Good morning fam! This song was originally written from the perspective of a female. Hence the word "cologne" but in an effort to prove to my brother that this could be flipped to be sung by a male lol I kept the male version. I could hear Chris brown, Usher, or NeYo on it. Tell me what yall think.

*A field report from the front line of creative entrepreneurship.* --- Tonight's class was a working week translated into curriculum. We opened with **the Akai homecoming**. The drum machine that built a career in 2001, a used MPC 2000 bought on Yamaha Motif money, is back in the picture in 2026 at a different altitude. From an Arizona State University stage with the new MPC Live 3 to live conversations with the Akai team about what comes next, the lesson was simple: your tools are not just tools. They become characters in your story. Pay attention to which ones keep showing up. We sat with the **vintage gear dream**. The next chapter is hardware. Real circuits. Real instruments. A vault built around a producer's true sonic fingerprint. The discipline that gets you there is the same discipline that bought the first machine. Save. Study. Show up. Then we walked into **Day 1 of arguably the biggest male R&B stadium tour of all time**. The R&B Tour Usher and Chris Brown, 33 stadium dates this summer through winter. The lesson from inside that room was not glamour. It was craft on top of craft on top of craft. When you finally get into the room you've been praying for, your job is not to perform. It's to listen. We honored **the architects**. Iz Avila and the Avila Brothers — the production duo behind Usher's "Burn" off Confessions, behind work with Stevie Wonder, Boyz II Men, KEM, Brian McKnight. Two Latin American brothers from the Bay Area whose fingerprints are all over an era of Black American music. The takeaway: the architects rarely live in the spotlight. Find them. Sit near them. Carry their bags if they let you. We named **the Latin secret sauce**, the centuries-long conversation between Latin musicianship and Black American music, baked into the DNA of how a record like "Burn" actually feels. Where culture shows up in your music whether you meant to put it there or not is the part of your sound that nobody else can copy. We taught **studio etiquette in four corners**: walking in, working, speaking, leaving. Be early. Be quiet. Listen twice as much as you talk. Speak in service of the song. Thank the engineer by name. Be invitable again.

Ummm we're artists right? 🤦🏾‍♀️🤣🤌🏾

yall ready for tonight ? 5:15pm!!!!

Pray for me cuz I didn't even realize it was Sunday... I flipped it @Rosa Howze