My songs are full of wild energy, amazing vibes, life stories and humor. Sometimes I just like to tell it like it is.
I identify as country. But I blend country with rap, rock, pop, reggae and house, and what comes out is pretty close to its own thing.
I don't believe music should be controlled by genre. I think it should create a feeling that strengthens the emotion of the story. If a house beat gets you closer to what a song is actually about, then that's what the song gets.
For me, the core of any song is its lyrics. And the lyrics are a story.
Whether it's quite literal, or abstract enough that it means different things to different people, it's still the core of the song. It's the thing that creates a connection between the writer and a stranger.
Most of us spend the vast majority of our lives searching for connection. You can spend all your time surrounded by other people, and what it really boils down to is this: each of us has something deep down that we don't understand and don't know how to explain. A feeling, or a thought. Maybe a life event, or an opinion. Something that affected you in a way you can't put into words, and maybe that's because you don't understand it yourself, or you just flat out don't want to talk about it.
That's why music is so important in our lives.
When you hear a song that means a lot to you, one you love on a level deeper than most of the music you listen to, that's what you're experiencing. A song that opens your eyes to something you'd thought but couldn't explain. A song that catches you off guard because you were sure nobody would understand you.
Music bridges that gap between the general connection we're all searching for and the deeper one you're holding on to inside.
That's why it's so powerful. All it takes is one moment of one song and a moment of clarity, and suddenly you want to hear the rest of them, because if you connected with somebody on that level once, you're bound to find it again.
Then you find other people who love that same song. And now you feel connected to them too, because you figure they must understand you if they understood and connected with the same words. Then it ripples out to more people, and more people, and suddenly you're not only not alone, you've got an entire new world of people to meet.
Beyond the words, the music is there to strengthen the emotion the song is trying to deliver. To set a mood. To hand you a feeling and help you fall into the world of the song.
The beautiful part is that the two can go hand in hand, or you can choose to separate them. You don't always have to connect with the words to enjoy the mood and the atmosphere a song creates. You don't always have to like the melody to appreciate the lyrics.
But when you find both, that's when music becomes therapy. It heals. It excites. It creates that connection we spend our entire lives looking for.
And most of them are true.
Some come from real events that impacted my life in a meaningful way. Some describe life in Las Vegas, which is not really the version people picture.
And some hold a belief or a message I care about, where I'm hoping people connect with it, or at least stay open to hearing it.
The ones that don't fall into any of that are there to build energy and have fun. Songs to tap your feet to, or to just get up and move to. That's the whole job for those ones.
This is the part I have a hard time explaining to people, so I'm just going to walk through it.
Before there's any music at all, there are lyrics on a page. Most of them are true, so a lot of the writing is really just getting it down accurately. Everything built after this has to serve those words.
Once the song has its words, it's time to give it a voice and a sound. For that I use a combination of samples and advanced generative AI prompting. There's a version of this that's one sentence typed into a box. This isn't that.
For nearly every lyric in my songs, there's a prompt. Exact beat placement, vocal temperament, sound description, instrument choice, tempo. It gets written line by line, and between this and the style prompt I'm usually running into the 5,000 character limit.
Here's what a piece of one actually looks like.
That's two lines of a song. Everything above them is direction. A finished track is a lot of that.
Style prompting is a completely separate area from the lyrical side, and negative prompting is its own thing again — telling it what not to do, which matters just as much. All three have to agree with each other or the track fights itself.
By the end of this, I've got the sound.
Now that the sound exists, I go back through the lyrics against it. Some lines and words just don't fit once you can actually hear the track. So I find them and write new ones that mean the same thing but sit better in the rhythm.
Nobody ever notices this part, and it's a huge chunk of the work.
Then I strip the prompt back out, and instead I tell the AI to use the song I already made as the guide for the sound. That way when I run it again with the rewritten vocals, the sound stays where I put it instead of drifting into something else.
Same song, new vocals, and it still sounds like itself.
Once I've got the finished sound with the new vocals, it goes into the studio. I pull out any annoying FX or errors that came through, then manually put back what it actually needs — reverb, synth, compression, EQ, that kind of thing.
And then it's mastered, as best as I can.
The whole thing is time consuming, and that's usually the part that surprises people.
Same goes for the artwork around here. It's AI-assisted, and that's me in it — a rendering of me, made for artistic purposes, but me.
People don't connect through music. They connect through shared experience. Drop yours in the community — it might just turn into the next song.