Ay yo this the kid Powers Pleasant. Zombie Juice. Joey Badass. Nick Caution aka Jessie
Cordasco. AK the Illest. DJ Fly the Rudeboy. Fly! Erick the Architech, aka Skinny Ramen,
aka Skinny Light. Kirk Neezy on the beat. Meechie Darko the dark one. Issa Gold, we
here. Beast Coast. I ain’t never ever heard of no Skinny Ramen before.
Beast Coast is a brotherhood. Family. To me Beast Coast is La Familia. It’s like a brotherhood.
Friends, brotherhood, the best guys, the best homies out of Brooklyn. Beast Coast means
we’re from the east but we the beasts. It’s a collective of Underachievers, Pro-Era, and
Flatbush Zomies. Three big groups. It started as a East Coast resurgence back in 2011. From
the same neighborhood which is kind of rare and cool. We went on our first tour together.
We’re like the avengers of rap. And making beautiful music.
Everyone’s saying I’m a deadman. I don’t. I’m fine. I feel great. I feel alive. I
was not on acid when I made this song. Actually, I don’t remember if I was on acid when I
made this song or whatever. It’s been a very interesting time period of making music.
A lot’s going on right now guys. Maybe I’m on acid now. I don’t know. Zoom into my
eye, pupil see if they’re dilated.
The beat kind of struck me as like a evil, or just like a dark tone, so the words kind
of wrote themself. Everybody saying that I'm reckless, at the shows I'm going crazy. I'm
in the crowd jumping on people, through people, over people. I'm not a evil guy, I'm a nice
guy, I'm a good guy. But I got some bad intentions sometimes, you know?
Dead pan is like a form of comedy where you just, you dead face. Like, you'll say something,
and there's no expression. For my brothers, I'll do whatever, and no expression. It's
just a given at that point.
If you have a drink in your right hand, and you're like, oh, oh, my bad, and you dap someone
with your left hand, it's not like the most disrespectful thing ever, but if you're meeting
someone that you don't know that well, and you give them your left hand as like a gesture,
and your right hand is free, that's pretty fucked up. That's not cool.
You know I was like it's gonna be a bunch of us on this song, so I gotta make sure motherfuckers
know it's me first off. Say some slick shit with that like, okay, I'm fly, but what does
that mean? And I put a double in there, like, tech, a tech could be a weapon, or like actual
Android tech device whatever, but yeah. Some bars.
I'm Jamaican, and somebody dab you with they left hand, my dad would call it a ginger hail,
you know what I mean? Somebody's trying to diss you. We don't rock with that on the left
hand dab, you gotta give me a straight right hand dab, or something's funny.
You know, I been in the game for a couple years, and seeing a lot of fake shit, seeing
a lot of real. So I know how to decipher the real from fake. I'm a big people person, so,
got a radar for that fake shit. Yeah, when somebody's acting funny, I just take notes
of it, and definitely move accordingly after that. I don't cut anybody off. You might have
to keep your enemies close.
I just think that I'm really sensitive to reading people's emotions. A lot of people,
when they meet me, they're like "Oh, you're an empathetic person," or "You're an empath."
You step into a room and you feel something that, it's not right. And I think that that's
intuition telling you, you need to be aware of that. No matter where you are, you got
to be able to read the shit around you.
A lot of times, people are scared to be honest when people climb the ladder of success, because
they're scared that their friendship might be on the line if you keep it too real, so
they be like "Yeah! Shit is fire, shit is fire! Shit is fire!" Is it really fire, or
are you just telling me it's fire because you scared that you might text me one time
and it's a green instead of a blue. I think to hold back is actually doing a disservice,
by not telling people what's on your mind.
It's not a particular person I was thinking about, I think that goes for anybody who thinks
that their work ethic is bigger than mine, or. You know, it's not arrogant. It's more
like to claim my position and the power that I have to project at it, let people know that
I'm a confident person. I believe in us, I believe in myself.
My poodle was at home, chilling. Yeah, so that's why I had to throw him in there. Dogs
are so special, they know what you're thinking. And if you're sad or you just need someone
to cuddle with, they just come right up on you.
A lot of wrestling influence from my whole career from the start, so I just wanted to
give a little shout out to Kevin Owens, the wrestler. So it was Jesse running the track
getting those gold medals. Owens on the mat, because we be killing this shit and we going,
take, knock down the build and all that soon, you heard?
So I wanted to find something clever to end the song, I took it back to the Vacation in
Hell, our track called "Facts." My writing style, my whole thing, is all based off emotions,
and stories from the past, or stories up to the week. It's hard for me to write things
that didn't happen, or emotional attachment, so, all I know is facts, facts, and more facts.
Literally.
I've seen my lyric for that wrong so many times. It would say like my thirst. I was
like, "Does that really make sense, though?" Third is something that people are... it's
a slang from the block where people weren't really accustomed to, so thirds is just like
Crip niggas, A train niggas.
It was a track that you had to showcase your bars in. I felt like I had to just show niggas
that I'm nice.
It's true. I'm not a person that sit there and publicize all my fits and all that, but
man I am fly as shit. Can I just explain what I have on right now? These is Chrome Hearts
right here. I got the Cactus on Cactus Plant Flea Market. I got the Capital Vest on, off
rip. I got some, one of one Vlone A.P.C. collab. You can kind of guess how much I'm wearing
right now. If you know, you be like, "Damn.”
Anime was a big part of my childhood. Like Trigun, Evangelion, Bleach, Yu Yu Hakusho.
But Rurouni Kenshin, that was just a big part of my life, just in the fact that he was a
loner. He just always represented, to me, a person from struggle but never complained
about it.
Coasts is ocean, and we're big like one, and we wavy like one. You get what I'm saying?
You can get lost in the music, I meant, and then you can get lost like in terms of like
we know ourselves so much you could get lost.
If you've ever been arrested by NYPD. They tend to not give a fuck whenever you talk
back to them, they say you don't give a fuck. So you usually end up in jail. The OG's tend
to tell the young boys when they're wiling, you don't give a fuck man, you need to learn.
And that's real shit. I would do a whole song, if I could, about everyone. The president,
the government, the ants, the roaches, the rats. But I couldn't fit all that in the song,
so I just kept it to those.
So like I'm a whiskey drinker so, bourbon, the Bulleit, that's like my favorite whiskey.
Taking shots of the bullet got me dead bent. I was most likely sipping some Bulleit during
the making of that song.
Every aspect of the word. Every meaning that it got you know so it's just me saying that
yeah I don't gotta tell these niggas I'm a legend. They know that.
If you got something in your right hand, and you say pardon the left, yeah it's love. But
we don't just blatantly dab with the left, we don't do that. You know that's where I'm
from like disrespect. You might as well not dap me, my nigga.
I've been obsessed with James Bond for a while. Some people think they're tacky, but he's
like one of the dopest guys, I know that sounds fucking weird. He's always fitted like a mother
fucker when he's like fighting crime and shit. Whatever the fuck he be doing.
I had no clue what cream corn was, just some rap shit. I just was like "hmm cream corn is
something I've heard that exists that I'm guessing it's not hard" so I threw it in there
and then like when we were in Denver doing Red Rocks they had cream corn on the fucking
menu. And yeah, everybody was like yo that's cream corn. And I was like oh shit, all right,
yeah, cream corn. I was right then, it's good.
My favorite movie from Faizon love is probably Friday where he plays Big Worm in it. I feel
like Faizon Love is the biggest hater every interview I see him in he's, I love him, I
love the stuff he does, but he's always hating. So it's kind of ironic, but his last name
is Love so, it was like perfect way to use love and a guy slammed together. I think it
made a good closing line.