I consider this album to be a self collaboration in a sense due to the fact that it's my music during different stages of my life to create a mosaic. I got the idea a few years after high school in the midst of many shows travelling and other recording projects. During a session my bro Little Larry asked "when am I gonna do a solo album?" My reply "It has started but it may just take me up to 20yrs if necessary to create a masterpiece that I am proud of!" So here you have it Up Until Now my first solo outing I had so much fun putting it together and also feel blessed to have the same producer being Little Larry for the whole project all this time, that itself says alot. A bunch of the tracks have little behind the scenes stories for instance like Being Me, I was in the studio with Larry pretty intoxicated feeling myself and he was beginning stages of the beat. While listening to it the chorus immediately popped in my head I grabbed a pen and paper and started writing. 3 verses later I told Larry I had something for it, he told me initially he had other plans for it which didn't sit well with me so I guess you can say I bumrushed the beat and brought it to fruition lol. Then there's Wise Words I came up with that while watching a Raiders game with one of my best friends Tomasio in the midst of listening to a few tracks that had been mastered, when a hidden instrumental played out of nowhere. Hearing it immediately thought of a chorus and the verse all while watching Sebastian Janikowski kick one of his longest field goals to clinch a victory for the home team.