Y o u b r o u g h t u p s o m e s p e c i a l g u e s t s t o t h e r e c o r d
- d i d y o u h a n d p i c k t h e m b a s e d o n s o m e p a r t i c u l a r
e l e m e n t s ?
Yeah! I picked people that I was a fan of! I loved
guys like Rexx Life Raj, Emilio Rojas, and Hi- Rez
long before I featured them on the album.
I get bored really easily! I have to keep changing
something, doing something different, otherwise
things start to feel stale to me. I also thought that
changing would help me learn, because I’ve
always learned from trying new things.
D i d y o u r a n d o m l y g i v e a p a r t i c u l a r g e n r e t o a s o n g
o r d i d t h e y d e p e n d o n t h e l y r i c s ' t h e m e ?
W h a t d i d t h e y b r o u g h t u p t o t h e t a b l e ?
They brought a new element of creativity as well I just generalized the album as RandB/ Hip hop
as fantastic lyrics! They also brought their own since I felt like all of the songs fell somewhere on
style and musicality to each track. That was a that spectrum.
benefit of working with so many talented people--
they all had something great to add to the records. W h e r e e l s e d i d y o u f i n d t h e i n s p i r a t i o n f o r t h e
s o n g s a n d l y r i c s ?
Personal
experiences.
W h a t r o l e d o e s C h i c a g o p l a y i n y o u r w r i t i n g ?
Growing up in Chicago, I was always around blues
music and classic rock. My first album, Apollo, was A n y p l a n s t o h i t t h e r o a d ?
heavily influenced by those genres. I always try to Not anytime soon (college next year).
use what I know and apply it to new music that I
am working on. The techniques I learned from that W h a t e l s e i s h a p p e n i n g n e x t i n S p e n c e r R a b i n ' s
w o r l d ?
helped me create the songs from Apollo II.
I will be releasing a new song hopefully later this
summer! It’s still in the works. I’m just going to
W h a t m a d e y o u w a n t t o e x p l o r e o t h e r s o u n d s ?
keep making music and putting it out there!