Uncle James once told me to use my family name “Payne” in every solo project I release, so "Pleasure N' Payne seemed fitting to name this project. Released in between "Growing Paynes," which was about struggling with vices, and my next upcoming project, "Payne To Fame, which is about reaching your full potential, "Pleasure N' Payne" is about finding balance.
On the journey to finding myself I am learning how to master the art of controlling my energy and the energy I allow around me. I’ve made poor choices in my past that have led to poor career moves and developed vices and in the end led to pain. After realizing the key to life and death lies on the tip of the tongue, as the words we speak or rap about, I grew as a man and wanted to create a body of work that captured my truth.
Sometimes we overindulge in our pleasures and we run in fear of pain. Music for me is a healing process in which I feel like I embrace or face my pain. The concept of the cover work is to have a young lady listening to my truth while receiving a beautiful tattoo undergoing pain.
I wanted the title to serve as a triple entendre with multiple meanings: “Pleasure In Payne” can mean finding motivation to keep you pushing through the struggle, “Pleasure AND Payne” can mean to make the choice to create a blissful heaven for yourself or a negative hell full of pain while Pleasuring Payne could mean a sexual reference to 'this guy' or to find things in life which make you happy when you are in pain.
My special thanks is to anyone who has ever picked up a Marc Payne CD, gave my team A Music Generation praises, recited a Marc Payne verse, gave money, downloaded a song, bought tickets or merchandise, and showed support to allow me to live the dream! I would start naming names but you all know who you are. You already know it’s all love.
