-Don't let this moment, you know, blind you
from what your real goal in life is.
You're supposed to make music to make people feel good.
-Okay. You should write a book.
-"The Voice" by Snoop Dogg. [ Laughter ]
Available.
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-Let the music find you. -Okay. Yes.
-You got to look at yourself
as one of those instruments being played.
-Yeah. -Don't try to catch the beat.
They'll catch you. You just find your groove
and make it smooth and converse with us.
Make us feel what you sayin'.
You got to become that song.
You got to become these lyrics,
where we feel like we feel what you saying
and we don't hear what you're saying.
-Thank you. -No, thank you
for receiving information. -That just, like,
changed the game, just right there.
Just like, "You're right." -I'm sad for both of y'all.
You don't get to hang out with Snoop Dogg every day.
-As far as connecting, you got to fall into the song.
You got to make the song a part of you.
You have to look at your vocals
as being an instrument in the song.
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When you're actually in the moment
where it's 100,000 people in the crowd,
you're training yourself for that right now.
So, that way, when they're actually there,
you gonna be calm in the storm.
-Kind of like, "I've been here before."
-Exactly. Act like you been here, man.
Perform at your highest level, so in case you don't make it,
somebody may be looking in the wings
and be like, "You know what?
I ain't gonna let that person go home."
Yep. Yep.
The clap is the engagement between me and you,
'cause if I'm clapping, then you got to clap.
And then, before you know it, the whole room is clapping.
Now you got 'em right where you want 'em.
♪♪
-Who better than Snoop Dogg to advise you on rapping
with melody? [ Laughter ]
-We do rap with melody so you can still rap it,
just so, that way, you in the middle,
where it's like you're talking,
but you're putting your melodies on there to make it make sense.
-And I've never been happier than to have Snoop Dogg here,
because that verse is almost a version of a rap.
-Don't make it so sing-y.
Make it more about the cadence of it,
because you're singing so good when you get to the other end,
make that chop, chop, chop, bang!
If I'm rapping, I'm just singing while talking,
and just not using as much of my vocals
to project my vocal.
♪♪
-You like country? -I love country.
-Okay. -I don't like it, I love it.
[ Southern accent ] Well, howdy, cowboys.
[ Laughter ]
Well, what the hell you expect? [ Laughs ]
[ Normal voice ] When we do award shows,
more country artists and rappers hang out.
It's a natural combination. -Alright, alright.
-Old-school country musicians used to talk on their records,
because their voice was so slick
that when they said something, you paid attention.
Country music talk to people.
We feel like it's a connection, like...
-Yeah. -..."I hear you, man."
♪♪
It's good when you can hear a song
that you heard a million times
and then hear it like you've never heard it before.
-Yeah. -Your father loves this song.
Now is your chance to give people that same feeling
that you got when you used to hear this song,
riding in the car with your dad. You get what I'm sayin'?
-It's interesting, when you write something
and you don't feel it till years later.
-When you can get the songwriter to lose emotional control,
that's when you doing your job, brother.
He made the songwriter cry.
That's enough said, right there.
♪♪
If it feel good to you, must be good for you.
Shine your wheels up so you can roll right.
One thing about soul -- you don't hear it, you feel it.
Conversation beats demonstration.
Make sure that you're controlling
the way that you pushing it through that microphone,
so it sounds like you're in control.
♪♪
I don't know if I like the ending.
It's so big, and it just feel
like the ending is just so little.
You bangin' us all the way through the record,
so you got to end with a bang.
Because that merry-go-round you put us on,
that's special. -Okay.
-You got to find that special feeling
for the end, so that way, we want more.
So, you got them pieces that's gonna come up big,
and you setting them up. I know that I'm gonna hit this
and I'm finna ride with y'all and get y'all engaged,
and then, when I take you on that roller coaster,
hold on 'cause you might fall off.
-I think that's great. If you're good to lock that in,
I think we should go with that. -Hello.
-Yeah. -You gotta end with a bang, man.
We know that. -Mm-hmm.