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

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 thirteen-track concept collection is a work of artistic imagination inspired by real emotional landscapes — some moments drawn directly from lived experience, others constructed from observation, metaphor, and the psychological spaces that exist between what happens and how we process it.

DEPMG Presents: Lost in the Mind of R.S. Frazier is Neo-Soul Noir — a grown man's psychological diary moving through desire, seduction, temptation, nightlife, moral complexity, and grief. Rather than a literal narrative, it is an artistic exploration of the mind during moments of choice and consequence. Some elements are inspired by things throughout Frazier's whole life. Others are left up to interpretation. The best way to engage with art like this is to enter the mind, follow the feeling, and arrive at your own understanding of what the album means.

The Inspiration

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. She passed away in March 2022 — one week after going into remission, with the family arriving one step too late. That specific grief — the grief of proximity without presence, of the moment that ran out of time — is the emotional origin of this album. It is not the story of the album. It is what the album grew from.

This grief opened a creative space. Three months after her passing, in June 2022, he went home to his mother's house, brought back those old notebooks, and started writing again. The singer he had put down in 2007 picked himself back up — not through autobiography, but through art.

"It is a concept album — a work of art inspired by emotional truth but not confined to it. Some moments are drawn from life. Others are imagined. Many exist in the space between, left deliberately open to interpretation."

The Album

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. Thirteen tracks spanning Contemporary R&B, Modern R&B, Neo-Soul, R&B House, Afrobeats/Amapiano, TrapSoul, and orchestral balladry — a psychological journey through one man's inner life moving through temptation, desire, moral complexity, and consequence.

Tracklist

Release Timeline

Album Details

Artist: RichFraz
Format: Concept Album
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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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 — thirteen 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

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

Artist

RichFraz (Richard S. Frazier)

Release Date

August 21, 2026

Format

Concept Album

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

This is a concept album — a work of artistic imagination inspired by real emotional landscapes. Some moments are drawn directly from lived experience. Others are constructed from observation and metaphor. Many are left deliberately open to interpretation. The best way to engage with this album is to enter the mind, follow the feeling, and arrive at your own understanding of what it means.

Thirteen tracks moving through desire, seduction, temptation, nightlife, moral complexity, and grief. A psychological journey through one man's inner life during moments of choice and consequence. Written, produced, and vocally arranged entirely by RichFraz. The album spans Contemporary R&B, Modern R&B, Neo-Soul, R&B House, Afrobeats/Amapiano, TrapSoul, and orchestral balladry without losing its identity for a single moment.

"Some elements are inspired by things throughout a lifetime. Others are left up to interpretation. That's the best way to do art and get lost inside the mind of an artist."

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
YouTube: youtube.com/@RDotDizzle11

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