Then "No Delay" is based on two different things because I had two different verses on the song along with a dude named Surreal who I featured on the song. The focus is kind of a call to action and doing things with no delay. The first verse was inspired by a film called Born into Brothels which is about this woman who goes to Calcutta, into the red-light district of India. She was just documenting the women there, but then she got attached to the kids. So, the kids lives in the film take place and she tries to empower them and she takes their pictures and such. It was pretty fresh, but the kids in the film have this sense of thinking that life is just this way. There are girls who are like ten years old that are set to be prostitutes and that's just the way it is. But at the same time, some of them have hope and others just accept what it is and they just do their thing and just live. And it's like, people in America and other places just having a lack of money or having something small go wrong, it's like it's the end of the world and you're not even close to what the end of the world could look like. And [these kids] are pretty much accepting it and going on with life better than someone here would.
Wow. Yeah.
So, that first verse kind of portrays that and how we should be able to help in one way or another. Just look around you. There's hurts that you can address. And then the other verse that I did kind of covered another film that I saw called, The Boys of Baraka, which is about these boys from Baltimore that go to Africa. And how, coming out of the ghetto that they were in, it completely changed their ability to learn and not be stuck in this project. It showed the potential that they had. So that verse covers that in the same way. You know, just real life topics and stories and calling people to get up and do something about whatever is happening around them.
Yeah.
And, in any way they can, to influence, encourage and lift others up. And, yeah, there's things like relationships, there's reminiscent, "younger days" songs. I did a song called "Memory Lane" with a friend that I started emceeing with back when I was fourteen. There's a woman named Sugar Pie DeSanto. She's an old soul and blues singer, pretty well known out of the bay area. We did a song called "Are You Satisfied"" that I wrote for her and, in a way, it covers her story about losing her husband in a fire last year. The song's primarily asking if you are satisfied with the way things are in your life and how to cope with life even when things go completely and utterly bad. Can you be satisfied with the hand you were dealt and continue on, working at it to make it better. She's a strong woman, so it's funny how the song actually related to her and how she is and how she's dealing with what's happened to her. She's 71 years old. It was crazy working with her. It was fun and it was an honor because of who she is.