How One Meeting Sparked Larry Karpenko's Gospel Revolution in His Latest, "God Help Us"

Larry Karpenko emerges as an artist whose creative process flows from authentic encounters with fellow creators. When Rapsody took the stage and shared her story, the isolation, the creative drought, the gradual return to making music, something clicked. Here was an artist being brutally honest about the valleys that come with the peaks, and Larry recognized his own struggles in her words.

"God Help Us" starts with a forgotten beat Larry had tucked away months earlier. After hearing Rapsody speak, he went home and pulled it up, and suddenly the pieces fell together. It's simple enough that you could hum it walking down the street, but it carries weight, the kind of weight that comes from actually needing help, not just asking for it politely.

Larry builds layers deliberately: R&B foundations, electronic touches, gospel choir elements that swell during the bridge like Sunday morning at its best. The verses dig into human frailty without self-pity, asking for awareness and humility in equal measure. There's something refreshing about an artist who admits he needs divine intervention and isn't embarrassed to speak about it in public.

"God Help Us" stands up and asks the hard questions in a world where conformity would be easier.

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