0:08 I love rap because it's like, it's for me rap is like an unfiltered thing where I can be emotional. Like rap to me is like naked. 0:20 I first saw Rayhan Jabbar perform in high school where the now 19 year old artist first began pursuing his creative career. Since then, he's taken to comedy, acting, musical theater and his most recent passion rapping. 0:31 Rap for me is a place where I can just write prose, you know, I can just like write unfiltered dialogue and just like the emotional and like, that's the side of me that I don't think I can really do as an actor because I can, I can be emotional as an actor, but I'm still hiding behind a character. And when I'm doing comedy, it's very timed, and to the point and it's you have to be funny, you know what I mean? Obviously, but with Rob, it's different. I can just be whatever I want. And like rap, socialized me, rap made me rap made me feel like a superhero like when I wasn't. And then I remember when I was a kid, I saw I was just watching Much Music and I saw the Stronger music video come out, and it was just like sci fi like weird video and Kanye was very like weird clothes and like those glasses and stuff like that. And I was like, holy shit like this is rap too? 1:19 Rayhan's love of rap and urge to produce creative content merged in 2018, when the young artist set out to release his first EP, entitled Ain't That Deep. 1:27 Because you know, I look, I assessed my skill level and I realized, like, I want to make an EP, and just a short cohesive project. And I decided to call it Ain't That Deep and my friend Charlie who produces my music varman one thing that I was always they would always come back to me was like, why trying to be deep, bro? Like, it's not it's not that deep just like write about write about yourself. Like you have things to say you don't have to make all these weird ass like concepts to be deep. But it's interesting because when you're not trying to be deep, you actually end up being deep, because honesty is like where it all comes from. Right? 2:05 So basically, we rented an Airbnb all got together.. I wanted my friends on all of these shots because I was writing about what I was doing with my friends so would have been weird to just me talk about it. I feel like cuz, you know? I'm around people that make art and do cool things so I wanted everyone to put their two cents in. And, and yeah, so then what happened was we recorded Zigzags in the Airbnb, and it on the hook, I'm like screaming. 2:48 And the dude who owned the Airbnb, were staying in the basement. He had a fucking like two babies in his house. So we got kicked out of the Airbnb, basically, for being too loud and belligerent, and not following the rules. Literally had to fucking pack all the equipment into an Uber and be like putting all this equipment in the trunk. But anyways, eventually we got to the apartment, and we sat back up, and we were like, and then we just like all sat down. We had tea, we smoked a blunt, and then we just played and then we just played the drums. First, it was just the naked beat, it was just like drums and then horns, that Varmen did. And we just played that over and over again, thinking of ideas and stuff like that. And then Charlie came through with all of his synthesizers and his bass and like all like, you know, all of his like. Charlie works with so many different weird ass instruments. I don't know what to call them. I don't know what the fuck they are, so I just called them his robots. So Charlie and his robots just fucking came through. And while so it was like that this was like, one of my favorite moments, like ever, like ever one of my favorite memories. It was like, Hannah and I were in we're on these couches in the living room. We were like writing the verse as the beat was playing and then you go to the next and then you go like, to the next room. And then Charlie's working on a SIM card and Varmen's working on the beat. It was like shit was fucking coming down. Life yelled. I was like, it was crazy. Because like, I wrote my verse, I wrote half of my verse, but the whole ot was like amazing to see like something just from nothing to say become something you know. 4:20 It's weird when you make stuff. When you make stuff. It's like you get that validation, you get that like warms your heart for a sec, and then it's automatically back to like, zero. You're like alright, what's next? How can I improve from this? You know, like, I'm very proud of what I was able to do with the resources and the time and the skill level I had, but obviously want to make something better. I want Ain't That Deep to be like the worst thing I've ever done in hindsight. I want to make things that make people want to matter, you know? 5:00 [Song: Concrete Jungle] That concrete Jungle if you fumble you'll be crumbled Tumble in the rumble in the shit that I will ponder. I will struggle to go and reach the pearly gates. Your mother don't think blunders to my tsunami waves. I'm just a suburban steady fucking like emotion at the bottom of the ocean. One day and I'm like a serpent with my savage speech and parcel tongues.