Calmness through the Chaos

Calmness through the Chaos

- 2 mins
music peace reflection

Russ has slowly become one of my favorite music artists. His independant hustle and growth over time has caught my attention more and more. I have been listening to his music for a decade now but these last 5 years since my brother has passed he has unpacked levels of emotions through bars that have helped me over the years. His specific song waves has helped me clear my mind during my darkest times of greif. His hit Do it Myself may have been the catalyst to overcoming self doubt, overthinging, and anxiety which allowed me to finish multiple projects around my house and finish a long list of tasks that I was procrastinating to finish. His music, which has no similarity to my twin brothers music, has a way to calm me down and connect stronger with him like my brothers music did. His most recent album W!LD has a few song that get me so hyped up during the day that I end up listening to these songs 5 times back to back without caring who is around. I havent felt that way about music since I was in middle school.

His journey through music talk alot about unpacking issues through therapy and sadness and self-reflection. I tend to feel like anytime I hear an interview or read a tweet from him I get happy for him and his success and sad that my brother wont ever be able to discuss his music with me or get to that level of success because he is no longer here (RIP).

In his new album he has a song called Gettin Too it with DJ Lucas. This or Pent Up in a Penthouse are growing to be my favorite songs on the album but the verse from DJ Lucas and his lyrics, have blown me away! Going through DJ Lucas’s work and discovering him through Russ made me feel the same feeling my brother and I felt when listing to Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool album back in the day. The way that music is able to pull you back to the good ole days and keep you there for at least 2 minutes and 38 seconds astonishes me.

I’m writing this to be able to read this later in the future and remind myself a few things.

  1. Russ built a career from scratch, just like I did with Linux, Automation, and Software Engineering.

  2. If Russ can find ways to navigate through these lonely roads, then I can too

  3. Like Thanos, I can finally rest, and watch the sunrise on a grateful universe

My work is not done, but the road I have carved for myself in the tech field and the places I have gone will continue to take me to places I have not yet. The only constant in life is change and im still getting to it. Hopefully Russ reads this one day and knows that someone in the tech world is listening to his music and is rooting for him.