Cover Art By : Liv Garber
Graffiti By : DeritxP
Additional mixing on tracks 6, 7, 12, & 14 done By: Mattye Miller at Da Spot Recording Studio
Guitars: 38kea
Arrangements:38kea
Production:38kea
Mixing:38kea
Swag:38kea
Gas:38kea

Keeper is a collection of guitar songs I've been working on, some have been in the vault for over a year or two now. All these songs are special to me, everything new I make has to be different or unique. I made sure this batch was done proper. I had a lot of fun playing and recording my guitars, and making music a younger version of myself would be captivated by. If you out there reading this resonate with my music, I wanna say thank you and please always follow your dreams forever.
credits
released November 4, 2022

Thank you to the following homies who were a big help to make this thing happen:
Jorge
Jak3
Mattye Miller
Liv Garber
Trevor Colvin
Calsutmoran
Zach Waltman
Greyhound
Jordan Patterson
Caden
Donny Love

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In The Cut

i didn't really plan on actually dropping this today, but fuck it i'ma let it rock

p.s. more than likely gunna be changing the cover lol

1. first dance
2. passing through the rivers
3. rearranged
4. belief
5. earthly things are not for me
6. shadows
7. a gift of you
8. pray for (feat. fallen species)
9. without words
10. nothing left to give (feat. sibil roosevelt)
11. guild (feat. 38kea)
12. lost oasis
13. brace myself (feat. derit)
14. what i seek is what i know
15. godhead (feat. 38kea)
16. i'm slipping
17. in the night (feat. greyhound)
18. fell from earth
19. the long way back
20. ever so cold (feat. 38kea & big up menace x)

recorded from 5/7/21 to 8/18/21

after sitting on this for over a year i finally get the chance to share this with everyone. i'm so happy to finally get this out there. it's crazy to look back on the times i had while working on this one. i was at a pretty big transitionary point in my life and making this helped a whole lot throughout the process. i honestly think i feel it even more than i did while i was recording. this last year has been pretty turbulent and i haven't really had the chance to work on music the same way that i used to. i guess i just don't have the same relationship with it like i did. i'm not stopping by any means, but i'm working on getting back to where it feels like fun. i plan on taking this next year to work on my last solo album under the jak3 / trashman alias. as well as work on some collaborative projects with my friends. i'm still interested in doing shows, djing etc. as jak3, but i feel that it's time for me to start something new. thank you to everyone who has ever taken the time to listen to the music i make. it's still funny to think what i do actually holds any weight sometimes, but i hope i've been able to help people with what i've done so far. i'm incredibly grateful to have all the support i do. s/o all the friends i've been able to make simply just by posting some shit on the internet. god bless and i hope regardless if you listen to this or not that you have a great day and never forget that even on a small scale you can help the people you have around you.

xoxo, jak3 <3

38kea - vocals
big up menace x - vocals
derit - vocals
greyhound - vocals
fallen species - vocals
sibil roosevelt - vocals

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tied up in GOD'S hands

lil d (choppas wit drummies freestyle)

Real shit.

All these days in this fuckin house , seen the change and the pain that done brought it out. Stayed sluggish in my brain never opened mouth. Kept it quiet kept it locked down , its like the devil hatched a plan to never let me out , agoraphobic comfort zone the horror slumped on the ground . I ain't talking bout the fear of missing out ,
I despise the common hangouts that y'all be around. I often stop and think of how the culture let me down.
Prolly wouldn't mind being kept away , living life underneath a rock never swept away, stripped apart my heart into shards on the systems lathe. Shit crazy .
Thanking god I dodged the navy , got into blazing at a young age . Had to navigate the course into the grave . Had a run in wit psychosis it was strange . Hit the switch had to motivate the lame . Don't wanna hear no talk of being afraid , nigga we barley made it . Thinking where I'd be if I had never faced it . Liminal he stuck in the middle spaces . Never knowing bout his greatness.

house

Real shit.

Fuck you thought it was
You hear the bass you hear the , you know it's us
A bird in the hand when caught is worth two in the bush
I just went and did that shit because I knew I could
I been doing better lately I been looking good
Baby for the streets she went and ran off to the hood



I was in the dungeon psilocybin in my spleen
I just had to go and get away from all the scenes
I was on the ground working round wit the bees
Feel a lil different after healing from the stings
Fucked up all the time I spend and think about these things
Like why the fuck my cousin have to go and get his wings
Shit done made me mad I feel like blowing off some steam
This bitch in my pants she got me bulging out my jeans
We was in the range loading up the 17
Had to fix my aim had to focus on my dream

stinger

Real shit.

Got no passion got no dream nigga
Think nigga
Drink
How you get them riches ?
Spend it on some dumb shit
Try keep up appearance
Is you having fun yet
Nah this shit too serious
Throw away my lungs then maybe I can clear em
Coughing up the dough bitch I'm coughing up my spirit
I'm finna hit the road
God willing

Ain't nothing really good but the money in this bitch turn us to sinners
Man I think I'm done wit this shit done hit my limit
Grab a gun in this bitch and put the clip in

Fuck , fuckin fed up
You ain't really nothing in this world unless ya Bread up
Young nigga keep ya head up , everybody dying in this bitch can't be afraid of it
Slaving for the cheddar , is ya paid huh ?
Can ya demonstrate to me that you can save sum
Goddam bills piling up you finna break huh
You finding it hard to keep the faith

No break no days off
Pull out ya pockets
Do the lint fall out
Do you got it

no break

Real shit.

Niggas don't know shit about this real life shit
Shit ain't easy , it get greasy niggas real slimey
You think you know me from my music but you don't lil bitch
Feel like I Smoke more than I breathe , how can I live like this ?
When I'm wit Dee we overseas we hit the red light district
You know it's time to get that cheese , you know I'm finna be rich
I take my time I kiss the sky , I said I'm inventive
Just took a flight and dropped a tab just to stare and sit
I wanna think about the world and all this crazy shit
Hard to remember all them times from them old baby pics
I wasn't even trynna rhyme then I met waistdeep clique
Man I'm glad Sidney changed my mind I was a lay fetus
Man 2017 that shit feel like a lifetime to me
I coulda been incel depressed wit hentai waifu addiction
Noone in my dorm room could even fucking fathom the vision
I wasn't talking I was tripping , I was skipping to mix it
I couldn't blink I couldn't think about nothing but the mission
Uh uh

I wasn't happy as a kid but then I did my best
All those times you made me laugh until it hurt my chest
I think about the days of spray paint and the black and red .
Its never easy when you gotta lay your family to rest.
I hope I see you later on you know whatever's next
I hope you know you taught me so much and I'll never forget.

Never forget

never forget

Real shit.

Dirty job , keeping fire , niggas mob , muck and mire , how the hell did you get hired? they don't piss if you not driving.

I was outside wit the knuckleheads , we was outside grinding all day working up a sweat , charge it to the game slaving for the change ain't change me yet . Mindset on the green my niggas placing bets . Mane we got bout two three checks left then it's next best.
We in for the whole mess and them green vests and them long days , and the nights rest, aint none. Darker shades in the sun, feel like a slave , Can't be a bum !
Let's hurry up n get done
Who Gon roll up ? Hop out the truck to the trailer to puff. Head on a swivel for what?
And you know niggas is stopping for lunch.
you rode wit the right ones.

Mane its larsony, the pay , ion even gotta feed no babies , but this shit not okay . I can't hardly see no savings . Mane this shit crazy , I'm still fucked up after payday .

Mane the side hustle is gravy , but it's gon be about a week before distro pay me , I'm trynna eat , boy I'm not lazy , I been a beast on any machine , you must be mistaken . I take these trimmers throw em up and spin em in yo face . Showman wit the blades , and them clippings get put in they place.
ZT doin a race.
Green mask on my face
We don't breathe the same
Keep keep the pace up

dirty jobs

lyrics 

would you have ever believed
the world is strange as it seems
it starts to split down it's seams
wanna find out what's underneath

rush

Hermeneutics I

Collection of beats and song ideas from jan - november 2023. Trying to steady do some different stuff for yall. This is like a Year in review of my music developments. Love yallselves, don't get too caught up on minutia, if it sounds fire then fw it, creatively do what feels right, and let god be the judge. I call this one Hermeneutics for many reasons lmao, take it as you may, make it yours, have fun , dance around to this, hit the Watusi. The Idea of Hermeneutics has permeated everything I have done creatively, especially some of my wordier music lmao , but wit this i just wanted to spread a sound and a good vibe. Workin wit a Yamaha cassette mixer for most of these thank you Bryant and Jak3!! Thank you and special shoutout Welljsm for the nice new 38Kea tags!!! Hmmm oh and II coming when it comes , this was originally gonna be 43 tracks long . love yall thank you !!

Sorrowsoil

i wonder sometimes, if there are other throwaway beats Brian Bright has made over the years for the THPS games, Because those jawns go hard, shit, i'd spend hours just hanging out on the menus of those games just listening to the loops he made.

anyway, just fucking around on the SP's a lil. in between drawing and working on more significant tracks. I think it would be a cool concept though to make a collab tape where we just make loops that would, in a perfect world, be in the menu of a THPS game. Or at least, a whole albums worth of just throwaways that we can imagine in the THPS games. I don't know, my brain has been mush now for a while so i keep coming up with dumb ideas (but if u legit wanna fw this idea hmu lol we can make it happen)

lil d (choppas wit drummies freestyle)

38KEA

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