This album is all about the many stages/experiences of love and heartbreak. Love is a complicated thing, and not even 12 tracks can comprehend it as a whole. However, this is a small slice of what it is like to love someone for the sake of avoiding the feeling of being alone.

Avoiding Alone

A Love Triangle gone wrong.
masumi plays the role of a girl who goes on a date with a boy (played by Kyori The Okapi) that she isn't really interested in. She really wants to date a different boy, whom she thinks is out of her league, but decides to go out with the 1st boy just so she can have that feeling that someone thinks she's beautiful. That boy then gets fed up and sees right through her façade, and ultimately ends the relationship, leaving the girl to be alone.

Written by Kyori The Okapi & JCMint$
Produced by JCMint$
Featuring masumi

"Backup Plan"

Backup Plan (feat. masumi) [Prod. JCMint$]

A song about being ghosted. It makes you question your worth when someone feels you don't deserve a response.
The feeling sucks.

Written by Kyori The Okapi, JCMint$ & TIFFXNY
Produced by JCMint$
Featuring TIFFXNY

Away ATM / Skyscraper - Single

Away ATM

Away ATM (feat. TIFFXNY) [Prod. JCMint$]

A song comparing love to standing on the edge of a skyscraper building. Sometimes it makes you feel scared after going through such a high. Sometimes it makes you want to jump.

Written by Kyori The Okapi & K ZARI
Produced by MIYAKICHI (ミヤキチ)
Featuring K ZARI

Skyscraper

Skyscraper (feat. K ZARI)

The album starts off the same way all romances start: in the "Talking Phase". This instrumental paints a picture of what beauties are to come. You become infatuated with the individual and already visualize an entire lifetime with them. But who knows if everything will turn out how you envisioned?

Produced by MIYAKICHI (ミヤキチ)

Talking Phase

A love letter to Little Tokyo and to the significant other you take there. Both emit so much beauty and develop such great memories that you cannot get anywhere else. The community and being in each other's arms provide such comfort and warmth that you will never wish it will end.

Written by Kyori The Okapi
Produced, Mixed & Mastered by JCMint$
Additional Vocals: Hajime Hotta

Oh My, 甘い (AMAI)

Oh My, 甘い (AMAI) [feat. Hajime Hotta]

After being single for so long, you develop feelings of insecurity. You've been dwindling your self-esteem for so long that when you finally meet someone who likes you for who you really are, it feels out-of-place. You then start self-sabotaging and doubt the validity of the relationship.

Written by Kyori The Okapi
Produced by MIYAKICHI (ミヤキチ)
Mixed & Mastered by JCMint$

No Chance

An interlude using vintage dialogue showing the confusing nature of love. Nothing has changed to this day and still no one can fully explain what love really is.

Produced by MIYAKICHI (ミヤキチ)

Whatever It Is (Skit)

Rappers have always shown how good they are at getting girls, but how much of that is true? This song is from the perspective of one of those rappers and really showcases their false sense of confidence. Trying to convince others, and even themselves, they are way smoother than they really are.

Written by Kyori The Okapi
Produced by MIYAKICHI (ミヤキチ)
Mixed & Mastered by JCMint$

二人 (FUTARI)

Spiritual successor to "Liquor Lover" off of Okapi Champloo. This song captures the feeling where bad experiences on dates or within relationships have you turn to alcohol to console. 

Written by Kyori The Okapi
Produced by MIYAKICHI (ミヤキチ)
Mixed & Mastered by JCMint$
Featured Vocals by Mooki D

Speakeasy Love (Interlude)

Speakeasy Love (Interlude) [feat. Mooki D]

Using the same sample as the intro, this song covers the strain of monotonous relationships. When you don't even feel any emotions during sex, that is when you start questioning what you value the relationship on.

Written by Kyori The Okapi
Produced by MIYAKICHI (ミヤキチ)
Mixed & Mastered by JCMint$

Overdone It

Inspired by the 1997 Studio Ghibli masterpiece, もののけ姫 (Princess Mononoke), this song explores love and how some people fall in love just to avoid the feeling of being alone. Vocals are performed from the perspectives of アシタカ (Ashitaka) and サン (San) and the instrumental serves as the landscape of the forest.

Written by Kyori The Okapi
Produced by MIYAKICHI (ミヤキチ)
Mixed & Mastered by JCMint$
Featured Vocals by masumi

MONONOKE

MONONOKE (feat. masumi)

After you have broken up with your significant other, there are feelings of nostalgia for the good times that you had together. Not everything was bad, but it just didn't work out. This final song expresses the feeling we are all trying to avoid: being alone.

Written by Kyori The Okapi
Produced by MIYAKICHI (ミヤキチ)
Mixed & Mastered by JCMint$

Lost Ya

AKA:
-Da Funky Okapi🎌
-@MIYAKICHI (ミヤキチ)
-Killah Kyori

Just your typical K-Rapper but actually Japanese.
Hip-hop artist, songwriter, producer, and mediocre Super Smash Bros. Melee player.

Email yellowkyori@gmail.com or DM on Instagram (@KyoriTheOkapi) for collabs/inquiries.