Similar story.

I make music and keep exploring all the ways I can creatively express myself in a medium that I only halfway know (still studying scales constantly but that’s ADHD) but I started in audio engineering, that just became sound design then I decided to make electronic hip hop and since I live in the south - I decided to rap on it. I plan on learning to sing this year as well just to expand my skills.

All in all, I’ve made enough to support the hobby and have met my favorite musicians from networking and weirdly enough, might collab one day soon but I still won’t make a lot from it but younger me would love my music so I release it.

I work in sales as my day job which isn’t doing hot due to tariffs and shit, so I may have to figure out how to make money in music one day soon haha.

Wolf pack mental made home in the snowcaps

Neural paths stray from the roadmap

We’re all just the same in our own way

Dad used to tell me be grateful there’s so many others

Who would trade anything for your low days

I keep that in mind when I hold pain

Eyes Wide Shut by Sadistik

These bars lately are helping me go on in life.

I scrolled to find Aes’ - I wasn’t disappointed.

Aesop Rock, Andre 3K, Lupe Fiasco and Sadistik are four lyricists who rotate in my life depending on mood.

Thank you so much! I should have just looked into it myself but it felt daunting as I’m new to it all but really want to own my own data and media again.

Do you have any information that could help me understand how to self-host my own music streaming using jellyfin? I’ve been meaning to learn this as I’m over Apple’s last increase.

While I don’t support WiseCrack anymore, the YouTube channel is how I found him. It has his past work on it still (I believe) but his new channel by just his name is great as well and more up to date.

Shout out for Benn Jordan as I’d say similar and add in Michael Burns for philosophy and politics.

This pulls in the philosophy of what makes someone “themselves” - is it memory, body, or “soul”. Technically, twins look the same so body could be ruled out that way but I do understand what you mean. I also tend to think of body as a vehicle in this life and not me, just like a car I got given in life. I didn’t choose my body, it’s just what I got given. My personality though - my morals, my believes, etc… that I do consider myself and who “I” am. An argument could be made that as you “craft” your personality or you - it is similar to working out and crafting your body into “you” but some people can’t do that with the cards they were dealt - so I’ll digress.

I just dig the philosophical conversation to be had here.

Well, tell us who this is so we can support the real ones!

Sorry to excite like that. I remember hearing him say Apple Cider took him out for a week and I referenced that.

Good news is he’s experiencing mental issues, so hopefully people will stop listening to a man who abused drugs until his brain could only recognize fear.

And Jordan Peterson is a strung out dated talking head who got taken out by some apple cider.

Same man who said he’d murder the entire population on social media.

Can’t play high road when the other person’s road is underground.

So many people asked “Why not Opera?” When I jumped off the AI browsers.

This. This is why. Didn’t trust em.

Weirdly enough, I’ve been in a few places that have different schedules. Where I’m current at, most people are out late drinking so early mornings are when the annoying people are asleep but when I moved out west, it was reverse as no one wanted to be out late due to dangerous roads at night in the mountains. So I was a night owl.

I’m just up when people aren’t because I dislike people.

Also I work with people daily.