For the past 24 months, I’ve created differently. Every lyric, every beat, every reflection was written outside, under open skies. The result is Outside Creations—a project that captures my struggles, realizations, and triumphs while showing my full range as an artist.

The journey begins with Magic, a dream-born story of betrayal that sets the tone for the conflicts ahead. Lil Homie answers back with a sharp warning, pulling no punches. Wine For Me explores lust and temptation, the tension between fleeting desires and true happiness. In Monopoly, loyalty and integrity collide with money’s influence, exposing how the world often moves. Raw unloads the weight of inner-circle grievances, a cathartic release of truth. Preacher Man wrestles with my distance from God, boastful yet remorseful, realizing I could be doing more. In My Feelins opens my heart completely—a dedication to my wife, where love gave me the courage to be vulnerable. Finally, I Be Him closes the project in confidence, a lyrical and soulful boom bap track that declares my arrival.

Outside Creations is triumph and failure, lust and love, faith and doubt, vulnerability and power. It’s an invitation to press play, step into my world, and take this journey with me as I move closer to becoming my best self.

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monopoly

i be him

No Question

This is an archive of The Clean Up Hour. Tonight, we're coming back full circle -- the first ode, made 5 years ago, looked back at 2010, and now, we finish off by reviewing the last four months of that year. I felt like Neo in the Matrix, downloading the world straight into my brain, one .zip and mp3 file at a time. It was an era of unprecedented discovery for me, one I'd relive in a heart beat for that high, at least. Wasn't a perfect time (high school sucks ass, duh), but it's a high I'll never feel again, and that's gotta stand for something. 

If you couldn't tell, tonight's mix is lengthy as hell, so I will just list the tracks for part one. Part 4 is nothing but Charles Hamilton. 

Lil B - Wonton Soup
Kanye West, Pusha T, Kid Cudi, Lloyd Banks, Ryan Leslie, & John Legend - Christian Dior Denim Flow
Kanye West, Kid Cudi, & Raekwon - Gorgeous
Nicki Minaj & Kanye West - Blazin
Waka Flocka Flame & Cap - O Let's Do It
Waka Flocka Flame, satan, Rick Ross, & Gucci Mane - O Let's Do It (Remix)
Lupe Fiasco - SLR (Super Lupe Rap)
Nipsey Hussle - 7 Days a Week
Tech N9NE - Table and Chest Stress
Gangrene - Take Drugs
Yelawolf - That's What We On Now
Vado - Polo
Rick Ross & Drake - Made Men 
Lil B & Cormega - I Killed Hip Hop
Lloyd Banks & Juelz Santana - Beamer, Benz, or Bentley
Lloyd Banks, The Dream,  Ludacris, Jadakiss, & Yo Gotti - Beamer, Benz, or Bentley (Remix)
Sheek Louch & DJ Webstar - Club Jam Packed
Cali Swag District - Teach Me How To Dougie
Cali Swag District, Jermaine Dupri, B.O.B., Bow Wow, Red Cafe, and a bonus Sean Kingston appearance - Teach Me How to Dougie (Remix)
Lil B - Hipster Girls
Chiddy Bang - Truth
Far East Movement & Keri Hilson - Don't Look Now
Das Racist & Chairlift - Fashion Party
David Banner & 9th Wonder - Mas 4
Malice - Freestyle
Young Buck - Smoke Our Life Away
Fashawn - Dark Fantasy (Freestyle)
Freddie Gibbs - Learn to Duck
Lloyd Banks - Reach Out
Curren$y & Raekwon - Michael Knight (Remix)
T.I., Scarface, & Mitchelle'l - How Life Changed
Big K.R.I.T - Some Days Freestyle
Kendrick Lamar & Ab-Soul - P&P 1.5 
Joe Budden & Crooked I - Sober Up
Joe Budden, Pusha T, & Styles P  - Dessert For Thought
J. Cole - Too Deep for the Intro
Kid Cudi - Mr. Rager
Drake - Paris Morton Music
Atmosphere - To All My Friends
1982 & Freddie Gibbs - Falling
Jay Rock - Get On Your Shit
Lil Wayne & Drake - Right Above It

RIP Nipsey Hussle, M-Bone, JayAre, Fred the Godson, DMX, Pimp C, Mac Miller, Big L

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 346 (November 28, 2025): an Ode to 2010, Part 3 of 3

Archives of The Clean-Up Hour, every Friday at 12:00 AM, hosted by your boy Mophead on CKMS 102.7 Listen here: https://radiowaterloo.ca/listen/

Also doing slowed + reverb music now lol

To those of you looking for the slowed + reverb version of "Benji the Dog" by Mac Miller (RIP), it was copyright claimed after 15,000 plays. If you're desperate for the mp3, dm me here and we can work something out.

Erik The Host 

Formerly Know As “Erod”

New tracks tagged #lupe fiasco