Official Releases
Every AkuDikau release begins with a story. Written and composed by Amirul Ashraf, each song explores a different emotion, character or moment — brought to life through the voices of AkuDikau’s featured artists.
Listen to the official releases and discover the stories behind the music.
2025 Singles
Dying In My Dreams
Released October 11, 2025 · AshTheOne
Written & Composed by Amirul Ashraf
The Story
Dark, absurd and deliberately unsettling, Dying In My Dreams turns a recurring nightmare into a twisted piece of dark humour. Night after night, the narrator dreams of the same person dying in increasingly ridiculous and impossible ways. Buried beneath the moon, thrown from a cliff, stuffed into a blender, tied to a drone over KLCC — nothing seems permanent. No matter how bizarre the dream becomes, the same figure simply returns the following night as though nothing happened.
What begins like a violent nightmare gradually becomes almost comical through repetition. The narrator is no longer frightened by what is happening; he is simply exhausted and irritated that the dream refuses to end. Death itself becomes a running joke — another sequel, another rerun, another remix playing inside a mind that desperately wants some sleep. The exaggerated imagery is intentionally surreal rather than literal.
Beneath the horror references and sarcastic humour lies a more familiar idea: what happens when something you thought you had buried keeps returning to your mind?
Memories, resentment, guilt or unfinished emotions can sometimes behave exactly like the figure in the song. You push them away, convince yourself they are gone, and somehow they appear again when everything becomes quiet. Then, in the final moment, Dying In My Dreams turns the entire story around.
After spending the song believing someone else is trapped inside his nightmare, the narrator begins to question something far more disturbing: What if he is not the one dreaming at all? Perhaps the person who keeps dying is not trapped inside his dream. Perhaps he is the one trapped inside theirs.
With its combination of hip-hop attitude, horror imagery, sarcasm and psychological uncertainty, Dying In My Dreams sits on the darker and more mischievous side of AkuDikau — where something disturbing can still make you laugh, right up until the final line changes everything.
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