10 Years ago, before Pugs toured the world a few times with his group The Electric, or started designing clothing for Iridium Clothing Co., he would meet an Engineer & Producer on the far westside of Chicago with the moniker Mulatto Patriot. Mulatto was working on a compilation album at the time and it featured people like Ras Kass, Casual, Eternia and many of the up and coming artist in Chicago at that time.

" I was shooting some music videos for him, and he recorded a few songs for me in exchange. The one thing I noticed, he was one of the most honest engineers I had ever worked with. He treated every session the same from mixtape records to albums, even the DJ Drops. MP would push the artist to give their best performance, as-well-as be the voice in the room to say that's the take or this isn't working." - Pugs Atomz

The two started to record for Pugs Atomz's "Roof Top" album and the songs that would later take Atomz to London with Dj Vadim & The Electric in 2009. At the time the loose collective of artist that came through Mulatto's studio were all starting to work together and developed "Feel Good" a very Chicago conversational style of rap with new live elements but backed by the Golden age ethos of slick bars as Mulatto flipped samples and live instruments. Artist like The Primeridian, Rashid Hadee, Neak, Psalm One, ADD 2, Probcause and even Chance The Rapper to name a few have recorded at his different home studio setups.

When Atomz moved back to Chicago from London a few years ago he got right back in the studio with the Patriot, but this time they agreed to work on a project with just his production. But what was really different about this and the other projects they had done before was there was no rush no urgency to be done just an urgency to make honest songs as they came, and to let the music evolve naturally. "We had a few listening sessions and exchanged a lot of ideas and random songs on the way to make this project. But the one thing I love about this suite of music is how much the songs grew over the 4 year period we worked on this " - Pugs Atomz