Rawiri James
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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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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...