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Loner. Liners.

Linear notes! Haha…we used to say that.

Im going to do these liner notes but im mostly going to state the inspirations behind each song. Some of it wont make sense but this is how the songs got made. Inspiration comes from any and everywhere.

The first half of this album can be considered experimental but Id say it’s more explorative than anything. The very first day of making this project I thought about what [I assume] Im known for vs what I wanted to do this time. I wanted to be creatively curious and vulnerable but without forcing you to watch me try and learn in front of you. I went and taught myself how to make music again and this first half is playful but earnest. Hope you enjoy.

  • Inspiration:

    • Slick Ricks production.

    • “Venus” from his second album.

    • The end of “Mona Lisa”

    • The end of “The World is Yours”.

    • Hearing people do the voice/accent but never really pay homage to his production.

    • The producer Focus… and his “Homage to” series where he would pay homage to his favorite producers by making a track using their style.

  • Inspiration:

    • Growing apart.

    • Scarface “My Block”

    • The basketball rim we used to drag outside until nycha built a basketball court for us.

    • Singing the entire “24 Hours To Live” at the top of our lungs in the lobby.

    • Bobbys laugh.

  • Inspiration:

    • How Big Krit beats sound in the car

    • Kendrick “County Building Blues”

    • Disney soundtracks

    • The score from Juno

    • The score from Zola

    • Chris Rock comedy bits

  • Inspiration:

    Sporty Thievz “What I Look Like” and what I call the “stiff bop” (when the drums sound “stiff” as my best way to explain it)

    Busta Rhymes “We Gon Do It To Ya”

    What was that sitcom with Patti Labelle and Def Jef? Out All Night!

  • Inspiration:

    • Radio Galaxy

    • OutKast “Liberation”

    • P Funk

    • Relationship dynamics adjusting with time

    • The desire for a tribe while being a loner

    Note: there was a section at the end inspired by the great Larry Smith but it didn’t work.

  • Inspiration:

    • The desire to have a beat change after “Natalie” and turning it into its own thing

    • Early Tanya Morgan sex raps & maturity (haha)

    • Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin

    • Old niggas on podcasts talking about who they used to smash

  • Inspiration:

    • Raphael Saadiq “Charlie Ray”

    • The entire concept of Apollonia 6

    • A literal dream I had where I was on Degrassi High and a girl told me “sometimes you just gotta get high and draw Jane Fonda” (your guess is as good as mines)

    • BBD “Poison”

    • Kanye “Bound 2”

    • Donwill “Cincinnatian”

  • Inspiration:

    • Dungeon Family “Crooked Booty”

    • Luther Vandross

    • Queer-phobia

    • Janet “I Get Lonely”

    • Acid House

  • Inspiration:

    • Barcelona architecture

    • Post rain bike rides as a kid

    • Saweetie dancing to “Beatbox” ontop of a car

    • Kamaiyah with a little bit of Nelly

    • Outkast “Wheelz of Steel”

    • N*E*R*D bridges

  • Inspiration:

    • The interlude after “A Film Called Pimp” on Commons Like Water For Chocolate

    • NY party drill joints with the Jersey club drums

    • My Dads tan Volvo from 1996 when he drove the family to that Caldor that had a Sam Goody next to it and I got my first Outkast tape. My parents had a tumultuous marriage but ill always remember those trips in the Volvo to Caldor. Throw the S at the end cause we add S to shit (haha) R.I.P. Dad.

  • Inspiration:

    • That Bow Wow joint with the LL drums

    • Party songs with instructions,

    • Me trying to chop a sample for a beat to send to Doechii

    • Back Dat Azz Up

    • Early 2000s file sharing

    • The dancing in Cuzzos “Goochie Mayne” video

The second half of this album is meant to be more straightforward beats and rhymes. I got to play around more on the first half…this half is like I went away for the summer and now I’m back home, with some new perspective.

  • Inspiration:

    • Fresh Rose “Anemic”

    • The Chi Season 5 Episode 2

    • The dancing in the Hot Nigga video

    • Wanting to do my runaway sample technique but wayyyyyyyy more subtle than “A Whole Mood” or that joint from the Be Right Back EP.

    When I made this beat I knew I wanted to do a song with my actual brother. He came through, wrote it on the spot and knocked it out the park.

  • Inspiration:

    • Brizzo playing this beat on IG a few years ago

    • The “Wu Tang Aint Nuttin’ To F**k Wit” video

    • Jarobi’s love for Phife in the Tribe doc

    • The generation divide in hip hop

    • 80s Sci-Fi

    • Super Mario Bros.

    • DJ Quik “Change Da Game”

  • Inspiration:

    • Outkast “Yall Scared”

    • Elucid beats

    • Quelle Chris in general (whatup!)

    • This dude I grew up around that used to use the word “type” as a similie (I knock cats out! Type Mike Tyson!),

    • My cat Morgan because I randomly yell “mother!” at her just like the vocal sample in the beat.

  • Inspiration:

    • The Further Adventures of Von Pea

    • Che Grand “bags”

    • More 80s Sci-Fi

    • NC style vinegar based bbq

    • 2 Pac walking out of the court house

    • Coney Island at night. Oh and trying to see if I could write 3 more verses in the rhyme scheme from Players 1. I still want to work with Madlib for real for real.

  • Inspiration:

    • Black Star production

    • Clipse interviews

    • GloRilla (if I had the budget I would have had her saying the intro) Related: there was a chick circa 2020 twerking on the internet, but to non-twerk music like drumless boom bap and I thought that shit was hilarious. I feel like thats some shit Doja Cat might do. But anyway yeah, the “shake that ass” part is in no way a shot to ass shaking music.

    • Also inspired by the desire to hear djs cut this track up.

  • Inspiration:

    • Ice Cube and NWA post breakup

    • Belly

    • Joe from The Other Guys sending the perfect beat for the second half of this album

    • GTA 3. Whoever asks, Im talking about a video game.

  • Inspiration:

    • Dirtee Deacon leftover beats

    • Bad oranges

  • Inspiration:

    • Redman & Hurricane G “We Run NY”

    • Hurricane G being the OG Cardi B

    • 50 Cent “Ridin Thru The Hood”

    • Nino Green “Stop Playing With Me”

    • The Brooklyn Decepticons

    • A24 horror movie trailers

    • The vocal reverb on Lil Kim “Drugs”

  • Inspiration:

    • Video Soul

    • Nas “Daydreaming, Stay Schemin”

    • Nas “Stay Alive”

    • The whole Rob Cave “Books & Chicks & Brooklyn Shit” LP

    • Hoe ass niggas talking on streams

  • Inspiration

    • White women singing rap songs with an acoustic guitar

    • My refusing to finish this album without Aeon

    • My desire to hate on the symbolic “cookout” without overthinking it and just writing whatever came to mind in that 15 minutes

    • Hoe ass niggas talking on streams

  • Inspiration:

    • Foxy Browns first album

    • “Mr Telephone Man”

    • Homegirl that came to “dvd and chill” and took all of her jewelry off cause I lived in the projects

    • “Louie BK”

    • Tyson/Jordan/Jackson, and how this was supposed to be the one vocal performance on an instrumental project I was going to do…until I got distracted with “making a 3 pack called ‘Loner - EP’ “ somehow it became a double album.

    If you made it this far you dont know how much I appreciate that. I hope this project properly displays my creative curiosity, honesty and consistency. Im also hoping this project has songs you may not like now but will hit in a year from now. If I didnt knock it out the park, lets hope Ill get it together and step back up to bat. This is absolutely a personal victory for me if nothing else. How is this ANYTHING less than a win?????

    -Von Pea 2026

    R.I.P. Dad!

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