this is a blend of alternative/experimental hip hop that, on any given song, blends together plenty of elements into hip hop.  also, I tried as mich as possible to keep more of a rhythm based around hip hop style drumming rather than depending on heavy synthesized beats.  I love those in lots of music but for this undertaking I wanted to maintain a balance and not have those heavy beats overpowering everything else and drowning other elements out.  I probably scaled back too much because I wanted to have those beats still mixed. Those beats are mixed into some songs lightly but I feel like I got it more figured out working on my second album, so I look forward to when I share that.  I really admire bands that can keep a base in hip hop but add all sorts of other cool elements that actually add to the music and aren't there just so they can be like 'hey, there was a guitar line here or a trumpet line there' because it seems cool. I really wanted to balance many different elements together without it all getting too diluted. 

Fractured Mind(Official Alternative Hip-Hop Album Version)


Silent but lethal, I speak in steel,
Every hidden truth I reveal.

You lied, you cheated, thought I wouldn’t know,
But iron whispers cut deeper than snow.
I rise through the smoke, razor-sharp eyes,
I see your games, I see your disguise.

Iron whisper, feel the bite,
Truth will strike in the dead of night.
No more chains, no compromise,
I stand tall, I claim my prize.

You can’t break me, can’t contain,
I’m fire running through your veins.
Every word, every fight,
We’re taking back the night.

Fake friends, snake tongues, I expose it all,
Step to me wrong, and watch the empire fall.
Raspy voice, sharp choice, cutting through the lies,
Iron whisper echoes, truth never dies.

Iron whisper, feel the bite,
Truth will strike in the dead of night.
No more chains, no compromise,
I stand tall, I claim my prize

Rapunzel

DRAPHT