Alright, we're live

Cody Tarpley and SoMo in this biatch

I don't know if I should cuss 'cause then we'll have to make it an explicit album

And we did a good job not using any cuss words on this one, so

Um, I don't think what I just said is a cuss word

I won't say it again

But we can beep it if, if so

Anyways, here we are

What's up, Cody, how you doing?

What's going on?

We're just sitting around a fake campfire right now

And we're gonna talk about this album

And the process

Which was a very fun process, this was the first time that-

Me and Cody have worked a whole lot

You know Cody from my Ride days, from the very beginning

And you know, we've been working together for a very long time

But this was one of the first ones that I wrote a majority of the songs pre production

So he got to come in as a producer and just do his thing

How you feel about that, Cody?

I feel like you were in your bag this last month, for sure

Sure fun

Yeah, I feel like one of my favorite ways to work is just focusing on the song itself

And you've already written the songs

Fully from a place of solo isolation in your studio

Feeling what you feel

And I just get to come in and really just dress up everything that you've already made

Which is really fun for me

I feel like we were able to just get into our zone

And just crank out a full album in like two and a half weeks

So

Yeah, crazy

I'm a big believer of flow state

Same

Yeah, and we've had a lot of conversations about that

Which we've already decided, we're probably gonna start a little podcast

And talk about that in full detail, but, um

We're here to talk about 9 Lives

And uh, this project means a lot

I feel like I've lived 9 lives, you know

I started, started this journey with my life one

And it's lead up to this and

And just going from being like bachelor to having children

Going through this whole thing

And my last album being The Duality of Man

And it being so introspective

It was definitely time for me to bounce back and get back to my OG SoMo ways

Which I'm so grateful that me and Cody

You know I haven't made him mad or you know, been mean enough for him to stop working with me

So you know we're able to, we're able to continue this road, I, I

And I love him for that

And for being able to understand what I'm tryna say sometimes, you know

Sometimes artists have a funny way of communicating with production, so

It's, it's definitely good, yeah

But, anything you wanna say about your process there, Mr. Cody?

Yeah, I've been in LA for about ten years

Started my music career in Texas, which is where I was born and raised

And SoMo was one of the first artists that I ever worked with

And we've been day ones ever since

So it was really cool flying back home

Spending time with my family, spending time with him and his family

And being able to reconnect with my roots

Reconnect with my people, reconnect with the music

Which is ultimately what got me into my career

And what got my into moving to a place like California

So, all in all, this has been a really fun and reconnective experience for me

'Cause I've been able to be home in Texas

And get to reconnect with my soul with music

That's what it means to me

Hell yeah

9 Lives, baby, took us this many

Hopefully we have more, but you know

This is the ninth one

The lucky one, I'm calling it, I'm calling it

I feel strong about all these songs and

We were talking before this, you know

I didn't necessarily wanna break down every song

I want you to, I want all the people out there to have a chance to like

Let these songs mean whatever they mean to, to you personally

But for me, you know, one of the very special ones being "How?"

I would like to tell that story

And that's, that's a special story, um

Ah, you know, the mother of my children is always gonna be the love of my life

And um, a couple years ago around Thanksgiving

There was a moment where I thought, you know, that was gonna be over forever

Um, I sat down at the piano and literally, on Thanksgiving

Sitting by myself in a house full of, you know, the memories of my kids growing up and

I try not to get emotional talking about it but

Um, "How?' is just the song I'm talking about and

It comes from a real place and, and

I recently sat down with some other people talking about it and

As a songwriter, sometimes I think people just assume these are just made up stories

And to, to get that story out so clearly in musical form

Is something uh, that I'm forever grateful for

And to be able to create music and just tell my story is important to me

And I do hope that it resonates with people out there

And that you feel what I feel

And not to, you know, say that I want you to feel sad or anything

But I believe in the power of music and its healing properties

And um, I'm, um, glad to be able to share that

Especially from the perspective of a man

I think a lot of men don't get that opportunity to be emotional and to be vulnerable

And I think we should all open up a little bit more to that, so

Yeah, and I'm glad to hear for Cody

Like, you know, we've had a lot of conversations

To hear that he's been able to like reconnect

And let go of some of his own stuff that he's been dealing with

And just really dive back into the, the heart

And reconnect to the soul of why we do this, it's, it's important

And I'm just glad that we've been able to do that, so

I think uh, I think this is a good place to end it and you know

And to just take this, these feelings and go on and celebrate and

We're literally submitting this album, you know, today

This is the final thing that we're recording

I'm just excited to hear what y'all think

And right now none of y'all heard it

And it's gonna be a great thing when you do

So thank you again