Yeah, I record on voice memos. I got like 1,000-something memos. If I'm in the middle of something and I can't get it done, I'll jot it down, but I never write a rap out, ever.
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I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time.
I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.
You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.
That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.
As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't, I get rusty.
I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry.
By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.
When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.
When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.