Yoo! A7Ez here, thank you for visiting my website!
I've been making music for about 4 years now and I can finally say that I'm proud about what I'm releasing, I've been working as much as I can on my lyricism and overall production of my music to win back the people who vowed to not listen to my music again due to it being garbage when they first heard it, and to distance myself from the countless other people like me trying to make it in this ruthless industry, the only difference between me and everyone else however, I will do it the best.
Since you're already in the bio page you might as well read my musical background, right? It only seems fair to me haha
So, way back in elementary school I would make atrocities using Garageband on my mom's iPhone 6, nothing that was listenable, like at all. When I found out I could use Garageband on my Grandma's MacBook around 6th grade, I subsequently found out that Apple gives you loops that you can use to empower your creativity, however it only empowered me to lie to everyone I ‘forced’ to listen to ‘my’ beats because I only used the premade loops and passed them off as beats I made from scratch instead of actually learning how to produce from scratch, but believe me I tried and it wasnt anything you wanted to hear. In 7th grade I came up with the artist name A7Ez for reasons I can't say, I've wondered about the origin of that name and what middle school me was thinking when I made it but I've only came up with a couple of sensible conclusions. Those being:
Anthony has 7 letters in it - A7, passing off premade loops as my own is - Ez
And, A7 is a type of paper, and writing these songs are - Ez (shoutout RT, we came up with that one)
Not really that exciting, but that's all I got.
Now that my artist name has been made, so has a Soundcloud account, in 7th grade I released 3 absolutely terrible songs that I will NOT in any way disclose because they are genuinely terrible and I don't want anyone to find them, I used a voice changer on them so nobody would figure out it was me behind A7Ez, but that all went to shit literally the next year when I decided I would pursue doing music.
8th grade was a year lets just say that. I was egotistical and overly-confident which, in return ruined a lot of relationships I had with people and I don't think any of those relationships are exactly salvageable now that I'm a senior, but there's no time to lament on the past. I still has a lot of fun that year and summer, so lets start at the beginning of that year. In September of 2022 I didn't know what was coming yet but that school year would be the start to a whole new persona. Nothing particularly exciting happened the first trimester of the school year but the second trimester, that's when stuff started to get interesting, In my earth and space science class that tri there was a new teacher, the one and only Mr. Niko, it took me a while to actually show him the beats I was making, mainly because I was still only using loops, but when I did, either out of pity or love for his students he told me he really messed with the beats. Things started moving after that, during lunch I would record in his room with Terrance, Germarion, Cordell, and a couple other people some days. Terrance and Germarion were the ones who were really about the music though, we used to skip lunch to go and record in the music departments soundproof room, I got to use that because Mr. Baltus was my violin teacher and still is to this day so we were cool, and Mr. Malik would let us go down to the music hall even though 80 precent of the time we never had passes. Around this time my Grandpa had lent me my Grandmas old MacBook so I could upgrade from my phone for my music, also around this time there was going to be a school talent show Terrance, Germarion, and I would perform in. It really didn't go that smoothly though because we decided last minute that we would be in the talent show and also it was last minute I decided I would perform with them. We were the last group to perform and to say I was just anxious would be an understatement, I had barley remembered any of my lyrics and it showed because I was halfway through my verse and I forgot the rest, but that was ok because the crowd exploded when I started rapping, everyone just knew me as the producer they must've thought I was there for adlibs or something, but all that cheering from the crowd gave me a dopamine rush I don't think I'll ever get back unless I do it again.
8th grade summer was one of the best summers of my life so far, I didn't have to worry about work, we had all just graduated highschool, and I was hanging out with my friends pretty much everyday that summer. If youre reading this you know Austen, lbjb, we were having a blast making music that summer. We were on our bullshit, but my first officially released track was with him and we also made the infamous ‘One Take Grahhh’ that summer. Besides making music we were at the park everyday and just hanging out having fun, a big part of me wants to go back, redo it all, maybe not the music because I needed to make bad stuff to become better, but I was too focused on other things that summer that were far out of my reach instead of focusing on what I had at the time and making the most out of what little time I had left to be a kid like that.
This is getting long
High School
Freshman Year
I want to keep this short, as much as I can up until this year anyways. Me and Austen were still making music for the first 2 years of high school and it was still pretty much as bad as it was before. I still had no style and was rocking my fake ass gold chain and sideways hat (for some reason..) I've grown now and have moved on to moissanites and no fake gold, gotta rock what I can afford and not look stupid you know? Even though sometimes I feel pretentious wearing moissanites they are cheap if you know where to look, and they shine brighter than diamonds so I don't think there's really any harm in that. Anyways, freshman year summer was pretty fun, I released another terrible album right before break but at least the cover was pretty cool (shoutout Danny) and I was still on my bs releasing bad song after bad song, still hanging out at the park pretty much every day. I was with Zach a lot that summer too and we would do our hooligan shit. A pretty good summer to say the least.
Sophomore Year
To keep it concise, I still released bad music, still had bad style, and I still had no desire to change - yet. It wasn't until the middle of that school year I realized that all my music I had released over the past year wouldn't leave me a good legacy, it was a pathetic attempt of me trying to be someone I wasn't. I couldn't keep up the facade when everyone knew I was fake and not really about what I was rapping about. I wanted to quit for good, the chances of making it in this industry are slim to none, I made bad music and that was indisputable. I just liked making music too much to stop though. That summer is when I found Nos1n on Beatstars and my music journey had actually begun. I was spending a lot of the money I was making that summer on beats, getting fried and writing to them, and then putting off the album for another year after the summer was over.
Junior Year
The main reason I was putting the album off was because I just didn't think I was good enough at the time, I had pulled all my old songs recently and if I were to record a full album right after that it would just end up sounding like my old shit. I decided that an EP before the album would be the best option so I could continue working on becoming a better artist. That was one of my best decisions I have ever made for my career. I was finally able to focus on improving my finished product instead of trying to appeal to everyone by being someone I wasn't. Now that brings me to the present day, the rest of that school year wasn't very important, I was just working a lot and focusing on school.
Now by the time you're reading this TLLBR will be released or very close to being released. I also want to thank you for taking the time to read this musical journey of mine, I hope that this is just the start to a fruitful career, but who knows in this industry.