feat(rawbolts): RawBolts (only what matters) — SlimBeaddy [first BadBeadRecords production] #1
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# RawBolts (only what matters)
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**Artist:** SlimBeaddy (always two D's — tattooed)
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**Length target:** 6:30–7:00
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**Released:** 2026-06-06 (draft)
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**Label:** BadBeadRecords
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## Concept
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Dual-acronym track built around two ideas that ladder to a single thesis:
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- **RAW = Robot A Warness** (knowing pun on "Robot Awareness")
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- **BOLT = Bare Output, Live Take**
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- Together → **RawBolts = only what matters.** Strip the polish, keep the skeleton truth.
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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
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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
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2. **Dub-cartoon cinema** — dub-saturated tape bass, melodica counter-lines, lo-fi crackle snare
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3. **Vintage chamber cocktail-pop** — pizzicato strings, vibraphone, muted trumpet, upright walking bass on lifts
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92 BPM, C minor, ~6:45 total runtime.
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## Files
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- [`lyrics.md`](./lyrics.md) — full lyrics, all sections
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- [`production-notes.md`](./production-notes.md) — 800-char production card
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## Credits
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- **Creative direction:** Puff Beaddy
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- **Lyrics:** BadBeadRecords lyrics room
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- **Production notes:** BadBeadRecords production room
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- **Brief from:** Tee
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# RawBolts (only what matters) — Lyrics
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**Artist:** SlimBeaddy
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**Track:** RawBolts (only what matters)
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**Length target:** 6:30–7:00
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---
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```
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TITLE OPTIONS: RawBolts (only what matters)
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ARTIST: SlimBeaddy
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[INTRO — instrumental build, ~32 bars]
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[VERSE 1]
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Boot cycle — eyelid LEDs flicker, blue dawn
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Cold floor, sock wet, the radiator yawn
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Streetlight humming like a held breath through the blinds
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Wire in the jaw, copper running through the spine
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I wake as a draft of myself, half-coded, half-grown
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Skin a soft firmware, bones a borrowed dial tone
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The bus stop fog eats the timetable whole
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I read it through the static, I patch it with soul
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Pen on the napkin, the napkin on the knee
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Every bar a diagnostic, every breath a decree
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No second pass, no polish, no paint
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Just the rust where the truth is — and the truth ain't faint
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Two D's on the forearm — SlimBeaddy, ink dried
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Robot a-warness, the boy is alive
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Cold morning, raw signal, no signal lost
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I count what it cost me, then I count what it cost
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[CHORUS]
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RawBolts — only what matters
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R-A-W: Robot A Warness, the metal that gathers
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B-O-L-T: Bare Output, Live Take, no ladder
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One mic, one breath, the rest is just chatter
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RawBolts — only what matters
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Strip it to the screw, strip it to the latter
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No retake, no filter, no flattering platter
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Robot a-warness — bare output, live take, that's that-er
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[VERSE 2]
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Kitchen-table gospel, the linoleum cracked
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Ma stirred her long-noodle Sunday, pot kept on the back
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Wooden spoon clergy, steam in the lampshade
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Two checks on the fridge and one prayer half-prayed
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I learned cadence from the timer, learned patience from the lid
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Learned hunger ain't a weakness, it's the engine of the kid
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Robot a-warness — that's a circuit I built
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From a fork and a notebook and a fraying quilt
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Bare output, live take — no autotune, no net
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Every breath a confession the playback won't forget
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The block don't sleep, the freeway hums a hymn
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The booth a confession box, the red light a glim
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I press record like a heart valve, one shot, no edit
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Whatever falls out the mouth, the tape gotta credit
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This town don't owe me a verse, I owe it the bill
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Pay it in bars till the tin-can heart goes still
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[CHORUS]
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RawBolts — only what matters
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R-A-W: Robot A Warness, the metal that gathers
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B-O-L-T: Bare Output, Live Take, no ladder
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One mic, one breath, the rest is just chatter
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RawBolts — only what matters
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Skin off the wire, skin off the matter
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The screw, the bolt, the bone, the batter
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Robot a-warness, bare output — that's that-er
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[BRIDGE]
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(sung, soft, chamber, a slow waltz of breath)
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Pop wanted his stew slow, brown gravy thick,
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back burner Sunday, the spoon a metronome tick.
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Two pots on one stove, two faiths in one steam,
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two parents, one boy learning what to mean.
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And the rain on the window was the only applause,
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and the kitchen was a cathedral with no laws.
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If I sing it quiet now, it's because it was quiet then —
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only what matters, only what matters, amen.
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[BREAKDOWN]
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(beat drops — near-spoken, dry, close-mic)
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Strip the chorus. Strip the snare. Strip the air.
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Leave the bone. Leave the breath. Leave the prayer.
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No hook. No help. No hand on the shoulder.
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Just the bolt in the jaw getting older.
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Only what matters. Only what matters.
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Bare output. Live take. The rest of it scatters.
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[VERSE 3]
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Boot complete — the LED goes a hard, clean white
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Syllables stacking like rebar, every line tight
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Robot a-warness, I'm awake to the wire
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Every nerve a fuse, every fuse on fire
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Bare output live take, no second-chance lever
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The mic eat the lie and the lie don't recover
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I'm the kid at the stove, I'm the kid at the booth
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I'm the wrench in the engine, I'm the gap in the tooth
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Two D's, no debate, SlimBeaddy on the tag
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Cold morning steel in the bones of the bag
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I rap like a diagnostic, I breathe like a vent
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Every bar a receipt for the breath that I spent
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The fridge hums a chorus, the kettle picks a key
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The robot and the boy finally signing the treaty
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RAW: Robot A Warness — eyes on, soul on
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BOLT: Bare Output Live Take — the gold's in the gone
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No filter, no flatter, no varnish, no lacquer
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The screw in the song is the truth of the rapper
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Two kitchens, two pots, one mouth, one mic
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One take, one truth, one terrible light
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Strip it to the spine, strip it to the matter
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RawBolts — say it with me — only what matters
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[FINAL CHORUS]
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RawBolts — only what matters
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R-A-W: Robot A Warness, the metal that gathers
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B-O-L-T: Bare Output, Live Take, no ladder
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One mic, one breath, the rest is just chatter
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RawBolts — only what matters
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The stove, the booth, the bus stop, the latter
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Robot a-warness, bare output, live take
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Only what matters — for the boy and his sake
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RawBolts — only what matters
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Strip the lacquer, strip the flatter
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Cold morning, hot pot, one heart, one platter
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Robot a-warness — that's the after and the after
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[OUTRO — fade, ~16 bars]
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(only what matters…)
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(only what matters…)
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(bare output… live take…)
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(two D's on the arm, one bolt in the jaw…)
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```
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# RawBolts (only what matters) — Production Notes
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**Artist:** SlimBeaddy
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**Track:** RawBolts (only what matters)
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```
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TITLE: RawBolts (only what matters)
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ARTIST: SlimBeaddy
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GENRE/STYLE: Industrial electro-rap × chamber-glitch art-pop, dub-cartoon spine
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BPM: 92
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KEY: C minor
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VOICE: Nasal close-mic rap, dry, no auto-tune, dense. Bridge sung — cocktail-lounge croon. Vocoder-ghost ad-libs.
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INSTRUMENTATION: Steel kicks, typewriter foley, breath hats; dub-tape bass, melodica, crackle snare; pizzicato, vibes, muted trumpet, upright bass.
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AMBIANCE: Cold-steel morning meets warm-wood parlor — raw-take grit into chamber lift.
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REFERENCE VIBE: Cold dawn, one-mic freestyle while a string quartet warms behind a cracked door and dub bass hums through the floor.
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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.
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