It can get hard to listen to, and especially hard to perform. Oftentimes, records that are real personal will come from a place where I know where it came from, and I can pinpoint that to an exact situation that really happened in my life. Do you find your own music difficult to listen to? This album is a bit darker in tone than your previous works. Whether the single dropped a year ago or two years ago, it don’t matter because I felt like I wanted to give that record a specific home, because it was a part of a story. It had a narrative from beginning to end, so I didn’t want to leave any songs out. I got in with the album’s executive producer, and I started realizing that all the songs told a story. Drake’s “Take Care” was a classic that inspired me when I first started making music. Alicia Keys made the first CD I ever bought. Every artist that worked on “Wasteland” was somebody that was part of the overall story. How would you describe your creative process for this album?įor me, it was a lot of traveling and moving from place to place, and collaborating with different people who really inspired me.

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