"INTERSECTIONS" — KANTIBUS
Track 34 of #35in35

“Intersections” mourns what’s lost at the crossroads of youth, ambition, and consequence. Written after the tragic loss of a close friend at just 21, this song channels grief into an introspective navigation of modern life—where paths wind endlessly, but rarely connect.

In a fractured city of neon-lit distractions, we chase meaning through twisted roads that lead nowhere. Kantibus delivers raw lyricism and spectral reflection over minimalist beats that pulse like streetlamps on an empty freeway. It’s not just about losing someone—it’s about how easily we lose each other in the process.

The song sits near the end of 35in35 for a reason: it’s both a reckoning and a requiem.

For the ones we couldn’t save.
For the choices we made at every turn.
And for the silence that follows when the music fades.

Intersections

From the opening metallic 808 hits and jitter-bug hi-hats to the clipped triplet flow and L-C-R–layered hooks, every element is forged for maximum impact. Gritty filtered guitar licks and shadowy tape hiss swirl around noir-style synth stabs and reversed samples, giving the beat a tense, subterranean vibe.

Lyrically, KANTIBUS navigates oil-slick streets and rain-drummed rooftops, painting a hustler’s world of blood-baptized ledgers, barrel smoke confessions, and sub-bass rumbles under blade-slick moons. His sharpened snares snap like gunshots, while ad-libs creep in stereo, heightening the widescreen drama. This is an audible testament to survival, ambition, and the relentless grind.

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KANTIBUS -  Game Make the Pie Bigger

Swagger-delay cadence. First-word ghost. Then it bleeds.

FX are mapped. Flow is timed. Impact is not optional.

I don’t “generate tracks.” I build aftershocks.

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KANTIBUS - DOOM

A 33-Year-Old Poem Realized Through Morrison’s Voice

Behind the Verse
Originally penned over three decades ago in a burst of apocalyptic vision, this poem lay dormant until KANTIBUS breathed it to life. The raw existential musings—on evolution, extinction, and the thin line between—were sculpted into a full-blown Doors-style opus.

Sound & Style

Vocal Performance: Deep, spoken-word baritone channels Jim Morrison’s gravel-edged mystique, sliding into haunting sung choruses that echo like a distant oracle.

Instrumentation: A swirl of vintage organ pads and tribal tom pulses sets a hypnotic backdrop. Psych-tremolo guitars and bowed bass weave through piano leads and full-band crashes, driving the mythic arc.

Dynamics: Whispered monologues give way to pounding floor-toms, cymbal swells, and orchestral washes—each transition a “threshold” moment, mirroring the poem’s themes of threshold and transformation.

Why It Matters
“Threshold of Being” isn’t just a song—it’s the culmination of KANTIBUS’s lifelong journey. It marries Morrison-era psychedelia with modern cinematic production, proving that a vision born in youthful poetry can still haunt and inspire in the digital age.

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KANTIBUS - Threshold of Being

The Dragons’ Alley is a cinematic epic—haunted, operatic, and unforgiving. Originally penned in 2002 and reborn through KANTIBUS’ mythic lens, this 4-minute movement fuses symphonic grandeur with raw, street-tempered rhythm. Angelic choirs clash with shadowy basslines, layered voices echo like ghosts through a war-torn alleyway, and the beat never lets go. This is lore rendered in stereo.

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KANTIBUS - The Dragon's Alley

A True Rap Rashomon... 

Dive into the penultimate confession of “the END” saga—an unholy quad of trap-noir testimonies where FlipGame, RACKS, Rosa Sparx and Harriet Thugman each stake their claim to blood and silence. Under brutal interrogation lights, four voices weave a fractal of false martyrdom, each insisting they alone survived the END… while the world watches their lies scatter.

When Truth Dies, Lies Travel

"Ghost Story (Konami Code)" is cinematic street rap turned supernatural revenge tale. A murdered hustler returns from the afterlife with infinite lives. Resurrected through the Konami Code to haunt his enemies and flip their world inside out. Noir energy meets trap grit, with a storyline that feels like gangland mythology colliding with video game lore. Dark, moody, and theatrical, this is KANTIBUS at his most experimental, turning vengeance into an art form.

Ghost Story

Noir procedural trap. No corkboard, no red string. Just paperwork and absence. Baritone cadence over sub-808 and sparse tom hits, moving through burner rotations, UV watermarks, escrow timestamps and freight-yard meetups. The creed runs through the hook: “Keep low. Move clean. Don’t speak. Don’t lean.”
Written & produced by KANTIBUS. 

Chain of Custody

Cold-blooded omertà music. No speeches, just ledgers, oaths, and motion.
Flute opens, bells haunt, then the family closes ranks.

Written by KANTIBUS - 2005
“Potion in my pulse, I glide.”

My Family

A trap noir dispatch from the aftermath. 
Sirens fade, screens glow, attention feeds on flame. 

Go Viral! cuts at clout-hunting and ring-light martyrdom, flipping the chorus into a cold mantra. Distorted pads, heavy 808s, and a whiplash post-refrain hit keep the tension coiled while the hook lingers like smoke.
Themes: outrage economy, signal vs. substance, metrics over meaning.

If a line sticks, drop it in the comments and tell me where you felt the switch flip.

Go Viral!

Half-time trap, chopped and screwed edges; a fever that talks back. SICKNESS frames corruption as a habit loop, the wicked routine we normalize. Then snaps to surgical precision on the verses. Sub-bass pressure, clipped hats, and stark negative space let every bar land like steel.

Turn it up, sit with the echo, and tell me which moment cut the deepest.

SICKNESS

KANTIBUS is an American producer/songwriter who has been creating songs since 1990.

It is a portmanteau of his first initial and last name. 

KANTIBUS started creating what would eventually become known as Drill or Trap Music, demonstrating expertise in both genres. 

As such, he is a pioneer of the "violent real life criminal" styles that exist still in the underground today. 

Intersections

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