Originally Posted by
Mister Yo
i suppose with a background of multi genered musical tastes anything you create will feel experimental as you are honing in all your influences and whatnot etc.
and after a while anyway i doubt any musician/artist/band wants to stay boxed into the same genre/way of creating music after whatever period of time.
but especially when it comes to you, your delivery, on the instrumental works of yours, has always been rap like, in structure and whatnot. so it is weird i never thought of the "experimental" word earlier.
i used to think i was "hip hop to the core" with the music that i created, simply because i rhymed and laid it over "hip hop" type beats. but the older i get and the more i write/create and the more i listen back to my, newer, music and the commentary i hear from people who dont like/listen/even know anything about hip hop. makes me rebuke that earlier statement at some ie most times.
i never cared for the term "experimental" when it came to music. but i also never cared to genre label my musical library to begin with. too many sub genres and groups/artists that dont particularly fit one genre specifically etc etc. so i have done away with all genre tags ever since i got my first ipod back in middle school lolz.
but i regress, i still do think this is/will be a good use of the "experimental" term music wise.
and lolz.
aint that the truth brother, im glad i put my earlier works on wax as i could never write or say or think to say half the shit i said on those projects again. different frame of mind living a completely different life than i am today.
i try my hardest though to curate different sounds and incorporate different themes and say different things in a different way album to album. and that is with both my solo work and Three Emcees.
having listened to your projects for a while now, you can def hear the changes in mood from your lyrics and also the instrumentals alone. a good example of this is comparing Dreamless Sleep instrumentals to the work on The Way to the Palace. Dreamless Sleep being one of my favs from you but there is def a tinge of hopelessness and not necessarily giving up but contentment with being unhappy, i really enjoy that kind of stuff. but when you listen to The Way to the Palace, this listener at least, gets feelings of "completeness" a sense that things have moved on for the better, a sense of triumph at some times, and while the feelings from Dreamless Sleep still surface on that tape it is not a central focus.
i think it is a beautiful thing to be able to study an artists discography and actually see a growth and change that can be understood and possibly be related to. but that only works out when everything shifts for the better lolz imo as obviously that is something that will be different person to person. but the study can still be had regardless.
nevertheless tldr glad we are all still making music together.
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