REGmister - Room To Grow (Half-Ass Deluxe)

Hard-hitting intro to my debut album in which I set the tone for the album. It is very much the beginning paragraph of the thesis that my album intends to be.

1. Sun Tzu (Intro)

I hooked up with the very dope E Money for this track. I was excited to work with him as I am a fan of his work, and I believe you brought a catchy and powerfully unique sound to the hook. 

The production was done by a fella from Strange Music (yeah that one.) He reached out to me because he was actually a videographer and editor for the Strange crew, but he wanted to branch into production, and he decided that I was a good artist to showcase his own talents, comparing me to the artist Rittz in our conversation. 
I wish I could remember his name. My laptop was stolen and all my stems files and correspondence are gone with it. I’m releasing the remnants of the nearly completed album.

The song itself is about being groomed as a “gifted kid” and then ultimately burning out. Who’s to blame?

2. Gifted (Feat. Emoney)

With production bordering dub-step this track was one of the earlier ones I completed for the project as a whole. 

The concept of the song is feeling a growing disconnect from the public in general and the frustrations that come with that, eventually leading to an occasional dissociative mental state.

3. Hermit

This one won’t be for everyone. This track is my own social commentary about the hypocrisy I personally witnessed from those who raised me to be compassionate only to turn around and do the opposite with their own politics. 

If you disagree with the overall message, that’s your right, but I hope you can appreciate the meticulous word choice and general artistry that I attempted to approach the song with.

4. To Whom it May Concern

This track is a culmination of the building frustrations laid out in previous tracks on the album. 

I have a tendency to bottle up my anger until it explodes, occasionally violently, out of me as an apparent overreaction to outsiders looking in. 

The very talented Art Morera is featured on this track. He’s super dope, great guy to work with in general, go check out his releases they’re fantastic.

5. Something is Wrong (Feat. Art Morera)

The second of the two social commentary tracks on this album. The intention of this song was to serve as a stark contrast to “To Whom it May Concern” as a way of demonstrating the shift of mindset after the angry outburst in “Something is Wrong.”

Whereas the aforementioned track took deliberate, careful steps to grapple with opposing views from a place of understanding and simple venting of personal frustration, Black Sheep takes none. I’m pretty proud of the bars in this one. I feel almost every line of the verses serve either another punch or thought provoking lyric. 

I am not proud of simply personally insulting those who disagree with me politically, but I did it for the art and I’d do it again damnit.

6. Black Sheep

In this track that angry outburst is directed somewhat inward. Just a track about general frustrations of not feeling as though the work I put into every part of my music is appreciated as much as I feel it should be. 

Featured in this track is a dope artist Loko Go Crazy. 

Unfortunately the quality is hit or miss on this track, and I’ll never be able to fix it. RIP Laptop

7. Irrelevant (feat. Loko Go Crazy)

Unfortunately this track is probably the furthest of being complete. The mix and master is ROUGH, the hook and bridge are honestly just unpleasant and we’re just their as placeholders. But now they’ve been promoted. 

Which is unfortunate because the writing in the verses is some of my favorite in the album. 

This song represents a moment of clarity, written in third person to represent the separation of the emotional state from the processing of the situation.

8. Needed Help

The title track of the project! 

So this was the first song that I had completed from this project and is indeed what inspired the idea for the narrative that I attempt to create. 

When I wrote this song, I don’t know, it was simply head and shoulders above every song I’d finished beforehand. 

As I continued completing songs for the project and generally improving at what I do as I went, it is unfortunate that I believe the title track to actually be a low point on the album. However, that is narratively satisfying at least.

9. Room to Grow

One of the very final tracks I completed for this project. I think it stands next to Room to Grow as a stark difference in my overall ability as an artist as it evolved over the making of this project. 

The song itself is one of reasoned defiance. Refusing to allow the weight of mental health problems to define me as a person and a commitment to finding a better way forward.

10. 2-Dimensional

So I don’t like love songs. Mostly because many of them sound the same to me. Repeated cliches over different instruments and chords until we run out of instruments and chords. Repeat forever. 

So this song was a challenge to myself to write a love song that at least felt fresh. This angle has probably been taken by artists before me, but it felt fresh to me and made this one a joy to write. 

Featuring my very good friend from High School, Leigha McKinney. She was in town and had like thirty minutes free to get her parts recorded. I didn’t have her intro part written yet when she said she was available. I wrote it in the 20 minute drive to my house to start recording.

11. Afterlife (Feat. Leigha McKinney)

Having finished all the tracks and finalizing the track list after what felt like an eternity of rewrites, scrapping songs, pulling them back and figuring them out, pulling my hair out and doubting my abilities.. 

I finally did it. And I listened to the project front to back and became worried that there were simply no bangers. So this is a bonus banger about second guessing.

Bonus Track: Second Guessing

The rest of the tracks weren’t intended for this project but I have nowhere else to put ‘em so please enjoy.

A half song/half poem I wrote about Leonardo DiCaprio, The way the flow of time works and Lobsters.

Extra Bonus: Titanic

Extra Bonus: Witching Hour (feat. Dylan Todd)

Fun fact: This is the only song of mine that I can play on the guitar and perform at the same time

Extra Bonus: Life Sucks

The Scrapyard: I Won’t

The Scrapyard: A Side B Side C side D side

Available for royalty free use to anyone who purchases my album from Bandcamp. Link in the bio

The Scrapyard: Caging a Tempest (Instrumental)

https://regmister.bandcamp.com/album/room-to-grow Debut Album “Room to Grow” out now! 

Bandcamp: https://regmister.bandcamp.com/album/room-to-grow