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)

ESCROW

FEAT.
soundcloud.com/supimholmes

🎶Powers got schemes like Doctor Evil, I stay in caves and don't talk to people🎶

PRODUCED BY: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV2yy8-_-lsXEGvSC2GuahQ

LYRICS: https://genius.com/miles-powers-escrow-lyrics

ESCROW (feat. Mike Holmes)

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)

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

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 w/ RYCE

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

🎶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)

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

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

🎶come to Brasil if you real mafucka🎶

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

Lyrics: https://genius.com/dmt-brazil-lyrics

BRAZIL

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

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

🎶by comparison the only time I ever fail🎶

Produced by: https://soundcloud.com/aebeats23

Lyrics: https://genius.com/dmt-center-field-lyrics

CENTER FIELD

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 w/ teeawgo

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

Stream Do It For Me: https://milespowers.fanlink.tv/doitforme

Produced by https://www.youtube.com/@stoic_ & https://www.youtube.com/@bardobeats
Mix and master by https://soundcloud.com/milespowers

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Miles-powers-do-it-for-me-lyrics

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Do It For Me is a song about losing touch with your creative essence and impulse. Caring too much what others think is a dangerous game. The “rational” side of the brain helps refine and plan and promote a song, but creativity doesn’t reside on the rational side. To sell your work as an artist often requires intense compartmentalization, both functionally and emotionally.

If you want to reach your creative potential, give up trying to engineer your life and creativity.

do it for me

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

Stream Same Old Patterns: https://milespowers.fanlink.tv/sameoldpatterns

Produced by https://www.youtube.com/@noisesoul
Additional vocals by https://soundcloud.com/emfarrah
Mix and master by https://soundcloud.com/milespowers

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Miles-powers-same-old-patterns-lyrics

same old patterns

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 w/ lorelai waka

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 w/ love-sadKID & Erameld

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)

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

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[HOOK X 2]
Living in the moment
Sip it or we roll it
Ain’t no need to tape this
That ain’t what escape is
Living in the moment..
Yea
Living in the moment..
Yea

[VERSE]
Living in the moment
Living with vices
Ain’t it the nicest
Talkin bout prices
I couldn’t afford my raps put a foot in the door
Could there be more to this
A new way to slaughter this
All amiss in my mind so benign
Yea I’m numb as shit
Got me thinkin that I’m dumb as shit
That I don’t exist
Then I sit down take a sip
In the abyss again
Cognitive dissonance
That syringe better not be ya end
Hope it’s not mine only ever smoked 10
MGs of the H
And at these rates?
I’m at ease my fate
Shit it’s too late
Ate mollies to wake
Xannies to snooze
The damage is due
I vanish and I manage on cue
Hopeless dude can’t help myself
Can’t check my health
Can only talk of necklace wealth
Helter skelter belt around her arm
And it felt so wrong let me help through song don’t
(Listen to the verse, listen to the chorus
Visualize the worst while you pour this)
Drink for thought
I over-drink over-think over-sink
Puke look like letters and ink
Tethered and linked
I rather said I’d better my ways
I sat in a daze
And labored in my laze for days
As to Bs and Bs to Cs
Cs to Ds
At least the trees for now will cease malise
Malaise I mean I trace my fiend-ish tendencies
And end em where my pen will lead

[BRIDGE X 2]
Livin in the past that ain’t no better
Livin in the now I’m go getter
Livin for tomorro never hit the lotto
Live for now mottos
Keep me from the sorrow

[HOOK X 2]

Living in the Moment

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.)

Produced by: ?

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Ready to die, better my mind or sink, shit I think I'm swimming
Women that got that wider end I let ‘em in and when it's
Getting hot and heavy, ready with a heart of Henny
Hard to spend a penny now I'm bummy broke, yeah I wish it was a joke
Inertia got me woke, bitch I'm merciless, you know?
And yo but the beat don't slow for falters as I’m crawling on regardless 
Call this art, call this shit, as I walk I run I trip
I get to sparkin' on this spliff and then to talking with your bitch
And then she went with the flow, no consideration or debating
I'm so degrading of these women like some acid rain on a rooftop
My wifey got tubes tied, new life they give two tries apparently
Peep the errant deeds, blaring beats
Aux cord bogart, lock-picking fickle motherfucker
I got no heart, at odds with the whole lot
Lossless like FLAC rendering no back bendin’ man 
I do this for myself

Latency, on your way from A to B
Be patient please, just take a seat
I place a seed, then I wait and see
What happens with some time and space to breath
Latency, on your way from A to B
Be patient please, just take a seat
I place a seed, then I wait and see
What happens with some time and space to breath

A little bit selfish ain’t so considerate trust me I know
A little bit helpless, little bit hopeless, hope I find focus
What can I say, man? This poetry to me, the beat the only thing I need
I eat it whole yea even when I’m full
And lull ‘em all to sleep, then, slap ‘em back awake
I'll be back awhile, pass the Black & Mild, yeah we packin’ haze
Rap for days, chasin’ Jameson with a beer
No fear, yeah, yeah, what’s your name again honey dear?

Rolled twenty-dollar bills, so funny till it’s too real
Then to kill the time and the mind state I do chill
For quite too long, guilt be weighing heavy
Yeah this night too long and the white too strong
So I write two songs, adjust for latency
Never hasten these words though they chase me
I’m caught up in the feedback, it can phase me
I put my heart in each track, it delays me

Latency, on your way from A to B
Be patient please, just take a seat
I place a seed, then I wait and see
What happens with some time and space to breath
Latency, on your way from A to B
Be patient please, just take a seat
I place a seed, then I wait and see
What happens with some time and space to breath

Relax your mind, you need space to breath, yeah
(You need space to breath)
Relax your mind, you need space to breath, yeah
(You need space to breath)
Relax your mind, you need space to breath, yeah
(You need space to breath)
Relax your mind

Full five-song EP

Latency

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 2nd single of 2020

Featuring: https://soundcloud.com/kyaruok

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

Lyrics: https://genius.com/miles-powers-scared-of-what-i-dont-know-lyrics

Scared of What I Don't Know (feat. Kyaru)

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

Miles has been recognized by fans and artists alike for their assertive, agile delivery, dense, interwoven lyrics, uniquely personal and playful songwriting voice, and diverse, dedicated output. Hailing from Portland, Oregon, Miles began making music in 2016 and gradually connected and collaborated with pioneers of the SoundCloud lo-fi hip-hop scene (such as your best friend jippy, Chris Wright, Atwood, teeawgo, Dahm., and love-sadKID). In 2018 they became a founding member of punk-rock-inspired internet rap group Cemetery Drive (@staydeadboys). The group has amassed over 35 million streams and continues to evolve its sound and audience.

In 2020 Miles began to truly establish themselves as a solo artist by releasing monthly singles (now the Pittock Compilation) and Make Way For Goodbyes with bandmate Cloud Mac, a love-song hip-hop album that has amassed over a million plays. Following a slew of EPs and singles in ‘21 and ‘22 (including fan favorites The Jippy Tape and Living with Yourself) Miles released yet another collaborative album (D.M.T.).

Now, Miles has committed to releasing music every third Wednesday as they define themselves more vividly as a vulnerable songwriter and standalone musician.

Miles is inspired by the convergence of crafted, heartfelt songwriting with equally skillful and inspired musicality, as is found in the catalog of artists new and old, such as Sylvan LaCue, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Mac Miller, Rakim, Big L, and André 3000.

Miles Powers

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