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Patient Name: Alan Kelly
Alias: “Murderwords”
Clinician: Dr. Scarlett Ruth
Date: 09/08/24
Time: 15:37 PST

This excerpt was my first encounter with a patient named Alan Kelly, whom I took on in 2022, as well as their alter ego persona, one 'Murderwords' who arose in my patient during the mitigation of a nervous breakdown during the events of the global pandemic. Excerpt is audio as follows:

“Why don’t you tell me a little about yourself, Mr. Words?”
“Please, call me Murderwords.”
“Very well. Tell me about yourself, Murderwords.”

“Okay. Well—

Hi. I am Murderwords, a guy who fell into a paper bag mask one day in a music playing accident involving originality while not maintaining situational awareness around an encroaching technocracy of dystopian malaise. I live on Alan's head. 

I would like to share my music with you, imagine that, in the hopes that you might do all those things we need you to do on platforms to keep me going—the sharing, and the liking, and the signing up.

Please don’t make me say ‘like, share, and subscribe.’

Awww, @&%$!

I am slowly migrating some work over from my low-tech facilities and lower-tech mind into this den of inequity.

If you are an artist or musician who is interested in working with me, please send me a message.

Remember kids:
We are not the product. They are.
And we are not content.”

Alan Kelly presents with complex post-traumatic stress disorder rooted in a difficult childhood, and the emergence of the Murderwords persona that arose during the pandemic marks a profound turning point in his life. Murderwords is more than a mask—he is Alan’s inner child given form, a fierce and raw expression of resilience born from pain.

As his therapist, I find this phenomenon both compelling and deeply human: here is a man channeling his trauma into an artistic rebellion against the oppressive forces of the music industry and media censorship. Murderwords is Alan’s way of fighting back, reclaiming control through creativity amid a nervous breakdown.

It’s a fragile balance—this shadow work performed in public—but one I am fascinated by and fully invested in helping him navigate. There is power in this persona, and I believe it carries the potential not only for Alan’s survival but for a bold, authentic voice in today’s fractured cultural landscape, though I reserve my concerns that the mask might eat the man if Alan is not careful.

This is Doctor Scarlett Ruth,
uh, oh nine oh eight of twenty-five at... fifteen thirty-seven hours.

Vancouver pianist and composer. YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKJk8QvktBSYQXRiNZW1zLQ

Hip Hop for me it be my new Religion
Music's speaking through your soul it ain't no superstition

You will find out who I am just stay tuned

Baako Pe 

233 · 416 · 604 

OnlyBops
 
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just out here makin beats in my free time, most of which are works in progress,
just chill and give it a listen, always open too some constructive criticism. cheers

Canadian Hip-Hop Artist Daybreak hails from Victoria, British Columbia and currently operates in Vancouver. His style embraces an old-school mentality when it comes to lyrics and flow and the music itself is hard-hitting and thought-provoking with cinematic elements playing over big, pounding drums and a variety of epic instruments. Daybreak’s subject matter ranges from bootlegging black market liquor during Prohibition era to ancient Samurai code and to all other aspects of life, death and the great beyond. Citing influences such as Wu Tang, Jedi Mind Tricks, Nas, Xzibit, Beastie Boys and so many more, Daybreak’s main objective is to constantly evolve as a rapper and combine his many influences into a single voice to spread the message that quality Hip-Hop is alive and well in this era.

Although Daybreak first experimented with rapping and writing lyrics at a young age, he really began his Hip-Hop music career in Seoul city where he learned to rap in Korean. Major television networks took notice of this after a video of Daybreak rapping in a Korean karaoke room went viral online and later, he performed alongside speed-rap sensation Outsider on the SBS show Star King, opened for Korean Rock singer Maya and won third place on the KBS program National Singing Contest, one of the most popular music competition programs in Korea.

Since returning to Canada to focus solely on Hip-Hop music in 2017, Daybreak has released four singles, performed shows around Vancouver and appeared on a variety of local radio programs including Feast or Famine, The Urban Renewal Project and The New Era on CiTR. ‘Set Fire to It’, Daybreak’s latest single, is an EDM / Hip-Hop fusion track producer by Snyker that blends Medieval warfare with a truly unique form of electronic music resulting in a genre-bending Game of Thrones-style revenge story.

In addition to original music, Daybreak does regular remixes of both Old School classics and recent Trap music. The next remix is of the RA The Rugged Man masterpiece Learn Truth, featuring Talib Kweli. Vancouver and West Coast Hip-Hop standout, DJ 151, features on the remix and a music video is set to release across all platforms in January of 2019.

Later in 2019, the androids awaken.. the Android Dreams EP.

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