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"Onika what's yo issue?"
"I don't have an issue. Leave me alone." She sat on the couch of my studio. I just looked at her like she was crazy. No way she just told me that and I had to beg her to come with me today. This girl been ignoring me all fucking week. I'll really punch her. "You can stop staring at me."
"No the hell I can't because you been on go. Do I need to turn up wit yo ass? Cause you know I will. Give me the word." I was facing her in the spinning chair. All she did was shrug and I turned back to the sound board. I'm not about to do this right now. It's a whole singer in this booth trynna get shit done. "Ok you can start from the beginning babygirl." I started to work the board.
As soon as she started I bobbed my head. She got a beautiful voice but it's also not all that on some ends. It's like she trying to hit notes in a different form that her voice is in. She's an alto trying to go high like soprano. That won't work unless it's recorded in different pieces. And that's IF she hit it.
"Hold up. That's where you fucking up at boo. Hit that note in your regular singing form. Don't try to go higher nor lower because then you throw off the wave of the song. Try again." I restarted it all and she did it.
Finally cause she was fucking with my head. We worked and worked and worked. I had to go inside the booth with her to help her. She was getting out of breath trynna sing long notes. Her voice made for that but she need breath control.
"Suck it in." I touched her stomach and pushed. When I felt her stomach go in, I held it. "Hold that shit." I pressed until the same amount of seconds she had to sing were up. When she let the breath go, I did the same thing again. We repeated it a few times until I felt like she was used to it.
Then I showed her where she needed to sing from. Touching the top of her chest of running my hand down.
"This is where you need to blow from. Don't try and take no deep breath and do it because then it throws the song off. They'll be listening to you breathe because you out if breath. Feel me?"
She nodded while staring at me. I like teaching her because she actually listens and it shows. When we run it again it's always different than before. I went back to the studio board and sat in the rolling chair. As soon as I was about to start,
"I'm finna go."
I looked back at Onika and she grabbed her purse before standing. What the fuck is her problem today? She pissing me all the way off. She already got this outfit on that's not something I would want her to wear unless we were going to the club; together.
"Hold on babygirl." I rolled the chair in front of Onika and grabbed her hand. Why she acting like she don't want to be around me? That's really bothering me. "What's wrong mama? You been real irritated and it's worrying me now because you're upset."
"Move so I can go home."
"Why you going home? I want you here with me. You can't do that?"
