Torture Realm

Standard edition cover art, featuring a picture of Kekoa B's friend

## Background

### Cover art origin

The artwork for the mixtape is one of the most bizarre covers out of all the Ballz 2 Da Wall projects. It is made up of about three different colors, accompanied by a range of different text fonts mashed into the title. One of the obvious things to point out is the face staring back at you. This image was taken from Kekoa B's friend's Instagram stories, which used a selfie of himself completely whited out, 'slapped' onto an array of meme templates. It is unknown, even to me, Kekoa B, why I decided to use this picture.

In the 'face' you can find an abundance of seemingly random text, saying such things as "I am hungry. I am sick." and "This mixtape is dedicated to Ballz 2 Da Wall". According to Kekoa B, these have no meaning and were purely random thoughts, typed into the cover, during its creation.

## Production

### Early stages (Kids With Music Vol. 2 & OFF LIMITS: THE ALBUM)

Before Torture Realm's production even began, Kekoa B was working on experimenting with more synths and weird soundscapes. Before any production started, he produced a few tracks and beats here and there, along with written lyrics, but only one of the tracks would release at the time, being "LOVENEVERTRUST! / Bae's Loathing", which remains his best song to this day. It wasn't meant to be a part of any mixtape/EP and was rather just a single, produced in a couple hours, to push his skills. The first signs of a mixtape in production was when he brought back a cancelled project by the name "Kids With Music Vol. 2", which was supposed to remix and finish songs that were either cancelled or unfinished during the first Kids With Music project. After a couple tracks were redone, Kekoa B set his sights on making higher quality beats, but keeping them absurd to a degree, which brought him to the next phase of the mixtape's early development.

Later, during the latter months of summer, Kekoa B decided to revive an old EP, turned mixtape, therefore he renamed "Kids With Music Vol. 2" to "OFF LIMITS: THE ALBUM". But the idea didn't last very long and was soon dropped. Again, Kekoa returned to the original idea, naming it "KDS/W/MSC" and redoing the concept as a whole, making it a deluxe version, including a second disc for volume 2 tracks. Although later it would be put on hold and separated, creating Torture Realm's concept.

The events don't follow a specific order, as Torture Realm was a joke idea that Kekoa B had, during late 2022, but was a part of the concept for OFF LIMITS: THE ALBUM, which came around the same time. Torture Realm was later set for an official release date and had a track list. Over the next few months, it would receive massive changes and hit a lot of creative blocks. This lead to many track lists and beats being changed or scrapped, bringing us to the eventual Version 4 of Torture Realm.

## Expanded Edition

### Featured Artists

Lil Rakija, Groge, Luca Italiano, MC Dodko Gagarin, !!c00lboi!!, Poop Poop

## Tracklists

### Version 1: October 2022 - November 2022

1. Torture Realm (Intro)
2. Parental Advisory / Explicit Content
3. Cat-Astrophe (feat. Poop Poop)
4. Asterisk\* (feat. Lil Rakija)
5. LOVENEVERTRUST! /Bae's Loathing
6. off\_limits.exe
7. Yellow
8. Who Asked? (Interlude) (feat. Groge)
9. R>I>P>
10. Please, Help Me!

#### Bonus tracks:

1. 41@#%is82the5\*name#
2. Bad Boy (Polyglot Remix)
3. Goldstrvck
4. Absurdist (ENCORE!)

### Version 2: December 2022 - January 2023

1. Torture Realm AKA "Welcome To Hell" (Intro)
	* Name shortened to "Welcome To Hell" as well as the song getting replaced.
2. Sexy Flabbergasted Rapper
3. Blah! BLAH! blah! (feat. Groge)
	* Track was replaced in V3, then feature was moved to a different track.
4. Asterisk\* (Interlude)
5. LOVENEVERTRUST! / Bae's Loathing
6. off\_limits.exe AKA "Untitled"
	* Track was later changed to only include "off\_limits.exe".
7. ABSURDIST!
	* Named changed. Added to the tracklist as an official part.
8. Bad Boy (Polyglot Remix)
	* Added to the mixtape as an official part, instead of bonus.
9. Who Asked? (Interlude)
10. Sleepy Freestyle (feat. Luca Italiano)
11. R>I>P> (feat. Poop Poop)
	* Feature was removed, since Poop had become an inactive member of B2DW.
12. Macedonia (feat. Lil Rakija)
13. Sharting My Pants
	* Removed in V3 due to lack of creativity.
14. kazakhstan isn't real
	* Removed in V3, but brought back in V4.
15. AAAAAAAAAAAAHHH (feat. !!c00lboi!!)
	* Name was later changed to "Chaos Theory".
16. Please, Help Me!!!
	* Track was later changed to "Torture Realm".

### Version 3: February 2023 - March 2023

1. Welcome To Hell (Intro)
2. Sexy Flabbergasted Rapper
3. Chronically Online (K.Y.W.)
	* Added later in March in order to extend the period before the first interlude.
4. Asterisk\* (Interlude)
5. LOVENEVERTRUST! / Bae's Loathing
6. off\_limits.exe
	* Track was later changed to "Untitled" in order to match the single.
7. ABSURDIST!
8. Bad Boy (Remix)
9. Who Asked? (Interlude)
10. Sleepy Freestyle (feat. Luca Italiano)
11. R>I>P>
12. Macedonia (feat. Lil Rakija)
	* Due to major delays, track removed and put on hold for the expanded edition.
13. Suvetska Gang (feat. MC Dodko Gagarin)
	* Removed in V4, since neither artist had started working on the song in time.
14. Kazakhstan Isn't Real (feat. Poop Poop)
	* Shortly after being added to the track list, it was taken off temporarily.
15. Chaos Theory (prod. !!c00lboi!!)
16. Torture Realm (Outro)
17. Epilogue
	* Added for no particular reason.

### Version 4: Late March 2023 (final version)

1. Welcome To Hell (Intro)
2. Sexy Flabbergasted Rapper
3. Chronically Online (K.Y.W.)
4. Asterisk\* (Interlude)
5. LOVENEVERTRUST! / Bae's Loathing
6. Untitled (feat. Groge & Poop Poop)
7. ABSURDIST!
8. Bad Boy (Polyglot Remix)
9. Who Asked? (Interlude)
10. Sleepy Freestyle (feat. Luca Italiano)
11. R>I>P>
12. Copyright Free (Trippie's Demo Tape)
13. Internet Freestyle (feat. Groge)
	* Added last moment, as to replace "Blah! BLAH! blah!".
14. Kazakhstan Isn't Real (feat. Poop Poop)
	* Brought back to fill in for missing features, includes Kazakh rapper, Poop Poop on the track.
15. Chaos Theory (prod. !!c00lboi!!)
16. Torture Realm (Outro)
17. Epilogue