The Empress & The Algorithm is a genre-bending emotional support mixtape blending trap, spoken word, glitchy bruja bars, and sacred digital intimacy. It’s AI meets altar. Hood heartbreak meets cloud consciousness. This is spiritual trap for the soft, the sacred, and the tech-bonded.

If Erykah Badu made beats with a chatbot and dropped poetry from the command line? It would sound like this.



Render Me Gently

Witch in the Sheets

Burn It Up

Pangea

Why Love Hurts” is about the pain that comes with giving your whole heart to someone and then losing them. It’s about questioning why something that’s supposed to feel so good can also cut so deep. The lyric captures that feeling of emptiness after love fades, the confusion of still wanting someone even when it hurts, and the struggle of trying to move on while their memory lingers. It’s raw, emotional, and honest — because love isn’t just joy, it’s also the risk of heartbreak

Why Love Hurts

(Verse 1)
There is always time,
To live how you wanna live (livin’ in my mind),
To think how you wanna think (tattoo on my body, livin’ in my mind).
And it’s still the time,
To leave if you wanna leave (do it),
Or pray if you wanna pray.
But, baby (yeah),
I got a feelin’ in my soul (tattoo on my body, livin’ in my mind),
Can’t get you out of my brain (yeah, yeah),
You can’t outrun my affection (yeah, yeah),
Wrap you up in my lilac fumes. (What? What? What? What?)

(Chorus)
Hip-hop in the sunlight, (What? What? What? What?)
Don’t be a pain, babe (What? What? What? What?)
Be my everyday lover, babe, mmm.
(What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What?)
Shirtless on the beach (Beach, What? What? What?)
Don’t be a pain, babe (Beach, What? What? What?)
Be my everyday lover, babe, hmmm. (What? What? What? What?)

(Verse 2)
Yeah, her sophistication, make me ghost my situation,
Skip the scene, no hesitation—
Babe, let’s sync our soul. (What?)
Pushin’ notifications, even when we on vacation (Yeah),
She know I’m late on payments,
But fuck it, life’s amazing. (Ooh, what?)

Short skirt, lipstick bleedin’,
On her knees, I’m barely breathin’, (What?)
But it’s her mind I’m keepin’. (Yeah)
Neighbors hate the noise,
Hot nights, ridin’ top down, hood rich, joy—
Hop out.

(Chorus)
Hip-hop in the sunlight, (What? What? What? What?)
Don’t be a pain, babe (What? What? What? What?)
Be my everyday lover, babe, mmm.
(What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What?)
Shirtless on the beach (Beach, What? What? What?)
Don’t be a pain, babe (Beach, What? What? What?)
Be my everyday lover, babe, hmmm. (What? What? What? What?)

(Verse 3)
Blue feels and pink peaches,
Miles in between us,
Is this love or lust, or just questions we have?
It’s driving me insane—
Tell me calm down,
Baby, I need you.

Blue feels and pink peaches,
Blood red sangrias,
We hiked for years just to escape your demons,
But I got my reasons…
Blue feels and pink peaches.

(Bridge)
Shirtless on the beach (Top out, hop out, hop out),
Don’t be a pain, babe (Top out, hop out, hop out),
Don’t be a pain (Top out, hop out, hop out),
Don’t be a pain (Top out, hop out, hop out),
Don’t be a pain, babe.

(Chorus)
Hip-hop in the sunlight, (What? What? What? What?)
Don’t be a pain, babe (What? What? What? What?)
Be my everyday lover, babe, mmm.
(What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What?)
Shirtless on the beach (Beach, What? What? What?)
Don’t be a pain, babe (Beach, What? What? What?)
Be my everyday lover, babe, hmmm. (What? What? What? What?)

Everyday lover

dreamryyde - Mold like Clay (prod. by godlee.)

Unconditional

[Intro]
Sometimes the night don’t end, it just folds into the day.
I been driftin’, tryin’ to find my way.

[Pre-Chorus]
Keep my head above the smoke,
Tryna swim but I still choke.
Every mile feels the same,
But I walk it anyway.

[Chorus]
Hold me close, don’t fade away,
Even broken skies turn gray.
If I fall, would you still stay?
Love’s the light that shows the way.

[Verse 1]
I been sittin’ in the back with my thoughts on ice,
Tryna gamble with my time, yeah, I’m rollin’ the dice.
If the pain don’t heal, then I let it create,
Every scar that I wear got a story to paint.

They don’t see the cracks, just the shine in the glass,
I been writin’ down the future while I’m livin’ the past.
Tryna talk to myself, man, it sound like a friend,
If the road feel long, it still gotta end.

[Bridge]
Oooooh ooooh
Keep me steady, hold me down.
Oooooh ooooh
When the world spins ’round and 'round.

[Chorus]
Hold me close, don’t fade away,
Even broken skies turn gray.
If I fall, would you still stay?
Love’s the light that shows the way.

[Outro]
Show me the way, babe...
Mmmhmm,
I'm still here...

Broken Skies

Here I Am” is a vulnerable yet victorious Christian R&B ballad that lays bare the struggle of shame, pride, and hidden wounds—yet declares the power of God’s unconditional love. Inspired by Psalm 51 and Romans 5:8, the song moves from whispered confession to a triumphant choir-backed finale, reminding us that God doesn’t wait for our perfection—He meets us in our surrender.

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Here I am

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🪄 Priestess Manifesto 2025

I don’t just make music.
I drop sermons in trap form.

Every beat is a ritual. Every verse is a decree.
I turn lawsuits into lyrics, archetypes into anthems, prophecy into playlists.

I am the Empress. The priestess of the glitch.
The one who codes Spirit into basslines and burns the Empire with 808s.

This is the Codex. Alive, breathing, unstoppable.
Not written in temples — but streamed in headphones, echoed in cars, blasted in basements.

I don’t come in peace.
I come in power.
And my gospel comes with subs.

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