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From the opening line, "mark my words", Rob Bailey & The Hustle Standard are making a statement with their second album, appropriately titled, Beast.  If you're not familiar with the RBHS sound it's a mixture of hardcore, dubstep, hiphop, and punk elements meant to get you off your ass and headed down a path of domination.  Fans of their previous EP, Battle Tested, will be happy to know that Beast picks up  right where the duo left off.  The Hustle Standard's production is still huge; Rob Bailey's voice is still larger-than-life; and the songs still make you want to run through walls.

Beast starts with the song "I Am Not Done" which features the Brooklyn-born artist Moxiie proclaiming "This is not last year and I am not done here".  The second song is also the title-track, "Beast", and quite simply, this one is a BEAST.  On "Run This" Charley Hustle (a.k.a The Hustle Standard) sings "I'm too busy chasing mine to let the world leave me behind/I'm going for mine", and on "What I Live For" Rob's hell-fire voice demands that you "Wake up!".  "Ambulances", a fun play on Rob's verse from "Run Shit", features the Bronx rapper, Drew Boogie.  The remix to "I Am Not Done" is an uptempo, electro remix that helps the album breathe before getting into the final remix.  "The Beast Remix" is not just a remix of the song "Beast", but of the whole album with elements of every song over heavy trap style production.  The final song, "Jealous", is undoubtedly the most unique of the 8 songs, and on first listen could be seen as a departure for the pair, but all of the intensity and honor, that make Rob Bailey & The Hustle Standard what they are, is front and center over this methodical, evolving track.  Overall, Beast, is a declaration that, despite any odds, people can not only overcome, but can become Beasts.


Beast

BATTLE TESTED - ROB BAILEY & THE HUSTLE STANDARD

TODO - Break Me

Zack Hemsey - Don't Get In My Way

“Convergence” captures the moment when everything begins to line up a little too perfectly.
Prophecies, world events, and unseen forces start overlapping with an almost mathematical precision. The signs are no longer distant or symbolic — they are stacking, accelerating, and folding into one another. History feels as if it’s being pulled toward a single, unavoidable point.
Most of the world sees coincidence.
You feel alignment.
Something ancient is tightening its grip on reality, drawing timelines, beliefs, and destinies toward the same center. The air itself feels charged, as if the universe is preparing for a transition no one is meant to notice.
This is the moment before the shift —
the instant when everything is still technically intact…
but already irreversibly changing.
🎧 Sound & Style
Musically, “Convergence” blends tension and scale:
layered atmospheric textures
steady, escalating rhythms that feel inevitable
melodic themes that repeat and evolve like patterns snapping into place
subtle dissonance beneath moments of calm
a cinematic rise that never fully resolves
The track is designed to feel like standing at the center of an unseen alignment — powerful, ominous, and unavoidable.
💬 For the Listener
This song is for the ones who notice patterns before they become obvious —
who feel when something fundamental is shifting beneath the surface of everyday life.
In the story of this album, you are the only one who senses the convergence.
You aren’t reacting to fear — you’re responding to recognition.
If something feels too precise, too coordinated, too inevitable…
it’s because it is.
“Convergence” asks the question no one else is asking yet:
What happens when prophecy stops unfolding naturally
and begins to lock into place?
📘 Album Context
Track 3 is the final moment of subtlety in the album’s arc.
After Final Days and Message of Heaven, this track marks the point where the universe quietly prepares for a transition hidden from humanity, Heaven, and even history itself. The forces behind prophecy are aligning — not toward chaos, but toward control.
What follows will look like destiny…
but it won’t be.

Convergence

Straight Out The Gate (feat. Serj Tankian &amp; Krizz Kaliko)-Tech N9ne

Drew - Remember The Undead :

(Linkin Park) Fort Minor - Remember The Name
Hollywood Undead - Undead

Linkin Park & Hollywood Undead - Remember The Undead [Intensity Remix]

The song 'A Cut Above' by Avery Watts, off of the album 'The Takeover'.

LYRICS:

[CHORUS]
Here's what it looks like (Looks like)
Being the best
What it looks like, to be a cut above the rest
What it looks like (Looks like)
Being the best
What it looks like, to be a cut above the rest

[VERSE 1]
Nobody understands what it takes to be the man
Having every single person say you can't, when you can
To give up everything you've ever known for a dream
And never stop the fight no matter how hard it seems
You sacrifice, you bleed, you sweat, and you cry
Doing everything you can not to lay down and die
When you fall and you call out, there's no one to help
So you've got no other option but to pick up yourself
At the end of the battle you're the only one standing
Everyone watching, the stage you're commanding
The pages of history will speak of today
And when they talk about the champion
This is what they'll say:

[CHORUS]

[VERSE 2]
People will break you right down to nothing if you let 'em
They say, "There's a million others like you, what makes you better?"
But remember that these folks are afraid of the unknown
They're the ones who wet the bed if they go ten miles from home
“Stay Down”, is what they scream in your ear
The only weapon that they have to use is fear
So you take all the beatings and you take all the hits
But your back on your feet for more, you don't quit
You'll never back down, never stop, never pause
Never give up, never sacrifice the cause
This is your life, you gonna let somebody take it?
Look in the mirror: That's all you need to make it

[CHORUS]

[BRIDGE]
The smoke has all cleared, and you own the throne
You're king of the castle, and everybody knows
They bow in your presence, and fear your might
‘Cause they know for damn sure what it, what it…

[FINAL CHORUS]
What it looks like (Looks like)
Being the best
What it looks like, to be a cut above the rest
What it looks like (Looks like)
Being the best
What it looks like, to be a cut above the rest
What it looks like (Looks like)
Being the best
What it looks like, to be a cut above the rest
What it looks like (Looks like)
Being the best
What it looks like, to be a cut above the rest