Rawiri JamesNov 30, 20212 minBehind the Lyric: HELL.O.V.E.I'm gonna start off by saying, if you think you're being clever by messing with the grammatical sequencing of your song titles -...
Rawiri JamesOct 25, 20212 minBehind the Lyric: How I Got OverThere are plenty of incredible singers who don't write their own songs and that's cool. Being an exceptional singer is more than enough,...
Rawiri JamesSep 28, 20212 minBehind the Lyric: Zero GravityDeep in my album Lost Boy sits a rap ballad that makes the teenage version of me smile. Part Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, part Eminem, this song...
Rawiri JamesAug 24, 20212 minBehind the Lyric: Girl With The Same NameThis was the first original beat that Freddy made for me. At that point, we'd recorded Zero Gravity and Trip the Alarm together, both of...
Rawiri JamesJul 20, 20212 minBehind the Lyric: Kill The Music!!In 2006, one of the greatest street poets, the illlmatically talented Nas, declared that hip-hop was dead. Although I didn't want it to...
Rawiri JamesJun 28, 20213 minBehind the Lyric: #NeverGrowUpI can't remember exactly which came first - the title of this song, or the title of the album. Regardless, the Peter Pan allegory that...
Rawiri JamesMay 25, 20212 minBehind the Lyric: Hey, Kid2010 was a big year. I'd decided on January 1st to move to London by the end of the year, and as a result, I tried to cram as much into...
Rawiri JamesApr 27, 20212 minBehind the Lyric: Trust The One You Wit'The first time I stepped into a proper recording studio, I was 19 years old. I was a student of NZ's Film & Television School and our...
Rawiri JamesMar 23, 20212 minBehind the Lyric: Voices...I had selected the first 10 songs for Lost Boy and placed them in an order that I believed told a compelling story from start to finish....
Rawiri JamesFeb 23, 20212 minBehind the Lyric: Trip The AlarmNobody was more surprised than I was to find themselves detoxing from alcohol and drugs at the ripe old age of 27. Nobody. I had a great...
Rawiri JamesJan 25, 20212 minBehind the Lyric: Bottle DownYou only ever release one first single. Record labels spend thousands of dollars on selecting just the right song with which to launch a...