Something New REMIX! from Stephan Gray on Vimeo.

I had this beat to write to for a minute. Freestyled a crap verse a month or two ago. I didn’t like it, and I don’t think anyone else did either. P Smoov hit me up on Monday seeing if I could turn in the verse by Thursday, cause him and Stephan Gray were planning on doing a video for it. I wrote/recorded the verse Thursday morning/afternoon and turned it in at 3:30pm. We started shooting the video around 6:00pm. That’s Hip-Hop.

Stephan edited it beautifully, because I actually look like I know my verse. I didn’t. It was hard, particularly with the staccato’d out cadence the first 8 bars. Grynch had his done months ago (productive son of a bitch) and Larry recorded his on the spot before we shot it. I think everyone did a good job with the raps. Hard redoing a really dope song (Smoov murdered it originally). The video turned waaaay better then I expected (not because Stephan’s not incredible but because he had 24 hours to edit footage of me fumbling through lyrics). The night turned out to be pretty classic, and just reaffirmed how much fun I have with my people.

The whole experience was a good example for my perfectionist self, that sometimes you just gotta make art and put it out. That’s it. The moment is made and then the people get to experience it. It might not be perfect, but nothing ever is. I’ve spent so much of my life over analyzing my music, and the result is rarely better art. It creates more fear, more doubt and less music in the hands of the people. I applaud and learn from people like Grynch and P Smoov, who make a cut and put it out. That’s Hip-Hop. I’m working on it. Something New. Hope you enjoy.