My Perception of u

It is not an understatement to say that there is a lot  going on in the world right now. It really does feel that we have all entered completely new territory and that things seem crazier than ever. Pause for a moment and ask yourself  what is your current state in the world? Don’t try to compare your state to the dominating world events of late that have been screaming for our attention. Where is your focus? What territories are you coming out of and entering into. Are u getting swept up by it all or u flipping the switch? 

Older than me
I saw god
O when nine
O when I think of the way
We will want life
Wave I don’t own u
I have warned u
When we get mad
I’ll tell u we can
Love the mirror
U might have known
For our sake gotta love
I know real state of the world
we all view
Children we’re low
We’re coming out to play
World will be a mirror

U are no one & I am nobody. We both are going nowhere to know what it is we are both looking for—nothing at all.

When the moonlight’s on me
How to move when high
I wonder what I really see in their eye
We’re going up
Now meet me at the moon that I’ll find

Into my no one
Know they are no one
No they are no body
Though we are no one
Know we are
Know we are nowhere now

All that I don’t know
Know we are to wander
You & I are now one
We are solo
Warm the other world
Or we’ll go beyond Pluto
Abandon
No one I will know

This is the fifth collection of musical works and the fourth album of 2026, immediately following the L-O-V-E  EP. With Sugar at 11 tracks, this makes 45 tracks for the 1st quarter of the year.

What does this mean and why so many songs? There always seems to be a song right around the corner. After an album is finished, I typically move onto the next one before the prior one releases officially. I suppose that there are several reasons that help explain this. 

Sometimes, I only feel as good as my last song, so I guess you could say that I have something to prove to myself and to the world, yet I believe that there is something much deeper going on here.

Namely, I have something to learn about myself, but in order to discover these truths, I must continue to unlock the gates leading to my next level of personal growth. I suppose it’s sort of like beating a video game boss in order to advance to the next stage of play.

Yes, I want to improve and  transform as a person. Who doesn’t, right? Personally, I am discovering  that as the music grows so do I. Undoubtedly, there is a real drive in me to be the best ever to do this. Whether such a notion can be realistically be achieved  can always be debated as either impossible or inevitable in my own mind.

No one really knows who I am, not even me. No one knows what really is going on in the world and how to most excellently interact with it. How does we get past the Boss in the stage of life that we are finding ourselves to be playing? We get glimpses of certainty regarding how to proceed in life - what to choose and how to be, yet there is a lot of conflicting information as well as so many distractions  for us to deal with.  

After completing 18 albums, 8 EPs, and 3 greatest hits collections, I get the real sense that everything is already written in life without it actually being translated and uploaded to a platform. As this relates to the music, I have always had the confidence that the albums are already there and will get finished once I interact with them. 

I translate the songs as best as I can, but I am human and sometimes I feel that I didn’t hit that exact word and that the lyrics are still hiding something. For me, It’s not about the money or the fame. What drives me is the material and the message hidden within. 

I’m on pace for 360 songs this year. That is only after giving only a quarter of my energies to the music. 96 songs in 2024 and 87 songs in 2025, which puts me well above the pace. Is such a pace sustainable? It depends on where the story takes me next. 

The songs didn’t really begin to approach maturity until the beginning of last year. Before that period, many of these songs could be re-recorded remixed and remastered. Even the newer songs have a high ceiling because of their technical shortcomings. My vocals are still developing. And I have gone back to recording songs on my phone and with earbuds. The one thing that has remained a constant is the music itself. The source material has always been elite. 

In many ways, the Sugar album was the hardest thing I have ever done. Of course I said that about Epicenter which releases officially today. Self- transformation can sometimes be a very challenging endeavor. On the contrary, the  L-O-V-E  EP was one of the easiest experiences for me, once I finally took it on. Maybe it is true that love makes even the most difficult of days that much sweeter.

Which takes me to Sugar. Sugar is sweet. In some ways it is both my best and worst work. I have a greatest hits for 2026 already in the can. Most likely, there are more albums coming but with anything in life there is no real guarantee in life. I could easily  begin working on another album and give birth to another collection of songs that I couldn’t imagine not having. 

I spoke earlier about everything already being written and the certainty I feel regarding the music. Right now, I don’t feel anything. With the 2026 greatest hits already in the can, I may or may not be finished for the year. For now, I will just sit back and listen. I continue to listen so so that I can convey the message that I hear.