For The Win

For The Win is the first official SoundCloud EP recorded and produced by KrabbyLama, which was released on January 15, 2021.

After Layne first scored onto the underground hip hop scene with his infamous diss track towards fellow high school student Wyatt Kinkela (#FREEKRABBY), he wanted to continue pursuing music further. Unsure of which route to take creatively, he began experimenting with several singles including Draw the Line and Hustle Stars 64. In December 2019, Layne took a different approach to his music and released an emotional ballad titled Before All Hope Departs while dealing with an uncomfortable break-up.

Returning to his hip hop roots, Layne released Super Krabby on May 1, 2020, which soon pushed him to writing more songs of that sort. Earn My Wings eventually followed and was released on September 13, 2020, announcing a SoundCloud EP in the works.

At first, Layne was eager to put together a "storyline-based" EP that would replicate the tone of Before All Hope Departs. All that ever surfaced of this project remains on SoundCloud and is a techno-pop love ballad titled Confessions (released November 2020). He got inspired to produce a hip hop EP after listening to his friend Dylan's material around that time. They talked about their passion and decided to collaborate on a song together, which would eventually be known as Special Verses.

Upon release of this EP, Layne received gracious feedback during that weekend. This would mark the beginning of Layne's part-time SoundCloud career. He plans to work towards YouTube a bit more and it's unclear what will happen once he graduates, but for the time being, Layne hopes to get as much done as humanly possible before he burns out.

Facts
- Kriminal and Scum were two tracks produced during production that were meant to fill the spots of Get Lost and Happening Fool, but were eventually rejected from the final cut.
 * Kriminal would have entailed another story-telling premise similar to Super Krabby and would be sampling Gwen's song A Criminal Mind. 
 * Scum would have featured Layne's guitar-playing as an original sample and had written the lyrics for this particular track prior to transitioning the song into what would be known as Happening Fool.

- For the EP cover art, Layne's sister Stacia can be seen in the background wearing a gray hoodie.

Track List
All tracks produced and written by KrabbyLama except what is starred