{"id":2852,"date":"2021-03-04T22:36:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T22:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2021-03-04T23:15:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T23:15:36","slug":"blog-interview-tee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2021\/03\/04\/blog-interview-tee\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog interview: Tee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tee1-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2854\" class=\"wp-image-2854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tee1-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tee1-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tee1-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tee1-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tee1-1-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hello Tee, how are you?&nbsp;<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hi, I am very well thank you. Really enjoying the releasing process.<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Congratulations on the release of your EP \u201cA DOZEN ROSES \/\/ A Love Story\u201d. How does it feel?<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Thank you, it feels really good. I have been sitting on music for a while, so it feels nice to finally get it out into the world. To be honest the response has been more than I could\u2019ve asked for, so I\u2019m super happy.&nbsp;<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You are a musician, poet, rapper and so much more from Liverpool, how did it all begin for you?<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I have always been surrounded by music, growing up in and around church. A lot of my family sing or play instruments, so it only seems natural that music is what I do. I started doing poetry with my cousin. We would perform up and down the country, then as I went to uni, and got more into the production and musicality, then I worked out my lane, how to have the emotion of poetry but enhance it with musical elements.&nbsp;<br><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>What did you listen to growing up?<\/strong><\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I feel like a lot of what I listened to growing up was either Gospel, Slow Jams or Rap. I spent a lot of time downloading mixtapes, watching live shows, listening to whatever my parents had on in the car.&nbsp;<\/em><br><strong>The EP is comprised of five tracks, what is the story behind it?<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I just wanted to create a story that can encompass many themes. It\u2019s a love story between a man and a rose. I wanted to think about how he got there, how does someone end up falling in love with a rose, does he know what real love looks like? Why doesn\u2019t he know what love looks like? What is it like to love as a rose? Do people turn you away because you have thorns ?&nbsp;<br>There was just all these concepts I had running through my head and trying to make it something that people can relate to. Fatherhood, Emotional Baggage, Love, Acceptance etc.<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What was the easiest and most challenging track to write on there?<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The easiest track to write was Real by this point in the writing process I had the whole concept for the EP so it was just about fitting it in.&nbsp;<br>I think the one that was the most challenging was 808. That was because it was hard to find the right words to portray the emotion that I had in me.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>COVID has affected the creative industry as a whole, what has kept you motivated?<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The gift of time. Being able to slow down and understand where I wanted to sit within music and how I wanted to bring my music out really helped. Before covid I felt like I was in a rat race with things that didn\u2019t exist, so being to slow down and take an overview look on my music really gave me another lease of life.&nbsp;<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Which artists getting you excited at the moment?<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Labrinth, Ghetts, Hamzaa, H.E.R. I think I hear how genuine these artists are and that is something that I enjoy listening to.&nbsp;<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You are from Liverpool, what\u2019s your favourite Beatle song?<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would be lying If I said that I was a huge Beatles fan. I do like Come Together.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What are your three favourite things about Liverpool?<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>My favourite has to be the people, everyone is super kind. Second is city, it\u2019s really beautiful. Third is the community, everyone wants to see everyone win.&nbsp;<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Your lyrics are poetic, who are your favourite lyricists?<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Wretch 32, Andre 3000, Kanye, Chance the Rapper. There are loads more, but I really love the way that guys these craft their verses.<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is next for you?&nbsp;<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>More, more of everything. Now that this is out, i\u2019m going back into writing mode, to bring out loads more music in the near future!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Embed: A Dozen Roses \/\/ A Love Story\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/6js2A5zsUjgo4fMeu2hsHu?si=jSoC93AnTJqSS8ZO-fQr8g\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TEE - Crown of Thorns ft Lauren Iyra &amp; Little Grace (Official Music Video)\" width=\"1020\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hp5Sn1c-veQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/anartistcalledtee\/\"><br><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/anartistcalledtee\/\">Tee On Instagram<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Tee, how are you?&nbsp; Hi, I am very well thank you. Really enjoying the releasing process. Congratulations on the release of your EP \u201cA DOZEN ROSES \/\/ A Love Story\u201d. How does it feel? Thank you, it feels really good. I have been sitting on music for a while, so it feels nice to &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,139,185,182,175,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hop","category-jazz","category-neo-soul","category-rap","category-soul","category-spoken-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2858,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions\/2858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}