- Oh shit, my nose is itching.
My barber's meant to come to my house every Tuesday, yeah?
He never came yesterday.
Luckily I looked in the mirror
and I just, you can't see my mustache, can you?
It's fine, yeah.
What's good, GQ?
It's M Huncho and these are my ten essentials.
[upbeat electronic music]
Polaroid of my daughter.
My daughter has seen me with the mask and yep,
she does know who I am.
She'll just look at me and just laugh.
Makes me feel like a punk sometimes but.
On my last album called "Chasing Euphoria,"
the last song is called "Sincerely Dad."
I made that song way before I even knew she existed,
where I had named her in this song,
I'm just super vulnerable and just telling her
about things to do and things not to do
and things to be aware of.
Moments later, that's it,
I found out that I'm gonna have a daughter
and I manifested it, to be honest.
Yeah, I need to be careful
with what I manifest in the future.
The next item I would like to speak about,
this hard drive contains the second coming
to my classic UK mixtape called "Utopia."
This hard drive only has three copies in total.
One is here, one is with someone else,
and the other one is with another someone else.
When it gets connected to laptops,
the laptop has to be offline,
no wifi, no links are getting sent.
No one ain't getting nothing.
If you get the password wrong two times,
everything gets deleted.
If I get it wrong,
we're gonna have to skip the second "Utopia"
and go straight to "Utopia 3."
The next item I would like to talk about is my medicine bag.
It's got all my daily vitamins
and helps me with my creativity process.
Back in the day, coming up 48 hours and stuff,
I was kind of in a place
where I was constantly around weed.
Oh shit.
I was constantly around medicine.
I was involved in a lifestyle
where I was essentially a pharmacist
and I'm not encouraging anyone to do it, but I smoke gas.
I take my medicine and I'm in the zone.
I'm working for hours.
I'm going song after song after song.
I don't believe that you necessarily need
to depend on it to create anything,
because the same way I've created with medicine,
I've created without medicine
I've been taking medicine for so many years,
I'm a functioning addict.
My next essentials are my watches.
It's a mint face Rolex Datejust
and I just like the simplicity of it.
I don't think that a watch has to be expensive
for it to be beautiful.
This is so simple, but it's so nice.
This one here for retail was under 10K
but I don't remember how much I bought it for.
I know the watches that I buy
will always appreciate in value
because I have the right people around me
to give me the right advice.
Second one is the one I'm wearing.
Two-tone gold and stainless steel with a black face.
I've liked the Submariner.
I feel like it's a classic Rolex.
It's a watch I used to see a lot of people
that are in investment banking and finance,
this is their everyday watch.
Let's see what else we have.
We have the Yacht Master rhodium
and it's got a really beautiful dial.
I think it was about 10K.
The investment bankers in the hood,
they used to have these watches.
Next one, we'll go to the Cartier Skeleton rose gold,
all baguette diamonds.
I'm a walking chandelier when I wear this.
it's about building a collection.
This can't be part of my collection.
It's a custom, it doesn't hold its value.
If anything, it loses its values
so please don't ask me for prices.
Sometimes you have to pay an arm and a leg
and you're just gonna have to go for prosthetics.
The next watch in my collection was actually sold
to me by a lovely lady that I know over in AP
and she called me one day and she said,
"You do music.
I've got the AP music edition available
for you in titanium."
It's limited to 500 pieces.
Yeah, my managers don't like it, man.
They say, I spend too much money.
This AP, I bought for 24 grand retail.
I'm just scratching the surface
with my collection at the moment.
I'm still building.
Stay tuned.
Maybe the next time I do this, I'll come with 20.
The next thing I would like to go to is my notebook.
Sometimes I write down how I feel at the moment.
I don't feel appreciated enough,
but then again, neither does rain.
That's a good one.
You like that one, yeah?
Every day, I try to be a better version of myself.
It's a beautiful struggle.
I wrote down a few plans of mine,
things that I would like to achieve, criticisms of myself.
I got rid of anything digital, my notes being one of them
and I had over 2000 notes, songs that I've written already,
songs that I haven't performed.
It's part of the process.
I believe in myself.
I know what I bring to the table.
I know what I can do when I go into the studio
and I'm a creative, I don't see it as lost
because it's always gonna be somewhere in my subconscious.
The next item I'd like to introduce,
one of one pair signed by Virgil and Lucien Clark.
Lucien's a kind man.
He's one of the hardest workers I know.
Back in the day, we used to look up to gangsters.
Gangsters don't have to be your only inspiration.
You can get inspired by art.
You can get inspired by this.
He has his own shoe With Louis Vuitton
I invited him over to my house,
we were chopping it up
and at that time I was looking for someone to,
I had my gray mask and I was looking for someone
to enhance my mask and I told him my interests,
I told him what I liked.
I just let him get to know me on a personal level.
A lot of high luxury, even without admitting it,
they do bite the style of skaters.
Skaters are the original cool kids.
Even the OGs know that.
Next item, I'd like to go onto is prayer beads
and they were given to me by my dad.
Growing up, me and my dad
never had the greatest relationship.
Maybe because I was a delinquent.
When he gave me these, I've always kept these with me.
My parents are getting old and it's a great reminder
to look at this and always remember them.
I try my best to follow my religion.
I guess we're all sinners, we all sin.
There's been times where I'm not close to my creator
or close to my religion
because of maybe external factors,
and I feel like religion just keeps me grounded as well.
It keeps me on a level head.
The next item I'd like to talk about is my twin.
He's my friend, this guy here.
I'm not like Jim Carrey when I put on the mask,
it just turns me into someone completely different.
I firmly believe in being yourself at all times,
no matter the situation, no matter the environment,
you just have to be yourself.
The mask is actually a mold of my face.
You are looking at my face.
It just doesn't really have facial features.
It's been a big part of my career.
It's my brand.
Protecting my identity when it came to music
has always been the narrative that I wanted to push myself.
I started off wearing a balaclava.
It was really hot.
There was times where I'm on stage
and I'm thinking, "Yep, this is it.
I'm about to collapse."
The only way that I would ever evolve this mask
is if it was with a specific brand, maybe like a Montclair.
So I feel like a Chrome Hearts would be good
if they was to do something in Sterling Silver
"The Creative Act, A Way of Being," by Rick Rubin.
Thoughts and habits not conducive to the work,
believing you're not good enough,
feeling you don't have the energy it takes,
mistaking adopted rules for absolute truths,
not wanting to do the work.
Laziness, don't be lazy.
When there's someone so intriguing like Rick Rubin
and they release a book, you just get to know
what type of person he is and work ethic
and it's insightful to know how great minds think.
Everyone has good habits, everyone has bad habits.
Just try to build up good habits
when I'm in the studio, when I'm working.
Cactus Plant Flea Market and Nike, these are unreleased.
I went to LA recently and I didn't wanna buy any shoes.
I have over 200 pairs of shoes, so I told him,
"I'm not buying shoes
unless they're really shoes that I wanna buy."
The guy was like to me,
"Oh we've got these CPFM Nike shoes."
And I was like, "The ones that look like the Grinch?
Because I don't want those."
"No, we have the other ones too."
"What size do you have?"
"UK 10."
Guess who bought them?
Me.
The colors that are actually on this shoe
are my favorite colors.
I don't know if I am ever gonna wear them.
And my top three shoes out of the 200 pairs,
I'll put the Lucien Clarks in there.
Definitely top three.
The LV Nike Air Forces.
And number three I would go for is the Nike Stussy Air Zoom.
So that was my 10 essentials.
Hope you got to get to know me better
and it's been a pleasure.