How I write songs

Today I might actually get some writing done. It's been hard to find the time to actually sit down and just focus on writing. Actually, I pretty much never sit down and write. Let me tell you how a song comes to life for me.

It often starts with just a melody that I usually come up with in the shower. Yeah, that's right - I sing in the shower. Then I record the melody on my cellphone. After a while it's time to start working on, say an album, and I need my ideas. Then I pick one of the melodies and start imaging how the beat will sound, then I tell Jonathan about it and we'll hopefully make a dope ass beat. Or if I don't have a melody, but more like an idea of how I want the song to sound, what feeling that should be put into the song, we just start by making the right drums. Then we start playing various instruments, humming melodies and me rapping. However we make the beat, I bring the beat with me home, press play and repeat and listen to it like 1000 times while bouncing around, shadow-boxing, jumping rope, doing push-ups - you name it - and jotting down bits and pieces of the lyrics. When I feel that I have enough lines/rhymes to start putting them together and forming verses, I do.

That's the best way I could explain the way I write songs, and I think it's a fairly accurate description. Hope you enjoyed it.

I'll be back to tell you if I got any work done today later.