INTERVIEW
1. How do you feel your mindset was when you created this album/EP? - Understand it is titled mentally ILL, yet can you describe what motivated the album?
Word well it actually started with just calling a song that. One a the first joints we recorded for this project we called mentally Ill and then we just eventually decided to call the whole project that. The reason we decided to call the whole project that is a lot of the material on this EP in one way or another discusses “feelings” not necessary always mental illness but something in that realm whether it’s anxiety, depression, addiction, etc. We also know that the word “Ill” obviously means something else in hip hop so we wanted to capitalize on the double meaning.
2. Can you tell us more about your YouTube, Noticed you have a new segment Spitting with Switch
Spittin with Switch is a series I’ll be doing which is basically just one take videos of me rapping various verses. People like consistently and this is a relatively low cost way to generate high engagement. I’ll be doing one of these every few weeks. If your on my mailing list you will get them a few weeks before the general public, you can sign up for that here https://switchhiphopmusic.com/join-the-team/
3. What is your favorite song on the EP?
My favourite song is a tie between the title track (Mentally Ill) and “Running Rampant”, the dark stuff is always my preference haha.
4. Can you tell us about who you collaborated with on this EP?
There are no other vocalists on this album but myself and sythe really collaborated creating this. We discussed the lay outs of the beats, the concepts of the songs, artwork, videos etc. Also Nato Down who mixed and mastered the EP also obviously has a lot to do with it having the sound it has and we did a lot of back and forth to get it just right so I’d say just those two and myself are the ones responsible for the sound of this project
5. What was the most challenging Part of the EP ?
The most challenging part of the EP was and always is all the marketing. Switch is a very blue collar operation and everything done over here requires a lot of time, effort and planning. From the physical copies to the work to the advertisement, to the videos/singles it can be a lot to think about so for me that’s always the most challenging part I wish someone else could just do all that so I could focus on just making the music haha but that’s being independent for ya
6. Where did you record it?
I actually recorded all of this at my home studio. All of the beats were produced in house by sythe and I laid the vocals from home, I have a nice set up here and it really allowed me to take my time with the recording, I was able to experiment and re record a lot of stuff which made me much happier with the overall product.
This ep is solid, intense flows yet it is cool for your style and mellow boombap hip hop sound.
Hit the Gas, the music video is quite impressive. Switch has been rockin with Luke Connor Visuals for a long-time now and you can see the enhancement not only on the tracks, also the quality of music videos. Very serious work. Everyone knows that the rapping/performing is a task in itself, and switch handling the full 360 with these albums and consistency is solid.
Switch has been on the move making new tracks and from his video here: Behind the Scenes / Save Yourself Merchandise, he has elevated levels and is focused on his next releases.
Switch’s music videos and style are fantastic, he has the mellow hip hop boom bap with his own style on the track
