In an interview conducted by HipHopDX, Wrekonize & Bernbiz of ¡MAYDAY! talked about an extensive and wide variety of topics. Most notably they compare recording versus touring, Wrekonize speaks on balancing solo work with ¡Mayday! projects, they detail their collective growth on “Believers”, they talk about future solo works, battle rap and more. You can read part of the interview below.

From HipHopDx.com

HipHopDX: What’s it like writing on tour?

Bernbiz: It’s kinda hard to write on tour. For me, personally, my notes section is off the charts when I’m tour. I’d rather prep for songs I wanna write when I get home. This is our time to live with people; It’s time to feed the beast. The cool shit about tour is that we get to hear stories and interact with people. When we’re making albums, we’re in a fucking cave. We’re in a studio all the time. Wrek was doing his freestyle series a whole month leading up to his album, so he’s been recording, and we do have a mic. We’ll get stuff done. If there’s a feature that needs to pop up, we’re the type of people who record in hotel rooms and make beats. The beats is one thing I gotta say—Gianni Cash, Oobergeek, everybody—‘cause the road really lends itself to making beats. You don’t have to think too much and just vibe, where as when you’re writing, it’s all about this shit and you have to be alone and introverted. You don’t want nobody lookin at you do shit like, “Don’t look at me mothafucka, I’m writing!”[Laughs] That’s the kind of shit about writing…when it’s beats, you can put some shit on hot on the speakers and be like, “I made this shit…” Twenty hours of the day Oobergeek has his headphones on. This motherfucker don’t even look at us during the day. He just got his headphones on all day. That’s tour life, bro. In a nutshell or in a bus shell.

DX: You guys mentioned being in the studio for both the ¡MAYDAY! album and Wreck’s solo project. Now that you’re on the road, how does it feel?

Wrekonize: So good.

Bernbiz: It’s like a vacation.

Wrekonize: There have been moments between albums, and he’s been working with me heavy on my album too. He’s been in the trenches with me, so we’re both looking at each other like, “Man,” Tour…it’s stressful. The last tour we were on—because it was so long…a record breaking tour—it was like, “When we get out on this next tour it’s gonna feel so good.” It’s kinda like vacation in a sense, because we stressed out on making these albums so hard that to get out now, just promote them, meet people and do less stressful activities was so cool.

Bernbiz: Being on tour means you are paid to have fun and entertain. If you’re having fun, the crowd feeds off on that and they’re having fun too. That’s what we’re here to do. The day that we left on tour officially marks that you are done with recording. That’s another good thing…it’s almost like the last day of school type of shit. Like summer’s here…yeah!

You can read the full interview by clicking the link below.

Wrekonize & Bernbiz Describe Balancing Solo Ambitions With MAYDAY!’s Album

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