WHOT Episode 155 – “hometown” by cleopatrick

Hosted by Mangus Khan

[Distorted guitar punches in without warning. No build-up, no warning—just impact. Then the words spill out—sarcastic, tired, and sharp as a busted bottle.]

“You’re back on Late Night Grooves.
WHOT.

And I’m Mangus Khan.

Episode 155.

Let’s call tonight what it is—a reckoning.

This track right here?
It’s not a love letter.
It’s a middle finger in 4/4 time.

cleopatrick – ‘hometown.’

From their 2021 album BUMMER—an album that’s exactly what it says it is:
Heavy, pissed off, and painfully accurate.

And this song?
This is for anyone who had to shrink themselves to survive where they came from.

“And you never did like my hometown / And I never did like you.”

That’s not petty.
That’s truth.

This song is the sound of leaving behind the people who laughed when you tried.

The ones who called you fake when you evolved.

The ones who kept the town small, because small was all they could handle.

But the genius here?
It’s not just in the anger.

It’s in the specificity.

cleopatrick captures that weird space between rage and heartbreak.

When you’re not just mad at the town—
You’re mad at yourself for ever wanting to be seen by it.

The guitars are thick.
The drums are relentless.
The vocal delivery?
Half confrontation, half confession.

Because leaving a place doesn’t mean you escape it.

The memories come with you.
The shame.
The “maybe they were right” thoughts.

But here’s the thing:

This song doesn’t end with peace.

It ends with clarity.

That sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is walk away from the version of you that made everyone else comfortable.

Episode 155.
cleopatrick.
hometown.

A breakup song for the version of you that settled.

A groove for the moment you stop apologizing for your volume.

This is Late Night Grooves.
WHOT.

And I’m Mangus Khan—
Still breaking free.
Still growing loud.
Still here.”

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