Hip-hop artist Wreckless_ takes a side tour into R&B with love song “I’m Coming”

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“I’m Coming,” a slow, soft, soulful track, is a song about the possibility of redemption through love and is at the same time a foray by Native American rapper Wreckless_ into R&B.

Wreckless_, the artist name for Dakota Soldier, was written for a friend during a time when Wreckless_ was going through rehab from a period of street life and drugs in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

“That was for a girl that I really liked,” he said. “She’s always been there for me.”

This was after his baby-mama left him, “I kind of like fell apart” and fell into life on the street, which involved drugs and jail.

“And I met Fay,” he said. “She’s a really good girl. She goes to church, and she is always praying for me. She was always there for me.”

He wanted more than friendship and tried to turn the friendship into something deeper, but she didn’t want to. Eventually, he said, he fell deeply into a street life of drugs and crime, and they drifted out of contact.

“She just couldn’t do it anymore. “They usually don’t, the good ones. They won’t stick around for that stuff.”

After a year, though, he entered rehab and got clean, and one day he found a friend request from her. That is when he wrote “I’m Coming” for her.

“We started talking again, and that’s when I wrote that song. I sent it to her and she messaged me back immediately. She loved it.”

Walking down this path to a dead-end road
All exits passed, there’s no where left to go
I wanna change for you,
I want to turn around

And that is when, about a year ago, Wreckless_ got back into music. He put an underground mixtape out on social media, and it “did pretty good,” so, he decided to take the best few songs he had ready and put them out.

“I’m Coming” is one of the latest.

“They all went crazy for that one,” he said. “I played it for my counselor at rehab and she started crying. It was a good song, and I wanted to get it out there.”

Wreckless_, who comes from Cherokee and Cheyenne stock, is now 32 and has been making music since he was 16. In between relationships since then, he would “go back to the streets for a while.”

Tahlequah, pronounced TAL (rhymes with “hal”)-ih-kwah, a city of a little more than 16,000 in eastern Oklahoma, is the capital of the Cherokee Nation and the seat of Cherokee County.

“It’s a small city-town,” he said, “but we got problems with drugs. They’re bad, like methamphetamine and they have homegrown gangs there.”

Wreckless_ and his friends at one time formed a group called GMC.

“That was the name we came up with. We’d sell drugs and make music. I was pretty popular.”

During that time, the music he made was primarily hip-hop and rap.

“That was, like I said, when I was into drugs.”

Last year, he went back into rehab and music and started taking it seriously.

“I’m Coming” got the attention of Dubbo, an Austin hip-hop star of Babygrande Records, and he and Wreckless_ collaborated on some songs.

“He really liked my music, and he told me what to do if I wanted to take it serious. You know, you got to promote, and invest in yourself, and my music career has taken off.”

Dakota has turned his life “all the way around.” From the days when his family wanted him to leave Tahlequah, he has gotten sober and is now a student at Rogers State University in Claremore.

“I got friends in prison, and in their letters they were saying, ‘You got to get out of there, bro. You gonna end up in here.’”

 “So, I took off and I went to rehab in Miami.” After a brief relapse, he got straight again early this year.

His goal is to make music his full-time career. He is working on an album, The Millennials, Volume 1, with 15 tracks, planned for a 2025 release.

His music is primarily rap. He does trap beats, hip-hop, and country, emo and punk rap, and now R&B.

“I like all genres,” he said. “I can do it all.”

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Burt Bankkz Shares Motivational Emotional Transparency with New Single “Dreams”

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Burt Bankkz is an artist who makes music based on emotional authenticity. And, this authenticity extends beyond the booth. As someone with a passion for community, his desire to spread positivity and encouragement reverberates throughout the music he makes and how he treats people around him too. His latest single, “Dreams,” tells of the obstacles he faced in his own life journey. He hopes by sharing his ideology to keep moving forward, someone else will be inspired by it and do the same in their own lives.

“I want people to feel motivated, I want them to realize they don’t have to lose hope because there’s always a better way to look at and overcome a situation.”

The track “Dreams” is a peaceful guitar based track with bouncy trap drums and rap-sung vocals from Burt and feature T-Rell. The passion comes through in Burt’s vocals as he talks of people doubting him but proving them wrong and making those who believed in him proud. Even amongst the motivational talk, he still gets a punchline in as he says “Now I’m on top like an apostrophe.” T-Rell continues this theme effectively.

When speaking with Burt, I immediately noticed his headstrong thought process when it came to how he carried himself. Being emotionally transparent in his music is one of his core focuses because he hopes people find what he says relatable. He also wants to connect with people outside of the booth and continue to spread motivation and positivity there too. He told me about how he and his team regularly host toy drives in the community around Christmas time. Even outside of these moments, Burt continues to verbally spread his positivity.

“I try to give positive feedback and input to whoever needs to hear it. Anything positive, I’m all for it.”

Heading down the path of positivity is even more important to Burt because of his past. After a series of unfortunate circumstances which included juvenile detention and incarceration, he now prides himself on making the right decisions not only for himself but for others too. With multiple people telling him how his music inspired them, he says this is what keeps him going to make more of it. He plans to drop an EP in the very near future as he continues to build his fanbase through interactions like this that are based on people relating to his authenticity.

“When I hear things like that, it shows me that people are watching and paying attention. And that helps me keep my drive going.”

Burt has plans to do more shows both locally and across state lines. He wants to connect with more people and continue to spread his motivational and uplifting music to as many people as he can. By maintaining his emotional authenticity, he knows his message will resonate with those who want and need to hear it.

“I’m not looking for recognition. The art and the craft will speak for itself. All I’m pushing is authenticity.”

You can keep up with Burt Bankkz on the following platforms.

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