Such a productive work week in LA! Monday, we were up the treehouse at Paramount Recording Studios, doing some writing for Mike Caren, who is the Executive Vice President
of A and R, at Atlantic Records. He teamed us up with DJ Frank E (Madonna, Jamie Foxx,
The Dream, Lil Wayne) who did 'Right Round' for FloRida. We cut 3 records for FloRida, including one that Mike was really diggin'. Tuesday started of with a meeting with our Publishing team at Kobalt who have to be 3 of my favorite humans on Earth!!! It's so great to work with a team that you LOVE as people! I see a lifetime relationship forming. From there we went to Chalice Studios on the invitation of Zach Katz, who, to me, is the COOLEST cat in the industry. He played us some new Auburn records, and was explaining to us Beluga Heights vision. I also got my song book back from him that I had left there 6 months before. YES!! Then, Cait La Dee and I set up in the "writers room", right next his office.
We cut 5 records with J.R. Rotem (Britney Spears, Leonna Lewis, Ne-Yo) in 2 days. Chalice is my favorite spot! There's just a really nice vibe there.....You could get lost making hits for dayzzzzzz. After our session on Wednesday, I got a call from Baby Bash and he invited us to his show in Hollywood. My lil sis Genevieve (Disney), Cait, and I, met up with Frankie J, Marty James, Stooie Bros, and Bash backstage and had blast. We hosted the after party and had a hit parade sharing our new music with each other. There was a lot of MAJOR TALANT sitting in one room...it was dope.
We managed to slip in a late session with Wayne Rodrigues (Natasha Bedingfield), to touch up a record we wrote for Shane Ward (Sony/Syco), 'Cruise Control'. Wayne's a hip-hopper like me.....that's the Big Bro right there:) We made the changes requested by David Gray (Syco), and bounced quick, because the Santa Ana winds were blowing!!! A huge tree fell right on top of the house across the street from Wayne's....maney!
On Thursday, it was back to Paramount to cut 'Space Invader', a T-Wiz (Drake, Ciarra, Jennifer Hudson) produced track that Cait and I wrote for Jessica Jarrell. OMG!!!! This young lady is going to be the BIGGEST STAR! Remember you heard it from me first! Jessica is AMAZING! She's 14 years old, has the voice of angel, and everything it takes to be #1. Her Mom and Grandma were there for the entire session, and I feel like my family just got bigger:)
GREAT PEOPLE! Especially Wiz, who is a real great dude. The man behind the plan was Daniel Werner, A and R for Mercury Records....Right on my brother!! He has had faith in 'Space Invader' from the jump, and has been pushing it all along.....until we FINALLY got in the studio! He brought an incredibly talented young cat with him, Mann (Universal), who is one of my favorite new artists right now. Really solid dude and I look forward to cutting something with him in the near future. Cait did the vocal production IN THE BOOTH! Jessica and her were like 2 teenagers at a pajama party! This created a really relaxed family environment that allowed to us to make MAGIC.......THE RECORD CAME OUT CRAZY!!!!!!
I am so grateful to Benjamin Groff for all the doors that are opening up. I feel like anything is possible. I'm enjoying every second of this dream we're living, and these songs we're writing have sealed our fate ALREADY! I always tell my close homies to never focus on the goal too much, because usually, you reach your goal and then just end up setting another one....It's a never ending process......It's all about enjoying the ride......living every second...loving every second.
We are PLATINUM ALREADY.
