Trilogies Of Tragedies [BOOK 2]: Part Four

Now was the last month or so of recording. I came up with a couple songs just in a row like wildfire. "Dig", "Four Walls" and "Thank You" were I believe written in the same 3 or 4 days. I wrote a couple other songs that didn't make the album in that time range, namely, "Love-Hate" and "Last Words". But the one I wrote that stood out the most was a song called "Without You". I'm not saying it stood out because it was the best, because all of them can make arguments about being the better song. Good ones at that.

The reason why it stood out was because there was no rapping on the song what so ever. I think since I started "The City of Angels", I've tried to make a song where there was no rapping that was good enough for one of my albums. But at the same time, I didn't want to stray too far from my type of music. Cause then it wouldn't fit the scheme of the album. This song was actually influenced by another Xerost8 artist.

Thrilla had just put up a song on his MySpace. "Last Night" to be exact. And well, I sat here thinking why didn't I just make a song like that. Cause every time I tried, it ended up too rock-ish. I never tried to make a simple R&B track. And well, I think Thrilla's is hot as a forest fire. But I was proud of mine in the sense, I didn't just rip his off or anything. Eventhough, the argument can be made. So once I was threw with that, I had to just make finishing touches on the album.

I almost didn't have the features ready in time. Hitta recorded his on Oct. 11th since he was in town from our concert. I ended up scratching a couple ideas and going back to "Loveisdead" with Prophecy and then Kyd asked me if I had a record him and Thrilla could rock on. Well I had made a remix beat for "One Hit Wonder" and well it was flames. They wrote to the beat before I even touched it. Hitta recorded his verse on the 11th. Proph came over the next week and laid down his three verses on the album.

Thrilla almost didn't get his tracks on the album. Same with T.R.A. & JC Money. But they got their verses to me two days before the final deadline. I worked with Thrilla and pushed it back a couple hours cause I trusted him. And he came through with some hot verses. So the album was done on October 21st, 2008. So I sent the album in the following morning. I've noticed two things I missed in the album...So I guess it wasn't mastered to perfection.

But anyways, this album is still not all of me. If I would've took the rest of the year, who knows how much better the album would've been. I think I stopped at the right time though. It's a really good album. And you can say...well yeah you made it. of course you think that. I'ma let you in on something. I can't listen to our CDs after we make them. I'm so sick of them from mixing them that I can't stand em. I haven't listened to Iowa Money in a month or so besides the songs we've performed.

But this time around, I get goosebumps from like 9 songs. Usually, there's one song, maybe two on my CDs that give me goosebumps...But 9 songs....that's almost half the album. I just completely took the time to make some really amazing songs. But I guess it's not for me to judge. It's up to you. The fans. The specatators. The haters. You can let me know if I went above my normal expectations. I can honestly say I think this is easily the best Xerost8 album ever. No offense to Kyd. I came out of my head for this one. I might not be as lyrical as Hitta or Proph. I might not have the swagger Thrilla does. But I can make songs like a motherfucker. Try me.