Focusing on the creative process for UNDRA, walk me through how the initial idea for the album began to evolve into the project’s final form.
A lot of the albums that I made before UNDRA were about running away. Even as a person, I was running away from myself. But over time, I’ve slowly realized what I really want to present to people, and that’s made my creative process a lot easier. I just want to be me, and show people all of the real, different sides of me they haven’t been able to see. Once I gained this confidence and started wanting to show people an authentic version of myself, I was able to lock in on the tape. Everything before UNDRA was made by a version of me that was actively running away from myself, whereas this project is me approaching every single side of myself. When you hear the tape, I want you to be like, “Oh damn, I can’t believe that the dude from track one is the same dude on track three.” I stopped running away, and it was that mindset that allowed me to dial in the album, and it’s the reason it takes the final form it does. Even the name of the project, UNDRA, is a name I’ve been running from for so long.
Album(s) is crazy lol
You made my ass forget who I am
I looked in the mirror like, "What the f***, I'm Reginald?"
