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We right here, Lollapalooza, 2018
Yeah man
You just got off the stage.
What was your set like?
How did that feel?
That shit was crazy man, listen rock star shit,
turnin' the fuck up man.
I know there's a lot of people out there, what was
that vibe like, what did they give you?
Man, I fuck with Chicago man.
The vibe out here was crazy, I ain't gonna lie.
I got on stage and before I got the chance to even
see the crowd, I hear nothin' but screaming.
By the time I hit the fuckin' stage they was wylin.
You're from Highbridge
Hell yeah
I'm from the Heights
Hell yeah
Two dudes from uptown in Chicago at Lollapalooza
can we just say real quick that we made it bruh?
We fuckin' made it man,
Yo we out here bro, we made it.
I was just in the heights too.
Seein' you come up and knowin' how much you rep
where you're from, it's important to me and I feel
like people in our communities, that they see that.
What's like a word of wisdom that you can give
to people that are still in the trenches.
Man, it ain't never too late.
Don't ever feel like it's too late and don't ever
feel like you failed.
Like when you fail, you're supposed to like that.
That shit feels good, cause it like motivates
the fuck outta me to do this shit even better next time.
Yeah
Word.
Like it started like, even for my performances, like
my stage presence in the beginning when I started
performing, it was dry.
I used to have no type of stage presence.
But now it's got better and better and better
every fuckin' performance.
Turn up on stage now.
Yeah and that's just a part of the craft like,
whatever craft you got, it's all about practice
and practice makes perfect.
You started rappin' right, in high school, right?
Or after high school?
Started rapping yeah, in the beginning of high
school like 13 years old I was rapping.
What was the hustle like that got you here?
When I was 18, I was in Florida when I graduated.
I was on this house arrest shit in Florida.
I wrote a letter to the judge asking if I could
transfer to New York.
I told the judge I'm tryin' to get a job.
I told him my brother worked at this place and...
You gotta finesse
Yeah yeah fenagle the judge
Instead of house arrest it was probation now.
I'm in New York on probation, I start seein'
all my old friends and shit.
At first I lost focus a little bit, I ain't even gonna lie.
But then I tried to get a fuckin' job, I quit my
first job, quit my second job.
It ain't even like I quit, I just stopped going.
And all this time you're rapping?
Nah nah I was makin' music and shit but I wasn't
really takin' it that serious as I should.
Then like so much shit was goin on that I was like
"I gotta get us up outta here" You feel me?
Yeah
I had to like zone out.
I had to move out, like not move out the hood but
like just separate myself yeah.
I'm at a moment like that right now too for like...
I still be in my hood sometimes and around the
same people that I grew up with in the same hood and
it's all about distance at the end of the day cause
for me, like if I don't make it, nobody makes it.
Exactly.
Like sometimes when you're around people that's not
doin the right thing, I easily fall into the
rhythm with them cause those are my homies
Yeah
So I know that keepin that distance is important.
How do you balance your friends, like that
personal life and then like the celebrity star
like professional life.
I used to like being in the studio alone at first right?
And then I started being in the studio with my
friends and I noticed like a big difference.
I used to work way more slow and joke around a lot
and then when I go in the studio again by myself now
a days it's like I'm cookin' up ten songs in a day.
Nice
And I can't do that with everybody around, it's
like I gotta focus.
But the way you could balance it is like
talking, like communication.
Communication is the key.
You gotta make everybody understand is the ones who
understand is the one's that's really there for you too.
I always say that my true friends is the ones that I
call after I make something big and let me
know that I'm still Lee from the block.
Yeah exactly
You still you, don't worry about it.
Yeah I saw the video, I listened to the music but
it doesn't matter, when you comin' through?
Let's play some Madden or somethin' you know what
I'm sayin?
That's how I know that they're my real friends.
Yeah exactly
So you and Tory Lanez just put out "Best Friends"
Yeah
Ya'll goin off on that
We goin crazy
So right now it seems like you're exploring more
sounds in general.
Like you're kinda steppin' out of that comfort zone.
Have you clicked with any sounds that you didn't
think you would like?
Like "Oh I kinda mess with this genre now, I kinda
explore this sound now"
Yeah.
One style that I did like love is the acoustic sound.
I love how I sound on guitars.
So one thing you will hear me on is like a lot of guitars.
It started off with piano, I came out artist nothin
on piano beats.
This album I'm about to drop right now?
I feel like it's a update on that.
You got the piano, you got the fuckin' guitars goin crazy.
Got the guitars going smooth and soft with um.
You got the heartbreak shit over there, the turn
up shit over here.
It's like a good balance and I feel like it's good
enough for me to even name it
Like you already tested the waters, you see what
the temperature is like, now you're swimmin' out there.
Yeah now...it aint even like I'm seein' what's out there.
I know what's out there.
Now I'm just takin' it.
That's what's up.
This is me now, this album right here, this is me.
I'm not tryin' to experiment.
I'm going crazy.
I'm talkin' bout what I wanna talk about.
I know myself.
I know it's alright.
I know it's fire for me.
Like for example, Imma keep it one hundred when I
dropped
That was alright.
Yeah
Cause I was tryin' to gain fans.
It's not for my fans, I was tryin' to gain fans
so I expected everything, I predicted everything and I
knew everything that was gonna happen and it really
did happen.
So you put out a new batch of work and you're almost
usin' it as like bait.
Boogie....
You already my nigga
Thank you for that.
No thank you
Be easy bro.
Alright you too man.
Get back to work, I know you got a lot of shit to do.
Facts
Run wild bruh.