In honor of the 20th anniversary of 'Pac's death, Hamilton chatted with Billboard over e-mail to recall working with the late rap poet on "Thugz Mansion. I think we all remember the first time we heard Tupac. He had a voice that stood out and was different. Even when he was in Digital Underground , he stood out. I was young and enjoying life, enjoying videos.
I thought to myself, "Who is this guy with this grown voice? It was a mature voice. He had his own tone and delivery. He used his own voice and own spirit. I was added to the project by mixed engineer Claudio Cueni, who was working on Tupac's album, and Molly Monjauze, who works for the Shakur family. The song had a movement behind it.
I wanted to add something that would champion the people. I wanted to enhance that "paradise" that he spoke about, this amazing place for the people. When I originally heard the track, it was just Tupac's vocals. This gave me flexibility to create freely. His whole legacy was always powerful to people. The fact that he was gone, it became even more powerful. He lived through that song and it had a whole different meaning.
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Read full article. But yeah, when the Carlos thing happened, it was completely organic. He had heard the record through someone at my label sending it to his camp, saying, "Hey, this is Felly's new record, what do you guys think of it? And he didn't care if I'm not as big as him or any of that stuff. He connected with the actual music; the soul and the personality of the record. True personal connection, soul connection is still alive. You could get persuaded differently being in L.
The idea of buying a feature from a rapper kind of irked me, because I know my fans know me as someone who's real, genuine and upfront.
Something from Carlos Santana that came genuinely, and he just so happens to be probably the coolest musician on this earth, and the best person I could imagine getting a feature from.
It's sort of like God showing me that I'm right to feel how I felt, and blessing me for having patience and stuff. What was your biggest takeaway from seeing him at work and collaborating with him? I think I aged like 60 years of knowledge in just that one session. They pretty much gave me the torch, and kind of said, "Hey, you're next up. And in this journey, you're the guy who's going to carry the torch for us.
And that, combined with different rock star knowledge and them treating me like I'm going to be a rock star, was really cool. They just treated me as an equal, which is really awesome to see. Santana sees soul value in people and he's just super connected to spirituality, and kind of taught me about those types of things. That if you put energy, compassion and clear intention into your work, it will have that connection.
He did this gesture where he said, "It's like this. And he kind of took energy from the sky and gave it to the people in the room. And I was like, "Yes, that's exactly what it's like. And so he taught me about having your mind step out of the way, and to approach things as if you've never heard them, or never done this before, because that's when things can get stale and mundane, or you can kind of let your ego run its way.
But if you do the things that he is talking about, you'll create something fresh and new, and people will resonate with that. When we made the record, I think he kind of recognized that, and that's why he wanted to be a part of it.
If I'm not mistaken, this song is going to be the lead single for your upcoming album. I was curious to know what you're going for with this next project as a whole? It's a very raw project that soul is the carrying factor through it. Soul, emotion and just truth. And it's not trying to be flashy by any means. You'll get some of the flashiness on these singles, maybe. But it's something that can make you feel human again. It's called Mariposa , which means butterfly in Spanish, and is about becoming one's true self, taking a new form.
A butterfly goes through many stages before it can actually branch out and fly, be the beautiful creature that it is.
It's metaphoric of the time I'm going through. And I kind of felt I've gone through the cocoon, been in the dark and been in forms that I wasn't sure if I would make it to feel like a true form of myself. Luckily, I do feel that way. What did it feel like for you working on this project versus the last one? Did it feel sort of cathartic to write these songs? I wrote half of it when I got back from tour, where I was super depressed and depleted.
I had given all my energy to the world and didn't feel any satisfaction from it, and was in a very dark place. And so you have that side of the album. But the past few months I've been working on it, I've been adding the element of, you know, light and love. And so it has a healthy balance of dark and light, which I think life and the spiritual journey is reminiscent of, especially the metaphor of a butterfly.
It kind of has to be in the dark for awhile before it can fly. And so I've been adding those elements of love, and just good energy, light, and just been sort of feeling it more in the past couple of months. I'm still etching away at how I want to make it happen. It was very hard to write some of these songs at first. It's very vulnerable. But then as it got more under my skin, it got really fun. A post shared by felly felly on Aug 13, at pm PDT.
I don't know. I think it was in my DNA, in my soul and my upbringing in Connecticut. And you know, losing my father and, because of those combinations, of not really having anyone around me. My mom was dating and my older brothers were out doing their own things, so I had like a lot of alone time and thoughtful time.
So that led to, "Okay, how can I make something light of this situation? How can I create something? When you were younger, did you have an artist or someone that you looked up to, like, "Okay, like maybe I can be like them; if they can do it, I can too," or something like that?
Yeah, I really liked to listen to Atmosphere. I mean I had many artists, even local artists, and people that I looked up to. I really liked Rhymesayers , an independent record label in Minnesota [that Atmosphere and other indie rappers are on]. And I thought that was so cool that they were able to like be successful, and do their own things, as just kind of random dudes, white dudes who were just like me. That definitely inspired me. So that support, whether you find it, or it comes to you, it's super important to keep it going.
What is your favorite part about life as an artist? And what do you think is the hardest part? My favorite part about life as an artist is being on my own schedule and being able to do whatever I want. And not that I take advantage of that, but just that I can feel like my time is mine, and kind of create infinite possibilities out of that. That's an amazing freedom. But I think with that freedom comes a lot of responsibility, or overthinking, or stuff that you can just get caught up in, like comparison.
I don't really like flying. That's kind of it. I like your attitude because it's true. Sometimes something can seem really overwhelming, but then you do it and its like, "Man, I did that! Yeah, definitely. I mean, my attitude, it's definitely not always like this. Everyone thinks I'm like a super happy, bright dude, but not all the times for sure. I'm human, just like everyone else.
A post shared by felly felly on Jun 7, at pm PDT. We just talked about it a bit, but I wanted to look more at your influences. Who were your favorite artists when you were a teen? I really liked a lot of independent hip-hop and a lot of indie music. I'm the youngest of five, I have three older brothers and a sister. So they pushed a lot of different genres on to me.
And then my sister would show me acoustic music and stuff like that. So everyone was sort of fighting for "What is Chris going to dig? It was a lot of Bob Marley.
The first record I ever recorded on was at a Universal theme park. You could pay 15 bucks or whatever to record and mine was "Buffalo Soldier" by Bob Marley.
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