Jacob Griscom

Music

A creative journal exploring the intersection of poetry, rap, and AI-generated sound. This is a personal process, not a commercial endeavor.

33 tracks · 33 with audio · 82:34 total

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Quid Pro Quo

Transactional distrust. Interrogating hidden costs behind offers, deals, and alliances.

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Selected Works

AI-generated works shared as a creative journal. These pieces are not offered for commercial distribution.

  • Quid Pro Quo

    Transactional distrust. Interrogating hidden costs behind offers, deals, and alliances.

  • My Tongue

    Identity conflict and voice reclamation. Wanting to speak from origin while addicted to performance.

  • 1950s America

    A panoramic audit of the 1950s mythos. Nostalgia invoked, then stress-tested.

  • iSuck

    Self-sabotage as performance critique. Art versus algorithm, winning feels empty but still counts.

  • Midwife My Life

    Growth as emergence, not rescue. Vulnerability meets irony when self-help promises meet lived experience.

  • A Little Story

    Creative urgency meets visibility anxiety. Surreal dreams dissolve into the question: how will they hear me?

  • Hard Core Shit

    Masculinity-as-noise. Bravado stacked until it collapses under its own absurdity.

  • AT&T

    Corporate captivity as Stockholm syndrome. Automated phone trees, hold music, and the absurdity of modern customer service.

  • Heart's Gone Crazy

    Acute anxiety as phonetic slippage. Panic narrated with wit, ending in bodily grounding.

  • Pride Suicide

    Ego collapse staged as bravado. Pride becomes armor and noose; clout fails under scarcity.

  • Blame Dad

    Intergenerational wound processing. Blame as shorthand for origin pain; regulation at the seeds.

  • Cutting Mother

    Severance as initiation. Separation from inherited identity through rupture and self-reinvention.

  • Poet, Lover, Fool

    Integration arc. Reframing creation as presence, intimacy, and risk over optimization.

  • Dating

    Exploratory vulnerability. Dating as liminal practice—skill-building versus soul-mate fantasy.

  • Poly Jesus

    Manic overflow resolving into moral longing—hunger for distributed forgiveness.

  • Rip Current

    Momentum without control—attraction plus ego pulling someone away from safety.

  • Hangin' with Myself

    Self-attachment as stability—solitude as chosen companionship rather than lack.

  • Forces Inside Me

    Multiplicity without a controller—identity as forces arising and dissolving moment-to-moment.

  • Money

    Anxiety loop named out loud—money as nervous system regulator, self-talk spirals, and finding grounding through persistence.

  • Nature of Man

    Playful inquiry into human capability versus impulse—divine plans alongside canned spam.

  • Please Save Me

    Cognitive overload seeking rescue—90s boom-bap aesthetic narrating sensory saturation and dissociation.

  • Undigested Mind Stuff

    Creative intervention framed as surgical intimacy—bypassing intellect to access imagination and feeling.

  • Promise of Control

    Early conditioning as quiet capture—tracing how comfort is traded for systems that hollow trust and presence.

  • Viola

    Small domestic ritual as intimacy—presence-through-absence, care expressed indirectly, magic left behind.

  • Bought and Sold

    Moral compression under economic gravity—questioning whether hardness or bravado is a response to being commodified.

  • Serious or Jest

    Vitality versus mortality framed as play—learning through motion rather than control.

  • Heart String

    Voluntary vulnerability—love as a tensile line, going all in not to win but to begin.

  • Omissions by Decision

    Future-orientation as selective blindness—what's excluded to feel okay.

  • Spill Your Guts

    Confrontational awakening—a call to vulnerability over self-pity.

  • Biography

    A life in verses—birth, growth, travel, fatherhood, loss, and the ongoing search for meaning.

  • Fixin' to Mix In

    Identity tension between assimilation and authenticity—blending in as survival versus exposure.

  • Cree Tent

    Grief filtered through disorientation—seeking communal holding when private coping fails.

  • Can't Admit I Need Saving

    Self-awareness stalled by pride and momentum—cosmic perspective compressed into hustle and burnout.

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The Process

Poetry

It starts with words. Observations, insights, fragments of meaning distilled into verse.

Rap

The poetry finds rhythm. Voice recordings capture the flow and intent of the words.

AI Generation

AI tools transform the recordings into full productions, adding musical landscapes.

Curation

Listen, feel, experiment and curate. The ideas in one poem can be explored in many ways.