Lurk (a lot) was released as a series of singles every third Wednesday of August 2023 through March 2024.

During quarantine I gave too much of myself to a relationship, and lost touch with my support systems and even my own identity and worldview. The album is about reconstructing your life and self-conception from the ground up after everything comes crashing down. It's a sequential story of isolation, rumination, disorientation, self-reflection, self-love, tranquility, and gradual healing. I'm grateful that I again know myself and enjoy my own company.

Stream Lurk (a lot): https://milespowers.fanlink.tv/lurkalot

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Produced by Masked Man, pilotkid, engless, Noizy, Stoic, Urban Nerd, and Emani
Featuring Lorelai Waka, teeawgo, and planet girl
Mixed and mastered by Miles Powers

SPOTIFY etc.

Lurk (a lot)

JIPPY'S IN MY CITY

🎶my homie hit me up like bro I’d like to know the sober you🎶

Featuring: soundcloud.com/jalentyree

Produced by: soundcloud.com/jippy_dude

Lyrics: genius.com/miles-powers-jippys-in-my-city-lyrics

Jippy's In My City (feat. Jalen Tyree)

Remix of Lay Low by Snoop Dogg with Nate Dogg and produced by Dr. Dre

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Like, like, like like like, like what’s up
I got some shit to make you tweak and start a beef with your plug
I got a reason not to leave here ‘bout to breathe in a puff
I got the key to glidin’ free you’ll feel the breeze ‘fore you done, yeah
Hol’ up, follow me deeper into the sofa
Four bucks down on the dope, we ‘bout to smoke up
You get a hit, and you get a hit, like Oprah, full lungs, uh
Post up, let the high strike you like a cobra

For the nigga who be talking loud and holding his dick
Talking shit, he better lay low
For the bitch that said I shot some shit up out of my dick
Now she sick, she better lay low
For the niggas who be claiming my hood
And really ain't from my gang, better lay low
I hope he don't be thinking I'm just talking
And I won't do a thing, really hope so!

You from the School of So-Called Hard Knocks, Orphan Annie
Oh god, all talk, talk big, go for Grammys
I’ll cold clock motherfuckers, no one dare me
I know this game like Timmy and Tommy Nook know the Cranny
I know this game like Ocarina speedrunners
Yeah homie we run this, so tell ‘em keep comin’
Where’s your horse in this race? Where’s your dog in this fight?
Talk it like you finna walk it but you bark with no bite, aight?
I can’t be Method but I might be RZA
Pour my brew quick, watch that light foam fizz up
It’s Fight Club fists up, come and bring the ruckus
If your mic skills is up, I’m like Dave Fizdale
Fuck data, they stuck on the last trend
I’ma update ‘em, don’t know where the passion went, but
I don’t ever coax it out, I don’t ever force shit now
Take another mortgage out and, go and ride your Porsche around

Like, like, like like like, like what’s up
I got some shit to make you tweak and start a beef with your plug
I got a reason not to leave here ‘bout to breathe in a puff
I got the key to glidin’ free you’ll feel the breeze ‘fore you done, yeah
Hol’ up, follow me deeper into the sofa
Four bucks down on the dope, we ‘bout to smoke up
You get a hit, and you get a hit, like Oprah, full lungs, uh
Post up, let the high strike you like a cobra

For the nigga who be talking loud and holding his dick
Talking shit, he better lay low
For the bitch that said I shot some shit up out of my dick
Now she sick, she better lay low
For the niggas who be claiming my hood
And really ain't from my gang, better lay low
I hope he don't be thinking I'm just talking
And I won't do a thing, really hope so!

The Jippy Tape

Lay Very Low (feat. Nate Dogg)

THE JIPPY TAPE

My first project in almost a year. Cozy, playful, smooth, bittersweet. So happy to share this side of myself with yall, & excited to show other sides soon. 💞

1. Puddle Paddle Battle
2. Ratatouille feat. soundcloud.com/love-sadkid
3. Jippy's In My City feat. soundcloud.com/jalentyree
4. Everyone & Anyone feat. soundcloud.com/marcindigo

Produced by: soundcloud.com/jippy_dude

Lyrics: genius.com/albums/miles-powers/the-jippy-tape

EIGHTY YEARS

🎶ayo the devil's got a brand new dress, right? and I don't dare to tell a person what they oughta wear🎶

Featuring: https://soundcloud.com/whyandotte

Produced by: https://soundcloud.com/brzebeats

Lyrics: genius.com/miles-powers-eighty-years-lyrics

Eighty Years (feat. Whyandotte)

A Lot To Ask with https://soundcloud.com/noeldac

🎶it’s just work, work, work, and it’s death and it’s rent on the third or first🎶

Produced by: https://soundcloud.com/dallascooper

Mixed & mastered by: https://soundcloud.com/atwood

Artwork by: https://soundcloud.com/rosarrie

Lyrics: https://genius.com/miles-powers-and-ryce-a-lot-to-ask-lyrics

A Lot To Ask

BASTARDIZED

🎶make the league then break my knees like I'm Oden🎶

Produced by: https://soundcloud.com/dartizt

Artwork by: https://soundcloud.com/wetdaytimetable

Lyrics: https://genius.com/miles-powers-bastardized-lyrics

Bastardized

SAVE 1 LIGHT 1

🎶livin' by the precipice I'm 'bout to fall in🎶

Produced by: https://soundcloud.com/dartizt

Artwork by: https://soundcloud.com/wetdaytimetable

Lyrics: https://genius.com/miles-powers-save-1-light-1-lyrics

Save 1 Light 1

D.M.T. are Dahm., Miles Powers, and teeawgo

https://soundcloud.com/dahm-the-rapper
https://soundcloud.com/milespowers
https://soundcloud.com/teeawgo

🎶why your dogs play dead when I come around?🎶

Produced by: https://soundcloud.com/whyandotte

Lyrics: https://genius.com/dmt-play-dead-lyrics

PLAY DEAD

D.M.T. are Dahm., Miles Powers, and teeawgo

https://soundcloud.com/dahm-the-rapper
https://soundcloud.com/milespowers
https://soundcloud.com/teeawgo

🎶life's a EXP farm and I'm Old Mac🎶

Featuring: https://soundcloud.com/atwood

Produced by: https://soundcloud.com/whyandotte

Lyrics: https://genius.com/dmt-old-mac-lyrics

OLD MAC (feat. Atwood)

The first in a series of related singles; Miles is releasing music every third Wednesday for a year.

Stream For The Summer: https://milespowers.fanlink.tv/forthesummer

With soundcloud.com/teeawgo
Produced by https://soundcloud.com/masked-man-peace
Mix and master by soundcloud.com/milespowers

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Miles-powers-for-the-summer-lyrics

for the summer

The second in a series of related singles; Miles is releasing music every third Wednesday for a year.

Stream Mind My Business: https://milespowers.fanlink.tv/mindmybusiness

Official Music Video: https://youtu.be/hkmq4v9IEs0

Produced by https://soundcloud.com/masked-man-peace
Mix and master by https://soundcloud.com/milespowers

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Miles-powers-mind-my-business-lyrics

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Mind My Business is a love song that captures the nuance of the ostensibly-contradictory emotions we hold simultaneously: love and hate, fear and familiarity, pain and numbness, acceptance and resistance. The hook expresses a want for reconciliation and commitment, while the verses tell a story of isolation, self-loathing, exasperation, loss, and disconnect, all the while laughing at the truth and divine absurdity of it all.

Ultimately, the only constants are uncertainty and our own inner voice.

mind my business

The third in a series of related singles; Miles is releasing music every third Wednesday for a year.

Stream In A Room With God: https://milespowers.fanlink.tv/inaroomwithgod

Produced by https://soundcloud.com/masked-man-peace
Mix and master by https://soundcloud.com/milespowers

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Miles-powers-in-a-room-with-god-lyrics

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The title and lyrics of In A Room With God refer to the presence we feel when alone; some call it consciousness or God. Even in moments of intense dissociative loneliness, we can’t escape the detached voice of self-talk that either drives us deeper into sadness or grounds us in the neutrality of a reality outside ourselves. The world is lovingly indifferent.

If ego is killing you, let go of the ego. If love is killing you, let go of the attachment.

in a room with god

The fourth in a series of related singles; Miles is releasing music every third Wednesday for a year.

Stream Stuck In My Ways: https://milespowers.fanlink.tv/stuckinmyways

Produced by https://www.youtube.com/@engless
Mix and master by https://soundcloud.com/milespowers

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Miles-powers-stuck-in-my-ways-lyrics

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Stuck In My Ways explores the dichotomy between the importance we assign our dreams and their relative unimportance outside of the contexts we imagine for them. A one-track mind can beget a narrow routine and overall perspective of life, and it’s rewarding to poke fun at the arrogance and earnesty of creative (or egocentric) ambitions.

The deeper I dig, the more I laugh at myself, yet such moments of revelation never deter the dream.

stuck in my ways

The sixth in a series of related singles; Miles is releasing music every third Wednesday for a year.

Stream At My Expense: https://milespowers.fanlink.tv/atmyexpense

With https://soundcloud.com/plnetgirl
Produced by https://www.youtube.com/@UrbanNerdBeats
Mix and master by https://soundcloud.com/milespowers

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Miles-powers-at-my-expense-lyrics

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At My Expense is a love song about abandonment and accepting the limitations of what a romantic partnership can offer. A partner cannot transcend your life or relationship with yourself, nor can they take your inherent beauty and power from you. When we experience loss, the void is overwhelming, but the fullness of our inner and outer worlds will always return with time and allowance.

I'll live to live it again, and give and give till I can't.

at my expense

The eighth in a series of related singles; Miles is releasing music every third Wednesday for a year.

Stream Lurkalot: https://milespowers.fanlink.tv/lurkalot

Produced by https://www.youtube.com/@BeatsByEmani
Additional vocals by PC Pete
Mix and master by https://soundcloud.com/milespowers

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Miles-powers-lurkalot-lyrics

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Lurkalot /lərk·ə·lät/ Noun/verb: one who lurks frequently; to lurk frequently. "Tell me by the look of me, does it look like I lurkalot?"

lurkalot

The ninth in a series of related singles; Miles is releasing music every third Wednesday for a year.

Stream Freeeee: https://milespowers.fanlink.tv/lurkalot

With https://soundcloud.com/user-824907988
Produced by https://www.youtube.com/@pilotbouttofly
Mix and master by https://soundcloud.com/milespowers

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Miles-powers-freeeee-lyrics

freeeee

I Don't Love You with https://soundcloud.com/love-sadkid & https://soundcloud.com/erameld

Stream: https://milespowers.fanlink.tv/idontloveyou

Produced, mixed & mastered by https://soundcloud.com/erameld
Additional vocals by https://soundcloud.com/emfarrah
Cover art by https://soundcloud.com/rosarrie

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Miles-powers-i-dont-love-you-lyrics

I Don't Love You

Reductive prod. https://soundcloud.com/quincy-851222960

Stream: https://milespowers.fanlink.tv/reductive

Featuring https://soundcloud.com/crittersbythewindow 
Mixed & mastered by https://soundcloud.com/milespowers
Cover art by https://soundcloud.com/milespowers

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Miles-powers-reductive-lyrics

Reductive (feat. Malik Elijah)

Official Music Video: https://youtu.be/LqJbxN2aPvQ

Stream Won’t Love Myself: https://milespowers.fanlink.tv/wontlovemyself

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Miles-powers-wont-love-myself-lyrics?react=1

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There’s a false sense of peace and nobility in abandoning the self to serve others. It’s taken a long time to realize because my love for others is deep and genuine. I give love and trust freely, but never reserve the same care and compassion for myself. Taking care of others is second nature. Taking care of myself has always been an arduous process of reluctant trial and error. I can admit now that I have the same human wants and needs as everyone else.

In a world full of conditional love, learn to love yourself unconditionally.

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Lyrics, performance, mix, master, and editing by Miles Powers
https://www.instagram.com/milespowers56/
https://twitter.com/milespowers56
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0dup3BkuQzOH9sH7DQguRX?si=0HibcDzzTbiwdZIR9CRSjw

Production by noizy
https://www.youtube.com/@noizybeats

Additional production by Whyandotte
https://www.instagram.com/whyandotte/
https://twitter.com/Whyandotte
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4gcZCI9WbadfqYW5jl2RL1?si=RbR0xWxxQvuqi7nrHjMCug

MUSIC VIDEO

Won't Love Myself

How High? by @milespowers & @davevvvv

Listen: https://linktr.ee/milespowers

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Miles-powers-how-high-lyrics

AHWAB

Vocals by @milespowers
Production by @davevvvv
Featuring @kyaruok
Mix/mastered by @milespowers

How High? (feat. Kyaru)

Choices Choices... by @milespowers & @davevvvv

Listen: https://linktr.ee/milespowers

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Miles-powers-choices-choices-lyrics

AHWAB

Vocals by @milespowers
Production by @davevvvv
Mix/mastered by @milespowers

Choices Choices...

Downhill by @milespowers & @davevvvv

Listen: https://linktr.ee/milespowers

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Miles-powers-downhill-lyrics

AHWAB

Vocals by @milespowers & @stripeluca & Kofi
Production by @davevvvv
Mix/mastered by @milespowers

Downhill (feat. STRIPE & Kofi)

Stream Biscoff: https://linktr.ee/milespowers
Official Music Video: https://youtu.be/N6HHn0b2O9E?si=wri6XJLJC-c1iMqJ
Lyrics: https://genius.com/Miles-powers-biscoff-lyrics

Lyrics, performance, mix and master by Miles Powers
Produced by Noizy
Music Video Directed by Louis Llewellyn
Music Video Cinematography Jonny Mancini

Biscoff

Featuring: https://soundcloud.com/cloudmacx & PC Pete

Produced by: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkPE_gRazT9nG4nHBMb5dQA

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[HOOK - Miles Powers & PC Pete]
Relax your muscles this distraction’s just a couple minutes
In fact I think you're fucked right after ‘cause it's back to business
So let's sit back and crack a pack of six to blur your vision
And rap with acid flows I'm askin’ if they even listen


[VERSE 1 - PC Pete]
I seen better days, better blaze in a daze
How I stay when I get away, least I got bowl
And I ate off a dinner plate, you know they say
It’s the little things, have a drink gotta

Celebrate, little rock out the cellophane
Little talk bout some little things, t ain't rained
In a month imma go insane, little blunt fuck it make it big
Cause it’s love but you know that

Love’s always taking hits, hits out the blunt
Getting vapor lit lit for a month outta paper shit
Shit I been drunk since a baby kid
Bitch say it’s love but my baby left, fifth fifth of the 

Month I’m just breaking in my liver live it up while you living
I give a fuck if you wit it I’m tryna make it big
No I’m not, I’m just tryna find my fucking wallet
While I’m dodging cops, how many xanny in my

Pocket bitch I done forgot, how many xannys are you
Popping just to stop the thoughts, bout a boatload!!
I see the waves crashing in hope you float bro
How many ways can you fuck ask my coke hoes

Dope nose froze in the snow living so cold
D LO in the know I love no hoe
I’m a wolf in a wolves clothes
On the roof burning woods slow.. but I bet I’m in a

Wool sweater letterman, getting head again
Damn she let him in? Duh bitch I’m a motherfucking
Veteran, with a head full of sedatives
And it is what I said it is

[HOOK - Miles Powers & PC Pete]

[VERSE 2 - Miles Powers]
Ten till three CD in the works, read read
Too far in the words if it all works fuck it
I ain't dream dream dream nothing
I ain't sleep sleep I ain't need this

Knee deep on the creep creep man I bleed this
All too conceited, crawlin depleted solve with a
Call from the homies, rhymes from the dome piece
Lying if I don't say I don't need nothin

Lines in row get the blow insufflate
I ain't bluffin way to far sufferin’
Puffin this J and I'm Kool-Aid sippin
Bluray rippin’ I be too far trippin

Large roots, 'bove ground, when I come round
Leave em dumbfound, as a gun sound
In the white suburbs, write with the sight of a love bird
Write with the depth of a sunburn, ay

Tryna fit it get it all in one word, ay
I admit it all in one verse, ay
One song too long move along it's a new day
Gotta spit a new way… 

Ain't yall trouble man better prove then
Eight ball couple grams get it movin
Involved in a plan of improvement
Ain't solve with a trance but it's soothin’

[HOOK - Miles Powers & PC Pete]

[VERSE 3 - Cloud Mac]
I was born in the black light
Never looking back, never gonna think twice
I’m nice on the mic when I describe right 
Pull into the fight like “yo”

But sometimes I struggle to write it all up
The brain comes in with the Yip Man block, yea
The hands move around and around on the clock, 
The plans break down, down, down in the spot

And everybody needs a little help sometimes,
Sometimes, I like to
Get a little jolly and puff some pines,
Some pines, some pines

And if that don’t work then I’ll try something else
TV on silent the image just melts
Black and white romance until it is felt
Attacking my trance up until it dispels

And when that don’t work I go out with my friends
Do something stupid that we can’t defend
Depends, we got the time to spend.
I got some lies that I will spread

And after it all I go back to my house
Get to my mic and then get it all out
Back to business got to get all this clout
Yea, you just learned all ‘bout the cloud.

[HOOK X 2 - Miles Powers & PC Pete]

Back to Business (feat. Cloud Mac & PC Pete)

Featuring: https://soundcloud.com/teeawgo

Produced by: https://soundcloud.com/oghost

Lyrics: https://genius.com/miles-powers-i-bend-words-lyrics

I Bend Words (feat. teeawgo)

Produced by: Ace Hashimoto & https://soundcloud.com/jippy_dude

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I’m fit for sellin' these, committing felonies
Oh shit I’m caught, all for naught, let me dwell in peace
Rather be free, makin tracks for the fuck of it
Yall like feces, hella wack imma flush it quick
Cords twisted round my feet, bored with this sound I breed
Tortoise on the streets but a Taurus under sheets
No thesaurus on the beat, I’m recordin' what I see
The Lorax in this story see the forest for the trees
Rolled outta bed, checked the modem for the password
Late-stage capitalism, now what that ass worth
Back page obituaries bitch I rarely mask hurt
Very very urgent like I’m burgeonin' my last words
My past blurs... future is lookin distant
Searchin' for my kind I’m an urchin and a misfit
Can’t sit still, I’m sick as Samsa feel
If I’m showin' up, sure enough the answers will, yeah

...

Autocratic got a hearta stone, been holdin' on, never hold it back
Own aesthetic I’m sorta etiquette lackin' lashin' out drone attack
Peace love positivity, ya positively ain’t done shit for me
Speak in specificity ‘specially when I straight spit to beats
You ain’t tryna be a part of history? Well that’s ok with me dog
I’m rather faded, glad you hatin' what you mad at me fo?
My placid cadence had to say this: what you got on milo?
Nada, yada yada yall be talking what you bout to be doe?
We don’t play around hoe we bring it funkadelic
Harvest it master it package it then we sell it
It sells itself if you let it, I’m selfish helpin' for credit
And tell myself that I’m selfless, I guess delusion embedded
Spend the summer in Sonoma county, yeah middle Cali
Dilly-dallyin’ when I’m in your town, I’m down to incite a rally
Sanders for pessimists, yeah the senate ain't reppin' us
Take a loan on your loan, well that’s just a load on the deficit see
We livin' up in the worst spot, but tryna make the best of it
Findin' lessons in the mess and then relay the messages
We livin' up in the worst spot, but tryna make the best of it
Findin' lessons in the mess and then relay the messages

The Lorax

Featuring: https://soundcloud.com/dahm-the-rapper

Produced by: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCmALFiN1N9fgjnzghEXzjg

Lyrics: https://genius.com/miles-powers-i-take-a-pill-lyrics

I Take a Pill (feat. Dahm.)

Featuring: https://soundcloud.com/kidaprilart & https://soundcloud.com/deadchemist

Lead guitarist and drummer: https://soundcloud.com/user-908683638 

Lyrics: https://genius.com/miles-powers-back-to-business-lyrics

Back to Business (feat. Kid April & Dead Chemist)

My 10th and final single of 2020

Featuring: https://soundcloud.com/theeli-noir

Produced by: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC49FA2kmxoGrZcTmVbC99WQ

Lyrics: https://genius.com/miles-powers-asocial-lyrics

Asocial (feat. Eli Noir)

Track two of "Make Way For Goodbyes" with @cloudmacx

Produced by: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Vp1dmUggC1Xq0pol5QY1w

Lyrics: https://genius.com/cloud-mac-and-miles-powers-eat-my-soul-lyrics

Eat My Soul

Track four of "Make Way For Goodbyes" with @cloudmacx

Produced by: Noden via www.youtube.com/channel/UCG94rpZEA7WG1eN_UC8GsDA

Lyrics: genius.com/cloud-mac-and-miles-powers-close-tonight-lyrics

Close Tonight

Track eight of "Make Way For Goodbyes" with @cloudmacx

Produced by: https://soundcloud.com/erameld & https://soundcloud.com/kiedo-odiek

Lyrics: https://genius.com/cloud-mac-and-miles-powers-selective-memory-lyrics

Selective Memory

Track five of "Make Way For Goodbyes" with @cloudmacx

Produced by: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCelSwHR7FvBaGhjDbmYO-tA

Lyrics: https://genius.com/cloud-mac-and-miles-powers-yes-man-lyrics

Yes Man

Track one of "Make Way For Goodbyes" with @cloudmacx

Produced by: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCagmNQxlbN62BJv5b6dF8VA

Lyrics: https://genius.com/cloud-mac-and-miles-powers-ibywiwfd-lyrics

IBYWIWFD

Hailing from Portland, Oregon, Miles began making music in 2016. In 2018 they became a founding member of punk-rock-inspired internet rap group @staydeadboys, and began their solo career in earnest in 2020.

Miles’ music reflects and embraces the contradictions of life and identity, of confidence and humility, of autonomy and limit, of humor and even joy in sadness. When we befriend our pain it dissipates. When we share our parallel journeys from a place of authenticity and ownership, vulnerability is a strength. Art is a spiritual practice that can be as serious or as lightweight as the moment calls for.

Miles is working on their debut album.

In their early teens Miles memorized an encyclopedia of lyrics while falling in love with the writing, craft, and conviction of artists like Big L, Rakim, and Ms. Lauryn Hill. Like many contemporaries (such as JID and Sylvan LaCue), Miles’ work centers on interpreting the spirit and sensibilities of an earlier generation of hip-hop through the lenses of modern aesthetics and of their own life and experiences.

Miles Powers

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