p r o j e c t a z ụ r h o

click here to pre-save the new album, if you haven't already With the busyness of what's going on with releasing our first album, It's really easy to forget why I wanted to do this. Which is funny, because the name of the album is literally Choose To Run . So how did I get so caught up in the process that I forgot why I chose to run ?🤣 For those who aren't aware, I'd stopped making music for like a couple of years as a result of the discouragement I faced trying to build a fanbase & building something that I'd be confident in. So I had an 'aptitude' for the music, but not the drive for it. So I just gave up and tried to put my all elsewhere. But for some reason, I just couldn't bring that part of myself out. I had such an unintentional devotion to it that it messed me up a little bit to transfer that elsewhere. And even when I did, it felt like I wasn't willing to pay the cost that came with anything else aside from music. Everything became ...

A few months back, Chukwudum and I were discussing ideas for the album. And he came up with a cool idea: Naming each song after the imaginary things we wanted as kids. He came up with A LOT of things, and I really couldn't come up with anything from my childhood that I wanted. I thought about it for a few days, and I wondered why I couldn't come up with anything. It wasn't until later I realized it's because I hated watching most  of the cartoons that had imaginary things, PLUS most of the stuff I wanted as a kid I ended up getting. The one thing I REALLY loved as kid though was ties . My Mom always told me stories about how I'd run to the ties/suit section at most stores. Fun-fact about me: Most of my childhood pictures I'm usually wearing a suit and tie. I think the one thing I wanted as a kid was more ties, so I decided to put " Ralph Lauren Tie " on the list. When I made the beat, I really liked it because I used a technique to make the sample more...