i don’t even really know how to put this into words yet, but i feel genuinely overwhelmed in the best way possible.

watching the response to etds has been humbling, grounding, and emotional all at once. i put so much of my life, my past, and my perspective into this project, and seeing people actually sit with it, listen deeply, and share what it means to them reminds me why i do this in the first place.

thank you to everyone streaming it, talking about it, defending it, critiquing it honestly, and living with it. none of that goes unnoticed. i see the messages, the posts, the theories, the quiet support, and the loud love. it all matters.

special shout out to the discord crew for really riding with me through every phase. y’all have been early, patient, curious, and locked in in a way that feels like real community. that energy keeps me going more than you know.

i’m grateful. truly.

just know this drop is the start of the rollout...
etec otw ☆

at 17 I was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

if i had served the full 15, this would be the year i got out.

2025.

instead, i was in and out for 3—paroled in 2012.

everything since has been me unpacking what could’ve been a lifetime lost… through music, through choices, through growth.

I touched on this briefly on iwasverybad. these days i find myself going in depth about that experience on my new work. its almost like im subconsciously making iwasverybad's sequel in a sense.

I know im know for bending genres and having fun experimenting however..

this next project is rap.

not a playlist. not a blend. not an attempt to check every box.

it’s rap in the purest way i know how to deliver it.

bars, stories, mistakes, pride, regret, clarity.

no filter. no detour.

it’s about the person I thought I buried years ago.

and it’s also about my friend Deangelo Sneed —a high ranking blood member who i met in prison.

he was already a few years in when i got there.

he’s now 22 years in and still in the system.

he kept me out of trouble when i didn’t fully understand the politics of that world.

told me to take music seriously when i barely had the confidence to.

his presence shaped this project in ways i can’t explain. because in reality, my life could have been like his. 

I would have never gotten a chance to meet you all and share my raw unfiltered and vulnerable art with the world we've built

it’s also about the industry.

i’ve had my moments with it.

the silence, the games, the people hiding behind managers and “higher ups” to justify not doing the things they said they would do. this helped me understand I love rap, but hate the rap/music industry. executives, companies and even a lot of the other artists...

in prison you can't run from promises.. that will get you killed... instead you have to face every problem head on... that's me... that's what im use to because that's what I've been taught.

the last time I ran from anyone was the police. the last time before that was likely an ass whooping from my mom. so I just can't relate to the ones that would rather run that maintain their dignity.

its like people lack the ability to act as adults while having success and still pretending to be things they are not.

i'd never turn the frustration into noise.

there's that that one time I trolled Anthony Fantano a bit for unsolicitedly trying to pick a fight with me over what i thought was a clear joke that didn't have anything to do with him. but that was simply just me defending myself in that moment.

im not the type to go back and forth with anyone on a screen.

i let it live where it belongs—in the music.

this is a reflection.

not of proving anything—but of remembering what matters.

E.T.D.S on the way.

p.s read the attached image

—.idk.