Black Milk On Making “If There’s A Hell Below” [Video]

“If There’s A Hell Below” in stores now.

“I feel like with the last two albums creatively I’ve been at a point where I’ve been more reflective with what I’ve been through in my life and what I’ve seen,” he tells WatchLOUD.com. “I don’t know if it’s got anything to do with me being a little older and kind of wanting to have a certain level of content and not rapping about rap anymore. I think that’s the main thing about it. Me being 31-years-old now I can look back and reflect on different things on what I’ve been through in the music industry, what I’ve been through as a person, as a young’n. All of that. I got a nice amount of things to talk about. So I feel like ‘No Poison…’ and this new album is me taking that step and getting more personal in my music than I’ve been in the past.”

His very first line on Hell… is as revelatory as it is witty, “It’s that overdose daily, no if, and, buts or maybes/Have you addicted like that sh*t my auntie smoked in the ’80s…Auntie Trisha, what up…”

“That’s something I actually had to deal with and that a lot of people had to deal with, people in your family that’s addicted to different drugs…I seen all of that,” he says.”Now I feel like I’m at a point where I feel I never expressed these different things through my music so I want to use this time to put it out there. She actually passed earlier this year. She’s no longer with us. Even with detailing with death, I put it all in the music this time.”