["ShowStopper" by TobyMac starts]
TobyMac: Hey, what's up? I’m TobyMac. And I am in my studio workin' away—workin' on this record that I cannot wait for you guys to hear, man. Comes out February 9, 2010. And that is just around the corner. You’ve heard "City on Our Knees." I got a lot more where that comes from, and I'm thankful that God is breathin' fresh stuff through me. It's been in the crockpot just about long enough, we simmerin', and we about to serve it up.
["ShowStopper" by TobyMac continues]
TobyMac: I mean, I look at song-writing as a job. I don't view it as, "Hey, I have three months to make this record," and, you know, run in and make the record. Uh, when this record finishes and I come off a weekend of shows, I just go back in the studio and I keep writing songs.
["ShowStopper" by TobyMac stops; "Changed Forever" by TobyMac starts]
TobyMac: Uh, the way I see it, it's song-writing and trying to make records as a full-time job. somеtimes those songs go elsеwhere. I just got a song that I wrote three years ago for this record that landed on the Hawk Nelson record 'cause I decided it wasn’t right for my record. So I look at song-writing as something that I do every day. It’s just part of my life, um, and—and whether I'm writing with another person or by myself, it’s just part of what I do. And then I'll take out of about, you know, 40, 50, 60 songs that I'm working on… I'll take, you know, those 10 or 12, and I’ll—I'll start sort of going down the road on those a little further and considering that my record. My records are always diverse. I definitely am sort of this, um, mixing pot or what—what they call in Jamaica a one-pot, which means you just throw all the leftovers and—and anything you got left in the kitchen sittin' around in this big pot. And, uh, out comes this music. It's always been who I've been. From DC talk to today, I have always blended rock and roll with hip-hop, hip-hop with soul, uh, reggae with rock and roll. Whatever. It's all about beats, rhythms, guitars and melodies, and then, of course, what I'm saying.
["Changed Forever" by TobyMac continues]
TobyMac: I'm workin' with three different producers on this record. I go into the studio every day and work it out, and just sort of hand my songs to someone say, "Ayy, make it hot." This is not the way I do things. I'm a guy that sits there every day and literally co-produces my record. I don't think a beat has gone on or—or a keyboard played or guitar played or a baseline play when I wasn't sitting there on any of my records. And I don't do that, you know, because I don't think someone can't do without me. It's just— I want to be involved in every aspect of my record, from the artwork to the way the songs build to the way they're produced. Every lyric and every melody. It's just really important to me 'cause I feel like the more of me I can put in it, the more it represents TobyMac and what God is breathing through me.
["Changed Forever" by TobyMac stops; "Get Back Up" by TobyMac starts]
TobyMac: Chris Stevens is co-producing the bulk of the record, just as he did on Diverse City and Portable Sounds. This guy is a guy that, you know, I—I—I look to every song I—I write, every song I conceive. I think about what he'll do to it or what we'll do to it together. He's an extremely creative man—always ready to—to shift directions with me and all my, uh, schizophrenia when it comes to production. You know, once we might be working on somethin' with the Wurlitzer, layin' over a beat, and then all of a sudden I just don't like that anymore, so we're gonna have this beat and put this heavy guitar on it. Chris is a guy that could pick up almost any instrument and play it. He doesn't mind me singin' in lines. You know, most guitarists look at you crazy when you start singin' 'em a riff, but Chris is always willing to work with me on that. So, I think, uh, no doubt, Chris has sort of become the TobyMac writing and producing soulmate, and we always get it there. Sometimes it takes, you know, we take the long route. Sometimes we nail it right when we put the downbeat on the song. You know, it all depends, but I think Chris is a guy that, not only do we groove spiritually, we groove, uh, when it comes to us leaning into God, uh, for what we need to get done each day. We do that together, and then, at the end of the day, we know that, "Hey, whether we're gonna use this or not, we gave it everything we have."
["Get Back Up" by TobyMac stops]
TobyMac: The second producer's Dave Wyatt, D-Dubb, who's done several remixes for me and also co-produced "No Ordinary Love." You know, Dave is in my band, of course. He's music director, if you know him. He's, uh, keyboardist and the dude that basically runs my live show. Dave is also a great producer, a guy that, you know, I write songs with. We had a couple songs goin' on—on this record. So far, the second one might be a—a later bonus track, but the song I'm doin' with him is called "Funky Jesus Music," and, uh, Dave is that. Dave is the funk man. He's from Virginia Beach, uh, right where the Neptunes kinda came up. And, uh, he thinks and lives and breathes funk, so he's the perfect man to do a song like "Funky Jesus Music." So, I'm workin' with a guy named Jamie Moore.
["City On Our Knees" by TobyMac starts]
TobyMac: Hey, what's up? I’m TobyMac. And I am in my studio workin' away—workin' on this record that I cannot wait for you guys to hear, man. Comes out February 9, 2010. And that is just around the corner. You’ve heard "City on Our Knees." I got a lot more where that comes from, and I'm thankful that God is breathin' fresh stuff through me. It's been in the crockpot just about long enough, we simmerin', and we about to serve it up.
["ShowStopper" by TobyMac continues]
TobyMac: I mean, I look at song-writing as a job. I don't view it as, "Hey, I have three months to make this record," and, you know, run in and make the record. Uh, when this record finishes and I come off a weekend of shows, I just go back in the studio and I keep writing songs.
["ShowStopper" by TobyMac stops; "Changed Forever" by TobyMac starts]
TobyMac: Uh, the way I see it, it's song-writing and trying to make records as a full-time job. somеtimes those songs go elsеwhere. I just got a song that I wrote three years ago for this record that landed on the Hawk Nelson record 'cause I decided it wasn’t right for my record. So I look at song-writing as something that I do every day. It’s just part of my life, um, and—and whether I'm writing with another person or by myself, it’s just part of what I do. And then I'll take out of about, you know, 40, 50, 60 songs that I'm working on… I'll take, you know, those 10 or 12, and I’ll—I'll start sort of going down the road on those a little further and considering that my record. My records are always diverse. I definitely am sort of this, um, mixing pot or what—what they call in Jamaica a one-pot, which means you just throw all the leftovers and—and anything you got left in the kitchen sittin' around in this big pot. And, uh, out comes this music. It's always been who I've been. From DC talk to today, I have always blended rock and roll with hip-hop, hip-hop with soul, uh, reggae with rock and roll. Whatever. It's all about beats, rhythms, guitars and melodies, and then, of course, what I'm saying.
["Changed Forever" by TobyMac continues]
TobyMac: I'm workin' with three different producers on this record. I go into the studio every day and work it out, and just sort of hand my songs to someone say, "Ayy, make it hot." This is not the way I do things. I'm a guy that sits there every day and literally co-produces my record. I don't think a beat has gone on or—or a keyboard played or guitar played or a baseline play when I wasn't sitting there on any of my records. And I don't do that, you know, because I don't think someone can't do without me. It's just— I want to be involved in every aspect of my record, from the artwork to the way the songs build to the way they're produced. Every lyric and every melody. It's just really important to me 'cause I feel like the more of me I can put in it, the more it represents TobyMac and what God is breathing through me.
["Changed Forever" by TobyMac stops; "Get Back Up" by TobyMac starts]
TobyMac: Chris Stevens is co-producing the bulk of the record, just as he did on Diverse City and Portable Sounds. This guy is a guy that, you know, I—I—I look to every song I—I write, every song I conceive. I think about what he'll do to it or what we'll do to it together. He's an extremely creative man—always ready to—to shift directions with me and all my, uh, schizophrenia when it comes to production. You know, once we might be working on somethin' with the Wurlitzer, layin' over a beat, and then all of a sudden I just don't like that anymore, so we're gonna have this beat and put this heavy guitar on it. Chris is a guy that could pick up almost any instrument and play it. He doesn't mind me singin' in lines. You know, most guitarists look at you crazy when you start singin' 'em a riff, but Chris is always willing to work with me on that. So, I think, uh, no doubt, Chris has sort of become the TobyMac writing and producing soulmate, and we always get it there. Sometimes it takes, you know, we take the long route. Sometimes we nail it right when we put the downbeat on the song. You know, it all depends, but I think Chris is a guy that, not only do we groove spiritually, we groove, uh, when it comes to us leaning into God, uh, for what we need to get done each day. We do that together, and then, at the end of the day, we know that, "Hey, whether we're gonna use this or not, we gave it everything we have."
["Get Back Up" by TobyMac stops]
TobyMac: The second producer's Dave Wyatt, D-Dubb, who's done several remixes for me and also co-produced "No Ordinary Love." You know, Dave is in my band, of course. He's music director, if you know him. He's, uh, keyboardist and the dude that basically runs my live show. Dave is also a great producer, a guy that, you know, I write songs with. We had a couple songs goin' on—on this record. So far, the second one might be a—a later bonus track, but the song I'm doin' with him is called "Funky Jesus Music," and, uh, Dave is that. Dave is the funk man. He's from Virginia Beach, uh, right where the Neptunes kinda came up. And, uh, he thinks and lives and breathes funk, so he's the perfect man to do a song like "Funky Jesus Music." So, I'm workin' with a guy named Jamie Moore.
["City On Our Knees" by TobyMac starts]
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