Teller Bank$, Crambone - No Sympathy 4 Dead Men

Sometimes the internet is just a terrible place to be. I posted last night on my twitter:

“Making music 100% by yourself at all times is not fun. There’s not many feelings worse than recording/producing something amazing and playing it back for an empty room. I don’t even have an engineer, it’s literally just me in here every day.”

The responses I got varied- everything from people going the whole 9 yards to my bandcamp page and purchasing my music, to making ignorant assumptions about my character, insulting my art and telling me i lack skill/drive/passion etc.. but for every negative or snarky comment there was 2 artists that felt just like me.

A producer named Crambone responded to my tweet saying:

“When my health started fading mfkas straight disappeared. Now it feels like something I do to just pass the time till I die. Shits depressing”

That really stuck with me. Here I was feeling really low in the moment and normally I try to save face and be tough or funny but I just allowed myself to be vulnerable and express how I was actually feeling. Something about this particular reply stuck with me so I sent him a message like ‘yo if you got any beats you wanna get out there send em my way” and he did. I ended up recording on three joints- I went back and checked his bio on Twitter to see where he was from and I learned he’s a dad that’s currently living with ALS. He’d been producing for like 30 years and was recently feeling so discouraged he was thinking about selling his equipment.

Man.

It’s like sometimes what you think is for you is really for everybody. That thing you feel that you’re afraid to say needs to be said.
It takes a lot to be vulnerable and to admit you need something or somebody- in that moment we both did. There’s no way to know how either of our stories go if I had been been too embarrassed to reach out, even if it was just into the abyss of the often terrible internet.

I ended up recording a 3 song EP over the beats he sent me - I told him I was going to release it tomorrow to all y’all and we could split the money 50/50 whatever it’s end up being- (he told me to keep it all but I don’t think he knows I have one the best musical communities and some the best supporters that exist anywhere so I’m definitely going to give him his 50 lmao)

It would mean a lot to me of y’all supported this one. Don’t feel obligated to pay anything for it if you don’t have it, but if you do good music is valuable and can make legitimately make the world a better place for all of us.

Thank you always

-TB$

Produced by Crambone
Written Performed Recorded Mixed & Mastered by Teller Bank$ (IN 3 HOURS!!!!)

Album Art by Lucius Pham