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 music 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 venture are songs with easy, easy names, like ‘Now,’ which talks about how his life appears to be like like after plenty of challenges.
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“’Now’ is mainly hey, that is the place I’m proper now,” S7GMA stated. “Tomorrow just isn’t promised, however if you happen to do make it to tomorrow, no matter you do proper now within the current will have an effect on tomorrow. ‘Now’ is the long run, the stereotypical future we’ll by no means be capable of reside in as a result of that’s forward of our time. We’ll at all times be dwelling within the ‘Now.’ So ‘Now’ the long run, no matter you do now will have an effect on tomorrow.”
S7GMA stated ‘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 by a lot and he’s grown a lot.
“Time doesn’t watch for anyone, so why sit right here and stress?” S7GMA stated. “Why get upset about issues you could’t take with you to your grave? I rewired myself, and it is a starting of a brand new without end.”
‘Now’ would be the closing observe on the seven-track ‘Thoughts of Me’ venture.
S7GMA stated 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 music meant a lot to him.
“For ‘Now’ I initially went ahead across the identical time that I began doing one other observe, ‘Sorry,’ initially of this 12 months once I locked myself in my room for three months and solely got here out to go to work and stuff,” S7GMA stated. “I began off with the piano and ‘Now’ was initially imagined to be extra like a pop-sounding music. As quickly as I heard the piano half and I began laying down extra keys, it type 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 stated ‘Now’ is about dwelling for himself and being his genuine self.
“A quote from the music, 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 stated. ‘So even within the recollections that I felt like had been good recollections, that also wasn’t of me for me. I wasn’t one hundred pc genuine, it was only a facade actually. I used to be simply doing what everybody wished me to do whether or not that got here with good or unhealthy. In order that’s that’s what ‘Now’ is. Now could be without end, time doesn’t watch for anyone. It’s time to be me, my time is now, now and without end.”
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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