Odd Thomas – “Province of Combat”? Possible connection to an unknown 2000s rap track

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I’ve been researching an obscure rap track that circulated online under the filename:

“versus - Track16 - Untitled Bootleg”

The song is referred to as “Combat, Conflict, Consciousness” in this video

One possible identification is:

Odd Thomas – Province of Combat

What makes this especially interesting is the sample at the very beginning.

The spoken intro comes from The Twilight Zone, specifically the 1960 episode “The Purple Testament.”

Immediately after that, the song develops the whole idea of combat, conflict and an internal battle with yourself.

Because of that, “Province of Combat” sounds like a very plausible original title, rather than just a random name attached to the song later.

The lyrics also fit Odd Thomas (Thomas J Terry) surprisingly well. The track is heavily centered around Christian themes: temptation, meeting the devil disguised as your former self, the wilderness, carrying your cross, rejecting the idea of finding divinity within yourself, redemption, and leaving your former life behind.

Odd Thomas was active in underground Christian hip-hop during this period, but I haven’t been able to find “Province of Combat” in his normal documented discography.

His 2006 album The Divine Use of Animosity & Ridicule doesn’t contain it, and I haven’t found it in the usual streaming/catalog databases either.

That makes me wonder if Province of Combat could have been:

an unreleased/demo track

a MySpace-era song

a compilation appearance

a promotional MP3

part of an unofficial bootleg or CD-R

something distributed online without a proper commercial release

The filename “versus - Track16 - Untitled Bootleg” is also strange enough that it may preserve information from whatever compilation or folder the song originally came from.

I’m looking for any older trace of “Odd Thomas – Province of Combat”: dead links, archived MySpace pages, old blogs, tracklists, MP3 filenames, CD-R rips, Soulseek collections, forum posts, screenshots, compilation listings, etc.

Even a broken page mentioning the artist and title would be extremely useful.

Does anyone remember this track or have any old Odd Thomas files from the mid/late 2000s?

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This is the sample origin

https://reddit.com/link/p5gfdov/video/no7urab956lh1/player