Rhyme & Reason.

I think I wrote my first song in Grade 6 for a music project, and it was about this girl I had a major crush on that I went to school with. I'm definitely not exposing that sorry excuse of a song to the public (ever), but I don't think I ever told the girl though. So Fonda, just want to let you know I was totally into you and that yellow jacket/raincoat you always wore back then (call me? haha).

Anyways, I remember I wrote on sheet music first for the melody, and then put in the lyrics afterwards. Since then, I've never gone back to drawing those stupid notes on the treble clef again, and by the time I was in high school, I had moved on to writing rap verses in my agendas. I still have them and in between sketches of anime characters and stick figures shooting basketballs, I ended up filling all four of them with scribbles of poor rhymes and a lot of swear words. As terrible as some of them sound now, I can still read them and remember the lessons I learned. But somewhere along the line, I fell away from it all and turned to typing instead. Maybe it's because my parents bought me a laptop, or maybe because using a keyboard is a lot faster anyways, but a part of knows it has not been, and is not the same.

Recently, I decided to rediscover the experience of putting an actual pen to paper. It's a lot more challenging than I remember -- a lot messier, a lot harder to change up rhyme schemes or find new words, and probably takes three times longer. But for some reason, it just feels more authentic, and I'd definitely trade that for convenience.

I titled it The Playbook and drew an inbounds play we ran in grade 9 on the inside cover (wow I'm lame). It definitely brings me more of a genuine sense of attachment to what I love to do, and it's much more of an emotional catharsis. With that being said, I have a couple projects I've finished recording and am waiting to film videos for them before I can pump them out on Youtube. The goal is to release them this weekend or by early next week before I surrender my freedom to tax accounting, so keep a lookout. Here's proof:

For now though, I just want to share with you guys this track I came across randomly. I might be a bit slow on this one, especially compared to the hardcore Drizzy fans, but the lyrics completely hit home. I know I've mentioned this before, but there's really no feeling like discovering a song that you can relate to on the truest level. I guess what I went through this summer sometimes happens to the best of us. Not sure yet if that's any consolation, but misery loves company. We all know that.