10-10 Doesn't Write Songs. He Writes Confessions.
poetry with a pulse — this one's for anyone scared to hit post

The scariest part isn't the writing
Most artists will tell you the hard part is the making. Finding the melody. Getting the mix right. Staying up till 4am chasing a feeling.
For 10-10, that's not it. The making comes natural. The man turns his poetry into music — that's the whole thing in one line. What's inside comes out, same as it always has on the page. The music is just poetry that found a heartbeat.
The hard part is posting it.
"I am exposing some of my most intimate thoughts and moments of my life for the world to see," he says. And that's still the hurdle. Not a phase he grew out of. Not a beginner's nerves. The ongoing act of hitting upload on something that is, in his own words, who I am.
Respect that. A lot of people make music to hide behind a persona. 10-10 makes music that leaves him nowhere to hide.
"Whispers of the Universe" is a real day, told straight
Here's what makes this project hit different. The title track isn't an abstraction. It isn't a mood board. It's a specific day — written about exactly what happened to him, in order, as it happened. A play-by-play of a real 24 hours.
And then it ends where the best stories end: with the lesson.
That structure tells you everything about how this artist works. No dressing it up. No inventing drama for the sake of a hook. Just the events, then the reckoning. You get to walk the day with him and land on the same understanding he landed on. That's not songwriting as performance. That's songwriting as journal entry you were trusted to read.
Music has always been the outlet — the place where what's inside gets to exist outside. Poetry did that job first. Putting the two together, to him, just made sense. And once you hear it framed that way, it makes sense to you too. Why wouldn't the words and the sound come from the same well?
Real human, real emotions — that's the whole pitch
Ask 10-10 what he wants a new listener to walk away with and there's no marketing angle, no elevator pitch. Just this:
> "I am a real human sharing real emotions and events. The lyrics are who I am."
In a scene drowning in artists cosplaying pain they never felt, that lands like a cold glass of water. He's not selling you a character. He's handing you his diary and standing in the room while you read it.
If you've ever written something true and then felt your stomach drop at the thought of anyone seeing it — you already understand this artist. That's the exact fear he pushes through every time he releases. And the reason it's worth your ears is that the fear is proof it's honest. You can't be that nervous about fake.
What's next? He's listening for it
Ask him where this goes and he won't hand you a five-year plan.
"I don't know," he says. "Fate, God, the universe, chance — whatever it is that guides us to purpose is what I listen for with an open heart and mind. You can fight the current or ride the waves."
Some artists would try to sound more sure than that. 10-10 doesn't need to. A man who writes his real days into songs and then finds the courage to share them isn't worried about looking like he's got it all mapped out. He's paying attention. He's riding the wave. That's a plan too — arguably a braver one.
So if you're the kind of listener who wants the version with the mask off, this is your artist. Start with Whispers of the Universe and sit with the way that day unfolds. Then follow where he goes next, because even he's curious.
Find 10-10 here:
- Spotify: 10-10
- Instagram: @zionxzavior
- TikTok: @oldman10dash10
- YouTube: @Iam10-10
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