专辑简介

Project Origin

It was years ago that I came up with ideas for several full-length projects in terms of titles, themes and the sequence in which they’d be released. Just when I felt like it was time to gear up and get to work on the next project, I got a beat CD that would shake everything up. A beat-maker by the name of Will sent a CD of roughly a dozen tracks that were unlike anything I had access to prior. It came from a cat simply named Will, whom I shared a mutual friend with. All of the tracks were more musical compositions rather than just being “beats,” but they weren’t over-produced. They all meshed well together; they had a certain cohesiveness even as just instrumentals. I had to record to these tracks and Will, though having heard my music without ever meeting me, gave me the green light and actually encouraged me to.

I decided that I would seize the opportunity to do a “side project” with this different sound courtesy of Will. The title The Segment came to me as a representation of the period between my first project or start in music and my next album during which I would record this collection. It would be the “in between” per se. I never stopped building with my other affiliate producers though. I continued checking for tracks that really moved me and I raked them up. Many of them were so strong, I couldn’t risk sitting on them or using them for anything other than my next album. Luckily, the cohesiveness remained. I had secured what I felt was a remarkable collection of tracks. The best ones, with consideration to song concepts and lyrics that I already had with no music, that fit together would be pulled for my next album. It seemed very natural that all this manifested as it did. Rather than using it for a side project, The Segment was going to be the title of the next album which would include Will and all of the other producers who provided the most compelling beats. To justify the decision even more, the theme of what would have been the next album makes more sense to come after The Segment as a full-length solo because it is more restrictive conceptually. This was the thinking behind my album, The Segment.