I like to write about topics that I have some experience with. Suddenly, all these faces of people I know started flashing across my mind. Most of the people I know are musicians. It’s no secret that many musicians struggle with managing addictions of some sort or assortment, especially in New Orleans. So, I decided to write a song about a person’s relationship with addiction, without being vice specific. I like to think of everything from an energetic perspective. So to me, addiction’s energy is female/negative, not in a man/woman or bad aspect. It simply means that female/negative energy is receiving and male/positive energy is penetrating. However, the lyrics of the song are speaking to addiction as a woman; as if they’ve been in a years long lustful, exciting, dangerous and helpless entanglement, but now its time for the succubus to move on to another. I really had fun with it. When I finished this writing session, all I had was a rap, which I thought was pretty good to say I hadn’t written any rap lyrics in years. But I didn’t have a hook and it was driving me crazy. After weeks of playing it for the people in my inner circle and letting them know about my hook dilemma, finally my wife and our friend Durrell pointed me in a few directions to inspire a hook. Thats all I needed. I filled out the holes in the song with the new hook. When I played the new version for my inner circle, their response was very different than their responses when I tried out any of my previous compositions on them. Growing up in New Orleans and going to High School Dances, neighborhood parties, and dancing in school talent shows, just about all the DJs used to play what we call “Dat Beat!”. Its was like the canvas that just about all of the bounce music I grew up with was painted on, and its still around. When I watched people as I played it for them, I saw a look of “Ok, I’m Home!” grow across their faces once they heard “Dat Beat!” One of my relatives responded after hearing it,” I Love it! I connected it to my surround sound and smoked a blunt while listening to it” You will never understand how much it means to a musician to have someone to listen to your new music and it not blow their high.

Kid Chocolate