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It started in a little box of a room all by myself. Just recording songs with noone to show them to. I was heartbroken off a girl, I was tired of being pulled in different directions artistically and I was annoyed with industry politics. I quit music, I damn near quit everything. But sometimes you have to break down to break through. When I rediscovered my Self I wrote and recorded Light One, Pour One. I sent it to my homie Stan Sono (fka Mr Music), a producer I'd made a couple tracks with here and there, and he told me i had exponentially evolved and that he wanted to mix the record for me. Those mix sessions were really the spark of our friendship and the genesis of the whole squad.

I used to take the train to another train for 2 hours just to get to the studio, ya feel me? Back then, Goodbye Tomorrow was just a mixtape.
The triumphant return of a rapper you never heard of, but as the project took shape, my whole perspective was flipped on its head. I started from a more somber place of surrendering my control and giving into negativity, but through the process I broke free from that mentality, and ultimately increased my knowledge of self, both as an Artist and as a Man.

At some point "I" fell to the side as the truth of the music started to shine through. Goodbye Tomorrow wasn't mine. It wasn't even ours. It just WAS. That's one of the reasons I always shy away from the credit for vocals and visuals. (I did this website too tho lol)

Goodbye Tomorrow is about progression. The consistent expression and refinement of 1 ideology, ya feel me?

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When we finished the last song, 28, we put it out immediately afterwards. Around this time, a homie had tweeted at E.Dan from Rostrum Records to check out our music. he fucked with it, but nothing more came of it until January 2014, when we were gearing up to roll out the (still then a) mixtape. E hit me asking if we had anything new. Sent him the project, he fucked with it, and before we knew it, they were asking us to sign.

As long as I had creative control, everything else was just details to me. I knew the concept for JAY Z was the illest video in years. It just needed to be made. Nothing was more important. That experience exemplified what Goodbye Tomorrow really is - an undefinable and immeasurable face to the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Many, many talented people either appear in or were behind the scenes of this work. If we couldn't do something, our friends could. If they weren't friends, they were friends of friends even parents of friends.

That's how it was since day 1. Everything from the music to the website to the merch to the graphics… it’s all done by us. Me and Bouvy stayed up for hours painting nerf gun props before the Way. The whole squad moved into Rick's (the director)crib for 2 weeks to edit & score it. You can walk into our place right now and catch P-bam hand stitching a jacket while Music mixes a song I just recorded while I make the cover art for it. That's the ethos of Goodbye Tomorrow.

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Although Rostrum provided us with the financial means to make the JAY Z video what it needed to be, by the time the deal happened, after all the industry red tape, once it was shot and everything was aligned, the album was 2 years old. At the time of release, it was almost 3 years old. That constant waiting is part of what inspired tunnel stripe exit ramp, and a lot of what caused us to split from the label.

The urgency of it gets lost when business gets in the mix. I'm very resistant to the traditional structure of the art v consumer mentality. Our content always strives to change that dynamic. It can't be about money. It can't be about paywalls. It has to be about us. When you hear me say , that's you saying I. If Goodbye Tomorrow is everyone, then at the same time Goodbye Tomorrow is No One. It's that duality, or lack of a duality, or both, will always be a constant thread.

"Anonymity" was never supposed to be our thing, ya feel me. My message was never properly translated. It's a reflection of that duality. Goodbye Tomorrow is hard to define, it's something you have to experience in a multi-sensory way. I have 2 much 2 say, but I have always preferred to stand in the shadow of what I create. Part of this process was me learning to balance action against inaction. To get out of my thoughts and accept the responsibility I have to to really do what get us all where we need to be. I'm talking to you for 1000 years, I have to honor that and use that power the right way.

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Truthfully, I just don't fuck with the media and celebrity culture. What’s the difference from a omnipresent dictator on a poster and a celebrity on a billboard trying to sell us some shit? Y’all the same to me. It’s all these codes and signals to tell you that you need these things to qualify you or to meet someone else’s standards.

Let's be real tho. I'm shy and introverted. I was everywhere and never felt like i had a place. And any time you’re confronted with any sort of helplessness or weakness or inability to act on what you sense… if you’re not all the way 100 with yourself, it’s going to manifest itself as aggression towards it or fear of it. Looking back, more self aware, I think it’s myself I don’t trust. You see in those aspects and areas parts of yourself that you don’t want to manifest. And I think so much of it has to do with your relationship with yourself and your state of mind and your balance level.

The album cover is a girl… it’s a girl with the yellow and black tunnel stripe diagonal lines and she’s in an all black space, opening a triangle of light in the middle. At the end of the day, the things you’re running from, you’re also running towards, it’s a circle. Everything starts where it ends. That, more than anything, is what it's about. Accepting your responsibility in your destiny / fate / whatever. It’s in your hands. maybe it’s pre-written, but you can’t enact it without acting it. And I think it’s about realizing that knowledge of self starts with that wisdom.

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