00:00 I'm Rapsody and this is how I went down with my new single 3AM.
00:03 Getting to the final lyrical version of 3AM was a process.
00:17 First verse was actually lyrics that I pulled from another song that I had.
00:21 Regardless, when I was talking about love, I wanted to pull from a real authentic place.
00:26 You make me feel like a version, a new person. You make me pull back the curtains.
00:30 I'm not afraid to share what you would hurt me.
00:32 You know, I was really thinking about a relationship that I was in and the emotions
00:36 that I was feeling. It was just really raw and real and it just kind of poured out.
00:42 I took those lyrics and spit them over the version of 3AM beat and it just felt really good.
00:49 The last verse, which is actually performed as a spoken word piece,
00:53 I wanted to talk about the whole journey of love. You fall in love and then you fall out of love.
00:58 What that feels like. Where you can appreciate the experience. You can appreciate how you feel.
01:03 At the same time, sometimes you have to put yourself first and it requires letting go.
01:08 And that was just really the approach of it. You know, the last verse is super emotional though.
01:12 You know, you're like my second adolescence. Like, come on.
01:17 [Music]
01:25 The day that we recorded it, I remember again why I wanted to name it 3AM.
01:30 He played it and at the time it was just a piano that he had and that's kind of what I wrote to.
01:36 And once I wrote to it, we built around that. Like I gave it to him. I recorded it
01:41 in his studio and he built around it. When it came to him, he was like,
01:43 what are you going to call it? 3AM is such a special hour for me. But also on Pinterest,
01:49 I saw like these phrases and it says, I want to know the 3AM version of you.
01:53 Vulnerable, honest and real. And that's what this song felt like to me. Vulnerable,
01:59 honest and real. So I was like, you know, let's call it 3AM.
02:03 [Music]
02:09 The unofficial music video for 3AM. It was super fun. Scheduling wise, I know I wanted to have a
02:15 visual for it, but we wanted to do something really special that I felt like we needed,
02:19 I needed anyway, more time. Erykah Badu was doing her 53rd birthday bash. So, you know,
02:25 I always knew that I was going to go because I wanted, I love celebrating her and celebrating
02:29 her life. The night before the show, we had a rehearsal and she and I went to her rehearsal
02:34 studio with her band and we ran through the song a few times because this will be our first time
02:39 ever performing it, which I needed, you know. Day of the show, the energy was just, it's always
02:45 beautiful at her show. Like we're celebrating her life, family's there, friends there, Dallas,
02:49 Texas is there. And after she was finished with her set, she called everybody back on stage.
02:54 She introduced the record and we performed it live for the first time. So when you see it,
02:59 you're seeing the very first version of a performance she and I have ever done together
03:06 and done of this song, 3AM. So it was a special night for me.
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