This song has been in the works for nearly 4 months! Since it began, if I recall correctly in August. I wrote the lyrics back then for a catchy song with multiple layers of hooks, but as I hired a producer over the Web I found that there were limitations on how many amendments I could make to my track. Mainly because it took a lot of time, nearly a day for one simple change, and to make matters worse he was from Holland so he had very little command of English.
The track sounded beautiful though, with some lush sounds I custom created, a beautiful piano chord on the side. The intro was meant to be a copy of Eminem's Cold Wind Blows intro, but recording from my Xperia with an Unlicensed DAW didn't make the task easier. Plus oh yeah I had no proper booth, so I had to wait till the day turned dusk to record because background noise would be at a minimum. The sound quality wasn't so good, maybe 10% of what Studio mics would have produced so adding vocal effects was an extremely laborious job. Hours of staring at a screen.
But it came through, and after the vocals were recorded came the biggest hurdle of all. See, my producer was all that, a producer of music, he could give you the best beats you ever heard but he couldn't mix the vocals with the right timing, and for me, the timing had to be spot on, because the vocals are sung that way. Any deviation would cause an unpleasant listening experience. So it took nearly another month before he got the timing right, not completely but satisfactory.
The worst was over, or was it? Well since it was a one man job. As you would guess, it was me who created the lyrics video. Word by word. 3 weeks for that.
Bang, and here we are today, at the release, I just hope all my hard work pays off and the only way that can happen is if people who listen to this give me some sort of feedback be it likes or comments. As I've stated in my previous blog posts, I'm not in it for the money, nah I'm in it for the respect.
About the Song :-
The song is meant to be meaningful, it carries with it a motto perhaps. Decoded it talks about what people in today's society would do to get famous, be it 15 Minutes or less. It also talks about one of my episodes with this phobia, there was a time when I did almost anything to blow up even if it was the dirtiest way. At the end I talk about how I'm past those experiences and how I've moved on, and all I'm after is the respect of fans, no matter the color or other preferences.
Do note, I never like to refer to myself as a Rap artist, not because the title carries with it too much weight, but because if I make something on the lines of Rap/Pop then people would start hating and questioning my rapping skills and so forth. Being a Hip Hop artist I can make tracks that move people and at the same time gets stuck in your head.
