A previously unrelease track, Amped Lightning is another John Wang banger featuring yours truly spit'n some hot fire over it! At least I feel this is one of my best vocal tracks after hearing it again after two decades. Sure, I'm probably not very impressive to real a hip-hop head, but I've never been down with the sound like the career lyricists I've worked with. Quite simply, I'm just happy with how well I got down, verbally, without any cringe.
Well, maybe except for the opening line, which is a reference Wang hitting me up to work on a track after we both clocked out that day. I worked at Little Caesar's, and I worked at Sonic Drive-In. It was a day when everybody in town was hungry and both Wang and I were reeking with sweat and oil from our respective jobs when we finally sat down "in the studio" to smoke some weed and check out this beat he wanted me to rap over. I believe I only got the first verse written while smoking, before we called it night. Maybe, maybe not. We might've just smoked and listened to that track and I recorded my lyrics a different day. It's hard to say at this point in time.
I do remember "Amped" is the name of the notebook I had written my lyrics in, but I'm not sure about where the "Lightning" part of the title came from. I surmise there was a lightning storm happening when I either finished or started writing my lyrics and was was influenced by that. Either way, this is a fun banger that displays my vocal talent for shifting from my regular voice to my distorted vocal, which is an original style based upon that I've never heard anybody ever do such a thing before or since. You know, because I'm a bad ass like that. B)
