He wasn't pushing buttons and all that, but overseeing and stuff. We are plugging away making beats and have a stash of beats then flipping through those. Every Mayday album since I've joined I've tried to do at least one track and Bernz has been from the start. We're hip-hop kids, we don't sit and write the lyrics and the music at the same time. We usually have the beats first, but Bernz will write down a ton of ideas before we get in the studio. I don’t do that as much, but most of the time it's beats first. Is that how all ¡MAYDAY! songs come about? It’s hard to believe it simply fell into place. So it's remarkable to know that one of the strongest songs on the album came from a place of uncertainty. Music is never finished, the process is as crazy as trying to do an interview in a busy room. After not liking what we did the first time, we were tossing ideas around and thought, what if we do “Ten Thirty Three”? It was one of those moments where it all lined up. Gianni Cash had the structure, the skeleton of it, and we tried another song over it, but we never fleshed out the whole idea so the beat was still waiting. It's too "look at me I'm doing a song about this" or "I need to jump on this while it's hot." So “Ten Thirty Three” was, how do we talk about it without really talking about it? That was one of the first beats we had for the album. A lot of times people that do songs about current events or issues do it in a wacky way. So I came into the studio and said I wanted to something about it. “Ten Thirty Three” came from us being in the studio around the time that the police brutality stuff was breaking out and I had just seen a documentary on the ten thirty three program, how they gave police all this gear. On “Ten Thirty Three” the guys take on a much darker and heavier reality, the reality of police brutality. “We like to write about what we are doing in the moment,” Wrek asserts, adding, “We tour a lot so a lot of it comes from talking about missing people and being away from family.” The life of a touring artist isn’t the only reality ¡MAYDAY! deals with. It makes me wonder what mindset they have to be in when writing these songs. It's a smooth, airy “love song” dedicated to trying to balance touring with a relationship and the emotion, the passive aggressive frustration, is palpable.
Take “All The Time,” the third single off their new album.
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