Although Journey was the very first song I had ever produced, it wasn't intended to be my first album. At the time I wrote the song Journey, the music industry was in a totally different place. Rap and Hip-Hop music were just emerging as mainstream music. People were debating on whether or not it was a fad, and radicals like the group N.W.A., Ice T, and Too Short, were becoming an icon to the inner city youth. Rock was still strong, and Pop was taking a turn for the worse, and in all of this, there was nothing that remotely sounded like Journey.  I had no idea where my place would be in all of this with a song like Journey.  Like most artists and musicians, there was almost nothing more I wanted in life than to share my music with the world, but I was uncertain if Journey would be a good start. Not because I didn't care for the song. It moved me like no other song I had ever written, but I wasn't sure the rest of the world would receive it with such open arms, and after the work I had done with so many other artists, many were eager to see what my own project would sound like. I felt as if I were under a microscope, and the bottom line was, I only had one chance to prove myself to the industry