One week ago HUNTER, YOUAGOODKID & I were invited and had the fortune to attend & perform at A$AP Ferg’s birthday party event in Brooklyn, “The Brown Lounge.” Thank you Ferg for the opportunity.
HUNTER and I have been working on an album for the past 5+ years alongside our friend YOUAGOODKID, this will be the first single released off of the project. This song is called “BiG LiFE.”
The song was made in June of this year and was the beginning of us embarking on the journey to finalize and finish into an album all the best songs we’ve been working on for many years. It was created in my house in Harlem the first day we organized and dove into the project, I sampled and resampled myself to create it and simplified it to its pure essence. The vocals came a week or two after when we set up a session at Audiomack Studios, we re-recorded some tracks including one called FIRE IN THE SEWER ft. Antha & Delly, originally conceptualized in 2020.
BiG LiFE we loaded up after we did other tasks, I played it loud on the speakers and Hunter started singing “Biiig Liiife” and I told him ‘keep doing that and go in the booth.” It reminded me of when we first started working together back in September 2017 and he would do a similar singing style on many of his records, I felt him going back to his essence and roots.
I recorded him singing in many layers, then I went in the booth, I had an intuitive feeling to spread my arms wide out and open and my part of the hook came in “We got that Big Life, Whoa, We live that Big Life, Whoa.” I had to spread my arms out to get the message across. This song is about living our Biggest Life, not holding back, moving forward from this moment forward and the ending of any self-slander or disbelief of ourselves and others.
On the deepest level it is about filling our mentor’s shoes, living in a way that makes him proud and fulfilling our mission while we’re here in this lifetime, contributing to the realization of a peaceful society, as an artist and as a human being.
Our mentor, Daisaku Ikeda, was a Buddhist philosopher, educator, author & poet dedicated his life to each person he encountered, whether it was a child, a head of state, president or ordinary person. In our culture the mentor/disciple relationship is barely known, except maybe in martial arts circles. But through my 15+ years practicing Buddhism, I’ve realized first hand how important it is to have a mentor in life. A mentor is like a lighthouse, a compass, or the ancient wise persons of old guiding the tribe.
Mentor & Disciple are equal, and in order to achieve anything great in life, you need a great mentor. I would be nowhere with my music if I didn’t have great mentors. I’m grateful for all of them, and I’m grateful for my parents for having the awareness to put me in touch with music mentors since I was 7 years old. Daisaku Ikeda passed away last year November 15th 2023, this song is also an expression of our commitment to continue to live as he did and never give up in the struggle for peace, culture & education.
As you can see in the BiG LiFE artwork, Hunter is spreading his arms wide and expressing the greatness we are embarking on and are achieving. Its also a throwback to Jordan’s, the best basketball player of all time and a legendary brand.
Here’s the YouTube link to listen!
The official song is out NOW on all platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, etc) so be sure to save it to your playlists and run it up. This is motivational music to help you achieve greatness in your life.
Some songs & projects take a while but some arrive quickly. The main thing is to be present, stay focused and not to get stuck in your head. The songs we’re releasing on the project are Time Tested Certified Bangers, but BiG LiFE is new. When injecting fresh energy into “older” songs or projects, it helps to make something new that you’re excited about, that is present and that you can really push, BiG LiFE is that song and we’ll be promoting it for the rest of the year. This is a historic post. Don’t miss out on this moment and make sure to release and share what you make. Do it with the ONLY BANGERS MINDSET. That’s the only way.
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Have a great day, and keep living the only bangers lifestyle.
All photos shot by my wife Francisca (unless otherwise noted)
Peace 🐬🤘🏼
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