THIS IS THE WAY(SUPPOSED 2 BE)

Skinemaxxx (Side A)

Cafeteria (Skit)

Produced, mixed, and mastered by g.rola
https://soundcloud.com/grolamusic

Cover art by Ulises Valadez Contreras
https://soundcloud.com/veeapollo

1. Sweetest Sound (feat. Jay Cinema)
2. Inner Feeling
3. Uh Yeah
4. Every Night
5. Dollar and a Dream (feat. Pro Zay & JUNE!)
6. Ganas
7. Prove It Now (feat. Kip C & Animist)
8. Price to Pay
9. Losing Sense
10. Lost Sense (feat. metroworldpeace)
11. It's All Ideas
12. On My Mind

Credits (In Order of Appearance)
https://soundcloud.com/jaycinema, https://soundcloud.com/pro_zay, https://soundcloud.com/juneayth704, https://soundcloud.com/kipzzz, https://soundcloud.com/animistraps, https://soundcloud.com/metroworl
Track 7 co-produced by https://soundcloud.com/its_achille

I finished this album over a year ago. It’s been on my hard drive untouched and unreleased for 16 months. Some of the songs on here are over 2 years old, if not 3 (I’m losing track at this point).

I finished the album on November 2021, but it sounded, off, unfinished. The final product was so different from what I envisioned it to be, it gave me whiplash. I asked people for their thoughts and feedback, but I mostly heard positive things, not much in the way of improvement. I needed to know what was wrong.

I would try to work on the mix, rearrange some of the tracks, even try to replace some of the songs, but nothing stuck. None of it felt right. Nothing about this felt right. So I did what I’ve done countless times before, put it aside and tell myself “I’ll get to it later.” Except later never came.

“What if it no one likes it? Would they hate it? Would they even care?” This would echo in my mind every time I’d think to start working on it again. Rappers would ask me when their verse was coming out, “soon, real soon” I’d tell them, but deep inside I knew I was lying. Part of me felt felt like they knew too.

I’d continue to work on other music over the course of 2022, but even that didn’t feel right sometimes. Every song I made felt like I was procrastinating the album. Like I was in high school again, cleaning my room instead of writing the essay due at midnight.

February 2023. I’m cleaning out my Dropbox when I see the album files again. I hadn’t listened to it in god knows how long. I had actively avoided it; I didn’t want to be reminded of my failure. For whatever reason though, I decided to hit play on that mp3 file. I decided to listen to the music I had long ignored and grew resentment for.

I was amazed. I loved it. Every song, every note, every drum hit: perfect. It’s exactly what it needed to be.

The Weight Off My Shoulders refers to my anxiety around my art, the part of me that tells me the things I do “aren’t good enough.” As I get older I realize how just often my anxiety is wrong, and it’s freeing to let go of it piece by piece. This album is one of those pieces.

This version here is the raw untouched album back from November 2021. I hope you grow to love it as much as I do.

⁃ g.rola

g.rola - The Weight Off My Shoulders [Full Album]

When there's a storm
You'll find me in the tree tops
Slow, slow dancing with the wind
The clouds are low 
And they're oh so cold
I run my hands through ice crystals in the sky
Oh come down, rain fall down on me
I've never seen a cloud so heavy

Will you wash away, wash away the pain 
Wash away, wash away the pain
Wash away, wash away the pain
Will you wash away, wash away the pain

Feel the thunder as it shakes the ground
Feel the lightning as it strikes you down
It fades away faster than our faith
I'm left with fear etched onto my face

Will you wash away, wash away the pain 
Wash away, wash away the pain
Wash away, wash away the pain
Will you wash away, wash away the pain

Do You Feel It Too?

Wash Away the Pain

wash away the pain

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