The technical third single off Davideo’s debut mixtape “DIFFERENT”, the fan favorite track “Wildchild” has been released two times now, first as a demo version with an extremely simple music video and then again as the final version with a new visual to accompany the more professional treatment of the track.

“Wildchild” at face value is a pretty simple track that showcases Davideo’s lyrical prowess and his habit of referencing 90’s pop-culture whenever possible. However, the track actually bears a lot more meaning once you really break the skin.

“I tried to write this song as if I was having a conversation,” says Davideo, “I imagined the writing process as a kind of casual interview taking place in a world where everybody speaks poetically. You can see throughout the whole song I explain a lot about myself and the way that I look at hip-hop and my career and just life in general. I even talk about my past a little bit.” Davideo has been known to hide deeper, more meaningful subject matter within his tracks in an effort to tell his audience what they “NEED to hear hidden within what they WANT to hear.”

The music video for the finalized version of this track was shot on location in London, England about a week prior to the 2012 Olympic games while Davideo was on a miniature tour in the area.

The beat was produced by Davideo, and samples the Boards of Canada track “Everything You Do Is A Balloon”

Davideo’s seventh single and the only track off his first mixtape “DIFFERENT” which features another artist

In this track, Davideo brings some intellectually inspiring lyrics to the simple topic of smoking marijuana, accompanied well by some classic braggadocious raw spitting and 90’s pop-culture references, as has become a bit of a signature with Davideo lyrically.

This track, however, didn’t come together exactly as it was planned from the beginning. “Originally this was meant to be a collab with a different artist,” Davideo says, “a friend of mine from high school that I thought could bring something to the table. I had talked to him for a little while about preparing a verse for this track specifically, and then we made a plan to meet up and record. The session didn’t go exactly well, I recorded my verse in two takes and he didn’t have anything prepared at all. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and he ended up trying to riff some freestyles to get his gears turning but it just wasn’t working. He completely bailed on the next recording session with no notice, so I just reworked an old verse I had saved on my phone’s notepad app and took over.”

Regarding Emily Anderson becoming a part of the project, Davideo says, “The thought of having her do a hook was in my mind really since I started working on the mixtape as a whole. I just didn’t plan for this to be the song she would sing on. When things started to go south with the progress of the original plan for this track, I got in touch with her and she was immediately down for it. She came over for what was meant to be the second recording session, we ran over the hook I had written out a few times, she made some changes, practiced a bit, and nailed it in less than ten minutes. She actually came up with the idea of having a different variation of the lyrics for the second hook.”

Emily Anderson, when asked about working with Davideo, said, “It was such a seamless process, we just vibed well with deciding which lyrics to tweak and cranking out the video. Work and play were pretty synonymous. I’m lucky to have been able to collab with him, I didn’t feel like I was featured in his song, it felt more like it was just OUR song we made together instead.”

The video for the single, directed by Play Dead Pictures with cinematography by Ben Jackson, was edited by Davideo himself, like all of the videos on his YouTube channel. During the shooting of the video in Dayton, Ohio, Davideo and Emily actually snuck through a back gate into a closed off pub patio to get the proper shot for Emily’s solo close-up. The video was filmed, edited, and released all in under 24 hours, and has so far received no negative reception.

The beat was produced by Grimelab, with cuts and re-engineering from Davideo.

Davideo’s sixth single and the most “mainstream” track off his first mixtape “DIFFERENT”

Using the “Reefer Party/Grove St. Party” beat, Davideo takes what at first seems to be only a generic smoking track flavored with some serious metaphor and symbolism, as is his calling card.

The beat was produced by Lex Luger, originally for Waka Flocka Flame’s track “Grove St. Party” which was then remixed by both Lil Wayne featuring Lil B, as well as Wiz Khalifa featuring Chevy Woods and Neako.

Davideo’s fifth single and the opening track of his first mixtape “DIFFERENT”.

In this song, Davideo uses the simple, elementary concept of reciting the alphabet and turns it into something much more thought provoking and symbolic, taking jabs both subliminally and openly at the current state of the music industry as well as the audience that they aim to please, challenging both to strive to be more intelligent.

The beat was produced entirely by Davideo himself.