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STBtheDON Opens a Different Door on “Shades Of Red”
Four tracks, four shades of red, and a turn nobody saw coming: STBtheDON is singing, and it sounds like bedroom pop.
By Ty McDuffey · The Duff Radio Dispatch · September 4, 2026
If you know STBtheDON from “Speed Racing,” from “Go Up,” or from “NASCAR Core,” you know a certain velocity. That is not what this is.
Shades Of Red is four songs in ten minutes. Every one of them named after a color, and on every one of them, STBtheDON is singing. Not rap-singing. Singing. Warm, close to the mic, the genre people are now calling bedroom pop. Love songs. It is a side of him that has not been on a record before.
We asked him about it. He answered:
“I did this one with Cam and no cap gang we got so much to talk about... I wanted to show a different side like never before and really give a piece of what's behind that door. i'm happy you fw it and see the vision (not like you wouldn't).”
STBtheDON, on Shades Of Red · September 2026
He made it with Cam, better known as OkCasheyy, and recorded it at SoundXScapes Studios in downtown Kansas City, the same studio “Nun' to Say / Feel My Pain” came out of.
The tracklist
Four shades
- 1Burgundy Wine · SM1
- 2Cherry Crush · SM1
- 3Neon Romance · SM1
- 4Bleeding Crimson · SM1
Burgundy to crimson. Cut with OkCasheyy at SoundXScapes. No release date yet; when there is one, it lands here on Duff Radio first.
Who this is
STBtheDON, since Show #1
Kansas City artist and the very first guest in Duff Radio history: he debuted three songs on Show #1 in January 2021. Since then he has been on Mixtape Vol. 2 with “Speed Racing,” on Vol. 3 with “Go Up,” and on “Nun' to Say” this year. Two long-form conversations on the podcast. Five years of showing up. This is the record where he shows up differently.