Some artists follow trends. Scott Saunders has spent over two decades actively avoiding them.
He started making music in 1999 at 9 years old after watching his childhood best friend, who was 11 at the time, doing music and feeling something click inside him that has never switched off. More than 25 years later he is still in Saint Louis, still performing on stages, still recording in studios across the city and still making music that sounds like nobody else in the room.
That last part is not an accident. It is the entire mission.
Standing out as the only strategy
Scott Saunders does not make music to fit in. He makes music to stand out and the way he does that is through thinking outside the box on every single record. Different song titles. Fresh topics. Concepts that most artists would never touch because they require real research, real knowledge and real courage to put your name on.
His recently dropped single "Epstein Files" is the perfect example of exactly that philosophy in action. A song full of name dropping and knowledge about Jeffrey Epstein and those connected to him. In a landscape where most artists are rapping about the same handful of topics Scott Saunders dropped a record about one of the most talked about scandals in modern history and made it hit like a street record.
That is what happens when an artist genuinely thinks outside the box instead of just saying they do.
What keeps him going
Scott Saunders is honest about his fuel in a way most artists are not. Hate motivates him. He takes every bit of negativity thrown his way and converts it directly into creative energy. That fire combined with the love he has for his family creates a combination that keeps him locked in and evolving regardless of what the outside world is doing or saying.
He has been performing on stages and recording in studios across Saint Louis for decades. The experience that comes from that kind of consistent live and studio work is impossible to fake and it shows in how he approaches every record he makes.
"I would rather stand out than make the same type of music that everyone else makes."
Water is coming Halloween night
The follow up single to "Epstein Files" is called "Water" and it is dropping on Halloween. Two back to back singles with completely different energy and completely different concepts from an artist who has always believed that the best way to keep people guessing is to never repeat yourself.
"Epstein Files" is out now on all platforms. "Water" is coming Halloween night. And Scott Saunders is moving exactly the way he has always moved. On his own terms with his own topics and his own sound that nobody else in Saint Louis or anywhere else is making.
25 years and still the most original in the room
Scott Saunders started in 1999 at 9 years old because a friend two years older than him showed him what music could be. He has spent every year since building a career rooted in originality, live performance and the refusal to sound like everyone else.
He has done collaborations and features throughout his journey but mainly sticks to doing his own thing. That independence has kept his sound pure and his vision clear across a career that now spans more than a quarter century.
"Epstein Files" is out. "Water" drops Halloween. And Scott Saunders is still the most original voice in the room.
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