Strange Music recently interviewed  Wrekonize about his upcoming album “The War Within” which drops on June 25, 2013!! This is a two part interview were they discuss the making of “The War Within”. You can read the full first part of this interview at the link below.

Part of the interview from Strange Music:

As 2013 continues to unfold, the pressure mounts for the Strange Music roster with project after project proving to be a hit with listeners all across the web. Somewhere between Tech N9ne’s long-awaited Something Else and Rittz’s critically-acclaimed The Life And Times Of Jonny Valiant, comes Wrekonize with his first official Strange Music release, The War Within.

One-half of ¡MAYDAY!’s emcee tag team, Wrekonize has seen his ups and downs with a career that has included MTV battle rap fame as well as co-signs from The Rock. After six years, Wrekonize earns a spot on the Strange Music line-up as a solo act and finally sees the release of The War Within.

While out on the Summer of Strange Tour 2013, Wrekonize spoke at length about the album’s recording and exhausting writing process.

The two-part interview kicks off below with Wrek’s breakdown of how The War Within took shape.

I read that this was a very personal project for you and that you’ve used this as sort of a platform to get things off your chest in a lot of ways. How did this affect your writing process and what did that mean to you?

Yeah, it’s just that I’ve set up to do an album for so long and A Soiree For Skeptics is like the closest that I came to it, but even then I put that album together with a lot of records that had already existed. It wasn’t like I sat down and said, “I’m going to write an album.” I already had a bunch of material kind of collected and then I strung it together with a couple of new joints and then crafted an album out of it. This being my first officially distributed release that’ll be in the stores – that makes it like, “These are all these things that I’ve been sitting on for a long time.” Things like family, stuff about the battles, stuff over the past ten years – just concepts and things that I’ve always wanted to put out on a project of mine. I felt that this would be the chance to really set it up as that first look.

A lot of people will save their ideas and concepts for their first album.

Definitely. 100 percent. There’s some concepts on here that I’ve been sitting on for awhile that I was like, “I’d love to do that for a project” or whenever when the time is right and they came out on this album. I’m really happy about it.

Did you feel antsy to get some of these concepts out?

Sometimes. It can be like that. You want to get it out sometimes and share those ideas and then there’s a million artists doing things, so if you think you have an original idea, sitting on it is kind of hard because you know there’s only so many keys on the piano and somebody’s going to hit that same key at some point or another. Some of the concepts that I’ve sat on when I felt that the time wasn’t right ended up coming out so good later that now I’m starting to feel more comfortable about being patient. I had the concept for “Due In June” like 5 to 6 years before we even did Take Me To Your Leader. It never materialized into what I wanted to do and I didn’t have the chops at the time to pull it off or the production. Sitting on that concept and waiting and then pulling it out in the ¡MAYDAY! process ended up being such a good look for that concept and that song, so now I’m pretty comfortable with waiting.

You did The War Within and Believers together right? Did they overlap?

Yeah man, it was ridiculous – very stressful. At first I thought they were going to be a little bit further apart than they were and then the dates got actually set. It was June 4th and then July 16th. Then my album ended up getting pushed back which pushed them even closer – so yeah, it was definitely a different kind of experience and like a new challenge doing those at the same time. I didn’t think it was going to be as taxing on my soul as it ended up being.

You can read the rest of the interview at the link below.

The Making Of ‘The War Within’ With Wrekonize – Interview [Part One]

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