When You Have Too Much Time On Your Hands

Keith (KJ) McInnis

A Little About Me

I was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. I was raised all over the place though. Mainly High Point and Denver, Colorado. I lived with my mom until I was 7 then moved in with my dad and stayed until I was around 13 years old. I then finally moved back in with my mom and I've been with her and my stepdad ever since.

I grew up listening to music, mainly rap and hip hop. I got into disc jokey stuff when I was around 11 years old but dropped it for sports. So when I heard about audio production, I had to jump on the opportunity to make music again.

In this album, I really focused on the melodies of the songs. I wanted to make music that anyone would want to nod their head to. Most of my music has 808s that you can really hear unlike most 808s in most songs, and they all have lots of bass so they're great to listen to with headphones in or in your car. This means, most people between ages 13 to maybe 25 will actually enjoy listening to my music. There are some outliners though, like my parents 🤣

Songs from DaBaby and Metro Boomin really inspired my music. I really love their instrumentals and you can definitely hear that in my music.

CO Anthem

This was my first project while working in Audio Production. We basically had to make a song about Colorado.

This one was really fun. I got to work with 4 other people and we all rapped over it. Which is something I wasn't expecting at all.

I didn't have too much control over the beat in this one but the result was amazing. Luke and Jelani did a great job making the instrumental. Overall, this project was really fun and turned out to be a success.

She Got My Attention

This is the first project I worked on by myself. I didn't know if I wanted to rap over it or not but eventually, I did.

I started with my 808 this time. Once I finished that I put some pianos and drums to complete the beat.

Eventually, came the hardest part of the project, writing lyrics. But I had writer's block sooo I kinda sorta took lyrics from a song I wrote for my girlfriend and used it as a hook.

I realized that the piano wasn't sounding right. I put so many effects on it to no aveil. So I changed the instrument entirely to steel pans. That's when I really started rocking with my song.

Spooky

In Soundtrap, there are lots of audio loops and I was playing around in Soundtrap and I found a piano loop that I really liked.

There were also some drums and kicks that went along with the piano. I added an 808 because all good hip hop songs have an 808.

Later on, I made some DIY ghost sounds and lines from my scary/Halloween movies to give it that Halloween vibe. Lastly, I added some effects on the pianos to give them a more eerie vibe to make it really spooky, hence the name.

A lil Acknowledgement

I'd like to thank Luke, Jelani, Danh, and Misael for making a great song with me. cough cough *Hands down the best group-made song in class* cough

I'd like to thank Babah Fly for taking time out of his life to be in class with us when he could be making music of his own. And also for explaining things more to me while I'm in a breakout room by myself.

And I'd like to thank my little brother Gabe. Every time, right before I submit anything in this class, I ask him to listen to it. he gives me suggestions about what I keep/delete and what I should modify to make my song better.