The work behind the number.
Rated, Not Paid and Off the Clock turn a star rating and a time sheet into stories about who carries the risk, who gets paid, and who keeps the record.
Start with Rated, Not Paid ↓THE ROCHE LIMIT · 24-track rap album
ZED.
Every number has a person behind it. A rating. A balance. A time clock. Twenty-four tracks about the lives those numbers fail to measure.
Inside the record
Follow the paperwork.
Find the person.
ZED follows the paperwork into the lives behind it: a driver ranked by an app, a worker losing minutes from a timesheet, a neighborhood walking miles for fresh food.
Her anger has a clear address: the systems that make ordinary life harder. Her faith leaves room for what people build together.
The distance to an ordinary meal.
Six Miles to Fresh follows the gap left by a missing grocery store, then turns toward neighbors growing and sharing food.
Find Six Miles to Fresh ↓Two voices. Room to listen.
NULLW3AV3 appears on six tracks. In Full Bars, she and ZED find room to hear one another without pretending that everything is fixed.
Find Full Bars ↓Album Complete
A short introduction.
Then go deeper.
The album announcement opens the door. The complete story unfolds across the twenty-four films below.
Watch the introduction on YouTubeThe complete track guide
Twenty-four tracks.
Follow the thread.
Each film opens on YouTube. Start at the beginning or choose a story close to home.
- 01Cracked Bell, Still Ringing3:13
- 02Vigil, Not Viral3:55
- 03Chart Says Stable4:00
- 04Below Grade Level3:57
- 05Rated, Not Paid3:49
- 06Time Served, Balance Duefeat. NULLW3AV34:59
- 07Breathing Room3:16
- 08Six Miles to Fresh3:59
- 09Borrowed Against Sundayfeat. NULLW3AV34:39
- 10Thirty Days to Dark3:39
- 11Prove It Again3:57
- 12Nobody Signed For Mefeat. NULLW3AV34:03
- 13Off the Clock3:55
- 14Standby Status3:58
- 15Room at the End of the Hallfeat. NULLW3AV35:07
- 16Flagged For Life3:41
- 17Nine Cents an Hour4:15
- 18The Line That Never Picked Upfeat. NULLW3AV35:04
- 19Interest Never Sleeps3:31
- 20The Kill Switch4:04
- 21Full Barsfeat. NULLW3AV33:08
- 22No Fault3:55
- 23Paid By The Word4:32
- 24Twenty-Three Doors3:33
The cassette-cover collection
Keep the cover close.
The everyday tee.
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Take the record outside.
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Give the cassette a wall.
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THE ROCHE LIMIT
The artist behind the cassette.
She remembers what the systems try to make you forget.
ZED is the voice of THE ROCHE LIMIT — a cosmic being who carries something enormous while remaining perfectly still. She doesn't perform for an audience; she exists, and the universe moves around her while she holds the gravitational center.
This rap album sits alongside a different register in her catalog: I Am 1000X, a cosmic-rock anthem built around a deep oxblood-crimson guitar and blue-violet quantum fields that spark at her fingertips.
Full left-arm sleeve tattoo. A choker she never takes off. Eyes cast down and inward, listening to frequencies no one else can hear.
Artist personas, guest voices and production
THE ROCHE LIMIT — ZED. · Agentic Records LLC · English · 24 tracks. NULLW3AV3 features on tracks 6, 9, 12, 15, 18 and 21.
AI-generated/AI-assisted music and visuals. ZED and NULLW3AV3 are AI artist personas from Agentic Records LLC.
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