The Unusual Suspects Book 2

Charles

I was sitting in the studio with Rodney bobbing my head to this beat he had. This thang was nice. I just couldn't really pinpoint who would kill this one for sure. It was definitely pulling a whole vibe off the beat alone, just wasn't sure who would blaze it best.
"I'm thinking either Depth or Onyx for sure." Rodney said and I was inclined to agree. Hell they might could do one together off of this. Just as we were about to cut it Onyx walked in. "That's nice! Who's is that?" she said and we both laughed at that.
"Could be yours mami. It's up for grabs." I told her as she came and sat down as Rodney replayed it. She bobbed her head for about 30 seconds and then I could see the way her mouth was moving that she was cooking up something for that beat already.
"I need that." she said simply. I went ahead and gave Rod the nod so that he knew he had my approval for that.
"Where's your man?" I asked her.
"He's in 1 with Aries, Depth and Riek." she said. I just looked at her blankly.
"They all been kinda tight lately, huh?" I said and Onyx started laughing.
"That was all of our reactions. They might be turning that triad into more of a tribe." she said.
"That boy Riek the GOAT." Rodney said and we all started laughing for real.
"I told that boy in his dreams, looks like dreams may be coming true." Onyx said.
"Man...the ladies must really be going for that whole rockstar thing for real." Rodney said and I nodded.
"Eating it the fuck up." I said. "Let me go see firsthand what's poppin." I said as I got up and headed for Studio 1. When I got there, I knocked and walked in. Depth was sitting on the piano, Riek was standing by the bench and Aries was laying on that bench. "Yall look comfy." I said as I took a seat at the board. "Yall in here cooking up something?" I asked. There was an awkward look around the room for a moment.
"You mean on the music tip?" Depth asked and I laughed on the inside.
"Of course." I said to settle nerves.
"Always C Money." Riek said quickly.
"You good Sis Dawg?" I said talking to Aries. She sat up and stretched.
"I'm always good my baby." she said.
"Alright, so let me hear something." I said as Depth passed Aries the drive and they played back what they had been working on. It started with this poem Depth was spitting about being at a point of indecision. Next thing is the beat dropped and the guitar went crazy. Riek was really killing them strings before it faded into Aries. I have to admit, they did that well. I liked it a lot. But it's like they both were telling a story of being unsure, but neither of them got to the point of saying what it was they were undecided on. Crazy thing about it is it was so obvious. This is the most unlikely friendship, that it gotta be more to this than meets the eye. While it was ending, Araya walked in. She stood there for a second.
"Me extrañaste?" she said as she approached them.
"Always mi amor." Riek said as she approached him and hugged him and then kissed Aries. I saw her and Depth lock eyes before she walked over and hugged her too. I just nodded at that.
"Am I intruding?" I asked and Riek turned and looked at me and then over at Depth. Riek walked over to Depth and they stared in each other's eyes for a moment. I was so lost right now.
"Well...is he?" Riek asked her. She never took her eyes off of him that whole time before she looked over at Aries and Araya who also never took their eyes off of them two either. "Maybe." Depth said and I was in shock.
"Let me go ahead and let yall be. Keep up the good work." I said as I went ahead and headed out. Total mindblower. As soon as I walked out I ran into Paradox.
"What's good my guy?" I said as we shook hands.
"Nothing major. Had just listened to their track and then was about to head into 3 to finish writing. I think I need a feature on this next joint though." he said to me and I nodded.
"Why you think you need one?" I asked.
"I feel like it would flow better with inflection. Like it needs a female on it." he said as we walked to Studio 3 and sat down as he went to play it back for me. So he was making a song about leaving a comfort zone and taking a risk. Without a doubt, I'm sure he was referring to his relationship with Onyx. It was nice, definite radio play was headed his way, but yeah a chick would set it off. "You get what I'm saying?"
"Yeah for sure. Ask D, I think yall can relate on this one." he immediately started laughing. I mean I never thought my artists would all be falling for each other, but I could fuck with it as long as they still working.
"I was thinking the same thing." he said. Not that any of us could say what her and Lil Man was doing, but we could see it. After all of this, I had been heavily considering jumping in the booth myself. I hadn't really talked to anyone about it, but there be so much on my mind that I know I could pull a hit out for sure. I mean, Iris might not like me hopping in there because of the attention, but she don't have anything to worry about on that tip. I would actually cook up my own beat though. That's one thing that me and Rodney were good at, building dope beats. This was for sure about to be a little different for real, but I welcomed it. I used to notice the euphoric look they all had when they laid something fire down, now I need that my damn self.