Most bodies of music — whether it's an album, LP, EP, compilation or merely just a project — tend to embody a chapter in its creator's lives; A snapshot of certain life period, a moment in time. San Francisco's Tate Robertson's debut, Ride or Don't, is a capsule of his homecoming to the Bay Area, the penultimate theme of "using music to return to a comforting place". He writes, "(I) was suddenly, finally, thrown out of my comfort zone, and I used my production to make sense of the tumult. I even got back into rapping, an earlier love of mine, [...]