• What have you discovered about your process, your habits?

I noticed that when it came to studying the music, I worked a lot faster with the less lyrical music on lyrical analysis, but worked much harder on the trap and experimental instrumentals. I also noticed that during the beat-making process, there was this constant desire for more complexity or pieces. It was like I drew a million-dollar small picture and couldn’t live with the knowledge there was more, regardless of how much it cost. However, once I discovered my path to the beat in breaking it up into parts, I realized how much easier it was to create. I found myself zoning out and freestyling as well, which helped me identify rhythms and where I wanted breaks in the beats.

• Now, what do you know you don’t know? Circle back to your essential question.

I don’t really know how to blend beat changes and how to mesh different samples to make a cohesive beat. It brings forth the question of how to include all these different subgenres and my solution has been to separate them. I also don’t know how to include such different flows and tones into one song.