Try as I might I CAN’T find the original sample for this one,
I’ve got the 5 second bit that it’s from but I can’t link it back to
anything in my collection, so once again, come at me for the
sample royalties. This for SO LONG was the last track on the
album, and was how it was going to end...with that little laugh
left in. Proper ridiculous, I remember writing this late one
evening with headphones in (rare, I usually like practising and
writing stuff out loud) and I remember giggling at how stupid
it was. But then my hunger is stupid, another thing I have a
reputation for, eating like a monster.
I made the beat probably a couple of years back, I bought
Ange a set of speakers for her studio (which were massive
and took up too much space, they were Homer’s bowling ball)
in order for me be able to “spend more time” in her creative
space trying to be creative myself (she makes great jewellery
bellisful.com) and while I never came out with much (that’s
me producing in a nutshell) this track did come out of that
process! Kinda harks back to the Beastie’s Ch-Check It Out,
that was kinda what I was going for anyway, while at the same
time being nothing like it. That beginning of the third verse is
the most ridiculous, I wanted to see what happened if I wrote
like that for that bit. Let’s be honest, I lost myself.
That “wake up dreaming of eating...” line is meant to be like
in those cartoons where hunger makes a person turn into a
turkey or summat. Ange asked if the line “...muffins: two by the
side of me, one by the side of me” meant she was the muffin
next to me haha! Nah, two love handles and then an actual
muffin ready to eat. There’s a good 9 voices shouting “just
want some food” in there...imagine me, sat in my office chair,
backed off from the mic, shouting that at the roof, while Herbie
watched, head to one side.