Usually we'll listen to a track. It just depends. Sometimes they have a funny premise or a certain vibe and we'll make something oriented towards that premise or vibe. If it passes the vibe check, we kick things off.

The candidate won by a landslide.

Came there a certaine Lord, neat and trimly drest; Fresh as a Bride-groome, and his Chin new reapt,

Edgar: Ch'ill pick your teeth, zir: come; no matter vor your foins.