Album of July 2021
Respect to the Beat Community of the DMV

Dwyer's SE (Dwele Flip)

LYRICS:
fall down.
scroll down.
nothing new.
no sound.

fake sun.
same town.
same screen.
break down.

i saw a god in my phone today
he typed “o-k-.”

who am i now?
who am i now?
filter says: “wow.”
but i don’t know how.

you laugh, i freeze.
you talk, i please.
the cloud remembers --
delete me, please.

plastic dream, repeat, repeat.
empty eyes in driver’s seat.
plastic dream, repeat, repeat.
empty eyes in driver’s seat.

you say: “love.”
i say: “seen.”
you say: “truth.”
i say: “me.”

(Raz)
I used to mean something --
mean something -- mean something -- mean something.
I used to breathe.
(Shadow)
breathe.breathe.breathe.breathe.
(Raz)
breathe -- breathe -- breathe.

[instrumental]

--

ALBUM:
404 is a concept album about losing – and maybe reclaiming – what makes us human in an age of systems, feeds, and synthetic voices. It’s unapologetically AI-made: all music and vocals are generated through prompting on Suno; every lyric is written by a human.

The album unfolds through two perspectives that share one voice. Raz is the part of us still reaching for meaning – curiosity, growth, purpose – in “Let it Fall”, “Doors Wide Open”, and “La Marseillaise”. Shadow is the drift away from ourselves – numbness, addiction, power – in “soft.static”, “i keep going back”, and “coronation”. Over the years, Raz moves to a new city, disappears into bright lights, parties, and strangers, slides into obsession and addiction, and finds a cause that shifts her trajectory, helps her find her voice, and turns her into a leader – until it consumes her. When power burns out, she falls into the dark place where Shadow has been waiting.

The final trilogy is their collision. “404” is the moment Raz meets Shadow, embodied as an AI system – the god in our pocket that erodes our humanity in plain sight (“I saw a god in my phone today”). The encounter drags her through deep self-doubt. “Untitled” is a wordless attempt by Shadow to pull everything back into the void. “As Human as it Gets” is Raz’s last broadcast: a fragile, collective, imperfect human voice that breaks through the system, woken up out of a dream, and leans into being “almost human, close enough” – flawed, forgiving, and still enough.

404 is absurd, contradictory, and hypocritical. It aims to grapple with deeply human questions and criticises our AI trajectory while speaking through a fully machine-generated voice. The human behind it is an AI engineer who is in love with building these systems and is terrified of what they may end up doing to us – to our jobs, to who holds power, and to our sense of humanity.

The album ends with the words “We start it over.” They’re meant as much a reckoning as an invitation.

404 -- Raz, ft. Shadow

wrote this on a saturday //
++++

Universal/
Infomercial/
 nigga tryta sell me bullshit, But that ain't no purple/

Looking more like/
Some brown rice/
Maybe Mexican/
I'm either way too blown, or I'm vexed again/

I learned my lesson..

 Being autodidact leads to stress again/

I can't progress, I feel depressed/
That shit is neverending/
Tried for better spending/
Always left broke
 Up in the desert, empty/

That's Mariana trench Deep, 

no joke

Got a stalled car that I'm payin' for/
Wishing these niggas would come pick it up, 
the fuck is you waiting for/

Im Jobless again, feels like 12th grade, for sure/
From checkin' emails, clean shaven, and clean pores/

Really wish I could make a living by creatin' and more/
But thats a kids dream , like piloting a mega-zord/

Maybe they'll call back with opportunities to solve the problems/

Or maybe an abundance of niggas would copp my albums/

One can dream.

The fact of the matter is clear/
Like ya mom's brazerre/
stability is dead as fuck, lost and nowhere near/

Jobs ain't Careers/

And neither are wavs/
One thing for sure, Ill make these heaters til the grave/

[bumpdatshxt]

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