Keogea navigates the crushing weight of expected betrayal on his bleak new single “BROKEN PROMISES”. The New York City artist combines alternative hip-hop and emo rap into an atmosphere that feels brutally, intensely isolating.
He anchors the track with a somber, plucked melodic loop. It repeats endlessly, mirroring a mind stuck on a painful, inescapable thought. Underneath, a massive, rhythmic bass pulse hits like an exhausted heartbeat. Through it all, his harmonized, auto-tuned vocals bleed a profound weariness into the room.
Keogea isn’t reacting to fresh shock. He is entirely resigned.
The deceit he describes has stopped being an anomaly and settled into a grueling, familiar cycle. He confronts the strange reality of dealing with a shattered situationship while feeling entirely perceived, as though his personal suffering is being staged for an audience. It takes real courage to sit in that despondent space, tracing your own mistakes until some quiet clarity finally appears out of the wreckage. The track zeroes in on the raw energy of loss, and out of that darkness, a fragile resilience eventually forms.
When dishonesty becomes your most reliable companion, how do you keep the quiet paranoia from eating you alive?
