01. This Guy Thought Of Everything
02. Fail Safe
03. Heavy Lifting
04. Locked In
05. Flux Capacitor
06. Ricochet
07. Act Natural feat. Rob Sonic
08. How’d We Get Here
09. Hell Fire feat. Fashawn
10. Panic Button
11. Smoke Rings
12. Off Into The Sunset
Born in Stockton California, Ramses moved to Fresno California in 1997. Ramses hit the music scene in early 2018 and took the world by surprise. He brings a lyrical prowess and delivery that is unmatched in hip-hop. Not only is he a solo artist, but he also formed a duo group with the legendary rapper Fashawn in 2020 as the name "Violence In The Media" and the two have released 5 full length studio albums together. Be on the look out for this up and comming star!!!
This project lives in the tension between who you are and who the world expects you to be. Between survival and authenticity. Between camouflage and clarity. Throughout the album, Ramses navigates that line like a man walking through a forest in two different outfits at once — one built to disappear, the other built to be seen.
Sonically and lyrically, Act Natural is a study in duality.
There’s the polished exterior: sharp cadences, calculated wordplay, surgical rhyme patterns, and confident delivery. And beneath that, the undercurrent: paranoia, observation, strategy, quiet defiance, and the mental chess game of moving through spaces where you’re watched, judged, underestimated, or misunderstood.
This isn’t an album about pretending.
It’s about the exhausting reality of constantly having to adjust.
Every record peels back a different layer of that experience — the social performance, the industry politics, the internal dialogue, the survival instincts, the humor, the frustration, and the clarity that comes when you realize you’ve mastered the room so well that nobody knows you’re doing it.
You’re just “acting natural.”
The production matches the theme: textured, intentional, and atmospheric. Beats feel like environments rather than instrumentals — places Ramses moves through with precision. The pacing gives space for dense lyricism without losing momentum, allowing the listener to sit inside the details and catch the subtleties on repeat listens.
Lyrically, this is Ramses at his most deliberate.
Intricate internal rhyme schemes. Layered metaphors. Observational storytelling. Controlled aggression. Surgical confidence. Moments of wit that disarm you before the next bar lands heavier than the last. The album rewards attention — the more you listen, the more you uncover.
Act Natural is for anyone who has ever felt like they had to be ten steps ahead just to stand still. For anyone who understands that sometimes the loudest move you can make is moving like nothing is happening at all.
This isn’t a collection of songs.
It’s a mindset.
It’s the art of blending in while standing out.
It’s the sound of someone who has learned how to navigate every room without losing himself in any of them.
And by the end of the album, you realize something:
Ramses was never acting.
He was simply showing you how natural it looks when mastery becomes instinct.
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