A lifetime of music

More than 1,000 tracks written & produced since booting up Fruity Loops in 2003

2016 Rap Group of the Year, Carolina Music Awards
Free The Optimus

Featured in 2015 Cannes Film Festival
“The Cypher Documentary”

Albums

  • Dog Yeet Dog (2020)

    Pandemic beat album featuring some of my best unreleased material from over the years. Inspired by MF DOOM’s Special Herbs & Spices instrumental collection.

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  • Functional Adult Club for Kids (2018)

    An hour of my best hip hop beats and instrumentals. Sample-based grooves and unique soundwaves for your ears.

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  • Into The Sun (2016)

    VTH Album #2, pushing the sound into what we called “Vapor Rock” – a blend of rock, rap, and pop with a smidgeon of electronic influence. We got a little weird with this one and had a ton of fun.

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  • Shep Write Good Soongs (2016)

    A catchy smattering of acoustic demos and live jams, featuring the great local homie hit: “Fuck This Homework Load”.

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  • Secondhand Sunshine (2015)

    The first Vanilla The Hun album, featuring some of my most iconic rock/pop tracks. Home to the unexpected tongue-in-cheek hit, “T*ts Out For The Boys”, which has continued to gain steam in Australia & New Zealand for a decade.

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  • Burning Leaf Technique (2012)

    A dope hip hop album, and the first album I executive produced all the beats for. Made with my long-time friend Chris Shreve, and the first kick-in-the-door moment for Shreve’s music collective Free The Optimus, which won Rap Group of the Year at the 2016 Carolina Music Awards.

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Shep, THERMIDOR Practice Session

I’ve had an amazing acoustic album (THERMIDOR) written since 2015, but I can never seem to finish recording it! But every so often I bust it out for a couple play throughs. During the pandemic, I filmed some live sessions where I was sharing music from my catalog. Here is the first half of Thermidor for your enjoyment.

Shep, Dream For Two.

I moved my living room into my car for this one-man, one-take music video, shot while driving around my neighborhood in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Vanilla The Hun, Stand With You

Me and the boys wrote a song in response to the Paris terror attacks in 2015 and filmed a music video for it.

Mind Ninjas, “Woody Harrelson”

My first legit hip hop project. Chris Shreve and I shot this fun music video in the Carolina Highlands.

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