A collection of old drafts that didn't get released for various reasons - from clearance issues, to beat licensing, to "I hate this shit now"

Rough Drafts

Unfinished opening track to the project I was gonna drop in 2015

Losing My Mind [circa 2015]

#FuckIt [Circa 2012]

A cover of "November 18th" by Drake.

I changed it to "November 12th" cus that's my birthday.

November 12th [circa 2011]

SWAGTALK [circa 2013]

Produced by J Dilla. This is one of my favorite things.

This concept was inspired by Marz the Superior, an upcoming rapper from New Orleans who I was cordial with back in the day. He and his posse waxed over this on his album 'Rise & Downfall', there version was called "Real Fine".

I enlisted the help of my friend Keymahnee, who's easily one of my favorite rappers (and one of the best I've ever heard in my life). I love working with him too, our on-record chemistry is always lit af. He really blesses songs.

friENDs (feat. keym∆hnee) [circa 2014]

A long freestyle. Intended for the 2015 followup to my deeply memoiristic 2014 project "...", "Van Gogh" was a favorite of mine. Though never making it to a finished recording it has been performed live.

"Must Be Love" is one of my favorite songs ever.

Van Gogh (ROUGH) [circa 2014]

"Is It Love" is a draft I made years ago to a beat I found on YouTube.  Me and my good friend Curzon locked in in February of 2018 to work on his valentine's day EP. After a day in the studio that graduated into our collab VDay project 😂

the only song that saw the light of day was "North Pole". The infamous "Hey Mama" is waiting in the wings to be actually written and recorded.

Is It Love? (with Curzon) [circa 2018]

I had never heard "Drip from My Walk" but some viral Facebook guy covered it and named it "Fuck the Water Give her Henny" I thought it was hilarious. So I played around with it.

IsSheThirsty? [circa 2018]

First time I heard "Homebody" I was at my friend's graduation party. Soon as it came on I was enraptured. "I love this", I said shocked as I tend to hate mainstream everything.

I liked it so much I conjured a lil something to it.

Homebody (ROUGH) [circa 2019]

Produced by me. Started out as a remix of "Feelin' It" by JAY Z.

Then I was like "This too hard not to spit on". So I spat on it.

FEELS [circa 2016]

Olde. [circa 2015]

A cover of "Hotline Bling" blending Drake and Erykah's versions

Hotline Bling [circa 2016]

The basic premise of this song was to say conscious shit, on the decidedly "vapid" sonics of 2016. People were hating on trap rap and Lil Yachty-style pure fun hip hop, so I figured I'd turn those criticisms on their head by making something of "substance" that sounded like that.

A personal favorite of mine. Produced by Bryan Infelize, with Additional Production by Te'von (me). Samples "Life Round Here" by James Blake.

Rough Drafts

Te'von: The Apostrophe