Built a sound nobody asked for and 60 million streams later, everybody's still trying to name it. Started as a question — can a machine feel like 1976 — and the answer's been playing on repeat in cars from Philly to Houston ever since. Press calls it AI music. The people just call it the song that's been stuck in their head for three weeks.

Spent thirty years building everybody else's empire before he built his own — the kind of resume that doesn't fit on a label credit. First mic time in three decades, and he's not warming up, he's settling a score. 717 in every syllable. The half of this record that was never supposed to take this long, and somehow needed every bit of it.