Welcome Vagrants
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Welcome Vagrants +
My name is Jeremy Lynn Sample, but I usually go by V.
Why V? What is V?
Well, V is a project I started during a tumultuous period of my life. I was wondering, drunk and alone, hoping to get caught by danger in the night. I couldn’t go home, so I fell asleep under the shade of a tree in a public park. I awoke, of course, to a group of aggressive cops pulling and pushing me awake. I was upset, ignorantly, and yelled “I’ll leave, I’ll leave, is it a crime to be in public?” in a tired slur. “Vagrancy, it’s a crime, look it up” the officer dismissed, successfully removing me from disturbing the public so.
There’s no way right? That’s what I thought, I searched it up as soon as I got home, and of course, he was right. Vagrancy is a crime. What is it though?
To be wandering, without a home, and to be unwanted. Vagrancy is a crime committed when people would rather you aren’t there, when you’ve been determined The Other.
This upset me and inspired me in equal measure, at least I was privileged enough to actually have a home to go back to, if only barely. These were my people, and the perspective I could share. So, V was born. Sounds pretty heady, I know, but truly this just serves as a guiding principle, a lighthouse to help me gain my bearings when I have lost them.
Please, explore my work below and tell me what you think.
It was all made entirely by me, for you Vagrant.
-The Vault-
-The Vault-
This album was inspired by two things, a very happy time in my life, probably the best, and the death of my father. After having lived many lives, and never knowing my father, it made me reflect on the lessons he never taught me about being a man and a person. It made me wonder what lessons I would pass on if I had a son. That was the origin of the album, where I took a kind of singer songwriter approach to being honest and first person in a way I normally struggle to. I love this album dearly, I’ll always remember mixing and mastering it in our car by the lake, while Chloe was swimming or we were tearing through Missouri backroads.
V LIKE VAGRANT
Released Aug 2nd, 2026
I’m Not A Person
I’m Not A Person was a strange growth. It came about after I got a type of autotune for the first time, and had unlocked finally a real way to incorporate singing into my music. This brought me back to an old instrumental I had made and discarded as I was unable to find the right rap or story for it. Now, equipped with autotune I was able to record the song Nest within an hour, the first song I ever recorded with autotune, and that recording is the same one in the final song. This album is really about expressing all the feelings and fears that make me feel separate to others, things I can never relate to people on. Feeling like a foreign thing, an interloper, there is a subtle sweet horror throughout as much as it is tender. Songs like pheromones are beautiful yet painful like holding a rose to your heart.
Released Jun 6th, 2026
The President
Released Feb 2, 2026
I usually describe The President as a concept album similar to “Idiocracy”, the whole album was going to begin a series called the “Other Lives” series, concept albums exploring an alternate life path I could take and the results if I were in such a position. Of course, I never believed I would be The President in any real world, but it was more a thought experiment of, how would somebody who has grown up broke and poor and is unqualified entirely handle the position. Of course it allowed me to comment on our actual world and leaders, but the larger point was that nothing is just one evil persons will. Everybody, even the President, is in somebody’s pocket. Even me put in that position, my only option was to bend to power or to be erased, and so my character in the album attempts to tow the line while placating the constituency. Eventually the album ends with the Red Button, cause there’s no good ending to this thing. A dark album I made in a few months, the rest of the albums in the series were completed but I decided this angle wasn’t where I wanted to go. Also, this album got blocked on every platform due to it’s political framing and the videos that satirized political ads, so it definitely took the wind out of my sails / sales.
Study II: “Genetix”
This album is where my discography goes into the past. This originally was made in 2020 to 2021, but due to life being crazy and time being unstoppable, it got delayed and delayed. I taught myself everything of music I know, and this album was a breakthrough for me where I really felt possessed by intent, purpose, conviction. The album centers on all things that are genetic and unavoidable in being a person, passing away, ego, fantasies and fears, the subconscious, and despite how amateur it is in some ways, I had to ensure it released. I detoured away from this album into smaller projects to learn to mix and master, so I came back as a two week binge mastering session to get it ready (enough) for release. Not to my current standards but that’s bound to happen, I love these songs deeply still. The sound to me was like juxtaposition in every song, like all my musical influences at once, like being in my head where the tensions at play were all layered together baroque, or that was the idea anyways. Maximalist with all caps.
Released Oct 31st, 2025
Study 0:
“ The Emotional ”
Elements
This album is complicated, as it is really more of a compilation album than it’s own standalone work. It is a series of projects I made to brush up on all skills related to making albums, as a detour from making Study II and the now defunct Study III. The series theme, the emotional elements, manifest in four albums: Kill Your Self , Search The Stars , How I Feel , and Be No Rain . I shot the album cover with my partner Chloe, trying to represent the four symbols from the original album covers. To be honest, the mixing on this was more just practice, and to try to in some way preserve these songs, so this is definitely my most amateur work, but still contains many of my favorite songs I ever made. It may eventually get taken down one day but I will always love it, Kill Your Self and Search The Stars in particular being precursors to The President and I’m Not a Person in several key ways while maintaining their own color I haven’t yet been able to reproduce / discover. Be No Rain is my favorite of them all, an album inspired by my mother and my family, it’s the most likely to get remade again. We’ll see.
Released Feb 21st 2025
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Baroque
Music video for Baroque, one of my favorites cause of the creation of it. Me and Chloe lugging this big ancient mirror to the shoot spot in the middle of the night, walking blind in the mask and trying to look like I could see. Of course all directed and edited by me and shot by Chloe .
3(D)
This video was the first time I shot a video in the style I use commonly now just scouting a spot on foot and shooting something dynamic, the direction was for Chloe to run away as I pursued her in the snow and never let me catch her. Having a set direction made me able to play with that in the performance, it was all pretty spur of the moment on a beautiful winter night.
The President: Upstanding Citizen
I loved making this video truly, just a spin on a political ad talking up V as the prospective President. I love the way it spirals into feeling uneasy and deranged and I put so much time into the details of many parts like the text at the beginning or the remix of the national anthem and the sound design as it progresses. For some reason it is so hard for me to fake a speech instead of performing so a thousand takes went into it and a million CapCut crashes. The satire idea of The President was ripe for video ideas like this and I would love to revisit something like it, but probably not going to be a second term for the alternate world President.
Antibodies
This was my attempt at a kind of analogue horror type feeling, attempting to do more with less. This album was really a big experiment and the soft sweet horror of it came most to a point on antibodies. Since it’s just a visualizer it was supposed to be a short looping story, the door being pounded, me reflecting behind it in horror, and then me being overtaken, and I am happy with how it came out truly. I especially had fun coming up with using this reverse shot to act as though I am overcome with this sort of crystal looking stuff also used in the video for Pheromones (go check that out too!)
No Protection
This video was made in the spirit of the album it came from, spontaneous and fun, capturing life . Whole thing shot during a beautiful hike, just highlighting the beautiful person I wrote the song for and companionship, shared survival. You should have seen the hikers faces as they passed with me carrying this huge axe. If Chloe wouldn’t have been there, almost certainly the cops would have been called, but hey, gotta crack a few eggs to make an omelet.
The Moment
Honorable mention here, song and video has some flaws but there are so many shots and images in this video that look like a classical painting, a ton of work went into it both in editing and planning several of the shots and timing and I feel it makes the song ten times better, also crazy hard thumbnail on some final fantasy shit or something idk the vibe is so cool, can’t really articulate it. Feels like the hero won type music and visuals, like The Glory.
