Musical notes

Gathering thoughts on the musical choices I'm making. I'll credit who I use if I can figure out all of them, probably can't post it on youtube for that reason, immediate copy right strike so I'll attempt vimeo and just a personal release here and on facebook if that works... It's a fun light no-profit movie yet I'll get pure cease and desist crap from the web even though practically 99.99% of the stuff on the internet is remixes and stolen copyrighted stuff, but who the hell am I to argue...

I always intended the film to have a hip hop tone to it, but yeah, I was born in the 80s, that kind of music is what I was baptised in, so that's my true love and you'll get a 80s feel to the track as I'm going to use heavy synth stuff in it when I can.

If you haven't guessed, I'm black, so one particular quality of blackness is that you grow up being inundated by very very very good music from all kinds of performers and especially damn great black musicians. I don't know if white people listen to black music much if at all, but besides the mainstream stuff, probably not much. I've been into black music since I was born. Jamaican, African, Soul, Reggae, yep... all the good black music I've ever heard is in my soul. Makes me wonder what the hell people have against blacks, the music is off the damn hook isn't it?

Well I was thinking about it... do I want this to be identifiably black?

Not really, no... besides me starring in it. I want it to feel universal so anyone can watch and enjoy it. I mean if you don't like rap and hip hop and can't understand the art involved with that stuff, it's not going to be pure rap and hip hop at all, it'll be a variety of stuff.

But yeah underneath everything I'm going to kinda have that black spiritual feeling african vibes to it if I can stick it in there here and there...  I went to an african kindergarten where we played african drums and an attempt was kinda made to teach us black kids about africa. So I personally have an appreciation for black african music myself having been kinda educated in how to play african drums and such.... so yeah that'll be something I seek out and try to put in there to kinda say, yeah this black kid is modern, listens to goddamn justin bieber but he's got a black soul, that kinda thing, it's gonna be weird, just bear with me...