SAN MARCOS, Tex. — Texas rapper S7GMA knew at a younger age that he wanted to get away from his birthplace if he was going to outlive, and he’s placing that story into track for everybody to listen to in his upcoming EP ‘Mine of Me,’ popping out earlier than the top of 2024.
Among the many seven tracks on this challenge are songs with easy, easy names, like ‘Now,’ which talks about how his life seems to be like after plenty of challenges.
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“’Now’ is mainly hey, that is the place I’m proper now,” S7GMA mentioned. “Tomorrow just isn’t promised, however in case you do make it to tomorrow, no matter you do proper now within the current will have an effect on tomorrow. ‘Now’ is the longer term, the stereotypical future we’ll by no means be capable to reside in as a result of that’s forward of our time. We’ll all the time be residing within the ‘Now.’ So ‘Now’ the longer term, no matter you do now will have an effect on tomorrow.”
S7GMA mentioned ‘Now’ can also be about who he has been the previous 5 years. He gathers the experiences from that time frame and realizes he’s been via a lot and he’s grown a lot.
“Time doesn’t await anyone, so why sit right here and stress?” S7GMA mentioned. “Why get upset about issues that you would be able to’t take with you to your grave? I rewired myself, and it is a starting of a brand new perpetually.”
‘Now’ would be the closing observe on the seven-track ‘Thoughts of Me’ challenge.
S7GMA mentioned creation of the instrumental portion of ‘Now’ started final 12 months, and the lyrics adopted. He spent two months making all the things good on the observe, saying that he didn’t need to rush it as a result of the track meant a lot to him.
“For ‘Now’ I initially went ahead across the similar time that I began doing one other observe, ‘Sorry,’ at first of this 12 months once I locked myself in my room for a great three months and solely got here out to go to work and stuff,” S7GMA mentioned. “I began off with the piano and ‘Now’ was initially imagined to be extra like a pop-sounding track. As quickly as I heard the piano half and I began laying down extra keys, it kind of sounding extra orchestra like. And that’s the way you get to the top of it. It’s simply one thing stunning and I felt like a conductor.”
He mentioned ‘Now’ is about residing for himself and being his genuine self.
“A quote from the track, I’m saying; ‘I’ve already spent sufficient time in my thoughts looking for who I used to be, simply so I could possibly be myself. And in that point I discover a me that wasn’t mine, come to search out who I used to be was me, for another person,’” S7GMA mentioned. ‘So even within the reminiscences that I felt like had been good reminiscences, that also wasn’t of me for me. I wasn’t 100% genuine, it was only a facade actually. I used to be simply doing what everybody needed me to do whether or not that got here with good or unhealthy. In order that’s that’s what ‘Now’ is. Now’s perpetually, time doesn’t await anyone. It’s time to be me, my time is now, now and perpetually.”
Try S7GMA on all of the streaming and social media platforms;
X — https://x.com/s7gma?s=21&t=lYW9XUDTnsgBAX2SsU-hgA
Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/s7gma/?igsh=aDg5Yndoc2U2d3pw&utm_source=qr
Tiktok — https://www.tiktok.com/@s7gmamusic?_t=8nJu7VlSugl&_r=1
Youtube — https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeQuClcuIU-jQUsE7q0AJaA
Spotify — https://open.spotify.com/artist/4jPjNu5BROujenMXmF3k2I
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