Dear Music Industry, I Am Here To Stay. Join Me!

Dear Record Labels and Music Industry, I am a solo musician with a range of competences but a focus especially on pop, alternative, and hip hop fusion: a genre I call ‘wambop.’ My debut album trilogy ‘The Divine Tragedy’ is rolling out right now — my self-produced EP ‘Born’ is already streaming, and my two … Continue reading Dear Music Industry, I Am Here To Stay. Join Me! →

‘I had a vision.’ For God’s sake, everyone: Ye is the opposite of Hitler, and here is why

‘Everybody’s beholden to somebody.’ Ye, Clubhouse Interview, 2022 ‘What I just said is far past anything anybody in my position has ever said publicly. We ridin’ on God … I ain’t got no security, you know exactly where I’m at … Come and get me.’ Ye ‘We got China, heading — if it’s not for … Continue reading ‘I had a vision.’ For God’s sake, everyone: Ye is the opposite of Hitler, and here is why →

Who I Am

As I Am You wish I were Who I was Or will be The galaxy NGC 4414 in the Coma Berenices constellation. But you forget That I don’t want you In the past In the future I want you as you are So do you Want me As I am

love

Please Don’t go I won’t say I’m lost But I love You So much My heart Might break nature and artifice Every day I feel My soul Might Foresake Whatever you do Whatever you say I’ll just love you More My lady From afar If I die alone I’ll alone think Of you My only … Continue reading love →

Fear

fear I feel more than ever I feel fear fear is me What do I do with fear like tears that never stop rolling on

‘This house regrets the Obama years.’ Draft speech from my university years

A draft speech for a Cambridge Union debate a while back. Thank you Mr./Mme. Speaker. Perhaps the favourite book of my teenage years was Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father, given to me as it happens by my own father. I, and I think I speak for many in this room, think hope is an … Continue reading ‘This house regrets the Obama years.’ Draft speech from my university years →

Update: Born

‘The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.’ — Antonio Gramsci It is nearly a year since the world premiere of my debut EP, ‘Born’. Since then, I have released across streaming platforms the debut single from that EP, ‘First Time’, and uploaded all … Continue reading Update: Born →

life, death, and the fear of true love

i live my life in constant fear not of loss i accept that as readily a star going supernova, in the corner of a galaxy as the morning dew or the summer’s twilight blue but of death this I fear more than anything that in sleep when my guard is down the panthers hyenas devils … Continue reading life, death, and the fear of true love →

limbo

between heaven and hell I walk the silent king of all no vengeance heaven wrought no sin did hell commit no is to meet the ought born divine commandments writ poetry is besot with madness, king’s disease this is the last I breathe before in heaven’s seat I sit, and hell is mine to dream … Continue reading limbo →

hate

paralyses me i hate myself i pretend not to but i do i hate who i am darkness i hate what i do i hate what i say i hate what i am going to do i hate what i am not to do i hate my life and all that is in it i … Continue reading hate →