Years later here I am, trying to get famous enough to find him and collaborate on a song together.Īlright, so let’s move onto what keeps you busy professionally? Unfortunately due to him constantly moving we lost contact after he graduated, and six months after that I lost my love for music. Just keep working at it and we’ll link for a song.” They were so bad but I was determined to make something halfway decent, though, I kept getting worse.įriday came with a sobering conversation about my inability to making something worthy. Then I sat down in front of the computer, booted up GarageBand, then proceeded to make the worst beats ever.

I was thinking of all of these crazy instrument melodies and transitions.

The walk back to the apartment wasn’t the same. I thought about that the rest of the day. “Put something together for me by the weekend and I’ll use it on my next mixtape.” “You ever think about making a song? I heard you make beats on GarageBand.” We talked about how he’d crafted this mixtape, the instrumentation and his inspirations. I had personally liked music but now I was all in. I’d never thought that was possible, that was big artist label thing my reality was shattered. He’d produced and wrote every song that blared through the headphones.

I feel this is going to be my underlying theme, my thematic trope if you will, but it’s to eventually find and collaborate on a song with an old high school friend I lost touch with. When I was in 10th grade my friend Chris, a kid a grade above me that I met through my brother, brought a CD he’d made of songs he’d recorded. Hi David, why did you pursue a creative career? We had the good fortune of connecting with David Lewis and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Lex luger making a beat