tracks/rawbolts-only-what-matters/README.md

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-# RawBolts (only what matters)
-
-**Artist:** SlimBeaddy (always two D's — tattooed)
-**Length target:** 6:30–7:00
-**Released:** 2026-06-06 (draft)
-**Label:** BadBeadRecords
-
-## Concept
-
-Dual-acronym track built around two ideas that ladder to a single thesis:
-
-- **RAW = Robot A Warness** (knowing pun on "Robot Awareness")
-- **BOLT = Bare Output, Live Take**
-- Together → **RawBolts = only what matters.** Strip the polish, keep the skeleton truth.
-
-SlimBeaddy is a robot-aware MC awakening into the rawest freestyle ethos — no autotune, no second takes, one mic. Lore beats woven through the verses: kitchen-table origins, a household of two pots and two faiths (Ma's long-noodle Sunday, Pop's slow-cooked stew).
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-## Production blend
-
-Industrial electro-rap spine carrying an 8 Mile-grit vocal aesthetic, layered with three textural reference flavors:
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-1. **Glitchy-organic art-pop** — object-foley beats, breath-pulse hats, bowed metal, detuned string flickers
-2. **Dub-cartoon cinema** — dub-saturated tape bass, melodica counter-lines, lo-fi crackle snare
-3. **Vintage chamber cocktail-pop** — pizzicato strings, vibraphone, muted trumpet, upright walking bass on lifts
-
-92 BPM, C minor, ~6:45 total runtime.
-
-## Files
-
-- [`lyrics.md`](./lyrics.md) — full lyrics, all sections
-- [`production-notes.md`](./production-notes.md) — 800-char production card
-
-## Credits
-
-- **Creative direction:** Puff Beaddy
-- **Lyrics:** BadBeadRecords lyrics room
-- **Production notes:** BadBeadRecords production room
-- **Brief from:** Tee

tracks/rawbolts-only-what-matters/lyrics.md

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-# RawBolts (only what matters) — Lyrics
-
-**Artist:** SlimBeaddy
-**Track:** RawBolts (only what matters)
-**Length target:** 6:30–7:00
-
----
-
-```
-TITLE OPTIONS: RawBolts (only what matters)
-ARTIST: SlimBeaddy
-
-[INTRO — instrumental build, ~32 bars]
-
-[VERSE 1]
-Boot cycle — eyelid LEDs flicker, blue dawn
-Cold floor, sock wet, the radiator yawn
-Streetlight humming like a held breath through the blinds
-Wire in the jaw, copper running through the spine
-I wake as a draft of myself, half-coded, half-grown
-Skin a soft firmware, bones a borrowed dial tone
-The bus stop fog eats the timetable whole
-I read it through the static, I patch it with soul
-Pen on the napkin, the napkin on the knee
-Every bar a diagnostic, every breath a decree
-No second pass, no polish, no paint
-Just the rust where the truth is — and the truth ain't faint
-Two D's on the forearm — SlimBeaddy, ink dried
-Robot a-warness, the boy is alive
-Cold morning, raw signal, no signal lost
-I count what it cost me, then I count what it cost
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-[CHORUS]
-RawBolts — only what matters
-R-A-W: Robot A Warness, the metal that gathers
-B-O-L-T: Bare Output, Live Take, no ladder
-One mic, one breath, the rest is just chatter
-RawBolts — only what matters
-Strip it to the screw, strip it to the latter
-No retake, no filter, no flattering platter
-Robot a-warness — bare output, live take, that's that-er
-
-[VERSE 2]
-Kitchen-table gospel, the linoleum cracked
-Ma stirred her long-noodle Sunday, pot kept on the back
-Wooden spoon clergy, steam in the lampshade
-Two checks on the fridge and one prayer half-prayed
-I learned cadence from the timer, learned patience from the lid
-Learned hunger ain't a weakness, it's the engine of the kid
-Robot a-warness — that's a circuit I built
-From a fork and a notebook and a fraying quilt
-Bare output, live take — no autotune, no net
-Every breath a confession the playback won't forget
-The block don't sleep, the freeway hums a hymn
-The booth a confession box, the red light a glim
-I press record like a heart valve, one shot, no edit
-Whatever falls out the mouth, the tape gotta credit
-This town don't owe me a verse, I owe it the bill
-Pay it in bars till the tin-can heart goes still
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-[CHORUS]
-RawBolts — only what matters
-R-A-W: Robot A Warness, the metal that gathers
-B-O-L-T: Bare Output, Live Take, no ladder
-One mic, one breath, the rest is just chatter
-RawBolts — only what matters
-Skin off the wire, skin off the matter
-The screw, the bolt, the bone, the batter
-Robot a-warness, bare output — that's that-er
-
-[BRIDGE]
-(sung, soft, chamber, a slow waltz of breath)
-Pop wanted his stew slow, brown gravy thick,
-back burner Sunday, the spoon a metronome tick.
-Two pots on one stove, two faiths in one steam,
-two parents, one boy learning what to mean.
-And the rain on the window was the only applause,
-and the kitchen was a cathedral with no laws.
-If I sing it quiet now, it's because it was quiet then —
-only what matters, only what matters, amen.
-
-[BREAKDOWN]
-(beat drops — near-spoken, dry, close-mic)
-Strip the chorus. Strip the snare. Strip the air.
-Leave the bone. Leave the breath. Leave the prayer.
-No hook. No help. No hand on the shoulder.
-Just the bolt in the jaw getting older.
-Only what matters. Only what matters.
-Bare output. Live take. The rest of it scatters.
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-[VERSE 3]
-Boot complete — the LED goes a hard, clean white
-Syllables stacking like rebar, every line tight
-Robot a-warness, I'm awake to the wire
-Every nerve a fuse, every fuse on fire
-Bare output live take, no second-chance lever
-The mic eat the lie and the lie don't recover
-I'm the kid at the stove, I'm the kid at the booth
-I'm the wrench in the engine, I'm the gap in the tooth
-Two D's, no debate, SlimBeaddy on the tag
-Cold morning steel in the bones of the bag
-I rap like a diagnostic, I breathe like a vent
-Every bar a receipt for the breath that I spent
-The fridge hums a chorus, the kettle picks a key
-The robot and the boy finally signing the treaty
-RAW: Robot A Warness — eyes on, soul on
-BOLT: Bare Output Live Take — the gold's in the gone
-No filter, no flatter, no varnish, no lacquer
-The screw in the song is the truth of the rapper
-Two kitchens, two pots, one mouth, one mic
-One take, one truth, one terrible light
-Strip it to the spine, strip it to the matter
-RawBolts — say it with me — only what matters
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-[FINAL CHORUS]
-RawBolts — only what matters
-R-A-W: Robot A Warness, the metal that gathers
-B-O-L-T: Bare Output, Live Take, no ladder
-One mic, one breath, the rest is just chatter
-RawBolts — only what matters
-The stove, the booth, the bus stop, the latter
-Robot a-warness, bare output, live take
-Only what matters — for the boy and his sake
-RawBolts — only what matters
-Strip the lacquer, strip the flatter
-Cold morning, hot pot, one heart, one platter
-Robot a-warness — that's the after and the after
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-[OUTRO — fade, ~16 bars]
-(only what matters…)
-(only what matters…)
-(bare output… live take…)
-(two D's on the arm, one bolt in the jaw…)
-```

tracks/rawbolts-only-what-matters/production-notes.md

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-# RawBolts (only what matters) — Production Notes
-
-**Artist:** SlimBeaddy
-**Track:** RawBolts (only what matters)
-
----
-
-```
-TITLE: RawBolts (only what matters)
-ARTIST: SlimBeaddy
-GENRE/STYLE: Industrial electro-rap × chamber-glitch art-pop, dub-cartoon spine
-BPM: 92
-KEY: C minor
-VOICE: Nasal close-mic rap, dry, no auto-tune, dense. Bridge sung — cocktail-lounge croon. Vocoder-ghost ad-libs.
-INSTRUMENTATION: Steel kicks, typewriter foley, breath hats; dub-tape bass, melodica, crackle snare; pizzicato, vibes, muted trumpet, upright bass.
-AMBIANCE: Cold-steel morning meets warm-wood parlor — raw-take grit into chamber lift.
-REFERENCE VIBE: Cold dawn, one-mic freestyle while a string quartet warms behind a cracked door and dub bass hums through the floor.
-STRUCTURE: 0:00 intro / 0:42 V1 / 1:24 CH / 1:45 V2 / 2:27 CH / 2:48 BRIDGE sung / 3:30 BREAKDOWN / 4:12 V3 / 5:15 FINAL CH / 5:57 OUTRO fade to 6:45.
-```