Avant is a 20-track visual exploration of hardship, transformation, and self-reclamation. The album documents the process of Scumie finally finding herself at the bottom and learning how to turn everything that tried to break her into something powerful. 

Rooted in hip-hop, South African Jazz, neo-soul & rap, Avant moves between vulnerability and confidence, darkness and elevation. It is an honest reflection of the experiences, environments, and internal battles that shaped Scumie, but more importantly, it is about what happens when you decide that your circumstances don’t get to define your ending. 

The essence of Avant is alchemy: taking pain, uncertainty, loss, ambition, and struggle, and transforming them into art, identity, and purpose. The album invites listeners into that transformation, not simply to hear what I went through, but to experience what it looks like to rise from it. 

Avant is ultimately a body of work about becoming. It is a reminder that sometimes the very things you survive become the raw material for who you were always meant to be.