Father Takes on Fatherhood
I caught up with Father while he was in Brooklyn during his U.S. mini-tour to perform at the popular venue Elsewhere. While his mini tour with Babysp1der covered only four cities, Father says he’s happy with the feedback Hu$band 2 has received since its release in June.
“I’m always skeptical when I’m about to drop something new, especially if it doesn’t fall exactly within a certain version of me,” Father says. “But the feedback has been good. I haven’t heard anyone so far say ‘I fucking hate this.’”
Father is very deliberate when it comes to creating music. He says spacing out his music-making and not overthinking helps him create the best tracks. Whether he takes a month or an hour to write a song, he tends to organize his projects in order of creation.
Although they aren’t completely correlated, Father’s music experimentation and maturity began with his 2019 EP Hu$band. The titles came to life with the idea of himself, and most of society deeming the term ‘husband’ as more achieved than just a ‘father.’ “If I were to do another (Hu$band EP), it would be in the same vein,” he says.
Note-taking and freestyling his loose thoughts are usually the best methods of songwriting, according to Father.
“People have always seen how Lil Wayne and a lot of artists do things,” he says. “They just kind of rummage through their brain and fire off shit until it works. It’s just notes that come together. And then when I get to the verses, verses are always on the fly…it’s just stuff going on. I’ll be watching something and it’ll relate to a thought or a way of my own thinking.”
Now that Father is a father, he wants to shift from less sexual lyrics to more conscious lyrics. He says his fans call his recent music ‘Christmasy’ and ‘jollier’ than his earlier music that they called ‘horny raps.’
“I’m just not that guy anymore,” Father says. “I’m still a man at the end of the day. I’m going to have my thoughts, but it’s just not the image or person I want to portray anymore. And that might have something to do with fatherhood and maturing and shit like that. My kids don’t need to grow up and be like, ‘There goes horny ass dad talking about freak tunes.’ Not that I would give a fuck, but I’ve just naturally gone in that direction away from making music like that.”
Don’t let this fool you; he still wants to maintain some of his dark, macabre sounds to match Hu$band 2’s creepy cover. Father also wants to maintain his authentic relationships and collaborations. He cares more about making good music with artists rather than collaborating with the hottest artists at the moment. He often works with his friends like Zack Fox and Tony Shhnow, but also wants to work with more alternative artists like James Blake.
In addition to music, Father is exploring what he can do outside of the music sector to become a more multifaceted person overall.
“I would love to just own a restaurant or bar,” he says. “I want some structure now. It (music) became so saturated. It starts to feel like what you’re doing, even though it may be special, it gets exhausting for a while.”
Despite slowing down and taking the time to be a father, he hopes to release another project this fall. In the meantime, you can listen to Hu$band 2 and his earlier music on streaming platforms.
