For me, the quarantine started with a mental breakdown. I had never lived through such a severe pandemic and in my mind, the world was about to close and I wasn’t even going to be able to leave the house at all and that’s when the anxiety and depression kicked in. My mind started racing and before I knew it I was in the middle of a panic attack that led to an episode that I am so thankful that I had in private. This wasn’t my first ever mental upheaval, but I realized that I needed to find something to focus on as I worked myself out of it.

My wife (I wrote a song about her called “Danielle”) gave me the idea to start publishing some of the beats that I had been making for fun. “You’ve gotten so good at it since you started in January!” she said. “Maybe you should think about putting together an instrumental album of sorts.”

I took that idea and ran with it, and I had finished what would come to be known as the R&B(eats) Vol 1. project. The projects, among other things, was me processing going through a lockdown as well as processing the disappointment of my musical plans changing.