- How are you doing?
- I'm doing good, how are you doing?
Just relaxing, ya know.
- I'm doing well, man.
So I know you're putting your finishing touches
on your album, Human Nature.
Can you tell us what's going on with it, the status?
- It's gonna be huge.
I'm breaking all the rules,
I'm breaking all the boundaries.
I'm just like making my own song formats and everything,
doing some production on there and everything.
Got crazy features,
some of my favorite artists are on there.
- How would you say you're most breaking boundaries?
- You know, people just like, you gotta have a bridge,
you gotta have this, you gotta have this.
- You're like?
- I'm just doing what sounds good.
What sounds good to the ear.
- How do you feel this album's most evolved
you as a musician?
- When I had less songs out,
people just know me for a certain style
so I'm just giving them every style
and styles they ain't even know I could do,
just like reality check.
A lot of people didn't even know
I could make that type of music.
- So good, TikTok loved it.
- Oh yeah, TikTok eating that up, for real.
But it's just like, it's a different style of music.
It's just like sonically, it's scientific with it.
It's like everything critique, you know what I'm saying?
All the gaps, fill, ad-libs, harmonies, all the melodies.
It's just so many different elements on one song.
You know what I'm saying?
It's just, that's like what I'm on.
I'm gonna create moods for my next album.
Each song is like a whole mood.
I wanna play one.
- Please do!
So Sweet did play me his unreleased track.
And as you can see, I love it, maybe a little too much,
but we can't play it for you yet.
I'm so sorry, but stay tuned.
When is this song coming out?
- I'm probably gonna put out one more single
and then I'm gonna put this one out
and then I'm gonna drop the album on it.
- I'm holding out for that album when it's coming out.
We want that release date soon.
- Less than two months on the album,
the album, less than two months.
It's time, it's time for that.
The fans ready, they on my head.
I got to get it out there.
- I also want to talk to you about
your Pop Smoke posthumous album on Creature.
The albums climbing the charts.
I just want to know how that collaboration came about.
- Yeah, that agenda's a bang and shout out Creatures,
RIP Pop Smoke, world peace.
That track came like,
I was just, me and Pop, we spoke a couple of times.
We spoke a few times just like showing love
and congratulate each other from a distance
Then we ended up meeting at the
Travis Scott and Astro World.
You know what I'm saying, we just show love,
it was mad love, like the vibes, they were there.
You know what I'm saying, we clicked.
So, you know, a lot of people don't know I can rap.
They just think I do singing stuff now
'cause a lot of my biggest songs are singing songs,
so they forgot about the rapping Swae Lee.
So I did that on another beat,
I did that song on another beat
and then Pop Smoke's people had reached out
and they were just like, man,
we want to get y'all to work on a record together.
So I sent that song and I was like,
this is probably a good fit for us.
And then boom, they just piece it together.
And it was just, it was a smash.
- I saw your protesting in Miami.
I just want to know what your experience was doing that
and kind of, what did you gain from the experience.
- I was hearing about it in the city,
I was like the message that they're trying to like protest,
like just being right and treating people fairly,
just equality.
So I was just like, man, I always been for that message,
'cause I never care about a person's skin color.
I don't care if you're white, black, Mexican, Asian,
whatever you are, I judge people off their character.
So it was like,
I wanted to just preach that message with them.
I just agree with the message.
So I popped out, I don't care the danger, just popped out.
We're going to get this message heard so it was just dope.
It was a good feeling in the air too,
the people, we were all in good spirits.
Even though I got my mask on, people still recognize me.
So they like Swae Lee, Swae Lee, yo Swae Lee!
So they started standing with me, trying to protect me.
She like stay with Swae, stay with Swae, stay with Swae.
I was like, yo, that's love, I'm with y'all.
- So tell me about your partnership with BoohooMAN
- BoohooMAN, I'm wearing it right now, matter of fact.
It's crazy.
- It looks sick.
So it's like a matching, like a track suit,
matching bottom, top.
- Oh, it's like a whole bunch of different stuff.
One of them has a lightening bolt going across
and it matches with the shorts.
So it's so crazy and different colors.
Then some of it's this soft material, like towel material.
So it feels really soft.
- It's just like the perfect stuff to wear in quarantine,
just lounging around, but it's like so stylish too.
- Yeah, you can still pop out in it if you want it to.
Shout out to my fans.
Y'all should go get these track suits
'cause they're gonna look so good on you.
I can't wait to see 'em.
We got some for everybody.
- Definitely, well, thank you so much.
Have a good rest of your day and we'll talk to you soon.
- All right, Chelsea.