So... As I sit here listening to beats and planning a studio session tomorrow. Something takes me back to an earlier conversation I had with someone. It was actually quite gratifying and wierd at the same time. I was walking thru work and this guy, who I didn't think knew me at all, and didn't know I made music said to me:
"Yo man... "DayToday" is sick. Real sick man..."
Bewildered and humbled, I reply:
"Thanks man, means a lot. I worked hard on it."
Then he comes back and asks...
"Sooooo... How come there's NO CHORUSES?"
CHORUSES? You mean HOOKS?
And I answered matter of factly, "Because I don't really dont like hooks that much. I'll do one or two songs with hooks... But I kinda like to get to the point."
The thing is... I really don't believe in myself as a "HOOK" guy. I can't make a hook like "Good Kush & Alcohol" or "No Lie". For every one of those, you'll get a...
"Diamond in the back... Suede roof... We in the ol' school baby we dont need a coupe... Why we standing here? What you wanna do? We on the top floor... (The liquors top shelf too)"
"Top Floor" (Which you'll hear soon) is probably one of my favorite and greatest hooks I've ever done. That was also a nod to Curren$y, one of my FAVORITE rappers. To be honest... Curren$y inspired some of "Life at 20,000 Feet". He inspired ALL of "DayToday"... Not so much as style, but because he really doesn't use hooks that much... He rarely does. And he songs rarely goes over 3 minutes. After talking to Spencer and Brian... and calculating my own theories, The listener really only catches up to 3 minutes. So I give you E V E R Y thing. Some don't notice there's no hook... But if you listen carefully on some tracks, there is... Its at the end. Four bars. That's it. I'll get there as a hook guy soon, and I am trying. So, you'll get a hook sooner or later...
I would like to thank everyone... (That means the 40 of you) who have like my band page on Facebook and the many who have made me #14 artist in Vista on Reverbnation. This is quite wierd and baffling to me because... How is that happening? Anyways, I was featured on a guy from Colorado (Joseph AM) track the other day... The song is called "What it sounds like". I actually did the verse back at Studio317, the old stomping grounds before there was Karma and Dungeon Studios... LOL. It came out dope so ima throw it on here somewhere...
#JaxTellerChronicles... Actually starting on that tomorrow with Karma... 3 hour session... Yessir.
#TunnelVision
#WaveGang
NYCE.
