My 1st Collaboration Track!
Posted by A.P. Taylor on September 8, 2008
Another week, another video in the can…
17 videos filmed in the span of 16 weeks, not including the various semi-videos I’ve made for freestyles and paperstyles.
One advantage of all these videos is that they give me exposure to other artists who are looking for collaborations. I posted up a YouTube video telling people to E-mail me if they wanted me to jump on one of their tracks.
Lo and behold – someone did!
This group from Cleveland, OH called “Black & Broke” wrote me and asked me if I’d do a verse for one of their songs called… well, I won’t give it away yet since I just finished it, but they sent me a track with their two vocals recorded, and the song was so hilarious that I had to be on it.
I don’t know how well-known these guys are – I think they’re relatively new – but hopefully the song will blow up and become a huge song in their city, then spread like wild fire until we all become famous in the process.
In the meantime, though, I discovered something while recording the track: recording for someone else really makes me get competitive in terms of thinking up words to a song. Not that I’m out to outshine the other guys on the track, but it kinda feels like it – like, you’ve heard 2 verses, and you have to come up with something equally good or better, or else you’re not proving that you’re deserving of even being on the track.
I guess what I’m saying is – I have to find other people to do some collaborations with so I can improve my writing! Then again, maybe I should just act like I’m competing with someone when I write new stuff….
Nah! I think I’ll stick to plan A: finding others to collabo with. It’s a good way for me to get my name out there, and gain new fans in the process. As for this track – once I get the okay, I’ll definitely post it up somewhere for the world to hear!
-A.P.T.
E-mail: aptsongs@hotmail.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/NotoriousAPT
