Say It Loud/By Design
“Say It Loud” is a song by The Corner Store that came out a little while ago and it flew under the radar. Truthfully that happened because I let it happen. My three pronged plan has proven pretty ineffective, but we’ll save the reviews for later.
Say It Loud was one of the first songs we recorded in 2022, and it served to start us down a new stretch of our musical journey. Understanding came into an MPC and had spent a lot of time making beats and it had been a really long time since I had rapped. We tracked this before we even had the idea for The Corner Store, but the attitude that exists in the track became one of the foundational pieces for building out the world of 1000Kicks and MadUrthur.
Un really let it rip on this one if you ask me, so I tried to stay out of the way as much as possible and let him vibe. The beat is one of my favorites he’s ever made.
The newest release from The Corner Store is called “By Design”, which came out last Friday (on my mom’s birthday). Now that I think about it, the demo version of this song was done way before even Say It Loud was, so we really had no idea what we were making when we started it. It’s one of my favorite verses to do and one of the most fun songs I’ve made.
I think that was a big part of what made The Corner Store so appealing to me. It really became the outlet for the songs that I considered to be the most fun and the most free in creation. Sometimes the other acts feel like they have a certain pressure on them to be something specific. Working on The Corner Store essentially amounted to just locking in and trying to write the best raps I could.
That being the case, it’s disappointing to look back on the lack of reach the music had this year. I consider that a personal failure. The silver lining for me though, is that I think the world of 1000Kicks and MadUrthur has a lot of potential to be further developed and we have an idea we’re working on behind the scenes. Hopefully if we realize that potential we can give the music a second chance to find its audience.
We’ll see how all that plays out in the time to come. For now though, I just want to say thank you on behalf of The Corner Store, for listening to our music, and we hope that it served you well.
Peace.
-J.P.