“…producing music from scratch, that’s the real stuff in my eyes — but mashups are a fun exercise, almost, for me to do.”, In August, the ‘seismic’ impact was becoming too much for the then-22 year old. Our editorial content is not influenced by any commissions we receive. MixedByAli Talks Kendrick’s New Sound and Plans for His Audio EngineEar Program, TDE’s MixedByAli Talks Kendrick’s New Sound and Plans for His Audio EngineEar Program. “I put every single mashup, original track or whatever, going back to 2016, on Bandcamp. Most of us will probably never be able to go drinking with Rihanna.Fortunately, Seth Meyers blessed us with the next best thing: watching him go "Day Drinking" with Rihanna. I don’t want to be looked as someone trying to ‘capitalize’ on anything — but all I know is, hey, I believe that I did everything in good faith — and I put my hands up,” Amorphous said. YoungBoy NBA’s $540K Bond Could Set Him Free. In August, he had no idea where to go. https://renaissance.prismcollaborative.com, Medium is an open platform where 170 million readers come to find insightful and dynamic thinking. He then rides the iconic Vandross instrumental to create a new song that feels familiar. “It became weirdly personal,” Amorphous recalls. He knew that, too. “Who’s better to do a documentary on than Rihanna? “It’s very hard to understand someone’s intentions over social media. “I’m having technical issues anyway, so I’m not making a ton of mashups anytime soon, anyway.”, Trying to remain hopeful, he recovers by adding, “but I do have a lot of other mashups that I’ve done that are just on my computer, that my subscribers on YouTube and SoundCloud want to hear. I’m not a gatekeeper — do I know everything about her? She hasn’t reached out to me directly, but I’ve heard from… mutual connections what she’s said about it. The video, credited to DJ Khaled as well as Joe and Amorphous, also features Diddy: Fat Joe initially premiered the song to his fans on Instagram with the help of DJ D-Nice: Amorphous says Rihanna did clear her vocals for Fat Joe and Amorphous to use. Antes Lyrics – Anuel AA & Ozuna. Take a look. "Kiss It Better" is a song recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna for her eighth studio album, Anti (2016). “I was like, ‘oh, my goodness.’ That was the craziest, craziest notification. Even with my account being taken down, I make it very clear, I understand why,” he said. As a kid, and as an adult, always. “I wanted to talk to Bandcamp and I wanted to see if it was because of the donations or because of the free downloads? Amorphous, like us, did not plan for 2020 to happen. As fresh as the issue was then, Amorphous was not. We did not plan to have to protest several murders due to police brutality, for months, during a deadly viral pandemic, that was itself killing hundreds of thousands, while the entire world was supposed to stay home as much as possible, but most in America had to fend for themselves while their government did close to nothing for them. Joe and Rih also credited Amorphous on the track for creating … “You can say, it was — I wouldn’t say it was wrong for me to do it, I don’t think anything that was bad — but I know a lot of people were wondering why I was doing it, saying, ‘you’re a fan, you’re not here to tell her story, why are you doing this and that?’” he recalls, cautiously, not wanting to “ruffle any feathers” again. A popular segment of his show, Late Night with Seth Meyers, the late-night host got sloshed with the “Pour It Up” singer at The Jane Hotel.And man, do they pour it up. Well, technical issues wouldn’t stop him for long. But at the time, you could say he was just another online sensation. Jimir Reece Davis only needed his computer, $30 headsets, some equipment and unique musical talents to captivate Black Twitter as its Thanksgiving DJ under his pseudonym amorphous. Joe and Rih also credited Amorphous on the track for creating this gem. We watched as Twitter allowed a month of unconscionable, targeted harassment of one Black woman by Talib Kweli, a once-million dollar earning entertainer, and his sphere of influence. It's hard to remember a world before Rihanna, but the singer from Barbados only broke into the music industry in 2005. After creating the soundtrack to KIKI and taking part in its trip through the festival circuit, all at age 18, he would soon take his talents to Full Sail University. I kind of work in the way that, if I’m really bored, I need to create something,” he told me. At first, fans were mad at the teen for “being late” with delivering the promised film. Now, really, you’d have to be out of touch to really not know who Amorphous is. “Sunshine (The Light) Lyrics” [Intro: Fat Joe](Cool N Dre)It’s 2021Time to bring the light inWe gon’ bring the light in, you know?DJ Khaled, I see youCool N Dre, I see youPristine Jewelers in the buildingL Boogie, Lorena, Terell, the flyestLet’s get it [Chorus: Rihanna & Fat Joe]Kiss it, kiss it better, babyBeen waitin’ on that […] We were stuck with days of unbearable political theater in the form of political party conventions. KISS IT BETTER DESERVES. Post navigation. COMPLEX participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means COMPLEX gets paid commissions on purchases made through our links to retailer sites. Like many creatives in their early work, he started chasing the allure of his favorite entertainer — Aaliyah. “I had some people messaging me, telling me that they got a refund, and asking, ‘can I send this to you another way?’ I was like, nuh-uh. The Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter also has a sharp, keening voice, lending an authentic, almost anthropological quality to her Appalachian-inspired waltzes and bluesy murder ballads. “let me stop playing — I’m such an impromptu, impulsive person that… I can’t really say exactly what I’m going to do tomorrow.”. Fans have been begging, literally begging, Rihanna for new music so much it’s almost become a joke between ‘The Navy’ and the singer.Like when a red carpet reporter told her The Navy needed new music and Rihanna responded, “girl, who sent you?” Or the time a well-intentioned fan commented “ Annoyed. Last year, Amorphous was contacted by Nineteen85, one-half of the R&B duo dvsn. He did, with remarkable success. I know my intentions are pure, I know my heart and my intentions aren’t to piss anybody off or to, you know, cause me or anyone issues. “Obviously, it does get a little muddy when it gets to copyright and all that stuff. “They felt it was an issue… I don’t really have a leg to stand on. I wasn’t expecting it.”, While he understandably had anxiety over the quick, public, and muddy situation, Amorphous admitted it was over with on his end: “I haven’t gotten any cease and desist orders, so it’s not that serious, it is what it is.”. See if I could sit down, edit a full length documentary, narrate it, and do everything practically on my own.”. “thank you to joe, cool, dre for putting me on. At his core, Amorphous is still the gay, Black kid from Philadelphia. Naturally, he had not. "Sex with Me" is a song recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna for her eighth studio album, Anti (2016); it is one of three bonus tracks included on the deluxe edition. Thus, Amorphous’ four years-long home for offering his work directly to fans was put down. But that’s just how my mind generally works. “I was like, ‘I’m tired of sitting in school and not creating anything. Being on an album released by the OVO Sound imprint “was one of my dreams, genuinely,” Amorphous gleamed. On top of all of that, we were expected to live. “Amorphous is not only an incredible ear, visionary young artist, but is the most gracious humble deserving human being,” Kehlani said. “So, I want to make sure my bases are covered, but make sure my intentions are clear again. “My big three music inspirations were always Aaliyah, Beyoncé, Rihanna. So I’m very grateful.”. It’s easy and free to post your thinking on any topic. I had no idea. He recalls thinking, “I want to make sure it looks good. Amorphous admits that with his rising profile, “I… I can’t have those butterflies anymore, when it comes to dealing with those people.” Still, he’s star-struck by the impact and reach his work has had. I could see if it was the donations or whatever, it would tip them off. After the mashup project Beyoncé x KAYTRANADA became the number-one “selling” project on the music platform, his account was forced down, giving him only a matter of hours to ensure he had all of his music, official and unofficial, available elsewhere. Everyone else was slowly starting to figure it out. “You know, you hear a lot of people in the industry can be fickle or not have your best interests — but I know that Nineteen is a really good dude,” he said, “he has talked to me about some really personal ideas of mine. They’re asking me to not let this prevent me from putting stuff out, so that… means a lot.”. But in a way that I didn’t even realize at the time, or immediately after, Amorphous showed what made him an easy person to root for: his genuine concern about others before himself. “He was like, ‘yo, you’re doing an Aaliyah documentary?’ I was like, ‘yeah, just a fun thing I’m doing.’ He said, ‘that’s really, really, dope. “The people, that was who mattered.”. Still, he doesn’t want to trek into this kind of situation again. So, I go, ‘I should put that together and see how it sounds.’ So that’s what I did a lot, really, when I was growing up and then studying at Full Sail.”. Jimir Reece Davis is having a big week. For real.’ I’m an editor at heart, so I love to edit. This “exercise” spurred his first interaction with Jimmy Jam, half of the famed producer duo Jam & Lewis. And it was the same thing I wanted to cover, just her career and accomplishments, because her life is not my story to tell — don’t mess with Bad Gal Riri.”, In fact, “Rihanna and her team sat and watched it… and then she followed me (on Twitter),” he says. Maybe some of us did plan for chaos to ensue. That’s changed as the service has grown in popularity and needs to stop those making money from copywritten work or stolen content for its bottom line. Doomscrolling was the word of the month (shoutout, Karen K. Ho). Now, he's ready to take things to the next level with his latest single. Explore, If you have a story to tell, knowledge to share, or a perspective to offer — welcome home. No — but I figured, it would be cool to do an actual Aaliyah documentary on her career…”, He emphasizes that he didn’t want to get “too much of her [personal] life, because that’s not my story to tell. The United States Postal Service literally needed a public support campaign to keep its doors open. “It was an impromptu thing I did in film school. Lena Waithe and Complex tap him for gigs. “I was like, ‘how?’ I didn’t — you know, I said one line about her uncle, but, I wasn’t even talking about anything really, which made it crazy — and at the end of the day, and that’s not my… personal story, so I was legitimately confused about what the issue was.”, “ It was crazy — I got messages from people from friends and family from other people on the plane [when Aaliyah and seven others died], thanking me for taking the time to talk about those people,” he says. Any of that stuff, that’s not what this was about. At least one of the artists involved — KAYTRANADA — publicly acknowledged the project, without objecting, by liking tweets about it, and no one else directly made their objections known, in terms of those with claims to the music’s copyright. “It’s really crazy because, ten years ago, I made the list of people I want to work with or the people that I really looked up to that I wanted to be in business with one day,” he explains to me at one point. No, girl, I wouldn’t feel good, just keep it. “Actually producing music from scratch, that’s the real stuff in my eyes — but mashups are a fun exercise, almost, for me to do. On Wednesday, Fat Joe hopped on Amorphous' late 2020 mashup of Rihanna's "Kiss It Better" and Luther Vandross' "Never Too Much" to create his latest single, "Sunshine.". Still, Beyoncé music becoming the hottest item on the site, when the singer herself wasn’t on there, likely raised alarms. If she DMs me, I’ll go, ‘hey, girl, what’s up?’”. ANTI, the singer-turned-businesswoman’s amorphous 2016 album has officially spent five full years on the Billboard 200 charts. It wasn’t, for me. Little did he know, his dreams were about to come true in mere months. Sincerely wanting to shy away from seeming like he was solely driven by money by making mashups, he ensured that every single person (“to my knowledge”, he says, as the money never transferred over to him from Bandcamp’s hand) that donated via his account received a refund, and said he even turned down further donations — as someone who made ends meet solely as a freelancer, in the midst of a pandemic — related to the project. The mashups, the various lengths to make them available for all, the reluctance and at times rejection of money that he undoubtedly deserved for his work and expertise — all symptoms of his underlying, natural condition: Amorphous is giving the people what they want — maybe, what they unknowingly need — and that may be the key to his success all along, that has now translated into people doing the things for him that he wants, and maybe, unknowingly needs. Amorphous is recognizable for a few things — crafting the soundtrack to the documentary KIKI, a Sundance Film Festival official selection; creating a very controversial documentary on Aaliyah; releasing a less-controversial, and in-fact-watched-by-the-subject documentary on Rihanna — but the area where he was becoming renown in, and has made a seismic-sized impact in, is the art of the music mashup. Twenty-two-year-old recent Jimir Reece Davis is a musical mash-up genius better known by the name The mashups became a consistent thing for the then-teen to do. “My big three music inspirations were always Aaliyah, Beyoncé, Rihanna. Write on Medium. They didn’t have a name for snatching stuff down,” he recalls. There’s videos of me as a kid, beatboxing to her songs, so there was an intangible love for her artistry there, as a kid.”. Amorphous says Rihanna did clear her vocals for Fat Joe and Amorphous to use. “It’s really crazy because, ten years ago, I made the list of people I want to work with or the people that I really looked up to that I wanted to be in business with one day… Obviously, I’m not there yet.”. Our weekly review of events in and around hip hop, including what's out at The Renaissance and what you need to know for the week. Skin Lyrics – Sabrina Carpenter. Check your inboxMedium sent you an email at to complete your subscription. It was, however, clear at the time that Amorphous — known otherwise as Jimir Reece Davis — was talented and powerful. Also: Sign up for our weekly newsletter to get more insights on hip-hop like this! …Instagram, Patreon, and/or www.jimirreecedavis.com. Mr. Davis still pinches himself every so often. Bobby Hundreds and ThankYouX on the Future of Cryptomedia, Daniel Kaluuya on Chadwick Boseman Story, His Unimpressed Mom & Judas & the Black Messiah | 360 With Speedy Morman. The song was serviced to radio stations in the United States on 30 March 2016 together with "Needed Me". Learn more, Follow the writers, publications, and topics that matter to you, and you’ll see them on your homepage and in your inbox. The tenets of our capitalistic society — copyright, corporate power, prioritizing monetary concerns — are not designed to allow for nuance in situations like these. As a kid, and as an adult, always. As one of scant few black women making Americana music, June has doubtlessly always had to rise above the same old strum and twang to earn her keep. Now, the likes of Fat Joe and Sophia Bush casually drop into his comments. I’m making them, showing my creativity as a fan,” he points out. The lavish visual continues with the guys partying with a band of beautiful women and 22-year-old Amorphous getting busy on the turntables. I’m not trying to sit down and start anything! I was in lecture, and I think Aaliyah had been trending or something, and [the tweets] were just not true. Can I help out with one little thing?’ and I said, ‘sure.’ The audio from that interview was really hard to work with, my transcript was all wrong…. People that worked with Aaliyah also reached out, with someone even noting that it looked “too professional,” but others complimenting that he had “knocked this out of the park.”, From there, Amorphous finished school and made another documentary, ROBYN, which was just as acclaimed as his first film, and while it had its critiques, it did not come with the controversial backlash.
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