No Bars Off - Grammy Winner Focus...Stops By To Talk Aftermath, His New Group, and Dealing With Loss
No Bars OffShow Notes
This week, Sha Stimuli and Boardwalk Brown sit down with Grammy-award winning producer Focus. Sha and Focus go back over a decade and have collaborated on multiple projects. Focus gets deep and reveals a lot of the pain that went into the featured verse. "N.C" is a soul-stirring song where Focus speaks to the instrumentation as if it's a therapist. Tap in.
Topics discussed:
Focus talks how the song and project came to be.
The pain that went into the verse on the featured song "N.C."
Using music and tattoos as therapy
Links mentioned in this episode:
https://youtu.be/WYnC-qPbh8A?si=RhphNdJJo87-2jBf
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