For Immediate Release · DEPMG Records · Atlanta, GA

DEPMG Presents:
Lost in the Mind
of R.S. Frazier

Available August 21, 2026

Atlanta-based MC, crooner, and novelist RichFraz — born Richard S. Frazier — announces the August 21, 2026 release of DEPMG Presents: Lost in the Mind of R.S. Frazier, his third album and first full R&B project. Written, produced, and vocally arranged entirely by Frazier, the eleven-track collection marks the culmination of a four-year creative journey rooted in grief, rediscovery, and the return of a voice set aside nearly two decades ago.

DEPMG Presents: Lost in the Mind of R.S. Frazier is Neo-Soul Noir — a grown man's psychological diary structured as a single night at work and the months of wreckage that follow. The album opens at home before the performer leaves, pulls him through desire, temptation, and seduction across eleven scenes, and closes months later with the grief he has been carrying since the beginning.

The Story

Frazier was born in Harlem in June 1984 and relocated to Blakeslee, Pennsylvania at eleven years old, where a seventh-grade chorus class at Pleasant Valley Middle School first revealed his voice as a singer. From seventh through twelfth grade he sang consistently, spending the final year and a half of high school — January 2001 through graduation in June 2002 — as a member of a five-part harmony a cappella group.

In January 2021 his grandmother was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer. For fourteen months the family fought alongside her — his mother traveling back and forth between the Poconos and Atlanta for a full year straight. When remission came there was relief. When the cancer returned his mother brought her grandmother to a care facility in Pennsylvania to be close to home. She passed away one week later. Frazier was living in New Jersey at the time. The family had planned to visit her that day. They didn't make it in time.

This was not sudden loss. This was fourteen months of watching something come, fighting it, believing you had beaten it, watching it return, doing everything right — and still arriving one step behind the ending. Three months later he went home to his mother's house, brought back old notebooks full of R&B songs written in middle school and college, and started writing again.

"The rapper was always a singer. The singer was always a writer. This is where it lands."

The Music

The result is an album that belongs entirely to one man. Every lyric written by RichFraz. Every track produced by RichFraz. Every vocal arrangement conceived and executed by RichFraz. Eleven tracks spanning Amapiano, deep house, TrapSoul, Contemporary R&B, Neo-Soul, and orchestral balladry without losing their identity for a single moment.

Tracklist

Release Timeline

Album Details

Artist: RichFraz
Label: DEPMG Records
Genre: Neo-Soul Noir
Distribution: DistroKid
For Fans Of: Maxwell, D'Angelo, The Weeknd, Bryson Tiller, Frank Ocean, Joe, Rotimi, Luther Vandross

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Official Biography

RichFraz

MC · Crooner · Novelist

"RichFraz is what happens when an MC, a crooner, and a novelist are all the same person and finally stop taking turns."

Born in Harlem in June 1984 and raised in Blakeslee, Pennsylvania, Richard S. Frazier began singing in seventh grade chorus at Pleasant Valley Middle School in Brodheadsville — and spent the final year and a half of high school as a member of a five-part harmony a cappella group before hip-hop claimed him in 2002.

The mid-to-late 1990s shaped his musical DNA with surgical precision — Michael Jackson, Prince, Jodeci, Dru Hill, Babyface, Aaliyah, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Timbaland. On the hip-hop side: Rakim, Biggie, Nas, Jay-Z, Big Pun, Big Daddy Kane, Eminem, LL Cool J, Redman, Ludacris, The Lox. His range extended into rock — Soundgarden, Rage Against the Machine, Nirvana, Audioslave, Breaking Benjamin — and deep into the soul tradition of Earth Wind & Fire, Luther Vandross, The Isley Brothers, Gap Band, and The Jacksons.

He graduated from Pleasant Valley High School in June 2002, earned an Associate of Applied Science in Radio Television Production from Northampton Community College, and graduated from East Stroudsburg University in the winter of 2008 with a Bachelor of Science in Communication Studies with a minor in Journalism.

Between 2002 and 2008 RichFraz released three mixtapes. In 2014 he released Easier Said Than Done, his debut hip-hop album. In 2021 he returned with Tale of Two Kingz. Through it all, notebooks full of R&B songs from middle school and college sat in his mother's house, waiting.

In January 2021 his grandmother was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer. For fourteen months the family fought alongside her. When the cancer returned his mother brought her to a care facility in Pennsylvania to be close to home. She passed away one week later. Frazier was living in New Jersey. The family had planned to visit that day. They didn't make it in time.

Three months later he went home to his mother's house and brought back the notebooks. The singer he had put down in 2007 picked himself back up.

In October 2025 Richard S. Frazier published Secrets of the Manuscript: The Revenant Key, his debut novel. In February 2026 he followed it with Spiral. On July 14, 2026 he releases Five Women, a literary fiction work inspired by Prince's Five Women and Donny Hathaway's Someday We'll All Be Free.

On August 21, 2026, RichFraz releases DEPMG Presents: Lost in the Mind of R.S. Frazier — eleven tracks of Neo-Soul Noir written, produced, and vocally arranged entirely by one man. His third album. His first R&B project. The return of the voice he found in seventh grade and put down in 2007.

"The mind is the only place civilization hasn't colonized." — R.S. Frazier

RichFraz is the MC. Richard S. Frazier is the novelist. R.S. Frazier is who both of them are when nobody's watching.

DEPMG Records · Atlanta, GA · press@depmg.com

Album One-Sheet · DEPMG Records

DEPMG Presents:
Lost in the Mind
of R.S. Frazier

Artist

RichFraz (Richard S. Frazier)

Release Date

August 21, 2026

Label

DEPMG Records

Genre

Neo-Soul Noir

For Fans Of

Maxwell, D'Angelo, The Weeknd, Bryson Tiller, Frank Ocean, Joe, Rotimi, Luther Vandross

About the Album

Eleven tracks structured as a single night at work and the months of wreckage that follow. A performer leaves home — leaving behind the one real thing he has — and spends the night moving through desire, temptation, seduction, and moral collapse until GHOST closes the record months later with the grief that was present from the very first scene.

Written, produced, and vocally arranged entirely by RichFraz. The album spans Amapiano, deep house, TrapSoul, Contemporary R&B, Neo-Soul, and orchestral balladry without losing its identity for a single moment.

"The rapper was always a singer. The singer was always a writer. This is where it lands."

Singles

Tracklist

Streaming & Social

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Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/richfraz/1444729870
Tidal: tidal.com/artist/10668505
Instagram: @richfraz
Facebook: facebook.com/RichFraZMusic
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