Elijah Quinn

August 16, 2019

I'm back home. Out of the snow, I got stuck on the side of the road in Nebraska for over 11 hours, but thats a story for another day. I Made it! I'm back in Vegas. The sun is shining, it's nice and warm, no more mosquitos. So I gotta make a new song. It has to capture the summer vibes I been missing for so long. So I cook up a beat. I used some steel drums to give it that island vibes, and honestly theres not too much to say after that. The whole song came together so fast. I love it tho cause it was the vibe I was chasing this whole time. This was the first song I put out that I was like this the one. I'm proud to say this one of the ones I love till this day. It just feels like home to me. Happy, free, no worries, just good vibes. Yeah thats all there is too it. This is “So Good” hope you enjoy!

May 24th, 2019

I'm all the way in Minnesota thousands of miles away from home in a small little college town trying to figure out how to make a dream come true. I'm done with football, done with school, trying to decide what's the next step. I making music, but me and my boy that I started it all with ain't speaking. I'm feeling isolated and a bit depressed. Life isn't bad, but it's not the life I envisioned for myself. I put out my first song and it only got like 400 plays. I was supposed to blow up over night I thought. Not really I knew it wouldn't be that easy, but still you always hope lol. 

The funny thing is I'm actually pretty shy. Idk why I chose to be a music artist when it's hard for me to open up to people. I'm hella introverted lol. But hey I love music and it's what I want to do with my life so I have to learn to over come that right? The artist that I love do it so I do too. So I wrote this song. I wrote about what I was going through at the time. Being isolated and feeling down. Having this incredibly big dream that I feel like I'm destined for, and knowing that I have to fight to make it a reality. Which also adds to the depression because obviously it still ain't happened yet lol.

So I stared researching. If I'm gonna do this music stuff I have to figure out how to get my music in front of more people. I find Distrokid and sign up. For $19 a year I can make all my dreams come true. If I'm on Apple and Spotify people will have to take me seriously right? So I put it out… and it flopped. Triple cardboard lol. It has less than 1K plays to this day lol, but, thats not the point. It was real. That's the first time I ever tried to express myself publicly like that. I did it! I fought for my dream and wrote a song that was meaningful and real to me and put it out for the world to hear. If nothing else I can be proud of that. 

This is “I Just Wanna” Honestly I don't hate it. I do cringe a little but it's more for the vocal performance. Luckily I've improved since then. The beat hits tho. I hope y'all Enjoy! LMK if I should keep it up or not.

May 17, 2019

I was living in Minnesota and had just finished my college football career and dropped out of school. I didn't know where life was gonna take me but I knew that I wanted something more out of it. I would go to work everyday to my caretaking job with my laptop in my bag and make beats all shift. When I got off I would rush home to write and record to them. It was a great time but I was still scared. My roommate at the time was one of my boys from high school and he was dope. Way more talented at singing and rapping than I was. We thought we was gonna take over the world lol. Long story short being young and immature we eventually had a falling out. Like I said I was scared so I was trying to live through him. We got in a fight about music one day and he told me to stop worrying about him and worry about myself , “ain't you working on some music put your shit out, stop worrying bout what I'm doing” or something along those lines. So… I did. Out of spite I made a SoundCloud, took the one song I had finished and uploaded it. It didn't do great 😅 But a few people listened and it got more plays then my boys first song so I felt justified. I turned that spite into fuel for the next year or so. Till this day it still bums me out how our friendship ended cause I was really his biggest fan. I still wish I was half as talented as he was. All I can do now is be thankful that we got that time together. Regardless of how it ended I probably wouldn't be putting out my music if it wasn't for that fight. So thank you bro hopefully one day we'll reconnect and make something crazy. Until then heres the song. It don't have nothing to do with the situation and is cringy af but without it I wouldn't be me. So enjoy this is “SO Right”

In December of last year I finally accomplished a long standing goal of mine which was starting a LLC for my music, basically acting as my own label. I'm currently in the process of switching distributors and have been contemplating taking down my older songs that make me cringe 😅 Now that I started my label I kinda just want a fresh start. I'm at a point now where I'm making music that I'm proud of. Not that I'm not proud of the old stuff, it served it purpose, but I'm onto the next chapter and I feel comfortable moving on. So to show gratitude to my younger self and appreciation for my old work I figured I'd share it here. I can share the stories behind the songs and where I was at the time of making them and give them a new place to live.  So if you're interested stay tuned. As I get around to updating everything I'll be posting here and sharing my stories. See you soon!

What’s good! I’m making this blog to serve as my own personal outlet away from social media. I’m hoping to use it to become more open and less scared of sharing. I’m also hoping over time more people will discover this and it’ll be a place where I can speak my mind freely and interact with y’all, or just share a song idea I’m working on. Yeah that’s it. If you’re hear and reading this, Hi and thank you for coming. I can’t wait to get to know you and I hope you’re having a great day 😎 anyways I’ll talk to you soon 💯