Track 14 – We’re Fly (f/ Chop, Kay, and Jessie Fischer)

Jessie on the keys, Kay on the intro/first verse, Chop on the chorus.

I started this track in 2007, inspired by Kanye’s “I wonder”. I LOVED how the male vocal was used for melody in that song and I was already a fan of the song used in “we’re fly” so I tried it. Nothings wrong with inspiration of course, but I wasnt trying to make something that sounded like “I wonder”. Also, I knew that I wanted a real version of “rough u up” on this album, meaning a song with that same double time bounce but a real effort instead of a joke song.

What people may not notice is that every geographic…quadrant? (lol…sigh) of American hip hop is represented in this song. Kay was the south, Ilyas was the midwest, I was the east coast, and Donwill was the west coast with the too short impression/tribute.

When we went to Jessie’s studio to work on the piano parts he already had exactly what I wanted. We walked through the door and it was playing on loop. Jessie was like “so I was just messing with this based on what you asked for but lets do exactly what you wanted…” We just sat there like “um…thats exactly what its supposed to sound like!” with big dumb smiles, happy that it was done so easily.

I love this song and how it came together. As a fan of our music it makes me excited to see where we go on the next album.