Interview: Laguna Beach Rapper Michael Burnz Discusses His New Single/Video "Naturally", Featuring Morea Nahani
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“...life is inspiring you know. Ultimately all creativity comes from The Creator so I do my best to be sensitive to what the Spirit might want to say thru me.”
What are some things that inspire your creativity when working on new music?
Mostly I listen to the music and meditate on it and to feel where it wants to takes me.
Sometimes I'm ask to write for a project and they already have the concept so I channel the emotions/creativity for that.
Almost anything, life is inspiring you know. Ultimately all creativity comes from The Creator so I do my best to be sensitive to what the Spirit might want to say thru me.
What do you look for in the production that you decide to write to and record?
Vibes, mood just something I can feel. If I can feel it then I know others probably can also.
We're blown away by your new single/video "Naturally". Tell us about who produced it and how you connected with Morea.
First off, thank you! I appreciate that. The music was produced by a Texas team know as TexasRadioFish :-D It is what it is that's their name and music is their game! They also produced my single " More Love" which is more reggaeton vibe so they can go jazz, to hip hop to reggae on and on.
I met Morea in church years ago. We were both individual artists and we worked together on a church project once. We enjoyed it so much we wrote another song together and just have never stopped since then. Right now we're working on a group name for us as a duo. That's how much music we have together!
The music video for "Naturally" is the perfect accompaniment for the song, and looked like a lot of fun to shoot. Who directed it and can we expect any more visuals for tracks on the album?
Again thank you! My friend Jamie shot the footage in Laguna Beach, we had it edited and out together by my guy Fabian in Germany. When that video came back it was edited once more by my best friend and sometimes manager, Shaw in L.A. and that's the video you see!
I love that video because I remember how much fun we had making it. Those are all authentic friends and authentic Laguna Beach shots.
More soon to come YES! The title track "The Expanse" has a lyric video coming early-mid October and a live video coming mid-late October. Something like that, we want to give people something new to watch at least once a month, then eventually twice a month.
Speaking of “The Expanse”, congratulations on the completion and release of this album. What was your creative process for its 10 songs and would you say that there is an overall theme or concept to it?
Man you're the best with the compliments, more love back to you! “The Expanse” is a total indie project. I recorded it all at home using Reaper so I'm proud of that, yet getting better ever day.
The theme is Expansion of the Mind Body and Spirit. Expand past hate, Expand past lying to yourself and find freedom in being you (“Your Mask”, track 3), love more, expand your heart... know yourself more, meditate where you can do better.
I love our song "Too Late"; it's an Earth song, how can we do better by the Earth before it's too late. I loosely got the theme from the Amazon Prime show by the same name Lol
With "The Expanse" now released, what are some of your goals musically for the rest of 2020, heading into the new year?
Musically the vision board huh Lol. Again to release 3 new live videos by year's end, 1 for each month, and a couple lyric videos, some behind the scenes stuff.
I co-write with some talented people so God willing I'll keep meeting great people to write great music with. I'm heavy into pursuing sync licenses so a big win for me would be to sign 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or more agreements in that space :-)