"5'5"
I wrote this song in high school around 2006. My band Biscuits and Gravy used to host a weekly open mic night at Cafe Coco and we didn't have that many songs to play. So we would all make up songs on the spot and do super long solos on our instruments and I would freestyle for hours. So this song came about as a joke live. I would play these chords on the piano (these are literally the only chords i know lol) and eventually I came up with a funny chorus about my height. When I realized people liked it, I added a few more verses. Our first hit was born. People went crazy for this song live, call and response, singing every word haha. I still get asked about this song today. Guess I'm not the only person with a napoleon complex!

"Family Matters"
I have always been a producer at heart. So when I finally got the program Reason 4 on my MacBook, I took to making beats pretty quickly. The Cool Kids were the big up and coming rap group at the time so they were the main influence on this beat. As far as the 90s sitcom references? Ive always watched alot of TV. I think the first line I wrote was "I'm the good guy of rap, hip hop's Carl Winslow" and from there I just decided to keep the sitcom references going the whole song. And I added the "Family Matters" theme song sample at the beginning of the song once I finished the lyrics. Crazy how it all came together, and crazy the response I got off of it. This was one of my earlier solo songs that I got alot of good feedback on and people singing the lyrics word for word at shows. Shoutout to Ciccone and Nathalie!!

"Product of the Game"
I made this beat and recorded the lyrics in 2008. The song was so good I knew I needed an entire project to go with it. So it became the first song off my Sci Fly EP project in 2009. This was by far my best song at the time. The arpeggios and chords are just so inspiring. I was starting to get good at making beats in Reason 4. I would say this song and 5'5 are the two songs people wont let me forget. The lyrics are so powerful to me. I talk about my rap influences and how I am a product of what I listened to growing up. I didnt have alot of friends. I was a student of Ludacris, Kanye, Outkast, Bad Boy... I also was never that popular in school until kids realized I could freestyle. Lunch room rap battles gave me my shot to prove myself.

"Grow Old With You"
This is the greatest love song I have ever written and I havent tried to beat it, so thats why I havent gone back to making very many others. I met my fiance Henna in December 2008, and it was love at first sight. I made this beat a few months earlier when my bands manager suggested I make a song in the style of John Legend's "Green Light." This was very techno and dance influenced, probably the first and only track I made that sounded exactly like this. I went to visit my grandparents in Gary, Indiana for Christmas 2008. While I was there these lyrics flowed like water. It was crazy. I dont think I've ever written a song so quickly. I just knew I wanted to grow old with this woman I had just met. The way I wrote the verses in different time periods from present to future, came so natural to me. This song perfectly captures new love, love that will last forever. We arent even married yet, but I knew my feelings for her wouldnt change the second we met. Oh and this song is like 6 minutes long. I really enjoyed asking DJ Wick-it to scratch my acapella into the end of the song, and I asked Belmont pianist/songwriter Cody Fry to do a piano solo. The song has such a climax at the end that represents ultimate bliss, the feeling of new love, eternal love

"Ballin"
I actually recorded this song in 2009. The idea was from Sir Lazenby. He told me he thought the Phoenix song 1901 lyrics were "Ballin, ballin, ballin.." and when he found out that wasn't it, he passed the idea to me. Me, Lazenby and our friend Grady had just recorded 6 mixtapes in one semester (the overnight mixtapes) and we were ready to start an actual original project. I looped the beginning of the original song and surpriised Sir Lazneby by recording it and showing it to him that same night. He flipped out!! The problem now was finding an avenue to get my music to more ears than I had before. I was averaging 500 downloads per mixtape and this song was good enough to wait for 1000s. It took two years of networking until we met and developed a relationship with Tim Weber from GoodMusicAllDay.com, and he released this song on my 23rd birthday in 2011. It was my Jordan 23 year and "Ballin" was the anthem! We got almost 5,000 downloads on the first night the song was released. Its still my most popular song worldwide (besides "walk the line" with DJ Wick-it)

"Rainin Money"
This song was produced by The FANS (Ducko McFli and Syksense) both from Nashville. This song is pretty straight forward. Catchy sample and pop rap flow. Dont get it twisted tho, nobody could flip this track exactly the way I did!

"Street Life"
Wick-it the instigator is one of my good friends and we have been making dope music since I was in Biscuits and Gravy. He told me about his idea to sample songs form Quentin Tarantino movies and sent me and a few other rappers a bunch of tracks and told us to come up with whatever. So I wrote to 3 of the beats he sent me, and this was the one he liked the most. When I went to Austin, TX for the first time for SXSW music festival, I literally heard this song playing over the speakers in a random mexican restaurant my crew was eating in!!! I started shouting in the restaurant "THIS IS MY SONG! THATS ME!" And no one believe me hahaha. HOW AWESOME! This song is so soulful, and people tell me I make the street life sound fun ahahaha classic FYÜTCH

"Catch Me Cruisin"
I recorded this song in 2009 or 2010 with some of my favorite producers Marcin Bela and Lisa Harkness aka G-Pop. They are married music aficionados, classically trained, and they produce any kind of music under the sun. So talented. We hit it off so well and really bonded together in pursuit of making the dopest pop music that the radio couldnt deny. We achieved perfection with my album 'Mr. Flattop.' Unfortunately we didn't get the response we wanted, but who will ever get the response they want when they create perfection?

"Set Me Free"
Back to Wick-it. He produces like DJ Premier and Skrillex and I bet u didnt know he raps and freestyles better than me i sweear. He just knows good music and is a hip hop head. He gave me this beat one day and I knew I had to talk about something deep to do it justice. I sat on this beat for 3 years or more. I'll never forget when the first line hit me one day "Only got so much time left to make it big/ Graduate, get a job? Thats a way I can't live." Such powerful lyrics and a snapshot of my life at the time. About to graduate college having to face not being as famous/rich as I wanted to be. A friend of mine at Belmont University brought singer Whitney Coleman to my attention and OMG. Just to sum it up, her parents named her after Whitney Houston... yea she is hands down the most soulful singer I know and the way I met her in time for this song had to have been God

"I Walk The Line"
Its no surprise that my most popular song ever with over 200,000 plays worldwide is with my good pal Wick-it. He called me over the crib super excited one night, showed me the beat, and spit the hardest verse about Johnny Cash that any could ever write. When he asked me to write a verse, I told him give me a couple days to wikipedia Johnny Cash and watch some youtube videos, cuz i aint no nuuuchin about Johnny Cash except that he looks like Joaquin Phoenix haha. Oh and this video shoot will live in Nashville infamy.