This song has been a long time coming, since work on it began around the beginning of 2008, or in December of 2007. It was originally listed on my SoundClick page for it as being on the second disc of my album "Blunt Juice", the title of which was thought of by my late friend Amber Scanlan. That album never fully materialized for a number of reasons, including the fact that on SoundClick there isn't really a way to group songs into albums. Now it has been properly included on this album "Up from the Vaults: a Retrospective”. It also didn't pan out because I was getting busier with school at Sturgis Charter Public School in Hyannis, MA, United States 🇺🇸 and its rigorous academics, and because my recording setup and methods and the web services available to artists at that time were too primitive for me to do more fully realized Hip-Hop/Rap tracks like I later did when I got an actual recording interface 3-4 years later and on my 2013 album Distillery. The title of this song, "Teething", was also thought of by Amber when I asked her what I should call it when I was in the early stages of making it, and her teeth were hurting at the time, so she said, "Teething", and so was born the song's title, which is never used in the lyrics. The beat is slightly rhythmically off because I think I hadn't yet learned that I could quantize the software instrument parts in GarageBand, so I just recorded it and looped it the best I knew how at that point. This rhythmic difference is especially apparent when the other drum loops are playing over it. Also in pitch-correcting the vocals, I hadn't yet learned that you can limit the pitch-correction to stay in one key and not be chromatic or 12-tone. Also, some of the doubles are not pitch-corrected, which is why there are different dissonant moments in the stacked duplicated vocal takes throughout the song. This song also took a long time to finish compared to the songs I had previously done because at the time I thought of it like I was perfecting the mixing in adjusting the volume automation of the audio tracks and doubling certain ones to make a chorus or make it louder. However, a lot the vocal doubles are not entirely in sync with each other. My beginning voiceover lyric "This is for promotional use only" was something I had heard on numerous Hip-Hop/Rap mixtapes that I thought sounded cool and kind of badass. The oscillating automatic filter effect that decreases in volume when the main beat comes in at the beginning is an effect I had heard in 110% Pure's production in Shawnna's song "Gettin' Some Head", its remix, and in Clinton Sparks' production on her 2006 mixtape Block Music: the Mixtape (Hosted by Clinton Sparks). The song is about how the late Eddie Lopes was moving back to Florida at the time this was recorded, among other things. In the beginning, Amber's lyrics allude to John Salman, a friend of her then-boyfriend/friend Gabriyal Kim-Independent Lorrigan. After the first chorus, there's a brief part where I'm trying to get Amber to vocally harmonize a perfect fourth with me but she won't cooperate. Part of Amber's vocals for this song were recorded during the same recording session as my song "Bless You (feat. Amber Scanlan)" in January of 2008 at her house at F-22 Chilmark Drive, East Falmouth, MA 02536. Her melody was loosely inspired by that of "The Twelve Days of Christmas", which is an English Christmas carol that enumerates in the manner of a cumulative song a series of increasingly grand gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas (the twelve days that make up the Christmas season, starting with Christmas Day). Incidentally, judging by how in my song "Bless You (feat. Amber Scanlan)", Amber says "On the fifth day of January", then those vocals for that part and part of her vocals in this song were recorded on Saturday 1/5/2008, and January 5th is the Twelfth Day of Christmas, or Epiphany Eve. Amber's line "Hurley the big bird snowman!" seems to be a loose combination of the rhythm of the words of the title and melody of the title of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", and the words of the title of "Frosty the Snowman". "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is a popular Christmas song that originally was a song by songwriter Johnny Marks based on the 1939 story Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer published by the Montgomery Ward Company. "Frosty the Snowman" is a popular Christmas song written by Walter "Jack" Rollins and Steve Nelson, and first recorded by Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys in 1950. Tiger was the name of one of Amber and her mom Eileen Anne Scanlan's two cats at the time, who ran away and/or was assumed to be killed by a coyote or some other animal. Amber's line "Tell me mo', tell me tell me mo'..." is a reference to Britney Spear's then-current 2007 comeback single "Gimme More" off of her 2007 fifth studio album Blackout, with Amber substituting "tell me" for "gimme" as a conversational musical joke that was relevant because Darren Paul Hicks was telling us about something that happened. Reeva was the nickname for Shareeva Corey, who was a friend of Me and Amber's for a brief period of time from sometime in 2008 until early 2009, and we had become acquainted with her through mutual friends. My lines "Seroo gavignon" and "Oh charpay Chardonnay, seroo gavignon" was Me trying to remember the red wine name "Cabernet Sauvignon", and instead saying various French-sounding nonsense words and real names, one of which, Chardonnay, is a real name of another kind of wine. I had heard about Cabernet Sauvignon from hearing Amber's late Nana, Laurette Kelliher Scanlan, order it at restaurants with us and Eileen. A $20 sack is a slang term for a $20.00 USD bag of cannabis, which we heard in the skit "The $20 Sack Pyramid (Skit)" off of Dr. Dre's classic 1992 album The Chronic. In regular practice, we usually just called them $20 bags. My line "Screw the Pats", is referring to the New England Patriots football team, and reflects my dislike of sports in general, except in certain circumstances like at a party where people are watching a game but also drinking and having conversation. Dylan Bozora was someone we hung out with I think one time in February 2008 in Bourne, MA/Buzzard's Bay, MA/Wareham, MA, all in the United States 🇺🇸. He was a friend of our friend Luke-Aaron Heart's. Darren was my boyfriend at that time, and is also a rapper, going by the artist name Dare. During the part where we're talking with him, my voice sounds extra nasal like I have a cold or my allergies are really acting up. Towards the end of the song, the listener can hear the looped and fading bell sound of Amber's car indicating that her driver's side door is open at the end of the song, along with her looped coughing. This song, "Teething (feat. Amber Scanlan, Darren Paul Hicks and Dylan Bozora)" was originally uploaded to my SoundClick music page at www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=541671&content=music on Monday 5/26/2008, simply called "Teething". The track artwork for this song is a blurry picture of Amber as she was smiling and turning her head to the right while sitting in the driver's seat of her car, illuminated by one of the car's interior lights. This picture was taken by Me with my Mom's old digital camera 📷. We thought it looked kind of cool. That camera had this thing where sometimes if it wasn't using the flash, it tended to take very blurry photos, and the settings on it were kind of confusing.