My Favorite Raps by Me

Rap paying homage to my little brother, Jeremy Wolkov, who passed away in 2020.

The Ghost Of Jeremy Wolkov

A rap that I made for LinkedIn's WomenConnect Conference 2023 where I hosted a panel.

Going AWOL

AllyMegaYacht

It's my constant condition. 🤷‍♀️

A rap celebrating the 12th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) featuring Coop.

Visit http://accessibility.day to help raise awareness of digital accessibility!!! ❤️
100% of the Writer's royalties (not the Producer's) from this track go to the GAAD Foundation (https://gaad.foundation).

This was also released on Jam.ai as "AWOL's Rap Up!" #4.

Open Source Raps!

Accessibility Daze (featuring Coop)

"22 Two's" is one of my favorite Jay-Z songs and "44 Four's" is no less incredible.  I love super in-depth wordplay like this, so I wanted to put my own spin on it.  

Here's my take on "44 Four's" (count 'em!) which I took a step further by doing 44 bars (of 4 beats each, of course) and making the track exactly 2:22:2 long.

Hit me up, Roc Nation.

44 Four's

A rap to celebrate LinkedIn's Code[in] program, a tech interview workshop for prospective college interns.

Follow me on LinkedIn to see the next session (http://me.awolraps.com) or see an old session here: https://youtu.be/HCbGCueR6Bg

Original beat: https://soundcloud.com/user-532133910/back-from-holidays

Codin' Code[in]

Codin' Code[in] (produced by sharp)

Just me being myself: dirty and nerdy.

Beat: https://soundcloud.com/jester-448067962/get-up-its-friday-93-bpm

Dirty Nerdy Freestyle

Dirty Nerdy Freestyle (produced by JesTer)

One other promotional rap for LinkedIn's IC Career Development Week 2023.  This one is about learning the Rust programming language, something I've been doing and one of the series of workshops we're offering.

Beat: https://soundcloud.com/jester-448067962/yeah-yeah

Iron Oxide

Iron Oxide - ICCDW23 Promo #2 (produced by JesTer)

A verbal portrait of the back-and-forth dance between hackers and defenders in the digital realm.


Featuring raystanz (@user-193416074 - https://linktr.ee/raystanz)
Mixed by (@pairadyce - https://open.spotify.com/artist/7w7R1cRSjv60v3z1XFk1yc)

Video: https://youtu.be/5qrYtfn-1H0

Arms Race

Arms Race (featuring raystanz)

@padawanjesus and I embracing what makes us ourselves.

Mixed by (@pairadyce - https://open.spotify.com/artist/7w7R1cRSjv60v3z1XFk1yc)

Weird

Weird (featuring Padawan Jesus)

AWOL and tossico paint a musical picture of life's struggles, dreams, and the unyielding pursuit of what success means to them.

Featuring tossico (https://open.spotify.com/artist/13hc8zKMdTDC8QCxtTPeJn?si=w11sMKyAQrWwvuX0pG3Dow)
Mixed by @pairadyce - (https://open.spotify.com/artist/7w7R1cRSjv60v3z1XFk1yc)

Success

Success (featuring tossico)

A cypher track I did awhile ago that I'm not cleared to use the beat for yet.  I wanted to throw this verse out there for feedback though, so when offered a beat to spit on...

Beat by Hazy Dayz

Nerdiest Cypher Rapper

Nerdiest Cypher Rapper (produced by Hazy Dayz)

Just having a little fun on a super fun beat.  

Rapper/Engineer/Entrepreneur.  Yea, that's me.  Slashes galore.

Beat: https://soundcloud.com/jester-448067962/freestyle-friday-back-at-it-hip-hop-instrumental

Slash Freestyle

Slash Freestyle (produced by JesTer)

AWOL and raystanz capture the struggle of maintaining a healthy work-life balance in the modern world; a reflection of the overwhelming reality of many of us who work long hours and sacrifice their personal time with family and friends for their career.

Featuring raystanz (@user-193416074 - https://linktr.ee/raystanz)
Mixed by (@pairadyce - https://open.spotify.com/artist/7w7R1cRSjv60v3z1XFk1yc)

No Days Off

No Days Off (featuring raystanz)

This song is told from the point of view of the "king", the grandmaster on the chessboard of life, rap, and of course, chess.  This isn’t just a song, this is a three-dimensional game of lyrical chess where the King always is two moves away from checkmate.

Created for Reddit's r/makinghiphop Biweekly Cypher contest with this beat and the theme "Punchline King" (triple entendre).

Original Beat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frv8Ba-toYo

Checkmate

Checkmate (produced by Turbo9)

I've been told so many times that my raps are "robotic" that I decided to stop trying to fight it and finally just lean into it.

Beat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef_1-fozhQI

Robotic Rapper

Robotic Rapper (produced by E.D.I.)

A song about all the travel I do for work and how much I miss my family when I do so.  It literally feels like I'm never coming back sometimes...

Beat: https://soundcloud.com/ghostrampoline/lff23-silent-but-doghouse

One-Way

One-Way (produced by Ghosts on a Trampoline)

Paying homage to the Oxford comma.  Just use it... or your girlfriend will dump you.

Original beat: https://soundcloud.com/jester-448067962/they-not-monsters

Comman Sense

Comman Sense (produced by JesTer)

Just a couple of normal guys that like to hop on the mic and rap over beats.

Featuring DJB: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4ugL9MqHTLfu37tZ8ArfjL
Mixed by Pair-a-Dyce: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7w7R1cRSjv60v3z1XFk1yc (@pairadyce)

Part-Time Rappers

Part-Time Rappers (featuring DJB)

My Bot > Your Bot

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNGLlChbMzE
Mixed by Pair-a-Dyce: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7w7R1cRSjv60v3z1XFk1yc (@pairadyce)

My Bot

I work at LinkedIn and like to make raps about engineering, leadership, and related topics.