The Writer

[Spoken Intro: Dom McLennon, Kevin Abstract, etc.]
–pause it real quick?
*Laughter ensues*

I want this to s- be supernatural, 'cause if not, it's gonna sound kind of corny, bro.  (You're right!)
Y'know, like, how did you come up with the story of the character and shit?
Um... I based it all off of...
The emotion I got from when I heard the instrumental
And the first instrumental I heard... for the EP was Rocket
Word
...and that's how I kind of painted that picture and shit. 

*Dom quietly snickering/laughing*
Hey, can anyone go turn that light off, somebody real quick?

–I don't know, but the way I, like...
The way I look at music and shit like that, like...
I think that... there's people, y'know, who make songs and shit like that, and then there's people who make real music.⠀
Y'know? And like, songs are nice and songs are good, and stuff like that, but music is what captivates people.⠀

[Instrumental Break]

[Spoken Word: Dom McLennon, Kevin Abstract, & MiC Kirb]
You- it's something there, that, like, is drawing them to it, and I think that- that same quality is like the kind that we see in shit like-
Like books that people read, y'know what I mean? (Right.)
Like, perfect example would be, like, Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings, know what I mean?
J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien-
Ian Fleming, the dude who did, uh... James Bond?
(Mhm.)
And some shit like that, right?
Like, he wrote a bunch of books on a private island, and... he never was an international spy, but he captivated the whole world to a point where they're still making movies about that shit, y'know what I mean? (Mm.)
I think once people stop, like, just thinking, like:
"Oh, I gotta make this song, gotta make that song, gotta make that song," and just go like:
"Alright, let me try and– come up with a story," y'know what I mean?
Yeah. 
–and then not ev- not even be like, "alright, I gotta finish this whole story in one song."
...Put part of the story out there, y'know what I mean, and then continue the story elsewhere—continue the story wherever you want to continue your story at—because at the end of the day, you can do what...
Like, I feel like people are, like, limited on this formula and shit, and I think that... really, we can do whatever we want with whatever we're writing 'cause we're writing it, y'know?
Your story—you tell your story, your story is told—until you have a new story to tell, and once you get to that point where your story is told and you have nothing else to say about yourself, then you're going to have to find...
Some other source, y'know what I mean?

How would you bring that vision... into today's music?
'Cause today's music doesn't really follow storylines, and it's a lot more—at least in mainstream music, that's what I mean—it's a lot more...
...It's a lot more formulated—like you said—like it's based off formulas, like-
–Is it a bad thing that it's formulated?

Well, it- it became the way it is for a reason, so it's like, at the end of the day, you have to learn that formula in order to break that formula
Exactly.  (True.)

And, I think that...
When you learn that formula, and then you start writing stories within that formula and then your stories expend as just an individual writer and not as a musician, even just- y'know, like when it comes to just writing other shit, and then you start incorporating that in your music, you get to this point where you're just like:
"Why don't I start telling somebody else's story?" (Right.)
Y'know what I mean?
Rather than my own, over and over and over again, (Exactly...) -and beating it over the head with people, like...

*Conversation fades out*