Brand new music - "Say My Name (Flowman)"

MySpace.com - FLOWMAN - TEXARKANA, Texas - Rap / Hip Hop / Progressive - www.myspace.com/blackmanx

"Say My Name (Flowman)"
(V. Arnold, D. Johnson)
On The Rise Music/Black Ocean Studios (ASCAP)
Produced by XV for Kingsmen Productions
Recorded & Mixed by Russ Cain at Russ Cain Productions (Texarkana, TX)
Additional Engineering by Vincent Arnold
All instruments by XV
© 2007 Black Ocean Studios, LLC All rights reserved


Enjoy!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I'm sorry, where do you get off calling that "progressive"? It sounds like mainstream, radio hip hop.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

You obviously haven't listened to a urban or hip-hop station since 1995 'cause there's nothing like this on mainstream radio.

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I like the rhythmic scheme you got going on here. I think the strongest part of this piece is definitely the way you put the words together.

As for the music itself, it doesn't sound very 'progressive', but it has a nice clean sound.
I think it sounds pretty polished for the type of music you are going for.

I haven't worked much in the studio. How did you go about putting the piece together?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

This track was about two days in the making. I received the beat from XV on a Sunday and wrote most of it that night. It never really takes me long to put together my lyrics, it's usually the performance aspect that takes most of my time.

When I got in the lab, I wanted to create a song that is a throwback to what I consider 'classic' hip-hop in that it's just fun, party-type music. That's different from a lot of the club music you hear today, which is really dance-oriented. As I was laying down the vocals, I changed my voice to a more precise and clean cut tone to capture that element. I think it really helped me bring out the charisma that was needed to pull this track off.

The bridge originally was supposed to be sung by this R&B artist I work with named Rashad Knight, but as I was writing the words, I just felt like a more intimate sound was needed on the bridge. So Russ and I decided to expand upon the call & response theme of the hook and make it seem as if I was performing before a large crowd on the bridge before I came back in with the last verse.

As for why I have one of my Myspace genres as 'progressive' -- it's because I use a lot of elements in my music that are atypical of standard hip-hop. I deviate from the standard 16-bar verse structure a lot. I use a lot of bridges and breaks and often have live instrument solos on tracks. Compared to a lot of mainstream hip-hop, I consider the music I do a lot more 'musical' in that I prefer live instrumentation to synthesized 90 percent of the time.

A lot of the material I'm talking about has not been released -- most of it won't even appear on my first retail album, Solo Mission, as I'm reserving a lot of it for my sophmore magnum opus, Dark America.

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The reason I ask is that I am in the process of shopping my material to a studio, and I know how long it can take to get a finished album to the 'right people'. It sounds like you are in good hands.

I don't doubt that your stuff is progressive in some sense. I must admit I don't have enough of a foundation in the essence and history of hip hop to make any kind of definitive comparison. In this latest piece, I definitely got an old school (mid to late) 90's hip hop vibe from the chord progressions and the bass work.

Sounds good for what you are going for. Good luck.

How ya doing, buddy?