“I was there
You were there
And what they say
Bears no resemblance…”
if the news are fake imagine history
Brothers and sisters! I'm writing to you from our new home in Nashville, Tennessee... I arrived on Saturday, which also happened to be my birthday. As an absolutely perfect birthday present, I got my wife and my son back and this beautiful new home that I am writing to you from right now... With a new life, a new country, a new home, we have a new single, and it just so happens to be the very first Akira The Don-penned vocal track since the beginning of our Mexican journey - what was it, five years ago now?
if the news are fake imagine history
Stylized in lowercase, as it was inspired by the immortal @amusechimp tweet from 2017 that's rattled around my head ever since, as it perfectly encapsulated a deep truth that, as the son of a historian, I had always known full well, and that had always haunted me
The way one arranges your words is crucial... Had Amused Chimp written, "If the news is fake, imagine history," it would not have been as sticky. It was that ‘are”, that throws the brain out of joint for a few seconds upon first encountering it, that truly cemented it as the definitive slogan for that eternal truth.
Funnily enough, I had planned to make some songs based around the many great tweets of Amuse Chimp back in 2017 or so... However, around then he stopped tweeting… only to return six months ago quite mysteriously, at which point he followed me and then deleted his account a week later.
Nobody seems to know the real identity of the mysterious simian avatar… I suspected for a while it might be an alt of Naval's... and I shall likely be seeing Naval soon, so I will ask him. Although I do doubt he would admit it if it were the case.
Regardless, what we have here is known parochially as a banger... and I do hope you enjoy it.
if the news are fake imagine history
...Is out now on all platforms.
Normally at this point in the email, I would announce a stream or something... However, as mentioned earlier, we just arrived in Nashville and I do not yet have any kind of a studio setup... I am in fact writing this to you from the kitchen table, looking out the window, observing squirrels and colorful little birds frolicking merrily like something out of a late 30s Walt Disney cartoon.
Keep an eye on the channels for progress on the relocation... for example, I posted a video earlier this week in which I delightedly rode around Nashville in a robot car.
Me on X earlier this week if I still love living in the future.
Clearly, I do.
LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!
Akira The Don
Nashville, USA, May 2026
