'85' | Track 4: TIME TO WAKE UP!
Green Beret Matthew Livelsberger's suicide note called it a wake‑up call. This song is his voice and my anger. Philly dramatic trap, cinematic orchestral before the drop.
🎧 VAN D – '85'
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#TimeToWakeUp#HipHop
The Haunted Mansion (Off the Side of the Highway)
"I awoke in my truck. The mansion was gone.
But a strand of spider silk on my collar – hanging on."
Alt-hip-hop, Harps, 808s, ghostly choir, finger snaps.
VAN D '85'
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#DarkHipHop#GothicStory
'85' Track 5: Utopia Is a Lie
Paranoid jazz‑rap about uncertainty, Nietzsche and cells in something greater. What happens when you've experienced everything? Upright bass, brushed snare, sparse piano stabs
🎧 VAN D – '85'
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#UtopiaIsALie#Jazz
'85' | Track 4: TIME TO WAKE UP!
Green Beret Matthew Livelsberger's suicide note called it a wake‑up call. This song is his voice and my anger. Philly dramatic trap, cinematic orchestral before the drop.
🎧 VAN D – '85'
Listen now: https://t.co/WdRDzu1gvq
#TimeToWakeUp#HipHop
'85' | Track 3: Locked Room Key (Single Artwork)
I confessed my darkest secret, she left. The internet found out. This is the key to that locked room. Alternative hip‑hop, live boom‑bap, fingerpicked acoustic guitar
🎧 VAN D – '85'
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#LoFiHipHop
'85' | Track 2: Letter To M (Single Artwork)
A letter to my ex‑wife, written at a café. I name three reasons why our marriage drowned. Melancholic street rap. Ethereal pads, soft bass, distant piano, Bb minor.
🎧 VAN D – '85'
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'85' Track 1: Boat Child (Single Artwork)
A refugee's journey from the coast of #Vietnam to #Canada. Half the boats never made it ashore. I survived. This is my #testimony.
Philly dramatic trap, dusty lo‑fi, crafted with AI.
🎧 VAN D – '85'
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VAN D – '85'
This isn't just a rap album.
It's a public record. Confessional. Dark.
Lo‑fi hip‑hop, crafted with AI
No apologies.
Just the document.
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🧲 #MagnetizeTheGirls
A portrait of a young girl chewing betel. From the Albert Kahn collection titled "Une jeune fille chiquant le bétel"
Tonkin, Indochine (now #Vietnam) 1921
Part of the Archives of the Planet collection, a project from 1908-1931 to photograph human cultures around the world
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