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Historic is the final album in the A Year of Music project. It kicks things off with a song called They Don’t Want To See Me Do It, a track that essentially throws a drum beat over The Death South’s “In Hell I’ll Be In Good Company.” I had never heard of them until my wife showed me that track. It immediately made me a fan. Since then, I’ve other songs of theirs have taken the top spot for me, like People Are Strange and You Are My Sunshine.
I have no idea where the hook for the song No came from. For some reason, I did this weird pirate type of vocal that afterward made me think of SpongeBob SquarePants. It didn’t help that I started talking like Mr. Crabs at some point in the song.
Anyway, the song is basically me dealing with people telling me I should change, and contemplating making changes to try to make money. Since the first album dropped in 2002, my music has always been free. It was for sale at one point, but it was also available for free. However, you could buy it on CD if you didn’t want to print it yourself.
As the song goes through its paces, it finally lands where it started. Mimic albums are always free and that won’t be changing.
And yes, that one guy talking to me was inspired by the guy from UHF.
Too many people get caught up in the bullshit side of hip hop and rap culture. It gets you nowhere to play the thug game, getting drunk and smoking your brains out of your head. And that’s the point of Producing Magic.
I wrote that song with someone specific in mind, but the theme of the song can be applied to a lot of people. Hip hop and rap music has glamourized the shitty side of it, and a lot of people seem to think they need to copy that lifestyle to be authentic.
All that does is degrade your life. It’s completely unnecessary and gets you hooked into quicksand pit that drags you down. I’ve seen this happen to people and it sucks. They follow that lifestyle and fail harder than trying to jump a tricycle over the Grand Canyon. That life consumes them, and when you try to better yourself, the ones who dragged you down anchor themselves to you. They tell you that you can’t get ahead, that the life they live is the only way for them.
Fuck those stupid dipshits. You can be better and you don’t need to live like some kind of lowlife dicknugget.
Rolling back to the album God of Odd, I dropped a song called Hamburger. That’s not the actually name of the song. It never had one, really because I didn’t make it that far–because it was never completed.
The truth of Hamburger is that I never finished writing the song. I was essentially live writing it. By that, I mean it was mostly complete, but I was finishing it while recording it.
That said, the weird thing where I run out of beat was real. I had more to say. Not much more, but there was still more lines available.
For the album Historic, I decided to revisit the track and give it a name and a full set of verses. It essentially became a long string of verses, but as you hear, I’m interrupted and can’t complete it.
Maybe one day I’ll drop the full version.
So here’s how this worked…
The idea to give Hannah her a collab verse was always a thing. When it was going to happen wasn’t yet set and by the time the Historic came around, we were out of time. But runing out of time was a good thing because it gave us a chance to end the whole series with her.
The original verse I wrote for the song Words of a Lunatic were different than what you heard. However, after hearing Hannah’s verse–the first time she ever raps–sent me back to the drawing board. Don’t tell her, but her verse was far better than mine was.
And even after the whole song came together, she still outshined me. As she said, she “crushed it like a fat fucker landed on it.”
So how does someone like her, who has the IQ of a salad somehow drop lyrics like that? After all, she can barely read and doesn’t know her own last name.
This question still has no answer. Hannah is an enigma, which I’ve had to explain to her multiple times is not an insult.
Anyway, this is not the last time you’ll hear Hannah. We’re sitting on something right now that’s been ready for about two years. It’s…well…you will see very soon.