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Backstory
Watermalone is a song that really sums up my life at the time - most of my time was spent in the house fantasizing about the crazy rapper lifestyle I planned to live. I was living with my grandparents and my room had these thick, blackout curtains, so ‘Sit in the dark..’ was very literal lol. Whenever I wasn’t outside skating, I was in there writing to a beat on Youtube or watching old Hip Hop documentaries. In fact, Watermalone actually started as one of these Youtube-beat demos, lucky for me though, I had recently gained access some new resources.
Back when I first joined Pannetone.png, we were the Halfboyzzz (the name change was due to half of us being non-binary). I met them around 2017-2018ish, after me and Kalamari became closer friends. We met during my first year tt my Texas highschool but it wasn’t until senior year that we really got cool. He added me to a Discord server where I met Izzeo, Loto, and later Joshua Morata.; the important one for our story today though is Loto.
See back then, most of my beats came from Youtube because I was only releasing songs on Soundcloud and I just couldn’t be bothered to buy my beats. This song was different though, because I had finally figured out how to get my music onto real streaming platforms, and I heard that you could get sued by the producer if you put it on streaming services and don’t pay for the beat. This meant, I had to find a way around it. Loto was the first person I knew who actually made good beats, so one day on a Discord call, I asked if they could replace the beat I had written this song to. When I asked, I really didn’t expect much more than a slightly changed version of the beat I sent as a reference but dude, Loto made it sooooo much better I couldn’t believe it (check out our other collabs on Bandcamp). I remember walking around with the beat itself on repeat, before I even had a chance to record it.
Speaking of recording it, that was it’s own ordeal. See, I rehearse my songs after I write them to kinda nail down the delivery, and in this case I had done that rehearsal to a completely different beat. A beat that was in a different key and at slightly faster tempo. Which meant that the version I had memorized was no longer in key and apparently sounded off (or so I was told, as I didn’t have the ear to notice). It took 3 trips to the studio before Loto got tired of me fucking up the hook, and just recorded their vocals one day on call. I swear it took them 10 minutes max, and when they sent back the track it was perfect. Couldn’t have done better even if I had 100 attempts at it honestly.
And since Loto lives in Canada, this song is lowkey my first international collaboration, along with being my first release on streaming platforms. Download your copy and own a little history why don’t you?
