Best of all, there were no deadlines.

“[As a parent], every entire thing in your life is a deadline,” said Koenigs. “Bed, bath, dinner, work, babysitters, chores. It was nice to be deadline-free for once.”

Writing songs about “life as a dad” came easy for Reinert and Koenigs.

“As an artist, you have to find yourself and it becomes a lot easier when you’re talking about daily things and things you can relate to,” said Koenigs, a father of two girls. “When I started out with hip-hop, I was probably rapping about guns that I’ve never seen in my life. Early on you feel you have to go a certain route. It becomes funner on your own once you realize it’s really the art of the lyrics and the rhyming and everything else needing to be pure.”

Reinert, who has a son and a daughter, added, “We’re a couple of guys that did hip-hop for most of their lives and became dads later on. And we’re finding ways to still do it and have fun.”

Being a dad offers plenty of material for Reinert and Koenigs. They both wake up to new material every day. But the two also decided to step out of their comfort zone when creating different rhyming styles.