Mello Funk 2023

produced, mixed, and mastered by g.rola
https://soundcloud.com/grolamusic
cover art by Ulises Valadez Contreras

1. what a shame.wav
2. and shine.wav
3. one two three.wav
4. like this and like that.wav
5. pew pew.wav
6. everything you do.wav
7. yeahhhhh.wav
8. things we used to do.wav
9. nobody else.wav
10. good ol' days.wav
11. let me know.wav
12. patterns.wav
13. you knew better.wav
14. true discussion.wav
15. you know why.wav

g.rola - g.thang vol.1

Diamonds Are Forever

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Produced, mixed, and mastered by g.rola
https://soundcloud.com/grolamusic

Cover art by Ulises Valadez Contreras
https://soundcloud.com/veeapollo

1. Sweetest Sound (feat. Jay Cinema)
2. Inner Feeling
3. Uh Yeah
4. Every Night
5. Dollar and a Dream (feat. Pro Zay & JUNE!)
6. Ganas
7. Prove It Now (feat. Kip C & Animist)
8. Price to Pay
9. Losing Sense
10. Lost Sense (feat. metroworldpeace)
11. It's All Ideas
12. On My Mind

Credits (In Order of Appearance)
https://soundcloud.com/jaycinema, https://soundcloud.com/pro_zay, https://soundcloud.com/juneayth704, https://soundcloud.com/kipzzz, https://soundcloud.com/animistraps, https://soundcloud.com/metroworl
Track 7 co-produced by https://soundcloud.com/its_achille

I finished this album over a year ago. It’s been on my hard drive untouched and unreleased for 16 months. Some of the songs on here are over 2 years old, if not 3 (I’m losing track at this point).

I finished the album on November 2021, but it sounded, off, unfinished. The final product was so different from what I envisioned it to be, it gave me whiplash. I asked people for their thoughts and feedback, but I mostly heard positive things, not much in the way of improvement. I needed to know what was wrong.

I would try to work on the mix, rearrange some of the tracks, even try to replace some of the songs, but nothing stuck. None of it felt right. Nothing about this felt right. So I did what I’ve done countless times before, put it aside and tell myself “I’ll get to it later.” Except later never came.

“What if it no one likes it? Would they hate it? Would they even care?” This would echo in my mind every time I’d think to start working on it again. Rappers would ask me when their verse was coming out, “soon, real soon” I’d tell them, but deep inside I knew I was lying. Part of me felt felt like they knew too.

I’d continue to work on other music over the course of 2022, but even that didn’t feel right sometimes. Every song I made felt like I was procrastinating the album. Like I was in high school again, cleaning my room instead of writing the essay due at midnight.

February 2023. I’m cleaning out my Dropbox when I see the album files again. I hadn’t listened to it in god knows how long. I had actively avoided it; I didn’t want to be reminded of my failure. For whatever reason though, I decided to hit play on that mp3 file. I decided to listen to the music I had long ignored and grew resentment for.

I was amazed. I loved it. Every song, every note, every drum hit: perfect. It’s exactly what it needed to be.

The Weight Off My Shoulders refers to my anxiety around my art, the part of me that tells me the things I do “aren’t good enough.” As I get older I realize how just often my anxiety is wrong, and it’s freeing to let go of it piece by piece. This album is one of those pieces.

This version here is the raw untouched album back from November 2021. I hope you grow to love it as much as I do.

⁃ g.rola

g.rola - The Weight Off My Shoulders [Full Album]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4ttJvcpuhA

drive ME crazy! extended (chorus repeats) - lil yachty

lil comp tape
2022

prod by
https://soundcloud.com/bacomartinez x https://soundcloud.com/garcondior

angelito EP

trail cam 24 w/ myles veltenhill

Work It Out (119-122bpm) - yiyo

we wear some clothes - yiyo

THE GHOSTS AIN'T REAL (VEE APOLLO'S DECONSTRUCTION)

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THE NEW FLESH

1. START
2. THE NEW FLESH
3. FALSE REAL
4. DOWN FOR WHATEVER
5. VIRTUAL VOYEUR
6. STILLPHONIC (FEAT. ULISES VALADEZ CONTRERAS)

ALL TRACKS PRODUCED, MIXED, AND MASTERED BY G.ROLA
COVER ART BY ULISES VALADEZ CONTRERAS
DISTRIBUTED BY APOLLO'S HARP

An homage to Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983), The New Flesh captures the tone of a world surrendered to the screen, where reality and fiction bleed into one another so seamlessly the truth is now obsolete.

Special Thanks to:
Ulises Valadez Contreras for the cover art and for encouraging me to pursue art always. 

Memo Mora for shooting the visual components of the release, and for also being a great encouragement to keep pursuing this.

Yiyo for listening to each version of this release and sharing his excitement each and every time. 

The Apollo's Harp crew for sharing your feedback.

Everyone who has been listening to g.rola all these years, it truly means the world to me that these songs I make and cherish are also loved by you. We're connected in that way.

Lastly, thanks to you for reading all the way to the bottom and for listening.

- g.rola

g.rola - The New Flesh [Full Album]

caught me by surprise

1. I Am Ready Now
2. Found You (feat. Elijah Quinton)
3. Suffer From (feat. Blake Ragsdale & Animist)
4. Right There
5. Not Enough Time (feat. MetroWorldPeace)
6. Enclosure (feat. Iceberg Theory)
7. Guess Who (feat. MetroWorldPeace)
8. Apocalypse (feat. Chimezie)
9. I Dreamed
10. Trying to Tell Me (feat. Critical Mischief)
11. Anyday
12. Smile (feat. Amir Bilal)
13. Just Getting Started

Produced entirely by g.rola
Mixed and Mastered by g.rola

Rap Credits:
https://soundcloud.com/8gawd
https://soundcloud.com/groovylogan
https://soundcloud.com/animistraps
https://soundcloud.com/metroworl
https://soundcloud.com/icetheoryrap
https://soundcloud.com/kchimezie
https://soundcloud.com/user-445089195
https://soundcloud.com/amirbilalva

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g.rola - I Am Ready Now [Full Album]

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