Raindom Thoughts

The love I carried and sometimes did not know what to do with. All of it found its way on paper eventually. What I love most about this project is what it does with genre. Because I have never been one thing…. neither is this music. There are ballads that find their way into something that feels like house music. Hip hop revisited through a newer lens. Songs that started in the R&B and hip hop tradition and ended up somewhere that now feels like country, or alternative

I want to start with a night I have carried with me for years, because I think it belongs at the beginning of this conversation more than anywhere else. I was a hospital chaplain, called to a room in the middle of the night where a man was dying. I had learned by then what it felt like to open a door into a room where death was present and family was gathered. The way something in the room would shift slightly when I arrived, the way grief exhausted people would allow themsel