This track has everything you’d expect to find in a hard hitting hip-hop track that makes waves across it’s scene. The continuous riff playing throughout has a haunting and striking sound to it, alongside of the light yet industrial sounding beat – the stop and start nature of it, the creative play shown again and again in the backing track – the music stands tall by itself.
It’s a big track, the vocals on top of it all are well mixed, well performed, great flow from all involved – and of course you get that hook section, that repeated line which is memorable and crucial in drawing listeners in; that all important moment in which everyone can repeat the sound together, a chorus of sorts, that time at which you know the brand, you know the artists, and you know the music.
The hook works because it has a very similar sound to a lot of other hooks that are often the focal point of these type of heavy yet mellow, addictive hip-hop tracks. There’s a formula that is known to work well, and as long as the songwriter has the initiative to realise and utilise that, and as long as there is something creatively unique about it – which there is, the artist reference, the rhythm of the line itself, the performance confidence and overall the sound of words – then you’re on to a winner.
There’s a definite level of confidence in all areas on this track, and that’s a huge part of bringing it forwards into the spotlight. You can tell that this would strike hard at a live show, you invite the audience into the music with a hook like that, and then you have their attention while you spit the verses and the music continues to play. It’s effective.
By Rebecca Cullen
Exclusive Interview:
Exposed Vocals: So tell us your story. Where did you grow up? What made you decide to become an artist?
FlexGods: All of us are from east Oakland california and grew up looking up to family members who also rapped and we were very close and started off as solo artist and one of our other group members Trey Went to jail for a Home invasion witch lead to the remaining group members taking the music serious for Trey
Exposed Vocals: How did you come up with that name? What was your inspiration behind it?
FlexGods: We all liked to wear nice clothes and foreign clothes and people would say we were always flexing but we weren’t FlexGods yet we were G.M.B but we were starting to get known around our city but they thought we were another gang when we weren’t a gang we were just making music so we had a long meeting and thought of the name FlexGods
Exposed Vocals: What do you think about online music sharing? Do you ever give your music away for free? Why?
FlexGods: We like the online music sharing because it gives fans a better sources to find our music we feel like our singles could get shared online  for free but our or albums should be paid for
Exposed Vocals: Since everyone was a start-up once, can you give any smaller or local bands or artists looking to get gigs and airplay some tips?
FlexGods: we think they should develop their sound and constantly grow as a artist  and be consistent with your music and never give up on your sound because you never know when its your time
Exposed Vocals: Do you ever make mistakes during performances? How do you handle that?
FlexGods:Yes we have we were performing at a parade and it was our first time being on a stage performing together and montae’s  mic kept going in and out and MMGH forgot the last part to his verse but kept it going by freestyleing and everybody thought it was part of the song so no one noticed and Hermes was really stiff and looked drunk and the songs weren’t really good they were clean and wasn’t really our style but we attracted a lot of people to the stage
Exposed Vocals: Do you tour? Anything interesting happen on tour that you think our readers would enjoy hearing about?
FlexGods: no we haven’t been any tours yet
Exposed Vocals: Where do you usually gather songwriting inspiration? What is your usual songwriting process?
FlexGods: when we write we usually write about  whats going on in our life and how much we want to make it and might make a club banger but or writing process would usually one of us coming up with a hook and a verse and drop it on souncloud on private and tell our other members to check it out and write their verses and then we record it on garage band and learn the song by heart and go in the studio and record the final draft
Exposed Vocals: Do you have a band website? What online platforms do you use to share your music?
FlexGods:we have a website theflexgods.com with a few of our songs on there but all our music is maining on our soundcloud FlexGods but our music video is on youtube on the BlackOut channel and ours FLEXGODS TAKEOVER
Exposed Vocals: What are some really embarrassing songs that we might find on your mp3 player?
FlexGods: sometimes we record some dumb songs just saying the dumbest things that come to our heads and listen to them privately
Exposed Vocals: If you were given half a million dollars and a year off, what would you do? How would you spend it?
FlexGods:we would invest our money into a clothing store we have been planing on called Flex apparel were you could trade buy and sell clothes but it wouldn’t be a thrift shop it would have  clothes people actually want
Exposed Vocals: Any planned studio upgrades? What are you working with now?
FlexGods:we have been working at dream kings studio with a producer named big klef
Exposed Vocals: How do you find ways to promote your music? What works best for you?
FlexGods:tell the people yo talk to everyday about your music and  what people have thought of the song then ask them for their phone and go to where your music is and tell them to share it
Exposed Vocals: If you could perform anywhere and with any artists (Dead or Alive) where and who would it be with? Why?
FlexGods: we would feel like to perform with Migos because we feel like we could vibe with them because a lot of our music is influenced by their style
Exposed Vocals: So, what’s next? Any new upcoming projects that you want to talk about?
FlexGods: yes were about to drop a mix tape called Trappin4Mansions very soon that starts off with a trap vibe and transitions into us talking about our hopes and dreams
Exposed Vocals: If you weren’t making music, what would you be doing?
FlexGods: we would ether be trapping, real estate, marketing,party planners  or playing sports
Exposed Vocals: Do you remember buying your first album? Who was it? What was going through your head?
FlexGods:the first album we bought was hotel california
Exposed Vocals: How do you juggle the rest of your responsibilities while trying to stay ahead in your music life?
FlexGods:we juggle our responsibilities by making time for everything and any chance we get free time we put it in to the music
Exposed Vocals: What should fans look forward to in the next year or so?
FlexGods:we hope to drop alot more music and work with other artist and grow ou fan base
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