After dropping Magician’s Mistress earlier this year, Aela Hopeful Monster is back with another exciting project entitled RAT. It kicks off with the lead single of the same name. “Baby come over – I’m pretty as organized crime” Aela raps, as she sets the tone for what is her most fierce project to date. Backed up by long term collaborator Kasino Kam, the album contains various songs produced by the Californian producer and DJ. Snapped is another great example of the chemistry between the two. Aela goes in and makes clear that she won’t be ignored “I wonder if they / came to praise the lord / what  a slap in the face / cuz I’m adored”. Currently living in New York, Aela has been influenced by the grimey soundscapes of the city. In Ombre, she takes us on a journey to the dark alleys of the Rotten Apple while she raps about the “dark sides of the streets / where fiends can’t get enough to eat”. Other standouts are Golden Child and Lock Jaw Candy Shop, composed by French hip hop producer Grolok Panicrum. The album ends with a heartfelt tribute to the recently passed Fred The Godson R.I.P.  Every album Aela Hopeful Monster shows why she is sticking to her own style because she keeps getting better, and it won’t be ignored!

RAT (Aela Hopeful Monster & Grolok Panicrum & Kasino Kam)

Confessional Poetry is a venture into the art of storytelling through hip hop, fairytale, and poetry. It is a reflection on how hip hop and folklore can be used to weave together autobiographical truths with narrative fiction, allowing one an escape to find beauty, understand oneself, and have respite from the colder moments in life. 

Inspired by the life and art of Sylvia Plath and Frida Kahlo, and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Confessional Poetry is an autobiographical work of fantastical impressionism. Sonically, Digable Planets meets Björk and Portishead; while lyrically, it is a handshake among Loretta Lynn, Nina Simone, Redman, and MF DOOM, advocating for women’s voices with a bit of funk and the grime of underground hip hop.
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released October 24, 2018 

1. Fae 
2. Black (produced by Kay Litty) 
3. Sylvia (produced by Nicholas Craven) 
4. God Flow ft. Planet Asia (produced by Nicholas Craven) 
5. Sensuous (produced by Sultan Mir) 
6. Shoot At The Queen (produced by BLEV) 
7. Lady Lazarus (produced by Xception) 
8. Osiris (produced by Sultan Mir) 
9. But A Dream 
10. Autumn Leaves (produced by Nicholas Craven)

Confessional Poetry

Collected Essays - Aela Hopeful Monster & Nicholas Craven

Magician's Mistress by Aela Hopeful Monster & Camoflauge Monk

Cheeks (prod. by Paven Melody)

This is a cover of Good Morning Neighbor from Blu & Exile's album Give Me Flowers While I can Still Smell them. I flipped the lyrics to reflect the female perspective. Cover Art: Gustav Klimt Farm Garden with Sunflowers (1907).
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Lyrics:
Original by Blu, lyrics remix by Aela Hopeful Monster (2017)
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Good morning sunshine 
I was your sunset 
You woke up hella late 
You still ain't hit it yet 
You'd rather have a dream 
of some story set 
In some gorgeous place 
Sucking my gorgeous breasts 
Having morning sex 
Now you're up alone 
You went back to sleep 
You and your morning bone 
Could have been on and on 
Parting from dusk till dawn 
Now you're rusting chrome 
Busting poems 
Trusting no one 

Living like a gnome 
Chillin' at your home 
Always gettin' stoned 
and choppin' beats until you're gone 
Chop this already 
I'm always on your dome 
Can't get me off your mind
or on your phone half the time 

Baddest like Gladys & the Pips 
Baby see me sit on the grass 
Dreaming about our love past 
Had brunch ass, lunch ass, dinner ass
But never in the a-- 
You never did ask
You just slid past 
Back to the sunshine

Clapping my behind 
Mind stuck on rewind
Hold up this is fresh 
Ain't met no woman fresher 
Better than the rest 
May I say the best 
Perfectly round ass 
Perfectly round breasts 
Perfectly frown-less smile like an ad from crest 

Hold up 
I got a request boy 
Come back to my nest

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Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them (Blu & Exile - Good Morning Neighbor Cover)

All lyrics copyright Aela Hopeful Monster

Steel Tipped Dove

Steel Tipped Dove (prod. Sultan Mir)

Don't Fuck With Lovely

Don't Fuck With Lovely (prod. GROLoK Panicrum)

My Favorite

My Favorite by Mofak and Aela Hopeful Monster

Dear Mr. Cam'ron (Dipset Freestyle Flip)

This is an adaptation of the instrumental "Coffee Cup" by Boztown. Under the Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Coffee Cup was released by the record label DLoaw & Co.

Harlem Cat (Adaptation of Coffee Cup by Boztown)

Lovers to Bed is the debut mixtape from Aela Hopeful Monster. The moon chases the sun across the sky over the course of five tracks. Inspired by A Midsummer Night's Dream, and paintings by John William Waterhouse, the theme of the project is a poem:

"The moon and the sun were once lovers
He treads each night
Searching for her,
by dim lantern light"

-A.H.M.

Lovers to Bed

Flowers (prod. by Nicholas Craven)

Sun (rmx of Mura Masa day 23: Have Faith In Me)

Love Too Much (prod. by Johnny September)

Collab mini-mixtape, Aela Hopeful Monster x Dōmchi

Paper Cuts (prod. by Dōmchi)

Cali

DriveBys

Ashanti Spider Tales (prod. KAISHEN)

Velvet Fisted Glove - Aela Hopeful Monster & Juzzbox

Sensuous (prod. by Sultan Mir)

God Flow Ft Planet Asia (prod. by Nicholas Craven)

Sylvia (prod. by Nicholas Craven)

Black (prod. by Kay Litty)

Great Big Changes

Carefree

My King

Talons

Vira

Magic

Fly Away

Running

Heathen

Backhand (feat. Planet Asia)

RIP Fred The Godson (Prod Nicholas Craven)

Ombre (Prod Grolok Panicrum)

Snapped (Prod Kasino Kam)

Lock Jaw Candy Shop (Prod Grolok Panicrum)

Goin In (Prod Kasino Kam)

Too Good To Fuck With (Prod Too Busy)

Golden Child (Prod Grolok Panicrum)

Strike Out (Prod Kasino Kam)

Bright Blue Lights (Prod Too Busy)

RAT (Prod Kasino Kam)

The Sylvia Plath of rap, Hopeful Monster is a lyricist known to experiment with different styles of hip hop, from spoken word to G-funk. Her lyrics are like impressionist paintings with fairytales and slick talk.

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