@iamachildagain roc Marciano my favorite rapper , nipsey and pusha , gangstarr and Jada, the joy is my favorite “hip hop” beat ever by Pete rock for ye and J ,there’s an Obie trice record called the set up with Nate Dogg, that beat opened my brain up production wise , not even sure why I think it’s the little synth thing, I was like oh beats can have like fun synth shit going on and can still be hard hahahaa

@Dragus12 the first single and third and 2 other songs on the record have crazy bounce

@MusikByNiko consider it early practice for knowing
How to explain what you want. It’s a good thing you’re doing it all yourself. That helped me have language rapor with producer I worked with in the future. I like the forum too.

I’m like what if I told yall the entire roll out for each single and delivered everything early so we can take the K-POP approach and yall championed stuff on the official release with y’all getting everything early. Spit balling here. Like just completely abandon release day numbers because real fans in forum and email get everything early.

@JOEPIO some of these songs were on a boom mic directly into the computer hahhahahahaha

@tashhess so cliche but that’s exactly it. I heard someone call early hip hop UNC shit like they was shittting on it and it was old and tired so it jokingly ended up inspiring the sonic of the album to pay homage to classic drum breaks and integral chunks of samples and song feels then challenging myself to honor them properly by finding ways to laser shoot it all into the future. Nothing sounds old because everything can be something else always. The old and tired claims live in the same references to FATHERS sometimes and that sparked a ton of the energy and aggression behind the points I’m making about FATHERS on this album. Get off my lawn type shit but I’m also a more forward thinker than the idiot on my lawn. Somehow that’s the album.

@magnoliawhites everything is a bit more stand on business this time around. Meaning I’m full stomach chest voicing most of this record which I’ve never done before. I wanted vocal performances I couldn’t hide behind production and layering with. Sonically the songs have less SOUNDS that I used to pack in but somehow they sound way bigger. I think that comes with taste and time. To me at least everything feels more streamlined less frills. Never considered myself a singer but almost pretended to be one so hard this time around it transformed how I approached the records and sang on them. I also let the monkey come out of me a bit more on this record. It’s all gorilla dad dawg spirit. It’s not a vibe album, I’m making a point and saying things in a way that forces one to form a thought about it. It’s not necessarily an open interpretation vibe don’t try too hard thing. Whole record sounds like someone going for it. Believing something.

@Chey love it

@MusikByNiko it’s a lack luster answer, but there are so many plugins and options and things that I usually wait to see what the person recording me interprets my explanation of what I could hear my vocal sounding like for that specific song. Like I’ll explain things in a non specific non hyper detailed way using descriptive words like “I want this to feel doubled and flanged but still watery” and see what they come up with and tweak from there. Cuz A. I might hear something I like that I didn’t think of that they interpreted my description as, or B have a good starting point to tweak from. Every song is different.

@Dan-the-Flan new music friday on Spotify

@AmyMarie the true challenge was being outside in 60mph winds soaking wet for long periods of time. We had a layered look but I hated how it read it was too over the top for me so I chose a simple shirt, but it had no water resistance so I was freezing for 80 percent of the cameras rolling. You’ll know what I mean when you see it.

@gatsby full truth the sunglasses were because of the violent sand and sea spray getting whipped up in Iceland, I never planned on wearing glasses truly hahahahahaha they look great and thank God we brought them as an option but I went into most scenes thinking no glasses. But the crew was like
Nah you might have to have eye coverage lmao

We filmed in Iceland with the same crew from game of thrones for this new one. Not a single green screen or AI bit was used in any of it. There’s an ice tunnel moment that I actually told the editors to maybe make less high def cuz the shot looks actually fake froze my ass off but so worth it.

can’t wait to talk Sonics of the new one on here. Lyric approach all that.

There is no more “mystery” because im ready to be “seen” again. This first single is around the corner and the shit is OASIS in 2077. And when I say around the corner I mean don’t worry verbatim from my mouth. When the first one drops it’s a roll out. No back and forth. NMF sounds like a graveyard and I’m excited. Really really thankful for y’all.

@enzomayworm

TOP OF SKI LIFT

Thank you for being so patient these years.

Hang tight.

Bruh I made that almost 8 years ago lmao I’m so sorry for starving y’all like this hahahahaha

Let’s goooooo

@castleofvariety Pharrell the only person I ever been in with that was exactly as advertised as far as being a genius. He is an actual living genius. Very blessed to be around him anytime we working.