Jessie Reyez: The two times in my life that I think I’ve been in legitimate love, I’ve
always been the type to ride or die so when it’s in the pits of hell, and any logical,
sane person would be like, “Oh this is time."
"This is over.”
I’d be like, “We can still do it!”
Jessie Reyez: I was going through it.
I was going through it with my ex.
I tried to just lay it out, like okay, what are my options?
In Spanish, there’s this saying that says, if you’re trying to get over someone…
Un clavo saca otro clavo.
It’s translated a little crude but it means, “One screw takes out another screw.”
So maybe somebody else can help you get over someone else.
6LACK: The song was already an amazing song.
And then I get wind that I am the person that wants to be guested on it.
I’m being allowed to grace it so I actually got the song when I was here in New york.
I don’t really record in New York that much but I did my verse here.
I was in the middle of tour.
My voice was a little messed up.
Jessie Reyez: He thugged it out.
6LACK: Yeah love the song.
Love the tempo.
Love the beat.
Love the lyrics.
And I got to step into a different space and just play a role for a second.
6LACK: The thing is I don’t care.
Doesn’t matter.
Checks cash the same.
Pronounce it right.
Pronounce it wrong.
My name is still my name.
It’s been my name since like middle school.
The more people talk about it, the more merch I’m just going to sell.
I’m doing pretty good.
6LACK: We can do the romance stuff but we know where the romance stuff leads, so let’s
just… do that.
Get it over with.
6LACK: During stages of my career, I’ve gotten in spaces where creatively, I’ve
zoned in and honed in like what I want to do and everything else has just been like
an orbit around me.
So it’s like not really paying attention to relationships or being in and out of them.
I don’t like telling people my business anyway so if you do know my business, that’s
a big step.
Biggest secret is almost like a natural thing to me cause I’m just super controlling over
what I want people to know especially like, doing music, being out in the public.
They already know my birth date, where I’m from, my family…
They follow my mom on instagram.
Let me limit what I can.
6LACK: Dry humor baby.
I got morals on Sundays.
Sometimes on Wednesdays.
Really it depends what time of the week it is, what I’m feeling like that week, what
I ate…
Case by case.
Jessie Reyez: That part of the song, I feel like, it’s just saying a proposal.
Yo man, I’m struggling.
You’re struggling.
Scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours?
Funny thing about my back is it’s on my dick!
Jessie Reyez: My name is not important cause I feel like I’m talking for a lot of people.
I feel like a lot of people have been through this.
It’s not something new.
It’s just funny cause love is such an old thing in human history, you’d think we’d
have it figured out by now.
You’d think we’d have a sufficient remedy but we don’t.
The sad side of love happens to everybody.
Jessie Reyez: What “I’m not from here, I’m imported” means to the overall narrative
of the song is basically, I’m imported into someone else’s life.
You’re imported into my life.
When something doesn’t blossom as a fairy tale and you spend weeks together and all
that stuff, it happens quicker.
I feel like it’s more apparent that someone’s been placed into that spot.
You know?
Like a sub.
Jessie Reyez: Honestly, I’ve been trying to be healthier this year.
These last couple months.
So I’ve been cutting down.
But yes, I used to drink a lot.
I’m trying to drink water like it’s water now.
I’m trying to kill off the demons that need the liquor so much.
I feel like I’ve been in darker places.
I’ve just been working… working on self betterment.
But if you drink, I don’t judge you.
Sometimes you need water.
Sometimes you need liquor man.
It’s all good.
Jessie Reyez: It’s a triple entendre.
So the first one is I’ve been lying cause the first section of that song is me talking
about myself in armour.
Myself in a stronger sense.
Myself and like I relate to everyone and this is all normal and I can drink and I’m lit
and I’m fine.
And then that section in that song is kind of like, you go to the bathroom at the party
and you’re drunk and you catch yourself in the mirror.
I’m sure a lot of people…
When you have that moment by yourself cause you’ve been mixed up in all those energies,
and then you have that moment, and you’re like…
Fuck.
If you just spent the night with somebody, and you’re lying there too, and you’re
like I’m lying here.
And then the last one is those two worlds put together.
I’ve been lying to myself while I’m lying here next to someone.
Jessie Reyez: Me personally, I feel like it’s something so intimate when you do decide that
you want to make love to somebody.
In those situations, in those scenarios when you feel like you’ve subbed somebody into
your life to help you get over someone else, it almost devalues the act.
It becomes something physical as opposed to something that’s supposed to be intertwined.
It’s physical and spiritual.
I feel like it should be something sacred.
It’s you.
It’s the most vulnerable thing you can do.
Jessie Reyez: Pretend like you’re moving on.
Hopefully one day, reality will catch up.
It’s outcoming cause your thoughts are just projecting out and then you control your reality.
Then you can fake it until you make it because you’re making yourself feel good and you’re
just gonna control it and it’s gonna be great.
But then the other side of that is that delusional world where your subconscious is just not
ready and it’ll come out in different moments in your day where it’s just this wave of
sadness.
6LACK: People would like to see this on camera so let’s just set it up.
We can keep it between us.
If you ever wanna post it…
We not posting shit.
6LACK: I didn’t get my first car, I didn’t pay for my first car until I got my first
check so that was 2016 when I got signed.
I was always just hopping around in other peoples’ cars.
Buddha.
He had a Honda two door and it would be about at the very least, 7 of us squeezing into
a two door Honda Civic to get to shows, to get to places.
Came a very long way from that.
Got it out the mud.
Shout out to Roddy Rich.
“Trying to fuck you in some Porsches” is just a testament to where I am now.
You have to improvise with car sex so get the job done still.
Recline the seat a little bit.
6LACK: Sometimes it’s a toxic thing.
Sometimes it’s really a...
Let me help you out type of situation.
So he brought you down.
It’s a relationship that you’re…
It’s not good for you.
You’re not supposed to be in it.
So just swing this way.
We can figure something out.
And you’ll feel better.
Jessie Reyez: Swing this way.
Jessie Reyez: Festival season.
We just crossed paths all the time.
6LACK: I was sick that time.
She gave me like bananas and vitamins and a whole bunch of other stuff.
It was in my backpack.
My 50 pound backpack.