Inspiration
CONCEPT
CONCEPT
Emotion
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Emotion -
Monster Crew
(Casey Powell - Willy Beamin - Cambino)
This album started as wanting to just make music that was different than my norm but fun to record. I started with robber. Aggressive and full attack. Pushing feelings but showing that I really am about this rap shit. Then I made can’t relate. And felt the energy of wanting to demonstrate I can rap, but wanting to bring you into the world I have lived and what I have become. Bridging the gaps of life then vs life now. And shortly after I made the decision. I song intentionally created to be vulnerable and share the moment in my life where I attempted to end it. It was from there I learned I was doing more than creating songs to listen too. It was therapy. It was lethargic. It was a demonstration of life. But it was also the death of the old, and the time spent to this point in music. And the end of an era. So not only is the song about how I was living. It is about how the old me was dying. And my end goal was to be the story of the start and end to a life cycle. And how humanity lives this daily, with only little answers. But sometimes the answers is in the experience. So I wanted to share that experience
I knew Peety Smooth for a minute while doing music in the city. He is an intrigrual part to how I perceive music and layers and samples. It just took awhile for us to consistently work together. There was one song I was a feature on that I recorded but never came to fruition. And being in a place of creation and realigning, I reached out to him to see how he was and also rekindle the creative passion we had. After some geniue discussion, we found a common place of creation and he shared some beat and ideas he had. These became songs I made, and sat on for over a year. The sound was organic, vulnerable, and genuine. But it became so free and pure to make, I decide if I was to release it I wanted it to be its own system, as well as make sure it was mixed and put together so top notch that the quality matched the engegy. This moved a couple loose tracks into a “passion project”. And every move, connection, piece, became an added element to making it become closer to fruition in its best form. From then, I used Peety’s art as well to create the energy, framework, and story. And the world helped me write the story itself.
Visual
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Visual -
Toy Adams
Working with Toy has shaped a deeper appreciate for style, film, and photography. Learning through his experience has helped me find a newfound inspiration for capturing life’s moments and creative integrity.
Sound
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Sound -
Notes on the band
Peety Smooth
Notes on meeting and working with petty
Cash Gordon
notes on meeting and working with cash
Credits
WRITTEN/PERFORMED BY…… MIKE BANDANNA
CREATIVE DIR….. TOY ADAMS
VISUAL DIR…. TOY ADAMS
EXECUTIVE PROD…. PEETY SMOOTH
CO-PROD…. MOSNTER CREW (CASEY POWELL, WILLY BEAMIN, CAM ‘CAMBINO’ GOODEN)
ENGINEER….. CASH GORDON
SPECIAL THANKS…. WIFE & TWO SONS, R.I.P BLAINE, MY PARENTS, LONG TIME FANS AND SUPPORTS, THE CITY, THE OLD ME AND ALL MY DECISIONS, AND THE ONES WE NO LONGER SPEAK TO/BUT THE TIMES WERE REAL. NO ILL WILL