Randy Aguilar’s recording story has a fittingly unglamorous opening: his mom dropped him at a library in Park City while she ran errands. Inside, he found a small studio with a computer, an interface and a microphone. He already had something written. Now there was somewhere to put it.
Aguilar recalled that first session on Connecting Creators, sitting alongside his longtime collaborator Mejika. He uploaded the result to SoundCloud, heard encouragement from strangers and kept recording. Before there was an album to explain or a label roster to join, there was the discovery that his own voice could become a finished song.
It is a good place to begin with an artist whose story is about what happens after that initial permission: finding people who take the work seriously, learning how to make it better, and deciding what is worth saying.
The friendship behind the finished record
In the interview, Aguilar traces his connection with Mejika to roughly 2015–16. Ezramore, a friend who encouraged him to make music, brought him to record with Mejika. The session became a working relationship that continued for years.
Their account of No Future Recordz centers on the everyday work behind the music. People fill gaps: recording, engineering, video, distribution, show planning. Aguilar helps keep the website updated; Mejika describes doing the final engineering work on the music. A collective, in this telling, is also a set of jobs somebody has to do.
That partnership gives the catalogue a useful through-line. The label’s current roster includes both artists, alongside collaborators such as Imari Qi, Ezramore and Emmy the Arkhive. The releases are individual statements, but the infrastructure is shared.
An album finds its reason
Thank You, Father. arrived on January 27, 2025. Across eleven tracks, its sequence moves through titles including Tribulations, Empathy, the title track and Interlude (voicemail to heaven), before closing with Mind Right. Even the tracklist places the personal stakes in view.
Aguilar’s explanation of the project is more specific. He was already working toward a full-length album when his father died. After taking time away to grieve, he made the title song and understood what the record would become. His father had supported his music and attended an early performance; continuing to create became a way of honoring that belief.
The shift gives the project its emotional center. Finishing a substantial record was already the goal. Life gave that record someone to address. In Aguilar’s account, the songs grew out of experiences he was still trying to process.
The next lane is already in the credits
His catalogue did not stop at the dedication. Here with Me, credited to Aguilar and Em·D, followed on June 4, 2025. Apple Music files the single under R&B/Soul, a useful companion to the direction he described on the podcast: developing his singing, harmonies and vocal layers with Mejika’s help.
The 2026 credits make that development tangible. Space & Time, released February 11, pairs Aguilar with Imari Qi and Meza. Qobuz credits Noizy as producer and Mejika with recording, mixing and mastering. Two weeks later, SoundCheck Channel 2 arrived under No Future Records, Emmy the Arkhive and Aguilar, classified by Apple Music as hip-hop/rap.
Together, those releases show an artist keeping room for rap while pursuing a more melodic direction. The collaborators remain familiar even as the possibilities expand.
For a first listen, start with Thank You, Father., then follow Here with Me into Space & Time. Use SoundCheck Channel 2 to widen the frame to the label around him. The path leads from one artist’s personal record to the people helping build what comes next.
The library gave him somewhere to record. His father gave him a belief worth carrying forward. The people around No Future give that work a place to keep growing. What began with a teenager discovering a microphone now has a catalogue, a community and room for another sound.