Voice of the Voiceless: Closing One Chapter, Beginning Another

There’s something different about releasing an album when you know it represents the end of a version of yourself.

Voice of the Voiceless is not just another project to me. It is 19 songs recorded between 2018 and 2024 that define my journey up until this point. These are records that carried me through growth, frustration, wins, setbacks, belief, doubt, and everything in between. Some of my most notable songs live on this project, including How Bad Do You Want It, Like That, All My Life, Snow Day, and more. It features artists I once only admired from a distance, like Dizzy Wright, Futuristic, Ekoh, and UnderRated formerly of Potluck. That still feels surreal to write.

I remember driving from Baltimore to Reading, Pennsylvania back in 2012 with Citro and my sister just to see Potluck perform live. We were simply fans at the time. I remember local openers shouting out that someone drove all the way from Baltimore to catch the show. We were just kids chasing inspiration. Years later, collaborating with artists connected to that same world showed me that maybe I had been on the right path all along, even when it didn’t always feel like it.

This album exists because I needed to draw a line in the sand. For years I was building, proving, grinding, experimenting, and finding my voice. Voice of the Voiceless represents that era. It is the foundation. Everything that comes after this will be different. The sound will be more aligned with who I am today. The content will reflect where I am in life now. Fatherhood, marriage, growth, taking the business side seriously. Leaving behind the parts of myself that no longer represent who I am becoming.

There was a shift that happened internally over the last couple of years. I stopped looking at music only as art and started respecting it as a business. I started understanding ownership, strategy, direct to fan relationships. I started realizing that if I treated this seriously, something serious could come from it. And at the same time, I began thinking about my daughter and the kind of legacy I want to leave. I want her to grow up and feel proud of what I put into the world. I want the music and the content moving forward to be something she can confidently say, “That’s my dad.”

The title Voice of the Voiceless is personal. Growing up, I never felt like I had a true voice. I often felt overlooked. I never quite fit in, and for a long time I thought that was a flaw. Now I understand it differently. I was not meant to blend in. I was meant to stand out. Music became the place where I could finally say what I needed to say. It became my voice to that voiceless space inside of me.

It is also a double meaning. It represents the people who feel like they do not have a voice. The ones who want to chase something bigger but hesitate. The ones who feel overlooked. The ones who believe they are meant for more but have not stepped into it yet. In a way, I represent that energy. I am the voice for the voiceless, and at the same time, I am proof that you can create your own lane.

One of the biggest decisions I made with this album was not to release it on streaming platforms as a full project. That was intentional. I chose to release it only through physical CDs on my website and as a digital download on Bandcamp. I wanted ownership. I wanted traffic to my own platform. I wanted to test what it looked like to build directly with supporters instead of chasing streams.

On the first day, I received a Bandcamp notification that someone paid fifty dollars for the album when I am only charging ten. At first, I did not even understand what I was looking at. Then it hit me. Someone voluntarily chose to invest an additional forty dollars into my work simply because they believed in it. That moment shifted something in me. It was fuel. If one person sees that kind of value in what I am building, then there are more out there who feel the same way.

There are also records on this album that carry chapters people may not fully see on the surface. Some of these songs were written during seasons where I was questioning everything. Some were written during moments of confidence. Some represent hunger. Others represent reflection. Listening back now, I can hear the evolution in my own voice. I can hear the growth in how I approach a record. I can hear the shift from proving myself to understanding myself. That alone makes this project feel like documentation rather than just a release.

I originally planned to release this album in 2024, but that year became something different. It became a regroup year. Not just musically, but personally. I stepped back. I recalibrated. I grew. The only major release that year was All My Life with Ekoh, which ended up being one of the strongest records I have ever made. Looking back, I truly believe I would not have had the momentum of 2025 without taking 2024 to reset. The Cardinals placement, the CBS feature, the business clarity, the growth in my local wave, none of that happens without the pause.

So here we are in 2026, and the album is finally here.

The first twenty five physical copies were signed by hand. I even filmed a promo video of myself signing them, and I could see how much that personal touch mattered. This project closes a chapter. It honors the climb and documents the version of me that was still becoming.

There is a strange mix of pride and emotion that comes with putting a period on an era of your life. These songs carried me through versions of myself that no longer exist. Releasing them as a body of work feels like saying thank you to that chapter while also letting it go. Not because it was bad, but because growth requires movement.

Everything after this is evolution.

Voice of the Voiceless is the foundation. It is the proof of work. It is the documentation of a journey that shaped me. What comes next will be more focused, more intentional, and more aligned with the life I am living today.

If you want to support it, it is available exclusively at doubleg410.com as a physical CD and as a digital download on Bandcamp.

This one is about ownership. Growth. And stepping fully into who I am meant to be.