Where did your new album Mirrorland originate from? How did it all come together?

WowGr8:

Well, initially with this album, it kind of very serendipitously started happening. We had finished our other album for about two years now — we finished our Strays project, Strays with Rabies. We were on tour, opening for a lot of people, doing our random EARTHGANG shows and promoting it. I really liked that album/mixtape, but it wasn't our first studio album … In between those two and now we had a little period of time for us to just record a lot of stuff. It wasn't really organized, it was just like disbanded recordings. So making it into an album was just kind of the process of organizing our music, like what have we been doing this whole the time? Like, look at a wall and see like all these different murals and paintings and stuff. But can it be in the gallery somewhere? And you're saying okay, well, what can be, and what maybe cannot be in a gallery, but in a smaller collection to just give to the fans? So that's how we start off. Start off with just a process of organizing our creativity, and then when it started to take a shape, we just started to follow into shape.

Was your process similar for your other albums?

Olu:

We’re constantly just making music, so a lot of our projects come from the culmination of a concept, or idea, or a story that we're trying to paint. And then some of the best songs that fit that. Then from there, then we start making other songs to complete that idea. Just choosing from stuff that we have, and molding it in an order to finish telling the story. A lot of the songs on our album Mirrorland coming out, some of those songs were made two, three years ago. And some of them are just still that good. And then we made songs a couple months ago that are gonna go on the project too. We just take our time when we're making music, we take our time with the creative process because it allows for life to fully influence what you’re doing — so you don't just come up with a whole thing in five or ten minutes. There are things that happen in your life that you want to put aside for music, you know, good things, bad things, whatever, you’ve just got to be patient. All of that will show in the project, because we don't want these projects to drop and then just go away. The songs are pretty dense sometimes — some songs are dense, some songs are cool, you know, they just get you in the mood and that’s all. But we want to give enough so that when you listen to the project, you're playing it over and over and over, and finding new little easter eggs and other little things here and there, saying, “I never heard that before. I never connected that to the past project that they dropped.”

WowGr8:

I think this album in particular, just since this is our first major studio album, I think everybody's like at least your first one should be a combination of your life story as much as possible. Maybe even if, let's say, for a new album, we decided to just make music for a week. This is how we felt for a week, and I never felt that away again. That's fine. I'm okay with whatever the process evolves into or turns into, whatever chances we take or experiments after this. I think this is really good for the significance of this project. You know what I'm saying? EARTHGANG. Like -- This is EARTHGANG, This is the shit they went through. Good and bad and all that, you know what I'm saying, now you know these n****s, now whatever we do after that this will be just ... however we feelin’.