- -_ (electricity crackling) ♪ Friends up late laughing we're brothers ♪ I'm Ben Trickey.

♪ And sisters I've always consider myself more of a poet than a musician.

I've been trying to just take these complicated feelings and transform them into something beautiful.

(upbeat hip-hop music) - My name is Will Hill ♪ Young women beaming it ain't no stopping ♪ When I make music, I feel like I'm making magic.

That's like one of the best feelings in the world.

(energy whooshes) ♪ Every time (discordant music) - [Singer 1] One, two, three, four.

- [Singer 2] Don't make me lean, lean, lean (gentle music) (Ben Trickey playing guitar) (violinist playing along) ♪ In the yard with the garden hose ♪ ♪ I sprayed off my hair ♪ It ran down my clothes ♪ I heard the faint sound of a stereo ♪ ♪ Oh, the simplest things ♪ How they elude me, so ♪ The simplest things, they elude me, oh ♪ ♪ Cover my phone with dirt and debris ♪ ♪ 'Cause I'm weak with the things ♪ ♪ That it shows to me ♪ I'm constantly waiting for some kind of relief ♪ ♪ Feeling wasted by time ♪ Falling faster through me ♪ Hollow, come hither, I'm fractured and bitter ♪ ♪ A rotten-cored apple, I'm trashing the river ♪ ♪ But I'm doing my best to keep one piece hidden ♪ ♪ I sing in my heart a refrain from my visions ♪ ♪ Give me Glendalough, Chantilly, ♪ ♪ Baby I'm so scared to death that I'll ♪ ♪ Always need saving ♪ Yeah, I'll take the blue sky ♪ Or the city lights, maybe tonight ♪ ♪ I hope I'm not always in water ♪ ♪ Over my height ♪ Over my height ♪ Children all fall into pieces ♪ ♪ Blinded by life (guitar and violin continue playing) ♪ Well, its modern-born illness ♪ ♪ Sick with disaster ♪ I'm hard up for patience and feeling quite captured ♪ ♪ I'm hollering out help me get rid of this faster ♪ ♪ I'm cynical, skeptic, praying for rapture, yeah ♪ ♪ Give me Glendalough, Chantilly, baby ♪ ♪ I'm so scared to death that I'll ♪ ♪ Always need saving, yeah ♪ I'll take blue sky or ♪ the city lights, maybe tonight ♪ ♪ I hope I'm not always in water over my height.

♪ ♪ Over my height ♪ Children all falling to pieces ♪ ♪ Blinded by life ♪ Children all falling to pieces ♪ ♪ Blinded by life (Ben playing guitar softly) Hi, I am Ben Trickey.

This is Jonathan Griffin.

That song was called "Glendalough or Chantilly."

I started writing it right before the pandemic and I finished it during.

I was going through some pretty (clears throat) intense personal stuff at the time as well.

And then the pandemic hit and it's sort of like the whole world was trapped in this sort of lethargic sadness.

And I wanted to try to transform that and those feelings into something.

Glendalough is a place in Ireland that I went to once and had a really good time.

And Chantilly is a place in France that I went to as well.

Had a good time.

Both with my late wife.

The chorus is sort of asking to go back to these places where I felt good and trying to draw the power of the experiences I had there into this song to sort of deliver me or us from this sort of stagnant melancholy that we were all in during then.

Okay, this next song is called "Alabama," because even though I live in Atlanta now, and I have for 20 years or so, I'm originally from Alabama.

So it's about relating to that, and childhood, and nature, and high school friends, and sort of everybody, and trying to be graceful.

1, 2, 3.

(gentle music) ♪ There were weeds growing down, some broken old road ♪ ♪ The bugs and sound, the weed and stone ♪ ♪ Yeah, the bee ♪ Wrapped around the bone ♪ Well we moved out together and ground down the fever ♪ ♪ How old we've all got, we're still sinking deeper ♪ ♪ Our bodies are failing, our guts for the taking ♪ ♪ We're kids playing hooky, adults are just faking ♪ (cheerful music) ♪ Hey Adam, you coming ♪ Go ahead and get the car ♪ There's lots in the sky surrounded by dark ♪ ♪ I know we've been worried, I know it's been hard ♪ ♪ But we've still got our families, we're just losing parts ♪ (cheerful music) (soft music) ♪ Well the darkness and quiet, the sound of the distance ♪ ♪ Its spark has grown fire, fed up and shiftless ♪ ♪ Get let out and run, son, that feeling's victimless ♪ ♪ We hold onto hope and hold our arms up and sing ♪ ♪ Give us salvation, a peace of the kingdom ♪ ♪ An early vacation 'cause the breath that we're breathing ♪ ♪ Is haunted by a lot when we'll be leaving ♪ ♪ Give us good pictures of friends up late laughing ♪ ♪ We're brothers and sisters no matter what happens ♪ ♪ We're in this together ♪ Together we are captive ♪ No matter how bitter, it never comes easy ♪ ♪ We're brothers and sisters, you gotta believe me ♪ ♪ We're in this together ♪ Together we're dreaming ♪ Yeah, we're in this together ♪ Together we're dreaming ♪ Yeah (cheerful music) Yeah.

So that song, like I said, is about trying to age gracefully.

Trying to relate, and call out one of my high school friends, Adam, Adam Howard, and that.

and I think I wrote that song about looking back.

I think his father had just died when I wrote that song.

And I was just thinking about, you know, the pieces that we lose and getting lost up and lost, but trying to shift focus to stuff we still have, you know?

We still have our family, we're just losing parts of it.

And just how we're all in it together.

So, you know, be kind.

All right, this last song is called "I Don't Wanna Dance."

It's off my newest record.

It was written during the quarantine too.

And it's about New Mexico, it's about my late wife and it's about trying to outrun your problems.

You know, it's the old cliche of trying out to outrun your problems, but they're already there.

(gentle music) ♪ This one goes out ♪ To the last song on the record ♪ ♪ And silence under pressure saying, I know ♪ ♪ I don't want to dance ♪ No, I don't want to dance ♪ I don't want to dance if I can't dance slow ♪ ♪ Me, I wish I was swimming ♪ In the Bottomless Lakes State Park ♪ ♪ New Mexico, my heart is burning from the food ♪ ♪ And you ♪ And you ♪ I'll follow you down ♪ Through those caves of fade shape rock ♪ ♪ And we'll swim over to a spot that's nice and cool ♪ ♪ Now I'm holding my breath ♪ Yeah, I'm holding my breath ♪ Well I'm still holding my breath ♪ ♪ Like some kind of fool ♪ For you ♪ For you ♪ I've thrown my troubles from the Cliffs of Moher ♪ ♪ I've drowned them in the waters off the Folly Beach Peir ♪ ♪ I tried to lose my troubles ♪ In the subways of New York City, dear ♪ ♪ Somehow my troubles are all still here ♪ ♪ Ooh, hoo ♪ Hoo, hoo, hoo ♪ Hoo, hoo ♪ So this one goes out ♪ To the last phrase of our novel ♪ ♪ And all of my trouble in the moon ♪ ♪ And I don't want to dance ♪ No I don't want to dance ♪ Well, I still don't want to dance ♪ ♪ If I can't dance with you ♪ With you (gentle music) I'm Ben Trickey.

This is Jonathan Griffin.

This is "Sounds like ATL."

(soft music) - [Will Hill] Uh.

Came to have a little fun today.

Perform a few songs.

♪ You stupid - Get the floor a little wet.

Might Moonwalk.

(chuckles) ♪ Yeah ♪ Uh ♪ Yeah ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ Uh ♪ Uh, yeah ♪ Hey ♪ This is Ill T with the (indistinct) ♪ ♪ New York City with the carry-on ♪ ♪ Me is with genius and that's synonymous (for sure) ♪ ♪ Young women beaming it ♪ Ain't no stopping this ♪ Shark in the water I hustle harder ♪ ♪ They still asleep they still in they pajamas, huh ♪ ♪ I want the shrimp if I'm gonna do the pasta ♪ ♪ You'd have thought I pose off ♪ ♪ To the way that I raised the bar up ♪ ♪ A fool with a plan ♪ To beat a scholar without one ♪ ♪ And nine times out of 10, you determine the outcome ♪ ♪ I'm just picking up the game, I put it on the album.

♪ ♪ I can't pity for somebody ♪ That ain't never been about nothing ♪ ♪ Pine Green ones ♪ Yeah, the money match the tennis shoes in my living room ♪ ♪ Drawing up another business move (there you go) ♪ ♪ (Indistinct) and the cylindrical with Hollywood Cole ♪ ♪ On the piece, I'm invincible for sure.

♪ ♪ You know ♪ It's always gonna be some people on your path ♪ ♪ That's gonna try and get in your way ♪ But why would you let them stop you?

You shouldn't.

What's going on?

I go by the name of Will Hill and this is sounds like ATL.

So I've been at it for 10 years.

I like creating, I like my freedom of expression.

I like to be able to create music.

And I think the biggest why for me is when I make music, I feel like I'm making magic.

I start with absolutely nothing, maybe a beat, but I start with a blank canvas and at the end of it I have something that's tangible, something that could be enjoyed.

And to me that's like one of the best feelings in the world.

Just to be able to like create something.

And man, when you make that song, that one that you, you know, it's something new and something refreshing, man that's like, I can't stop listening to that new song.

And it's like just one of the craziest feelings.

It's like, damn, I made this?

You know?

So that's my why.

So the second song we got is "Benz On E" little more uptempo, you know, workout type tempo.

Let's get into it.

♪ Hey, yeah ♪ Hey, yeah ♪ Hey, riding around Buckhead ♪ Gas tank on E (hey) ♪ Yeah, Big Body Benz on E (yeah) ♪ ♪ Whole lot of money on me (yeah) ♪ ♪ Find down when IE (yeah) ♪ Gold rope chain links (yeah) ♪ Big Body Benz on E ♪ Whole lot of money on me (yeah) ♪ ♪ Fine dine when I eat (yeah) ♪ Gold rope chain links (yeah) ♪ Wax on, wax off ♪ Gotta have it, I don't care the cost ♪ ♪ Powder bucket ♪ Used to shop at Ross, learn from it ♪ ♪ Never took a loss ♪ Naked Famous Raw denim jeans, no bull ♪ ♪ Miami Beach baby girl busting out the seams ♪ ♪ I got Reposado in my chain, yeah ♪ ♪ Know I'm making moves if I'm planning on a pop out ♪ ♪ There you go, I was making money on lock down ♪ ♪ Can't stop, won't stop, why would I stop now?

♪ ♪ Cop another whiffle when I want to do the swap out (yeah) ♪ ♪ Looking at the screen as I back up really in the streets ♪ ♪ I don't even need a map up retail clothing away ♪ ♪ I put racks up, if I ever fall I could always get back up ♪ ♪ Yeah, Big Body Benz on E (yeah) ♪ ♪ Whole lot of money on me (yeah) ♪ ♪ Fine dine when I eat (yeah) ♪ Gold rope links (yeah) ♪ Big body on E ♪ Whole lot of money on me ♪ Fine dine when I eat (yeah) ♪ Gold rope chain links ♪ Uh, stone cold champagne, sip it ♪ ♪ Watch how you let the flame flicker ♪ ♪ I'm the same but my chain's different.

♪ ♪ They ain't ours but they came with us ♪ ♪ Tenfold on the revenue (money) ♪ ♪ I've been eating all my vegetables (for sure) ♪ ♪ They been trying to come and regulate ♪ ♪ Trust me it's never been regular (yeah) ♪ ♪ Sports mode I'm gonna switch lanes on a chick (yeah) ♪ ♪ Ain't nothing out my range with a chick ♪ ♪ Railroad Lynx let them dangle and cliff ♪ ♪ If they let them pitch, I'm gonna aim for the fence ♪ ♪ Big Body Benz on E (yeah) ♪ Whole lot of money on me (yeah) ♪ ♪ Fine dine when I eat (yeah) ♪ Gold rope chain links (yeah) ♪ Big Body Benz on E ♪ Whole lot of money on me (yeah) ♪ ♪ Fine dine when I eat (yeah) ♪ Gold rope chain links, yeah ♪ Huh, yeah ♪ Yeah, yeah, hey ♪ Big Body Benz on E So my last album is entitled "No Wasted Motion."

The reason being is when I started the album out, it had a different name.

And there were a lot of different things that happened along the way that made me both simplify the album and change the name of the album.

And so there were like some things on the table, like deals and things like that.

But essentially I was like, man, I wanna put this album out by myself.

It feels right and I don't wanna wait on anybody.

So, to me building the leverage is the most important.

And so every step along the way is very important.

And that leverage and building up my catalog and being able to do everything on my own will and on my own recognizance.

To me, that is the embodiment of "No Wasted Motion."

I'm just being very efficient and getting to where you want to be and taking the necessary steps to be there.

So I got into hip hop at a very young age.

I was really, really influenced by my mom's taste in music because I was always around her.

And so she really was heavy on '70s music and like Confunction, Prince, Shaday, so many other people from that era, Earth, Wind and Fire.

And that sound really intrigued me.

And I grew up with my sister around me as well.

My older sister, she's like 13-and-a-half years older than me.

So essentially I'm hearing hip hop from her and I'm hearing these other sounds from my mom and to me it was just like really, really interesting how music is this one thing, but it's so many different types of flavors and genres within that.

And hip hop is where I landed but I think that I'm able to expand and not stay within the confines of hip hop.

And I think you'll see that over the next few things that I'm doing.

♪ Racing to the crib hit the cruise in the whip, aye ♪ ♪ Hey, hey ♪ Yeah - ♪ Its just a lil ya dig (oowee) ♪ - ♪ Move it back ♪ Yeah, hey, hey, yeah ♪ I said you know what you doing when you moving the hip ♪ ♪ Say, if you take it down low ♪ I'm gonna dip when you dip ♪ Racing to the crib hit the cruise in the whip, aye ♪ ♪ Because you turn into a freak ♪ ♪ When the liquor hits your lips ♪ ♪ You know what you doing when you moving the hips ♪ ♪ If you take it down low ♪ I'm gonna dip when you dip ♪ If you take it down low ima dip when you dip ♪ ♪ Because you turn into a freak ♪ ♪ When the liquor hits your lips ♪ ♪ I said I know what you like, I know what you need ♪ ♪ I give you the world and you don't want thing ♪ - ♪ There you go.

- ♪ They could never come between dope chicks ♪ ♪ Swear I need a triple beam ♪ You like your hair did, nails did, feet too ♪ ♪ Plant-based diet but you might do with the seafood ♪ ♪ Work of art belong on the easel ♪ ♪ I ain't trying to tease you ♪ I'm just trying not to get me too'd (for sure) ♪ ♪ You ain't gonna hit me with the okie doke ♪ ♪ I'm real chill, you could come and get to know me though ♪ ♪ I ain't met Julie yet, but I could be your Romeo ♪ ♪ I got the Dosi Dos and I got the golden flows ♪ ♪ And I really like your whole aesthetic ♪ ♪ Not the one for going back and forth ♪ ♪ I keep it copesthetic, level headed.

♪ ♪ I'm too focused on this cheddar ♪ ♪ You can't take me off the path baby ♪ ♪ I'ma show you better, for sure ♪ ♪ You know what you doing when you moving them hips ♪ ♪ If you take it down low ♪ I'm gonna dip when you dip ♪ Racing to the crib, hit the cruise in the whip ♪ ♪ Because you turn it to a freak ♪ ♪ When the liquor hits your lips ♪ ♪ You know what you doing when you moving them hips ♪ ♪ If you take it down low ♪ I'm gonna dip when you dip ♪ Racing to the crib, hit the cruise in the whip ♪ ♪ Because you turn it to a freak ♪ ♪ When the lick hit your lips ♪ Huh, for sure So yeah, that was cruise control.

This next song that we gonna get into is "Meditation."

And "Meditation" is a song It was off my album "Bring the Bottles In" with Hollywood Cole.

And at that time that's when I was like, man, I'm really starting this rap career.

Like, this is really where I want to be.

And so at that point, to me it was pivotal and it was a song about where I wanted to be and if I look back on that now and show the growth of where I've been and what I've become, I think I'd really be happy with the results.

Yeah, we gonna get into the next song.

"Meditation" by me and Hollywood Cole.

(vintage hip hop music) - [Playback Will] ♪ Cole - ♪ Yeah - [Playback Will] ♪ You stupid - ♪ Man, Cole got them pockets, the drums ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ For sure.

♪ Oowee ♪ Uh ♪ Yeah, I start my morning off with meditation ♪ ♪ Gotta get my mind right before I hit the pavement ♪ ♪ Real one, let me demonstrate it ♪ ♪ You gotta have the bread to buy the crib and renovate it ♪ ♪ Yeah, you know ♪ Take something to make some ♪ That people seek ♪ And I can see it in they face, huh ♪ ♪ All of this success breed jealousy ♪ ♪ You should look again, them people is not ahead of me ♪ ♪ I'm either in the front or in the back ♪ ♪ And if I'm in the back it's probably 'cause I laugh ♪ ♪ You wouldn't be hot if you was the last hustler by nature ♪ ♪ I'm stacking, I don't just rap ♪ ♪ Green thumb and I'm fertilizing money trees ♪ ♪ I ain't even want to hit ♪ I just wanted the company started up the company ♪ ♪ And I took the L's too ♪ I ain't have to say that but I was feeling compelled to ♪ ♪ W-I double L, I be, ain't nobody truer than me ♪ ♪ You out here chasing money, you pursuing defeat ♪ ♪ Stepping out the crib with something new on the feet ♪ ♪ Me and Hollywood Cole with something new for the streets ♪ ♪ On the island with my people at the beach in the Jeep ♪ ♪ People like architects, they like to plot ♪ ♪ I'm keepin' the piece, never scam ♪ ♪ But you can never honor a thief ♪ ♪ Hits coming back to back like funeral processions ♪ ♪ Knew that I had something special since adolescence ♪ ♪ I try to tell people I guess they ain't get the message ♪ ♪ I'm in between flexing and making a good investment, yeah ♪ ♪ I'm smooth as Morgan Freeman ♪ Vocal chords calling all my enemies ♪ ♪ Telling them that it's over for 'em ♪ ♪ Man, it's over for 'em ♪ They just gotta live with that ♪ ♪ I could lose it all but I'm always get it back ♪ ♪ Yeah, for sure ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ I said, I said, I said ♪ Hey man, ♪ You gotta have fun in life ♪ You gotta keep going, you gotta never stop ♪ My name is Will Hill - [Playback Will] You stupid.

- And this is sounds like ATL.

That's my time.