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Emerging hip-hop artist, Saint Tatum shines light on his truth in his latest EP, Are You Awake Yet. The young rapper seeks connection with listeners by telling his stories authentically—and set to a solid beat.
Hailing from eastern Canada and raised across multiple households, Saint Tatum is a bold storyteller eager to share his stories with the world. At only 16 years old, he is on track to continue developing his unique sound as he puts out EP after EP.
Even when he’s at school, Saint Tatum is thinking up his next hit. “During free time, I’m trying to find my next beat and write my lyrics to that beat. I don’t really stop at school. I just like doing music.”
“I want to spread my love and all good intentions as other artists have done for me,” adds Saint Tatum, who is set on creating a style uniquely his own. He finds inspiration in hip hop, particularly mumble rap, but his homegrown sound infuses a variety of styles.
Saint Tatum has loved music for as long as he can remember; the confidence to make his own, however, took time to develop. “I never thought I had talent because I didn’t like my voice. But then I came to a point where I realized that everyone has their own voice and a different way to tell stories. You’ve just got to find it.”
When it comes to crafting his songs, Saint Tatum always starts with the beat. “I don’t write unless I hear the melody,” shares Saint Tatum. “It comes from my heart—it’s authentic. I have inspirations but I try and sound the furthest away from them and more of what I sound like—more like myself.”
Currently, he produces his music from a home studio. Working with a MacBook and Focusrite Scarlett Interface, Saint Tatum captures his sound and produces each track. As for software, he prefers BandLab because of one effect he loves using time and time again.
Saint Tatum’s new EP, Are You Awake Yet, contains six self-produced tracks. “I think they have their own sound. They’re similar, but not all have the same vibe—there’s different emotions to them.”
The first two tracks, “The Mirage” and “Love It Like That” have what Saint Tatum calls a “more nonchalant vibe.” “The Spot” explores a more psychedelic sound, leaning on vocal effects to set it apart. “Abominal” returns to the “nonchalant” chill of earlier tracks.
Saint Tatum’s favorite track of the bunch, “Don’t Ask Me Why,” is based off pure emotion. “I layered my voice with a negative state of mind. Every time I listen to it, I can feel it,” explains the artist.
In terms of sound, “Pretty Boy Life” shares a similar beat with “The Mirage” and “Love It Like That,” which has become a fan favorite. Overall, Saint Tatum’s voice and musicality ring true across all tracks.
“I want listeners to feel connected when they listen to my songs,” tells Saint Tatum. “When I listen to songs, it’s like some artists are explaining your life. They’re relatable. I want that relatability. Not everyone will feel that way, but certain people will see we’re the same.”
Ultimately, Saint Tatum wants listeners to know he’s made a community for them. “Feel free to check it out and see if it’s a space you resonate with,” he adds. “You can’t know about me unless you want to find out what the space is like.”
Make sure to stay connected to Saint Tatum on all platforms for new music, videos, and social posts.
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NETHERLANDS — August 26, 2026 — Brook Lynn is stepping into a new chapter with “Love Your Enemy,” an atmospheric alternative pop song that turns an intensely personal battle with anxiety into a message of self-acceptance. Written after her America’s Got Talent auditions, the song captures the internal conflict of facing the person who can be hardest to silence: yourself.
Built around cinematic production and emotionally restrained vocals, “Love Your Enemy” explores the disconnect between appearing fine in public and confronting difficult thoughts in private. The song’s central message is reflected in its chorus, where Brook Lynn sings about being “my own worst company” before arriving at its most hopeful realization: “They say, ‘Love your enemy,’ / So I’m learning how to love me.”
For Brook Lynn, that “enemy” is anxiety. Rather than presenting it as something that simply disappears, the song examines what it means to live with those thoughts while refusing to let them dictate what comes next.
“I always want to give a hopeful message in every song,” Brook Lynn explains. “I always first want to explain what is happening in your head and what you feel, and then, at the end, give a message that you can get out of this, and that anxiety doesn’t have to hold you back from all the things you want to achieve in your life.”
That message became especially significant when Brook Lynn made the decision to perform “Love Your Enemy” on America’s Got Talent. Known by many viewers for her stripped-back cover performances, she recognized that performing an original song on one of television’s biggest stages carried a different kind of risk. But she also knew she could not continue forward without showing audiences the artist behind the covers.
“I just thought it was really important to also show the world that I’m not just a cover singer,” she says. “I do want people to know that I write songs and I want to be an artist and put that out there.”
Brook Lynn performed “Love Your Enemy” during the America’s Got Talent quarterfinals, bringing the song’s story of anxiety and self-doubt directly to a massive live audience. Her journey on the show ended there, but the response made one thing clear: listeners wanted to hear more. Fans connected not only with her voice, but with the honesty behind the performance and the willingness to speak openly about emotions many people struggle to acknowledge themselves.
“I do want to be that person with my music as well for other people,” Brook Lynn says, describing her desire to write about real experiences and feelings. “I always want to be really real with everyone, like talk about deeper stuff, not surface level.”
“Love Your Enemy” arrives as Brook Lynn looks ahead to Tales From The Woods, an upcoming EP intended to introduce listeners to a broader picture of who she is as an artist. With only two original songs currently released, she says she is excited to share more music and continue developing the sound and emotional world introduced through “Love Your Enemy.”
The song is not a conclusion to Brook Lynn’s story. It is the beginning of a more open one—one where anxiety can be acknowledged without being allowed to take control, and where the feelings people are often afraid to say out loud can finally have a voice.
Listen to “Love Your Enemy,” which received promotional support from Starlight PR.
Brook Lynn creates music that feels intimate yet powerful, cinematic yet emotionally exposed. Blending atmospheric alternative pop with minimalist visual storytelling, her work explores vulnerability, isolation, emotional tension and human connection through a distinctly modern lens.
Raised in Wilp, a small town in the Netherlands, Brook Lynn grew up surrounded by silence, nature and isolation. Music became a private emotional outlet and a way to process feelings that were difficult to explain out loud. What began through stripped-back online performances evolved into a growing global audience drawn to her honesty and emotional depth.
For Brook Lynn, music is never just about being heard. It is about being understood.
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