“Circles is the most honest song I've made. As an artist seeking to fulfill their dreams in this era, you experience ups, downs, love, hate and conflict which causes you to almost go crazy in the process. I created this track one night last year in my Mother’s apartment after a few bourbons and I immediately broke out the mic. It was done within an hour. These are all completely true stories wrapped into one song.”
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Dunson - Circles

Entire music accompaniment/arrangement and rap lyrics performed by Dunson set to John Legend's a cappella rendition of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep". 

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John Legend - Rolling In The Deep (Dunson Remix)  [prod. by Dunson]

Featuring John Legend
Produced by Phatboiz

This record was inspired by a hook that John had done a couple years ago but didn't use. He was generous enough to let me take a swipe at it around a time in my life where a couple of very relevant situations had presented themselves.
Phatboiz and I recorded the original version for my last mixtape, The Investment but we never pushed it because we felt it had better sonic potential. Once we finally revisited it in LA last month, we felt we did the story and the song justice.  What better time to release it than now?

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Cross Town Lovers (feat. John Legend) [Remix]

Dunson's take on "88 Coupes" originally performed by French Montana & Jadakiss from the Coke Boys 4 Mixtape. Produced by Harry Fraud.

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88 Coupes Freestyle

Leading up to the release of the Outlier project. I wanted to release a remix of Phantogram's "Fall in Love" where I speak on my relationship with Hip-Hop. So I chopped up the track...added some drums and samples...laid some verses and here we go!

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Phantogram - Fall In Love (Dunson Remix)

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Broke Ass Dope Ass Rapper

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I was always intrigued by the term "Firestarter"... ever since I heard that Prodigy record in the 90's. The term actually meant something to me after I dated a serial heart breaker. She was blazing a mean trail! Eventually she must have realized her faults because she later apologized saying she didn't mean any harm but honestly, when does that ever help? I'm actually good friends with her today so my goal is not to put that individual on blast but as you progress as a songwriter, you absolutely must allow yourself to express true emotion whether the subject is sensitive or not. I wrote this song very quick starting at the piano and sang the hook in falsetto...enter Ryan Kellie! She's an amazing singer/songwriter who spent a lot of time on the Nashville music scene. I wrote piano parts to a few of her songs in progress so we have a natural working relationship that turned out perfectly on this track!

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Dunson - Firestarter (feat. Ryan Kellie)

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Tremendous (feat. Roméo Testa)

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Fatboy Slim

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Lyrics

Chorus

What goes around come around, I’m a need Karma’s Schedule
But first I’m trying to take it to another level x2
(What goes around x3)

Verse 1

I must’ve lived the fast life in my past life
I tried to flirt with Karma, she ain’t trying to act right
She started hating just when I thought I controlled shit
She’s constipated; she’s always bringing up old shit
The say it’s exactly how I’m supposed to feel
Telling myself it’s gonna be worth it, trust me I know it will
But hopping off the Megabus dragging luggage with broken wheels
All the way to the studio starting to feel like overkill
Damn, the life I had arranged, I could’ve had a range
I never needed social media to make my status change
A glimpse into the mind of a scatterbrain 
Trapped in the studio, only take breaks for the Dallas game
As far as hours shit, I lost count at “Count On It” 
I put my money down on it, none of that shit was counterfeit
Hit the studio, pound a fifth
Crank the speakers up loud as shit
Truth be told, get a hold of that alcohol, I’m an alchemist
Like water to wine and like wine into bourbon
Cause bourbon and beats got me murdering beats
But nervous to speak to my fam
Cause I’m imperfect and they prefer me to preach
Got in touch with myself now I’m the hardest person to reach (Dunson)
Been in airplane mode since Cher played shows
They say my verses too perfect, I should paraphrase those
But I’m a tell my own stories before they narrate those
Shit feels like a glass ceiling with the staircase close 
Trust me, I heard your efforts, I just can’t respect it
You Microsoft rappers blew your load, that’s an error message
You switched it up and put your blocks in your bars on your records
But you still dropping L’s, you doing well at Tetris
Save your records, these are Savior records
Nah. Really I’m more spiritual. Lyrical, Maryland Miracle
But still feel the need to pray, flights out of DCA
Look I don’t want the drama, I just need Karma’s ETA

Chorus

Verse 2
Been living life like controlled chaos
What if I don’t take off, shit got my flow way off
I’m with a bad chick, she trying to take that Dolce off
I said Devil not today and he said no days off
But I can’t slow down time, can’t change the clock’s tempo
And it’s not a Hov album, you can’t play back the intro
I don’t regret the chick from D.C. at El Centro
Nah, that ass was monumental, I’m just mad I lost her info
I cheated on my ex, I know she hates me for it
I’m still doing shit to make up for it
Karma, I won five g’s in Vegas, guess I should thank you for it
So I took it straight to the strip club to pay it forward
Stay out of reach from the chicks I hit on my college streak
Overthinker. Shit, that’s why the project’s not released
Know how to speak and when not to speak, I stayed out the streets
Know Buddhist Monks that got a piece because they not at peace
Assassinate us ‘til we obsolete
Half of the nation didn’t give a fuck until they shot police...
Shit I’m just dropping beats

Karma's Schedule - Single

Karma's Schedule

Stars get stepped on in Hollywood...

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Re-Produced by Dunson
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Starboy ft. Daft Punk (Dunson Remix) [Single]

Starboy Freestyle

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Bass Guitar by Ronald Judge for Asteroid Muziq Productions.
Additional Drums by Okwa Andrew.
Additonal Keys by Auturo "Roh" Evans.
Artwork by TUMA (@TUMAbeats).

Dunson - 10,000 Hrs. (Single)

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10,000 Hours

A dedication to the Queen! 

Lyrics:

I wanna talk about an artist who showed me…
You gotta use all your talents to get your point across…so uh
This is a dedication to The Miseducation
Ms. Lauryn Hill…Uh

(Verse)

I was the kid on the second floor
Listening to The Score
The kid in the basement
Bumping "Miseducation"
That's Ms. Lauryn from Orange
She singing, next thing she flowing
I turn the radio on, she gone
This shit is boring
It's blowing me, it's R&B
It's Hip-Hop from wanna-be Australian rappers
OK, now this shit is foreign
We lost our sound
Is it our fault now?
I wish 'Ye could have used your voice on "All Falls Down"
I'm telling you shit is serious
We living in different eras
Where now it's niggas in Paris
And Paris niggas is terrorists
And that shit cray, let the whack shit play
Radio ready or not, I gotta rap this way
On the real, Ms. Hill we gotta get you back
'Cause now Love & Hip-Hop show the world how a Sister Act
When everybody trying to hustle for a status
Is it "Everything is Everything" or "Nothing Even Matters", huh?

Produced by Dunson.
Mixed by Jake Vicious at House Studios, D.C.

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Misdedication (Ode to Lauryn Hill)

Produced by Dunson
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Shotgun Wedding (Single)

Shotgun Wedding

1 million mark...Thank You!

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LYRICS:
[Hook]
Million
I said that I’m a get a million
I said I’d be good with a million
Until I realized a million don’t mean shit no more
Million don’t mean shit no more

[Verse 1]
Hit a milli and I’m still spitting real bars
That’s the type of shit that I should get a deal off
I don’t really give a fuck, man it’s their loss
I’m in the house nigga, Bill Maher….hold up, hold up
Numbers don’t lie unless you pay for them bitches
Haters don’t survive unless you pray for them bitches
And sometimes I wonder who the hell is raising you niggas
I don’t wave to you niggas, it’s a wave for you niggas
I did a million yeah, yeah, life is good
Now I gotta double up, ‘cause I’m twice as good
Thought they could just do it like Nike could
Fell asleep at the wheel like Tiger Woods
In the middle of your session
I did a million sessions, it’s really an obsession
Then why you ain’t drop a mixtape since Investment?
I been feeling like that’s the million dollar question

[Hook]
Million
I said that I’m a get a million
I said I’d be good with a million
(…And I’m just getting started)
Until I realized a million don’t mean shit no more
Million don’t mean shit no more

[Verse 2]
Alright, Alright, Alright
Here we go, here we go, here we go again
Put in work, you can’t go around going in
I done told you bitches, showed you bitches
My life’s a motion picture, I am so focused in
Never asked for a handout like Oprah’s friend
Drink a lot of whiskey don’t put soda in
My ex said that I’m a dog, I’m a Doberman
Better off living single like Overton
I just did a million off of Ableton
I just did a million off of Ableton
Showed up to the label late again
It’s safe to say that I was faded at The 8x10
Feeling like a million miles and still running
Let a motherfucker say I ain’t killing nothing
Let a motherfucker say they ain’t feeling Dunson
It’s a good chance you ain’t got a million nothings…bitch

[Hook]
Million
I said that I’m a get a million
I said I’d be good with a million
(…And I’m just getting started)
Until I realized a million don’t mean shit no more
Million don’t mean shit no more

[Outro]
Yeah…And I’m a million percent me
(…Right now I’m feeling alright...and I’m just getting started)
Until I realized a million don’t mean shit no more
Million don’t mean shit no more

Mixed by Kenton Dunson & Ryder Ansell

MILLION - Single

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MILLION

Produced by Dunson

Lyrics
[Intro]
Whiskey and women just about wrecked my life
Whiskey and women just about wrecked my life
Wasn’t for whiskey and women, I’d have money today

[Pre-Hook]

I got lightning in a bottle yeah
Drinking like it’s no tomorrow yeah
Stay focused. Stay focused.
Motherfucker you had one job
Stay focused. Stay focused.
Got damn homie, you had one job

[Hook]

Whiskey and women
Hell of a combination
That’s one hell of a combination yeah
Whiskey and women
(Whiskey and women, Whiskey and women
Whiskey and women, Whiskey and women)

[Verse 1]

Quit one job now I got sixteen…bars in a verse
Nah I ain’t perfect, Nah I ain’t perfect
Shit when’s the last time y’all been to church
Get a paycheck; spend it all on the 1st
Get a bad chick; spend it all on her purse
‘Cause you can’t take it with you when you’re gone
U-Hauls don’t follow a hearse
And I fell down trying to make it to the top
So I take another, take another, take another shot
Just to bid my sorrows farewell
My life’s a spiral stairwell…yeah
Ay Mom, I think I got a drinking problem
Not just a drinking on the weekend problem
I got troubles on my mind and I don’t want to think about ‘em



[Pre-Hook]

I got lightning in a bottle yeah
Drinking like it’s no tomorrow yeah
Stay focused. Stay focused.
Motherfucker you had one job
Stay focused. Stay focused.
Got damn homie, you had one job

[Verse 2]

Whiskey makes you fight, women make you love
I love all of the above
I don’t know if I’m a lover not a fighter
Or a fighter not a lover
Come to think about it, I’m an indecisive motherfucker
But I had a 9 to 5, took whatever the would give me
I was doing all the work, the CEO he drove a Bentley
So, I quit and start rapping, motherfuckers start to feel me
But I lost my Series 7 trying to push a 7 Series
Maryland to Jersey City on the path train looking for the fast lane
So I dropped my first name and started name-dropping
That’s how you can tell that you really ain’t popping
Had a taste of the smoke and mirrors now I look at myself in a broken mirror
Life is a bitch, I can overhear her
Talking shit about me like a sober nigga
Now, I’m real real real real real
How many of y’all know how that feel?
All your rhymes on a dotted line
How many of y’all gon’ sign that deal?
Flashing lights and flashes of greatness
Buy me a bottle, bag me a waitress
I just hope I don’t get whiskey-dick from this glass full of Maker’s
I’m trying to have some relations in this bitch

[Pre-Hook]

I got lightning in a bottle yeah
Drinking like it’s no tomorrow yeah
Stay focused. Stay focused.
Motherfucker you had one job
Stay focused. Stay focused.
Got damn homie, you had one job



[Hook]

Whiskey and women
Hell of a combination
That’s one hell of a combination yeah
Whiskey and women
(Whiskey and women, Whiskey and women
Whiskey and women, Whiskey and women)

Asst Mix: Ryder Ansell for AtomEvolve.
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Whiskey & Women (Single)

Whiskey & Women

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Count On It

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"Count on It" represents the unapologetic confidence you have when you have put your work in. I love how it incorporates a childhood sample that so many of us are familiar with. That helped me keep it ambitious but not overly aggressive! The underground success of Creative Destruction 2 opened up some opportunities for me. One of those opportunities was to work with Grammy-Nominated production crew, Phatboiz. After a few sessions together, they saw my passion and started to hear my increased lyrical development. That led them to cook up this track for me. I heard it and came up with the concept and verses immediately! We laid it down one night in NYC and the energy and vibe was incredible so we knew this would be the first to release off the upcoming project entitled The Investment.

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Dunson - Count On It (Clean)

This song recounts my nearly fatal experience from last year.
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Last Breath - Single

Last Breath

I chopped this sample up a couple months back right before the Gotye/Kimbra song started to emerge on US radio. Then I started throwing 808s, hi-hats and some wild claps behind it in attempt to create an obnoxiously thumping heartbreak track. The feel and a couple glasses of Bourbon inspired me to let loose verbally on an old girlfriend! After my 2 16s were done, I reached out to a couple emcees to finish out the track with a third verse. But I ended up in the studio with Lazee while he was in the states a couple weeks ago and he jumped right on it with no hesitation! And now here we are with the 2nd single from my upcoming mixtape, The Investment which releases July 31st!

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Dunson - Used to Know Ft. Lazee

Featuring Rowlan (www.soundcloud.com/rowlan)
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Shine (feat. Rowlan)

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Dunson - Weapon

Prod. By Phatboiz
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Dunson - Blue Chip

Prod. By Phatboiz
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Dunson - Xtra Medium

Prod. By Phatboiz
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Dunson - Cross Town Lovers Ft. John Legend

Prod. By Dunson & Phatboiz
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Contains a sample of "Don't Disturb this Groove" by The System

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Dunson - Don't Disturb Ft. Mickey Factz

Prod. By Rick Hertz
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Dunson - On the Line Ft. Rocki Evans & 360

Dunson - Ode to My Microphone

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Dunson - Mayhem Ft. Natalie Imani

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