You need boredom. A lot of it. Start by going on walks without music. No stimulation. No distractions of any kind. If you learn to sit with your own thoughts, for long enough, in time they will start serving you. You'll start having ideas once again. You'll start developing an extreme sense of clarity that will shift you into the next stage of your life. All by being bored, which is pretty insane.
I’ve been saying this!
Music isn’t a young man’s game — we just never had a generation of OGs in the mix because the genre and its pioneers were still young.
Now we’re seeing what happens when they age with the culture.