Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Macahl Jett. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Macahl , looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

My upcoming album has been the most meaningful project that I have worked on. I entitled it Bet On Me, because I finally decided to trust and believe in myself, which has been a journey. I have been on a healing journey since 2019, and while the journey has consisted of a lot of different entities, this album was dedicated to healing from heartache and heartbreak. Listen, I don’t wish that on my wooooorst enemy.

I went through a serious break-up in 2019/2020. When we first got together, it was always butterflies, I felt as if the relationship challenged me as well. If I knew then what I know now, I would have given myself more grace to be myself rather than be so heavily affected by my compulsion to people please.

Anyways, the relationship started of surreal, as all relationships, whether healthy or toxic do. We would go on cute dates, and have conversations that lasted from sunup to sundown, we really wanted to get to know each other. And we did. We were the epitome of the image of the “perfect relationship” in my mind. So when it ended, a part of my fantasy ended as well.

Before the album, before I started releasing my emotions and processing the pain for real, nothing helped. It was like a festering bruise that even though, had the bandages around it, never would heal. I had to start asking myself tough questions and sometimes words just weren’t enough.

I am so glad God gave me a gift to make music, because that’s what I did. I wrote and wrote, played piano, added drums, created sounds from life and made music that just made it all make sense to me. And my dad, as always, was the motivating source of helping me create my music.

I told my mom, what seemed to be so heartbreaking, became so beautiful because if I would not have experienced the break-up I would not have made such healing music, processed so many deep thoughts, and I would have missed out on strengthening this incredible relationship I have with my father.

So, yeah, Bet on Me is for those who hurt, those who heal, and those who love. but don’t get it twisted, haha, I am still a bubbly, exciting young woman and I couldn’t make an album with just “sad songs”, I had to pull from my Houston roots and create a sound for this project that spoke to my existence. Listeners can expect an edgy down-south hip-hop sound throughout, with notes of reggaeton, afro-beats, and rock, all sounds and music that inspires me.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

My name is Macahl Jett and I have been creating music professionally since 2008. I actually started making music because I wrote a very hilarious song called caker in middle school, I let me dad hear it, and the rest is history. Music wasn’t a career that was so complex to decide on, it was already apart of my blood, gracefully, I have had the pleasure to never stop creating.

After I began music in middle school, I began to go to Key In Music school in High school, there I went through vocal lessons, piano lessons, and learned the true art of vocal recording.

Music isn’t just about having fun all the time, its mostly technical, from producing to making sure you have the right vocal mechanics to ensure a music project that will be long-lasting.

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

I think society can support artists, by first, having more compassion and respect for the artistic process. Ultimately, we make music that is shareable and in order to really go somewhere, we need a fanbase. I’ve noticed the trend of “cut off culture” which trash talks and criticizes harshly, the musician and their work, we are human to, and we want to create but we also need understanding. I think society can help by taking in multiple aspects to thee listening experience.

Are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?

I wish I knew about the amazing and incredible engineers and musicians earlier in my journey. My band (Chad Weesellekamper, Elijah Saint, Armen Movesyan, and Sammy Bolufemi) are so incredible at what they do and if I had that real musical support in the beginning, there’s so many ideas and concepts I could have created. Also, the music engineers in Houston are other wordly. My mix engineer, Josh Applebee is just one of those men who know what the HECK they are doing, going into sessions with Josh are so exciting and fun because he knows how to make a song really come to life. My master engineer, Christopher Longwood, is grammy nominated, so should I say more? And Russell Guess really helped bring the energy that was needed through vocal engineering and production.

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