Powers Vol. 2 was born from a rekindled love for UK garage, electronic dance music and house music. Having been away from the UK for so long after high school, I found a new love for those sounds and intentionally wanted to spend time in Europe to reconnect with that energy. Most of the songs were produced while I was living in Amsterdam for 4 months in 2019, but written once I was back in the U.S as we went through the hell that was 2020. I hope you all love this experiment as much as I do. I didn’t make this to be liked by everyone, but I know those that like it, will love it, and I hope you step into this new world with an open heart and open mind.

Produced by DAP The Contract
Mixed by Bert Gervis.
Featuring Tim Lyre, Bryn Bliska, SirBastien, Wavy The Creator and Kaliné.
Additional production by Sumner Becker, Josh Ugi, Peter Enriquez and Bryn Bliska.

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PW3RS, the third installment of the Powers series.

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PW3RS

DOWNLOAD LINK --} http://www.audiomack.com/album/dap-1/goodbye-for-never

All tracks Produced by DAP
All tracks Mixed by Elliot Bradley

Welcome To GoodBye For Never --} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnqsuiqUxVw&feature=youtu.be

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GoodBye For Never

A visual album by DAP The Contract.

All content - www.dapthecontract.com/efits

Tracklist:

1.) Patience (Intro)
2.) Quarter Life (ft. Lazy Rabbit)
3.) LOVE (Interlude) (ft. Lazy Rabbit, Kaliné & Bryn Bliska)
4.) Up AF!
5.) Everybody Falls (ft. Kamaria Woods & Sebastián .Otero)
6.) Nobody Like You (ft. Lazy Rabbit, Mia Maxima, AETI)
7.) Vibrate (Interlude) (ft. Lazy Rabbit)
8.) Heroes & Heroine (ft. Peter Enriquez)
9.) Whispers
10.) Back Around (ft. Sahana)
11.) Cheat Code (Outro)
12.) Sanctified (ft. Tone)

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EVERYBODY FALLS IN THE SUMMER

I Remember tells the tale of lovers turned to strangers, the pain of moving on, and lingering bad energy. DAP and Chandler reminisce on past flames and the bitter taste left when the love sours, the uncomfortable familiarity and awkward communication full of empty pleasantries.

I Remember - DAP The Contract x Chandler Elyse

Water

Purple Feels

Purple Feels - DAP The Contract x Syl DuBenion

Everything Is Everything

Everything is Everything

DWMFT

DWMFT - DAP The Contract x Kaylan Arnold

DAP and Elena swim through their emotions on Dancing In The Rain, an alternative afrobeat duet. Projecting their love for each other and in the same breath resisting the temptation, the pair finally come together for a short-lived unison before the song dissipates and the love flows away.

Dancing In The Rain

Dancing In The Rain - DAP The Contract x Elena Pinderhughes

Magic

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather - DAP The Contract x Pat $harp x RickExpress

05 CorRuption {Where Is The Love } (ft. Sumner Becker))

04 Baby Please Come Home (ft. Clyde Lawrence & Kelvin Chang)

03 KING

02 It's Alright (ft. Bryn Bliska)

01 GoodBye (ft. Abbey Perrault) /  You're Welcome

Track 6 off DAP The Contract's "Two Roads EP"

Artwork by Danny Sobor

Mixed by Elliot Bradley

I wrote this song over a year ago when I was worried about my future, feeling a little lost. In a twisted way, a year later, I've grown so much in my music and I work harder everyday to get better and secure a future for myself in which I can make a living from my music, but things have only gotten worse and worse around me. I feel like we're all still working towards our own individual selfish goals of being rich, being famous, or being materially successful. I wrote the second verse after watching J.Cole perform Be Free on David Letterman and observing the racially charged police brutality that has BEEN going on right before our eyes. As Cole said, the only way to make change is to all take responsibility for each other and LOVE each other, and this particularly resonated with me. The other day I searched through all my lyrics to see what I've really been talking about, and the most consistent topics: MONEY, and LOVE! There is no other way we can change the world, or at the very least be the spark that makes that change, without loving one another as we do ourselves and letting go of the security we feel money gives us! Systems built around capitalism eat us up, and narrow our vision. We are all sell outs, and we all suffer from the same drive to go get ours and chase the money! I hope that changes this year, for me, for you and for all your loved ones! I hope you find your heaven on earth! 

I love you all.

Stay Blue

DAP

P.S Thank you Stella, Sumner and Danny (MILC) for helping me deliver this message.

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Blue (ft. Stella Mensah & Sumner Becker) - DAP

SEVEN HEAVENS is a part of religious cosmology found in many major religions such as Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and Catholicism, and in some minor religions such as Hermeticism and Gnosticism. The Throne of God is said to be above the seventh heaven in some Abrahamic religions.

Produced by DAP The Contract
Mixed and Mastered by Elliot Bradley

Heaven Pt. II (ft. NICE) - DAP The Contract

(Written by DAP & Tone, Produced by DAP & Sebastián .Otero / Engineered by Elliot Bradley & DAP)

This is just an early christmas present that my boy Tone and I had so much fun making! Much more music to come.

Happy Holidays! Let's make this one to remember!

This that new single...

Know Better (ft. Tone) - DAP The Contract

"We wrote this song almost a year ago, motivated by the recurring events of injustice towards POCs in the US. Unfortunately, the song remains ever relevant. We hope this song can give hope to those suffering from the injustices and to incite action that will bring change to this broken system. 

Our hearts go out to all the victims and families. May they rest in peace." 

- DAP The Contract x Sebastián ( )tero (@Sebadelmundo)

Produced by DAP The Contract
Sax - Josh Kirschenbaum
Artwork by Soraya Ferdman

LYRICS:

CHORUS:

Let this be your alcohol, yeah, sip a little liquor
You can drown your sorrows here, go on cry me a river
No tissues for your issues, you don't need no mixer sister,
Don't let these systems sink into your system sister
All our little brothers dying, little sisters too
This ain't a Cold War, we're looking like Crimea nigga,
No fixes for those victims only see you later,
Don't let the system in your system sister
Take a shot with me,
Take a shot with me,
Drink it all away a shot of Henny,
Take a shot with me,
Come on take a shot with me,
Take a shot with me,
And rest the piece against my head one shot in me,
Take a shot with me.


DAP The Contract

You know I ain't from the gutter brother,
But trust me the devil wears prada brother.
Yeah, this ain't nothing new,
Just some new shit that you ain't know you knew.
You're still in the dark, but say no to night and yes to day.
Oh no don't pray for DKNY just to go decay in NY.
That city ain't full of dreams, it's full of cattle,
Full of sheep and full of shadows popping pills and champagne showers.
Well, the jig is up so put your hands up,
And no don't tell nobody, I don't know no nobodies,
I don't know no yes men, nah man I know kids that don't love nobody,
They're life's hard as a bitch, and they ain't got no money,
So everybody on the same shit,
Looking for big change and shit, but that ain't ever changing shit.
Money make cocaine flip, and make a brother brain trip.
I'm pissing on your painted picture 'cause that shit ain't right,
Nah life ain't sugar cane, my nigga it ain't sour neither, it's plainly white rice
Let me paint a little picture of the white life:
Imagine a room
Walls painted green 'cause you richer,
A little yellow for your sunshine, 'cause never no nighttime,
And ocean blue for heaven too, you never need a night light,
Got polka dots all on your chair 'cause black and white can mix right?
It's a beautiful sight. 
It sits right until you blink for a second,
And everybody dead,
It's like you flipped the switch on a black light,
But that's just the black life.


Sebastián ()tero

Abro los ojos por primera vez, en el noventa y seis 
mas dos años después se 
resentían los diez años de 
Estados Unidos bebiendo nuestro café
y pues,
en el 2000 partimos hacia el viejo mundo,
trazando un nuevo rumbo
con cambios rotundos.
Estaba muy pequeño para entender
que existe gente mezquina incapaz de comprender.
Fue así.
Un día por la rambla yo vi
mil caras, mil disfraces pero solo me acuerdo de una
mujer albanesa con su velo en su cabeza
pidiendo limosna sin manos y sin piernas.
Y
los mismos ojos también vieron cómo el gobierno
destruía las metas y sueños de muchos niños
dominicanos de padres haitianos 
indocumentados 
por la fucking culpa del racismo.
Mi corazón palpita con dolor
cada vez que leo, escucho 
una historia de injusticia.
Ay, cómo duele.
Sentarse y esperar a que esto vaya a cambiar
no va a funcionar jamás.
Un shot podrá aliviar nuestra tristeza y pesar,
nada más,
así que brindemos por la esperanza y las fuerzas
que te levantan.
Y anda.
¡Lucha y anda! 

DAP The Contract
And colores ain't mean anything, we're brothers over everything
Don't let nobody cage you.
The devil got a crib right in the city of angels,
But love is in the air no never fear let me tell you,
When you cry we can hear you,

Sebastián ()tero
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Tenemos el poder
de poder transformar el mundo
si eso es lo que queremos hacer.
¿Lo ves?

Drowning Colores

Drowning Colores (ft. Sebastián .Otero) - DAP The Contract

Composed, produced, recorded - DAP The Contract
Mixed & mastered - Elliot Bradley

This song is dedicated to Uzi Atobatele & Dave Okine. Rest in Power.

"When children die too young, do their bodies grow? Does anybody know?
When children die too young, nobody knows where their body goes. We'll never know."

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Too Young - DAP The Contract

Track 7 off DAP The Contract's "Two Roads EP"

Two Roads EP

Forever Yours (ft. Byron Major, Clyde Lawrence & Bryn Bliska)

Track 4 off DAP The Contract's "Two Roads EP"

Chains (ft. Tone, Kamaria Woods & Peter Enriquez)

The first installment of the CONTRACT THURSDAYS series - DAP The Contract x Sebastián .Otero (@Sebadelmundo)

Produced by DAP The Contract & Sebastián .Otero

Josh Kirschenbaum - Tenor Sax
Yale Friend - Trumpet
Kevin Haggerty - Trumpet
Johnny Page - Trombone
Peter Frisch - Trombone

Artwork by Danny Sobor

Mixed & Mastered by Elliot Bradley

Contract Thursdays

Ven y Baila, Mamacita - DAP The Contract x Sebastián .Otero

The second installment of the CONTRACT THURSDAYS series - DAP The Contract featuring SHE.

Produced by DAP The Contract.

A&R: J'adore Flâneur

Artwork by Danny Sobor

Mixed & Mastered by Elliot Bradley

Some Things Never Change (ft. SHE) - DAP The Contract

The third installment of the CONTRACT THURSDAYS series - DAP The Contract (ft. SO4P & Tone)

Produced by DAP The Contract

Artwork by Danny Sobor

Mixed & Mastered by Elliot Bradley

Das Mine (ft. Tone & SO4P) - DAP The Contract

The fourth installment of the CONTRACT THURSDAYS series - DAP The Contract 

Produced by DAP The Contract.
Additional production by Sebastián .Otero, Kota Mizutani, Josh Kirschenbaum, Yale Friend.

Artwork by Danny Sobor

Mixed & Mastered by Elliot Bradley

Details - DAP The Contract

The fifth installment of the CONTRACT THURSDAYS series - DAP The Contract (ft. Warner Meadows)

Produced by DAP The Contract
Additional production by EZÉ & Warner Meadows

Artwork by Danny Sobor

Mixed & Mastered by Elliot Bradley

IDK Interlude (ft. Warner Meadows) - DAP The Contract

Produced by DAP The Contract
Mixed and Mastered by Elliot Bradley

The first installment of the Contract Thursdays Pt. 2 series.

Contract Thursdays Pt. 2 is a cross-cultural, colorful collection of new music from DAP The Contract, with help from various stellar artists. You can be sure to find something in the batch that you will fall in love with.

Contract Thursdays Pt. 2

Special

Special (ft. Ajebutter22 & Peter Enriquez) - DAP The Contract

Produced by DAP The Contract
Mixed and Mastered by Elliot Bradley

The second installment of the Contract Thursdays Pt. 2 series.

Contract Thursdays Pt. 2 is a cross-cultural, colorful collection of new music from DAP The Contract, with help from various stellar artists. You can be sure to find something in the batch that you will fall in love with.

Summer's Over Interlude

Summer's Over Interlude - DAP The Contract

Produced by DAP The Contract
Mixed and Mastered by Elliot Bradley

The third installment of the Contract Thursdays Pt. 2 series.

Contract Thursdays Pt. 2 is a cross-cultural, colorful collection of new music from DAP The Contract, with help from various stellar artists. You can be sure to find something in the batch that you will fall in love with.

Kerosene

Kerosene - DAP The Contract

Produced by DAP The Contract
Mixed and Mastered by Elliot Bradley

The fifth and final installment of the Contract Thursdays Pt. 2 series.

Contract Thursdays Pt. 2 is a cross-cultural, colorful collection of new music from DAP The Contract, with help from various stellar artists. You can be sure to find something in the batch that you will fall in love with.

Open Letter II

Open Letter II - DAP The Contract

Back Around

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Back Around (ft. Sahana) - DAP The Contract

Additional Vocals by Grace Weber
Produced by DAP The Contract
Mixed and Mastered by Elliot Bradley

"Sanctified" is the first official single from the upcoming EP.

SANCTIFIED

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SANCTIFIED (ft. Tone) - DAP The Contract

Track 5 off the visual album EVERYBODY FALLS IN THE SUMMER.

Everybody Falls (ft. Kamaria Woods & Sebastián .Otero) - DAP The Contract

Track 4 off the visual album EVERYBODY FALLS IN THE SUMMER.

Up AF! - DAP The Contract

Track 2 off the visual album EVERYBODY FALLS IN THE SUMMER.

Quarter Life (ft. Lazy Rabbit) - DAP The Contract

Track 1 off the visual album EVERYBODY FALLS IN THE SUMMER.

Patience (Intro) - DAP The Contract

Track 6 off the visual album EVERYBODY FALLS IN THE SUMMER.

Produced, written and recorded by DAP The Contract
Featuring Mia Maxima
Additional guitars by Lazy Rabbit
Additional horns by AETI
Skit written by DAP The Contract
Skit performed by Dekola Odedina
Mixed and mastered by Elliot Bradley

Nobody Like You

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Nobody Like You (ft. Mia Maxima, Lazy Rabbit & AETI) - DAP The Contract (BONUS)

Track 3 off the visual album "EVERYBODY FALLS IN THE SUMMER"

LOVE (Interlude) (ft. Lazy Rabbit, Kaliné & Bryn Bliska) - DAP The Contract

Track 1 off the visual series #CTIII by DAP The Contract.

ENGINEERING:
Elliot Bradley

CTIII

PRISMCOLORS - DAP The Contract

Powers Vol. 2 (ARTWORK - NIGERIA CHAIN AMIDST COLOR BURSTS)

Sacrifices (ft. Tim Lyre)

Chaos

It's Not A Gun

Track 8 of Powers Vol. 1 (Deluxe).

Produced by DAP The Contract

Mixed and Mastered by Bert Gervis.
HEAV7N Pt. II mixed and mastered by Elliot Bradley.

Powers Vol. 1 (Deluxe)

Love The World - DAP The Contract

TDK (ft. SirBastien)

Mo Fe Jaiye (Live) - DAP The Contract x Bryn Bliska

Hailing from Lagos, Nigeria classically trained pianist and producer/rapper DAP possesses an inkling for creating incredible music. At an early age he was drawn to music through an entirely musical family. He started playing the piano aged 4 and passed his ABRSM Grade 8 Piano with distinction aged 13, and went on to attain a DipABRSM Performance Diploma on the Piano aged 17. 

After high school in London, UK, he attended the Berklee College of Music for two semesters as part of a gap year with the intention of majoring in Contemporary Writing & Production or Music Production & Engineering.

He released his fourth mixtape GoodBye For Never, in October 2014. In September 2015, he recorded at the renowned Abbey Road Studios in London with grammy award winning "Uptown Funk" producer Mark Ronson after being selected for a competition produced by Converse.

In May 2016, he graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts in Classics and Computer Music & Multimedia. On April 28th 2017, he released the “Two Roads EP”, and followed this later in the year with a series entitled Contract Thursdays (Pt. 1 and Pt. 2). During his first year as a law student at Columbia University, he released a collaborative EP entitled Old New Clothes under the moniker Hi-Lo Jack with fellow collaborators Clyde Lawrence and Cody Fitzgerald, who recently scored the Disney movie “Noelle” and included a verse from DAP. During the European leg of his ”Everybody Falls” tour, DAP released singles as part of CTIII, the third installment of the Contract Thursday’s series.

DAP released the Powers Vol. 1 EP in April 2020, shortly followed by the Deluxe version a month later, alongside graduating from Columbia Law School. He passed the NY Bar Exam in October 2020 and practiced as a corporate attorney in the Tech, Media and Telecommunications group at Proskauer Rose LLP in New York City, during which time he released the sequel to the EP, entitled Powers Vol. 2, and subsequently DAP released “PW3RS”, the third installment to the Powers series, on May 26, 2023.

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