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    Behind the Lyric: HELL.O.V.E.
    Rawiri James
    • Nov 30, 2021
    • 2 min

    Behind 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 -...
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    Behind the Lyric: How I Got Over
    Rawiri James
    • Oct 25, 2021
    • 2 min

    Behind the Lyric: How I Got Over

    There are plenty of incredible singers who don't write their own songs and that's cool. Being an exceptional singer is more than enough,...
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    Behind the Lyric: Zero Gravity
    Rawiri James
    • Sep 28, 2021
    • 2 min

    Behind the Lyric: Zero Gravity

    Deep 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...
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    Behind the Lyric: Girl With The Same Name
    Rawiri James
    • Aug 24, 2021
    • 2 min

    Behind the Lyric: Girl With The Same Name

    This 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...
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    Behind the Lyric: Kill The Music!!
    Rawiri James
    • Jul 20, 2021
    • 2 min

    Behind 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...
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    Behind the Lyric: #NeverGrowUp
    Rawiri James
    • Jun 28, 2021
    • 3 min

    Behind the Lyric: #NeverGrowUp

    I can't remember exactly which came first - the title of this song, or the title of the album. Regardless, the Peter Pan allegory that...
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    Behind the Lyric: Hey, Kid
    Rawiri James
    • May 25, 2021
    • 2 min

    Behind the Lyric: Hey, Kid

    2010 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...
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    Behind the Lyric: Trust The One You Wit'
    Rawiri James
    • Apr 27, 2021
    • 2 min

    Behind 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...
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    Behind the Lyric: Voices...
    Rawiri James
    • Mar 23, 2021
    • 2 min

    Behind 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....
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    Behind the Lyric: Trip The Alarm
    Rawiri James
    • Feb 23, 2021
    • 2 min

    Behind the Lyric: Trip The Alarm

    Nobody 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...
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    Behind the Lyric: Bottle Down
    Rawiri James
    • Jan 25, 2021
    • 2 min

    Behind the Lyric: Bottle Down

    You only ever release one first single. Record labels spend thousands of dollars on selecting just the right song with which to launch a...
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