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Homemade Drum [One Verse Mixtape Version]

from Stream of Competence (MIXTAPE VERSION) by 7X3=21

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In 2021 and 2022 I was on this mission to explore as much music that I missed growing up as possible. I was so focused on Hip Hop, and Soul/Funk growing up, I didn't put much energy in other things.

SO I was using streaming sites to go on deep rabbit holes of artists/genres, including Punk, Psych Rock, Industrial, Frank Zappa, The Beatles, Jazz, Blues, Experimental, Folk, Kraut Rock, Electronic, Dub, Reggae, etc...

At some point, I was in a Kraut Rock phase, and that led me to the band Cluster, which is where this beat is from. I wrote this first verse to "Homemade Drum" to this beat, and E.C.'s "Ill State of Affairs". I did something I rarely do, but like to try from time to time. I start writing to a beat and if I get stuck for longer than a few seconds, I switch the beat, and I'll just keep switching back and forth, usually between 2-3 beats, to keep the brain neurons firing or something. So, that's what I did here, bouncing back and forth between those two beats, every few bars, improvising, and keeping what I liked, and editing where needed.

The whole "Homemade Drum" idea just came from how I said that closing part in the improv, and then I figured how to build that into a concept for the 2nd and 3rd verse on the album version, going into my music listening history with my family growing up, and eventually exploring an alternate timeline where I was a drummer rather than an MC.

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from Stream of Competence (MIXTAPE VERSION), released July 21, 2023

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