Everything Is Under Control...

Okay, I've been talking about this album I've been working on for a while. So to put it plainly, its been a [LABOR] of love. I was working on it... Then I stopped. Wrote more songs, then [STOPPED]. I admit, I fell [OUT] of [LOVE] with music for a minute. Nothing seemed right to me. And on top of that, I was listening to Drake's [SO FAR GONE] all the time. Not to say I don't like DRAKE. I do, but it was at a point where his music was influencing mine. Like every other song that I wrote sounded like his. So I stopped listening to music for a while and watched some movies and I got completely influenced by movies like "Antwone Fisher", "Goodfellas", "Purple Rain" [Naj's Personal Fave] and oddly enuff "The Manchurian Candidate". So one night while I'm looking for my [NEWPORTS], I see the DVD cover for the movie and the tagline says, "EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL." And my mind starts to work in overload and I came to the result that EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL. Even when you're surrounded in CHAOS, even when things are going wrong, you have to remind yourself: EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL. I must've wrote 4 songs that week afterwards.

Everything Is Under Control is an album of new and old songs I was working on. I wanted to make a point to do that so you can hear how I was feeling before and after. One thing I am learning to do is to stop critiquing myself so much. I am SUCH my own WORST CRITIC that I tend to overthink things too much and I hurt myself in the end. So I'm just letting myself go and whatever happens, happens. Let the chips fall where they may. I feel as if I'm a couple more songs away. Maybe 2 to 3.... I wanna knock them out b4 I leave for Recruit Training. I think I havent had this much fun working on something since I worked with STIX! aka BLUsteel [NOW] so shout outs go to Lil Bubba, Twix, Charleston Cord, Marc-Lo, Big Sista Mira' and everybody who has been apart of the album so far. I've couldnt have done it without you.

Alot of people have influenced this album in some shape or form, whether I've met you on the fly, talked to you on the phone, ex-girlfriends, whomever... You've all been apart of this process in some shape too. Oh yeah, shout outs to NEWPORT for those many stressful nights, and GOOD ONES too. So here's a TRACKLIST of what's on so far:

1. Is It A Dream or a Nightmare [INTRO]*
2. Everything is Under Control [Produced by TWIX]
3. Congratulations [Produced by TWIX]
4. Charleston Girls [Produced by Charles Hamilton]
5. Celebrity [Produced by TWIX]
6. Angel [American Gangster Interlude] **
7. Houstalantavegas 2.0 ** [Produced by Noah "40" Shebib]
8. Dreams & Cocaine [Interlude from BLOW]
9. Got Yola w/Lil Bubba [Produced by Lil Bubba]
10. G Niggas Ride w/Twix and Black Robb [Produced by TWIX]
11. I'm on it w/TWIX [Produced by TWIX]
12. Still Fly w/Lil Bubba [Produced by...]

*May not be on album
**Interlude may be with song

And that's it... or that's all I can remember. I should have a link for you to download soon when I'm done. Hopefully that's by the weekend!

-Naj