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Khamari dropped by the Genius office to dissect his record “Head in a Jar.” The track is the first single off his To Dry A Tear album, cooked up by the singer-songwriter himself with Trackside. On today’s episode of Verified, the rising R&B star talks about the iconic rockstar who inspired the song, why he keeps his music personal, being a homebody, and plenty more!

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00:00Head in the Jar is about just like longing. You know, we always talk about like yearning in R&B

00:05music. It's just about like realizing what it is that you want, realizing that you can't have it.

00:16So the spark for Head in the Jar was kind of this picture of Kurt Cobain and it was just his head

00:22basically on a shelf with like a bunch of other dolls around it. I'm really into movies, so I was

00:26like if I were to envision a song as a scene in a movie, how would I envision it? And that was

00:31really inspiring me. Head in the Jar I think kind of represents for me a transitional moment between

00:36my last project and this project. I wanted to find a way to bridge the gap. That was the first session

00:40that I had did after I had put out my first album. At the time, I was just going through it. I try to

00:47make everything kind of reflective of what I'm feeling at the time. First thing in the morning,

00:53I try when I write things to keep them as personal as possible so that I still connect to them when I

01:13sing them. So you can sing it a million times and you don't get tired of it. I always also try to

01:16keep the lyrics very specific. If you're very general, it doesn't necessarily connect. We do

01:21hold on to things that are in our memory and we do attach those, you know, specific things, whether

01:26it's a sweater or a TV show or a smell, you know, to certain emotions and certain experiences we had.

01:31People need to feel like you're feeling that emotion in order to connect to it, that human

01:35experience.

01:36So in verse one, we kind of set the tone of being an observer. You don't really know yet

01:52whether it's a choice or whether it's something that you're kind of subjected to based on the

01:57circumstance. Right. And so I felt like in the pre, it was important to give that information

02:03to the listener and just say like, okay, we're stuck here, but it's not necessarily

02:07a choice. And then I think that just kind of unfolds more and more as the song goes on.

02:12Walk away, I'll grow you. The half I know you. When I'm the closest here that I've been to you.

02:22Those lines is basically just saying, I'm a part of your life and I am so close to you that I

02:27am seeing all the things that you're doing and kind of experiencing these things with you.

02:31And I'm stuck here, but I feel like I maybe should leave, but then I don't really get the

02:37opportunity to see you and know you the way that I do now. Because even though I feel like

02:41I don't get what I deserve from you, I love experiencing things with you.

02:44What makes a chorus hit for me? If it's a really emotional song, I think it should be the most

03:11heightened sense of whatever emotion that song is or the most distilled version of whatever that

03:16emotion is in the song. Sometimes it's about being really catchy or just really hooky and just really

03:21simple and something that people can walk away from and attach themselves to and then come back

03:25to it. I knew that the hook was right here because I felt like when we chopped the sample from the

03:31melody pass, it felt kind of haunting, like a kind of echo that wasn't, again, a part of the lead.

03:35And I think also the character in the song being very isolated and kind of walking you through how

03:41they feel very attached to this person because they are very close in proximity, but still want

03:46more from them. The entire song is just them. And then all of a sudden in the hook, it's like it's

03:51two people and it kind of a back and forth and a call response. I thought it just felt very

03:55interesting. I'm definitely a homebody. I'm the kind of person that like to go outside. I have to

04:05be dragged out most of the time. It's all about the environment. It's all about the people. I mean,

04:09things kind of have to align for me when I want to go outside, not just to go outside to go outside.

04:13Try my best not to trick. These walls are paper thin. So every now and then I hear voices in the

04:23wind. When floors creak the death of what could have been. Kind of tying it back to the first verse,

04:29watching all these events unfold in this person's life, you are a part of this system. You don't

04:33really have a choice to be a part of because it's, you know, because of the nature of this issue.

04:37You're in the, your head is in a jar, you know, like if you're speaking in the metaphor, right?

04:40And then you realize again, that you want more proximity to this person emotionally because you

04:44have the actual physical proximity. I imagined it, right? Like in a movie, your head is in a jar,

04:49right? In the bedroom on the, on the nightstand or whatever. And then you hear things going on in

04:53the living room, things going on in another room. And you're like, who the fuck is coming in? You

04:56know what I'm saying? Who are you bringing back home? You hear footsteps and you're like, oh,

04:59those aren't my footsteps.

05:10The outro of the song is definitely, it's definitely a bad feeling. I feel like the

05:26outro is kind of the spot you get to in a song where you have a realization that the things

05:31that you want aren't going to be. I don't think it's over for you. I think this is just life.

05:35My perfect night at home is just like, I think finding a good movie, a long movie,

05:43like interstellar, like three, I'm talking like three and a half hours long. You know what I'm

05:47saying? Cause like, what else are you going to spend your time doing at home?

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