Music and Songwriting: Don’t Lose Focus
It was now April, my birthday month, and I was trying to make sure my year of being 22 was full of accomplishments, at least something to show for from being 21. It was the middle of the month, and Crown Jones informed me that he had the beats ready. Uh yeah, after I finally had to talk bad to him and ask him what the hell was going on and he better sit there and focus. There were 14 tracks for Apollo’s Interlude, which included me picking 7 that I would construct and layout for him to hop on the track, and vice versa for the other 7 that were his. We had one meet up in order to discuss what we wanted the songs to be about, the titles and how they would flow. I finished my 7 in 3 days and emailed them back to him. His first batch of songs that were emailed back to me was trash. I hated them. I felt he was being lazy and just giving me any old thing, thinking I’ll go for it. I told him too. He re-did them and sent his 7 as well…I saw the light. I knew we could do this. I just hate having to talk to Crown like he had no sense in order for him to work like he should, the way I know he can. I finished filling in my parts on Crown’s 7 and Voilà!…I was happy with our work and was ready to move forward and hit the real recording studio. Around that time, Garrett called me and told me that the guy who was his lawyer, was really only a family friend who wanted to look out for him, and hadn’t even been to school yet. I told him about the conversation that he had with his “lawyer friend” and he told me that he didn’t tell him friend to say any of that and didn’t have a problem with the contract. Oh well, once again, dodged a bullet. I don’t have time for the run around and “fake” business people who don’t know how to conduct business. The rest of the conversation wasn’t important. I just realized that I needed to focus on myself and what I needed to do. I decided to tell Magic that I would keep the demos and change some of the words to make it match a female; which that female would be I. I started to think that maybe I should be the first solo artist to drop under my label; after all it is my label. But I felt I should only be focused on making Apollo’s Interlude a success…everything else could wait.