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Vs. Goliath: My Road to 1B Streams

  • Writer: David Lapadat
    David Lapadat
  • Jun 13
  • 2 min read

It started with a knife.


Friends bailed.


A lover vanished.


Goliath looms—a leaky faucet of deceit in a world that tapes shut our mouths.



I’ve faced betrayal, dragged myself on crutches for two years like two rusted jail bars, and watched my art drown in noise. But I pushed the boulder upward. Unrelentingly.


You with me? Stream Now


This is my road to 1B streams by 2035: a jagged scar across my throat; the weight of struggle and silence.


My body turned against me (can you blame it?)—illness nailed me to crutches for two years.


My pop-rock-country album, “Dark Outside,” was set for 2020. Pain locked it away. Lockdown locked it away.  

Six years later, it drops this summer.


That’s me—stumbling, yet forging ahead.


I didn’t fold. I scribbled. I recorded. Now I’ve got 15 albums—3 Folk-Rock, 8 Spoken Word, 1 Classical, 1 EDM, 2 Meta Trap Volumes.


“Vs. Goliath: My Road to 1B Streams” is my playlist. “Dark Outside” kicks it off. “Meta Trap Vol. II” keeps the beat.


Goliath isn’t just my busted legs or stabbed-back trust. It’s censorship, that greasy thumb on free speech.


My “The Censored Soul” blog series spat at that—a middle finger in ink.


Each track is a chipped tooth, each stream a spit in its eye.


Life is like an abandoned ashtray. You can either be the fire that burns the cigarette or get scattered by the wind as ashes.

Illness tried to grind me into dust. Betrayal left me a hollowed-out shoe. The music machine wants my voice a whisper. No just mine, but all independent artists’. But my voice carves through the silence like a relentless storm.


This is for every beautiful bastard on crutches, for every spirit choking on lies.


I want 1Billion—a pile of broken bottles—to prove we can kick through.


You and me.


Not some shiny lie—real guts against real crap.


My playlist is the swing. “Dark Outside” spills my story—six years of rust. “Meta Trap Vol. I & II” howls it. Every stream is a dent in superficiality. A quest for growth, yours and mine.


This summer, ‘Dark Outside’ breaks through. I need you with me.


Stream “Vs. Goliath: My Road to 1B Streams”.


Each play binds us closer together —15 albums of gut truth. Share it. Stream it. Back me up. Your support keeps me swinging,


Let’s hit 1B by 2035 and turn this stale way of accepting what we don’t want to accept into a bonfire.  


This is our fractured path.


Collage with David Lapadat in red, text snippets like "BELIEVE" and "GOODBYE," and abstract art. Bright yellows and reds dominate. Energetic mood.


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