its my manic episode, i choose the music 😡

your talent for your age is so out of this world you have so much ahead of you! ty for blessing ears 

ive enjoyed your music since the mindless hyperactivity era and had a huge time where i had several depressive episodes and mental health declines where i just didnt do anything. im better now and im very glad to have come back to this kev :)).

Hey Kevin, I just wanted to let you know that even tho Ive gone through many changes in life and phases, your music has always been a constant for me. I hope thta you get the recogniztion you deserve 

You cure depression. My whole family put on their headphones and I hit play for each of them. they all cried. they downloaded soundcloud for YOU. KEVIN. YOU! THEY ARE SO DEPRESSED THAT THEY DON'T HAVE MOTIVATION TO DO ANYTHING. YOU CURED THAT.

I tried singing the song and the lyrics hit too close to home lmao

movie

movie (prod. kevinkempt)

track 1 of middle of a stage

lyrics:
I've been working several months now
To make something of your praise
I don't know why I feel so rushed now
But I'm counting down the days
I can't really put this lightly
Maybe life was made like this to spite me
But I can't praise you
Cause you're a little bit too much like me

And
No one told me all my
Idols were just faking
All of it to seem more
Super can't I-can't I
Lie? There's no perfect
Guy. How upsetting!
I would at least just
Like a guide, but

There's no guide, and I
Still wanna praise
I feel like I'm in
The middle of a stage
The middle of a stage

And all around me, there are lights
They surround me like the night
Is this real? Is this life?
Is this what purgatory's like?

No one told me all my
Idols were just faking
All of it to seem more
Super can't I-can't I
Lie? There's no perfect
Guy. How upsetting!
I would at least just
Like a guide, but

But when you come
To a conclusion like that
It's like
You feel like you're on the wrong side. You know?
Um. But yeah, that's more recent
If you want to listen to something a little more...
Dated
I got this
I made it like a month after it happened
No point in not playing it
Here

middle of a stage

track 9 of middle of a stage

lyrics:
I'm always inside of a crossfire
I hear it past my walls
There is a war between both of the ones
Who've let me live at all
Can't you see
You're my example of what love should be
Honestly, I thank you for showing me
Everything I never want to be

Well, uh
I think I got enough out of this session
I'm, um
I'm gonna go out now if that's fine
I don't know why you haven't said a word to me since you asked your initial question
But, uh, I digress
Um, alright
I'm gonna head out now
Bye. Thank you
Still nothing? No you're welcome, or
Okay, uh
I'm just gonna assume that I'm okay to walk out
And that you're not going to call me or anything
Bye

crossfire

track 10 of middle of a stage

lyrics:
They say
You're never coming back
You'll never have a dad
Refrain
I'll never give them practice
But the words hurt where they have been
Maintain
I'm sleeping on your mattress
Like I always have been
(Ignore that voice crack)
Okay 
Maybe I miss you bad
Maybe I miss you dad
Oh no

A bit after my birthday
We celebrated for
I was ready for winter
I only wanted more
I woke up to the screaming
Coming from my mom
And that's when I had realized
That something had gone wrong
Oh no

But look at me now
I'm doing so great
Even without
You
I'm making these songs 
And though not for long
It's all been without you
I kind of feel guilty
This computer you built me
I wouldn't have this without you
Sure, I did all the steering
But I wouldn't do a thing
If you never taught me all your little facts about engineering
Couldn't have done it without you

without you

you can take away my ego but you cannot take my dignity!

dignity

dignity (prod. kevinkempt)

my first released song not produced by me O: 
hope you enjoy it! wrote it about a month ago

prod. stoic productions
extra vocals by ramona abdul

instagram: kevinkempt
twitter: kevin_kempt

lyrics:
Trials and tribulations
Paint this illustration
I lost and then I gained my mind 
I have changed my placement
To a new situation
I'm leaving that old one behind

Full disclosure: I'm a sheep just like the rest of them
I simply use my writing to appear a different specimen
Penmanship has always been my way of best expression and
At this point, I'm mainly posting for rush of adrenaline
The skeletons inside my closet is a bigger threat
Little rest each night cause I can barely get my limits set
But ill still write even if nothing ever gets addressed
See a couple every day. can someone pass a cigarette?
My views change on bad habits as I get involved
Bad ideas consistently with several different men involved
Whether synthetic or ingested raw. it cluttered mind
Barely could make sense when I was seeing through those shuttered eyes
The toughest kind of contrition is recognition hittin'
I was the rat, the turncoat masking with his best intentions
Now I'm not saying I was tryna doublecross
But when I'm looking at my past, I feel I did everything wrong
I swear to god the best thing that I ever did was fall
Cause getting up was perfect. now I'm barely ever missin' calls
Life is a snake and the venom is a big withdrawal
Fortunately, you can strike back to go get them off
Imma wear myself until I gotta go  
Woke up at the time of others who set up some common goals
They don't present me right in media. I'm like a common folk
The profit goal incentive's why my ethics pass the common mold

Trials and tribulations
Paint this illustration
I lost and then I gained my mind 
I have changed my placement
To a new situation
I'm leaving that old one behind
Gone, gone, gone, gone
Growth, going, going, going
Gone
Gone, gone, gone, gone
Growth, going, going, going
Gone
Gone, gone, gone, gone
Growth, going, going, going
Gone
Gone, gone, gone, gone
Growth, going, going, going
Gone

growth

It's a fact! Lotta others bankin' on how I won't last!

the outro is the homie noelle btw tell her that u appreciate her wise words

STAGE SET

STAGE SET (prod. junktown)

longest track i've ever released. wow! soundcloud demolllisssheeed the quality. the lyric sheet is too large for this description, so if you want that, dm me or something and i'll put it on genius.

two fictitious stories (alongside mine)

the pageeee

ATTENTION!

lyrics, cover, and production by me (:

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/kevinkempt/keep-going-2

Lyrics:
Hey guys. I wanted to make a song about my emotions, the heart, and, overall, just how life's been treating me as of recent. It's just-

[Chorus]
Had to put a little wait
I just could not facilitate
The work that goes in servin'
Brand new songs on top of dinner plates
Sacrificed a little time just
At the price of fickle rhymes and
Layed them over 808s that
Break the brain and hit the spine (OKAY!)

[Verse 1]
I just pulled up in it, hard and focused like a sucker-punch
I fumble much, stumble and get made fun of as if no one does
Some of y'all too negative, sensitive, straight repetitive, and
Casual on one rope while I'm out here doing double dutch
I can make a fast song, keep the lyrics real and making sense
I can keep the passion when I've been out here just making cents
I can see the money-hungry saying that, "nobody wants me."
Meanwhile, I'm just happy that this rapping made me friends
Don't care what you said to me
Keeping my enemies
Under a bit of
A clutch
Don't try befriending me
Unless you're willing to
Act real and earn all
My trust
Switching my flows like I'm too indecisive
And can't keep one right so I act like a child and I
Throw both away in a series of rage and 
Don't get any streams cause I'm doing too much

[Chorus]
Had to put a little wait
I just could not facilitate
The work that goes in servin'
Brand new songs on top of dinner plates
Sacrificed a little time just
At the price of fickle rhymes and
Layed them over 808s that
Break the brain and hit the spine (OKAY!)

[Chorus]
Had to put a little wait
I just could not facilitate
The work that goes in servin'
Brand new songs on top of dinner plates
Sacrificed a little time just
At the price of fickle rhymes and
Layed them over 808s that
Break the brain and hit the spine (OKAY!)

[Verse 2]
Questioning the universe
I knew it'd hurt. I
Popped off in a couple minute-longs and
Then I moved to work
In those little songs, I acted
Funny cause I knew what worked
Now I'm after commas and the status of a
Music nerd. To restate I
Popped off. I know music's an
Odd job. It might not get me
Caviar. It might not get me
Foie gras. But better than a
Cop car, or stalking, drugs, and cigarettes
Luckily I figured out how to utilize internet

[Chorus]
Had to put a little wait
I just could not facilitate
The work that goes in servin'
Brand new songs on top of dinner plates
Sacrificed a little time just
At the price of fickle rhymes and
Layed them over 808s that
Break the brain and hit the spine (OKAY!)
  
[Chorus]
Had to put a little wait
I just could not facilitate
The work that goes in servin'
Brand new songs on top of dinner plates
Sacrificed a little time just
At the price of fickle rhymes and
Layed them over 808s that
Break the brain and hit the spine (OKAY!)

(A bunch of random ad-libs I did on the spot)
Now I'm done. Now I'm out.
Now I'm done. Now I'm out.
Now I'm done. Now I'm out.
Now the song's over now.
Now the song's over now.
Now the song's over now.
Now the song's over now.
Now the song's over now.

(Ah, yeah, we did it!)
(I think the song is over at this p-)
(This beat took me a whole day to make please like)
(I hate having to record in my closet. It's so annoy-)

Keep Going

KEEP GOING

BOSOZOKU

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contact: k@kevinkempt.com

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