This Week’s Episode Features a Conversation With LYRXX and the 5 Hottest Tracks of the Week!
LYRXX tells Apple Music about his inspirations
I grew up listening more to traditional sounds. I emulated so many people who did the traditional music because I could envision myself doing a lot of their sounds, infusing it into my own personal freestyles and stuff. So I looked up to people like Batile Alake, people like Barrister, people like King Sunny Ade. So a lot of them like that and their sound actually blended my own sound very well.
LYRXX tells Apple Music about being reserved and channeling this into his music
Because I’m a very quiet person, I don’t really talk much. I try to make sure that my deep thoughts have been communicated through my music. If you listen to the project you will see that it talks about so many things that people do day to day. But instead of having a conversation, like sitting down to talk to people about it, I just like to make it artistic, turn it into music. That way, people will understand better because when I’m talking to somebody one-on-one, I feel like they don’t get me like I want them to get me. So I just try to make sure that every single bit of the information is there so I won’t have to repeat myself in person. Anytime you want to hear the information again, you can always go back to it.
LYRXX tells Apple Music about his grandma’s influence
One thing that I’m grateful for is that my grandma taught me early that life is all about ups and downs. It’s not always going to be rosy. There are seasons to everything. You will experience love, you will experience heart. Even the most trusted person will disappoint at some point. I’m just very grateful because she was real with me while she was still alive all through and I’ve been able to see what she has said to be true because I’ve mixed with a lot of people, understood different people’s mindset, how people think, how people go about their lives and just like a part in the song where I said I’m never disappointed, I know how people behave or people act. So I’m just grateful that she’s very real with me and I’ve learned a lot.
LYRXX tells Apple Music about the different themes on the project
When I started this project, I just wanted to make sure that I’m communicating something that my fans will want to go back to many years to come. It’s not just about my story alone, it’s about what everybody feels. I started with a track that resonates with love, fantasies, and I moved on to optimism, I moved on to just like how a normal human being would want to dream, what they would expect from life, what they would want from life, the ups and downs, the disappointment they will face and all. So, let me just say I was given the opportunity to feel everything at once. I went through the phases of love, the phase of disappointment, the phase of being accepted and you know, neglected at some point. So I just brought everything together to make this masterpiece.
LYRXX tells Apple Music about who “Fine Girl” is written about
The song came when I went to a school, there’s a school in Nigeria here, the name is OAU, Obafemi Awolowo University. So I’ve been frequent in the school for a while and there’s this particular beautiful melanin popping that I’ve been eyeing, you know and she’s a very interesting person, a music person as well. So I just, like I said, I’m not much of a talker. The best way I just wanted to communicate my feelings to her was to sing it in a song. You know, I’m quite confident that the song is going to get her.
LYRXX tells Apple Music about writing “Honeymoon in Paris”
“Honeymoon in Paris” happened during the course of the project. I just was expressing, this one is just me projecting things that I feel towards this particular lady and my hopes as regarding the relationship. I just wanted to make sure that she’s understanding what I’m saying and at the same time I’m giving her a piece of myself in the song. Also I tried to make sure that she’s not feeling left out because nowadays, the way people show love, the way people project love now, sometimes when you come to real life you don’t meet it that way. So I’m letting her know what I can offer and they are real. So that’s basically about the song. So they are not empty promises. They are real-time talks.
LYRXX tells Apple Music about “Safer”
“Safer” for me is, the people who have heard the song; they perceive it more from the romance aspect, but it’s absolutely more than that. It has so many spiritual touches to it, so many realistic touches to it as well. There are some times in relationships where when it starts at first, it looks like if you both leaving each other, that’s going to be the end. But at some point, you begin to realize that there is much more. Also I tend to touch the spiritual aspect where I said “oro mi o ni su olorun, ohun ti mo fe ni mo ba n so”, which means what I intend in my heart, what I want in my heart, I tell it to God and my situations will not be tiring, will not be bothersome to God, you know. It’s just me being vulnerable, you know, and at the same time expressing that I have so much love in my heart to give.
LYRXX tells Apple Music about the takeaways he wants from the EP
I just hope they feel a sense of realism, love, and passion, because every single track on the EP was passionately done. I want them to pay attention to it and understand that life is in perspective too, because you cannot be thinking that everybody thinks the same way you think. You have to be ready to have a taste of almost everything if not all, when it comes to you, just own it and make sure that you bring out the best of yourself in it. So I just want them to have a sense of security, love, and just keep living, you know. So that’s it.
