the trend now artists have to do this now because the record companies, aren't