Mar
ND3.
When my first album “Night & Day” dropped I was really inspired by everything that was goin on around me. The girl I loved didn’t love me, The girl I was dating at the time didn’t care about shit, and all this time I had another girl pregnant. When I first started getting the royalties from the album I was getting about 10,000 a month. For a young nigga I had never seen no money like that…especially in Minnesota.
So after the first “Man Of The Year” mixtape dropped, I was really buzzin hard, Capitol called, more labels called…like my phone didn’t stop ringing. Doin hella shows, all that. I started getting tired of performing the same old songs and it got to the point where I just couldn’t feel it anymore. Look, i’m performing i’m on the side of the stage ready to go on, bag of Cheetos in one hand, mic in the other like really? But, day by day I started hearing everyone making these edgy Rap-R&B songs, cussin and using my lines, but what was fucked up was…I wasn’t even mad at shit anymore. And that’s when I realized I had got comfortable.
When I moved out of the college dorms I started working on “Night & Day: Diamond” & “Man Of The Year 2” and couldn’t focus. I lived with my girl and that all I wanted to do. I kept telling myself I was growing up and needed to change my sound, not realizing that I was still the same person. I felt like I needed to get out of Minnesota bad. Now that I think about it I really think I just took the best 30 tracks from that year and threw them on the CD like fuck it. In my mind I was like well “nothing I put out is gonna be wack.” Then people don’t buy it…the fans will humble you real quick.
With that I have this filter how I choose songs. If it isn’t good I wont even let it leave the session. Anybody I’ve worked with knows, I’ll delete the whole session without even fuckin blinking.
So now, if you’ve seen me tweet “ND3” it just means Night & Day 3. I don’t know if that’ll be the final title but..that’s what it is to me. Over the past year I took a break to really clear my hear, get back to myself and live. I moved to Cali and started working with a lot of different writers and artists. Dope, inspiring ones. And now it’s not about being too comfortable, it’s about pushing yourself. Like I got a voice in my head like “Nigga u say u the shit get yo ass up and prove it. Make me some money nigga.” So when people ask me what it sounds like and I tell them, “It’s Night & Day” that just means it’s the shit! I got Kid Ink on that shit, Jade Mckenzie singing her heart out…u know. But, I’m ready tho. If you stick around long enough you’ll see it.
- Chrishan The Prince
Feb
Someday too late you’ll understand.
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