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In a faltering industry where people are being let go left and right, there aren’t many jobs that can certify you a position of importance, and even these are dependent on your consistency. Songwriting is one of those jobs in the music industry that will ALWAYS have a place, and ALWAYS be important. Adonis Shropshire is one of those longstanding names in the music industry that can pretty much always certify you a solid song, if not a HIT. AllHipHop.com sat down with Adonis and discussed how he got started and his methods amongst other things….here’s an excerpt:
AHHA: Because you’ve been writing for a long time do you have a particular ritual? Do you write stuff down as soon as you think about it or do you write stuff for certain artists?
Adonis: I usually try to write stuff specifically for artists. Because you know how they say you can have a great song and put it on the wrong artist and it’ll come off as though it’s a wack song? Then you can have a wack song, and put in the right artist and it’ll come of like it’s a great song. It’s all about the timing and placement, so I try to cater stuff directly for each artist. I make sure that I maximize the potential of each song that I play.
[When writing] it’s not necessarily a ritual or anything like that. It’s rare that I’m not in the studio with an artist but the times that I’m not, what I’ll do is buy all their albums on iTunes and just listen to every album. For a couple of days, I’ll listen to every album, every song and pick the hits out and try to make a song that would be in the next evolution.
AHHA: Kind of taking it to the next level?
Adonis: Exactly.
Read rest of interview @ Allhiphop.com
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