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I didn’t plan to release these three tracks together, but after mostly being on the back burner since like 2021/22, I decided to polish them a bit and put them out there as possibly my last J Kizla release. I was struggling to finish them and really create anything for a while. I would understand if people thought they’re still not finished but they’re as finished as I could get them. I have had creative, physical and spiritual blocks galore in the last few years. A big part of my difficulty is the feeling that i’m tired of just writing introspective lyrics but at the same time, it’s what I have to say at the moment. In a past song called ‘Caught Up Pt. 2’ I wrote:
		
		‘Feels like I’m drowning in the heavy shit, my minds always on
		But the heavy’s starting to seem petty, it’s so overgrown
		Known for that, introspective rap, but I’m so over that
		Maybe if I get it off my chest then I can give it a rest’

It’s like I know this way of writing has a time limit and I’ve really felt that the last few years. I haven’t had the energy for it. I’ve been singing more, mainly singing other people’s songs. I’m still finding this new music I hope to create that’s mostly singing and I’m not sure the name ‘J Kizla’ will fit it. 

The main track is called ‘Yellow Brick Road’. I started it in 2022 and finished writing it last year. It feels like despair with some glimpses of hope and the singing is more… vulnerable than on songs I’ve released before. It’s more old school and lower energy than the other two tracks.

“War of Art” comes next, it wrestles with resistance then transforms into a kind of recounting of my early spiritual experience. It was written in mid-2021.

And “Anger (Or When Job Lost His Shit Pt. 2)” is what it sounds like, I guess. Short and sharp. Also written in mid-2021.

I decided it was better to release the last two tracks only on SoundCloud, partly because they started as experiments in recreating other beats so they aren’t completely original (unlike ‘Yellow Brick Road’), but also they are kind of fragmentary. 

I hope you enjoy or find something in them or - I don’t know..

Thanks for listening.


Yellow Brick Road

Me indignei quando te acendi
Você se apagou para mim
Fiquei de cara, quase morri
Só Deus sabe o que eu senti

Edi Rock (Part. Seu Jorge) - That's My Way

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