Interview: T.E.E Discusses His Brand New Album "Endangerment"
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“I’m mowing through the game and the competition like Juggernaut. It’s also what the letters in my name stand for. T for Tenacious and E for Endangerment the last E stands for Everything. I’m a Tenacious Endangerment to Everything.”
Congratulations on the completion and release of your new album "Endangerment"; it's very dope. Tell us about your creative process for the development of the album's ten songs and how you decided which artists would appear on what song.
Thank you! I really appreciate that. The process was a bit of a long one to be honest. I wanted to take a different approach with “Endangerment “and took my time making it.
I wanted to improve my sound and would learn new mixing and mastering techniques and that would often have me go back and make a few tweaks. A lot of life happened between “Tenacious” and “Endangerment” so It's more personal this time around.
As far as the artists I have featured, I was listening to their songs/projects and wanted to make something dope and some of them I've worked with before.
How did you go about picking the beats that are featured on the album? Also, which songs did you produce?
Whenever I work on a song I write to a beat and the beat has to speak to me. When the beat plays I hum a melody to see if I can come up with a hook and if I really like it I will write the verses even when I'm using one of my own beats.
The songs I produced on the album are “Get It”, “Worth”, “Self Made” and “Real Talk Pt.3”.
Would you say that there's an overall theme or concept to the album? If so, describe it for us?
Absolutely. I would say the theme is rappers are in danger. “Tenacious” was about being an unyielding and unstoppable force while “Endangerment” is letting people know that that force is coming towards you and there's nothing you can do about it.
I'm mowing through the game and the competition like Juggernaut. It's also what the letters in my name stand for. T for Tenacious and E for Endangerment the last E stands for Everything. I'm a Tenacious Endangerment to Everything.
Were there songs that you recorded that did not make it on the final track list? If so, why did they not?
Oh yes for sure. Some songs weren't finished, some songs I was unable to get the feature that I wanted to for them And there were some mad just didn't fit the vibe of the album.
“God Complex” almost didn't make it on there either but it turns out to be some people's favorite song. I personally wasn't expecting that.
With the album now released, what's next for you musically?
To get more involved in the music scene. Doing shows, making more music and networking with more people as well as more music videos. I've been looking into getting merch set up as well so it's going to be a busy year for me. I'm really looking forward to it.
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