My titles, when I name things...
The music is the music.
Nigga, I make the music.
That's what I do, this is my focus.
So, the title can be what the fuck ever.
The title is for stupid niggas to get mad at.
If a nigga sees a title and is just like,
I'm not listening to that, that's crazy,
that's literally what it was supposed to do,
'cos I don't even want you around me, type shit.
I produced, wrote, mixed and mastered this song
and most of the other songs in the same place,
and that's in my home studio.
Most people, when they see credits on my songs,
they think it's out of ego,
but it is completely out of necessity.
When I was making beats back in the day
and I gave the beats to other people,
they would either turn it down,
do weird shit to it I didn't want,
so I started just keeping that shit to myself.
I would ask for beats from other people
and they would take forever, niggas don't have stems.
Niggas are just not organized,
so I had to take that into my own hand.
I started rapping because niggas didn't like my beats,
so I started rapping out of that, because of that,
and I started mixing and mastering because
I could not afford mixing and mastering.
I'm not paying someone $2000 a song
to make my shit sound like ass.
I'll make it sound like ass myself, for free.
So, now that I do it, and I've been doing it for years,
I know what I'm doing with it,
and I love to do it, so, like, yeah.
I'll never stop, ever.
Praying is supposed to be something that you find solace in.
I guess that's the intention of prayer.
But the way it was presented to me
was like, do it or else.
It's like a command rather than
something you find any joy in.
I know I'm threatening to a lot of niggas,
'cos I do a lot of shit on my own
that I'm not supposed to be doing.
I'm not supposed to be mixing my records.
I'm not supposed to be, like...
They tell you that, like, "Don't.
"You give your shit to somebody else with different ears."
Blah blah blah.
I'm not supposed to be doing any of the shit I'm doing.
So, me?
I'm a huge threat to a lot of niggas.
You're gonna see a lot of niggas very upset at me
and yet can't explain why.
They're just like, "I don't know."
They're like, "The lyrics are, they're blah blah blah."
But it's like, it's me, nigga.
Not only are you scared of me, but I'm verified.
I'm bigger now than ever.
I have, like...
Come get me!
So, that line, um... (laughing)
Is a mistake, actually.
That line comes in around with the
beyond the pine, as I say it,
and when I was writing it, I think I just was like,
thinking she was in the movie for some reason.
But it was obviously someone else.
I get my white actors very confused all the time.
I don't know who anybody is.
I just feel like we should all, as black people,
we should all accept ourselves for who we are.
I remember back in the day,
it wasn't cool for niggas in the hood
to play video games and shit like that.
Now niggas be on Fortnite sending death threats.
Dressed in your grandmama hand-me-downs,
just being like, you know what I mean.
Kinda like a, don't judge a book by its cover.
I'm extremely non-discriminatory
when it comes to two things, music and clothes.
So, I don't care.
I wear it from anybody.
See, I have worn some of my grandmother's clothes before.
I'm putting my all into it because it matters to me,
and I actually care about it.
And I know a lot of niggas don't care about rap,
and they in it for the money, blah blah blah, blah.
But I'm not one of them niggas, so.
I put my soul into everything,
and I don't care if niggas think it's corny or whatever.
It's not corny to me to be a hard worker.
I can't feel my face means, like,
my throat hurts from tour.
Shaking my head, I'm just whispering all the time,
'cos I can't speak.
Imagine having to be silent, in your whole life,
except when you just in front of a bunch of niggas.
Show me where the money goes.
Also, show me where, like, people...
Where the prophets go.
Like, where people who are 'prophets' supposed to go.
It can be used either way.
It's just supposed to have a double meaning.
Honestly, that's the beauty of rap in general.
Other genres do that,
but rap hones in on it so specifically.
That's why I think rappers are the best writers,
bar none.
The way we use metaphors,
and the way we double entendres,
different meanings, and when we bend verbiage,
there's no genre that does this.
Like, not even in the same tax bracket.
It's beautiful.
I love it, man, it makes me horny.
I love it.
The entire tone of the song is like,
being commanding, you know what I mean?
So, I'm singing, it's almost like
a dark irony I'm singing it from.
Because I'm singing it joyful,
but it's not coming from a joyful place.
It's just kind of like a fake joy.
Count your blessings, be appreciative,
and just move on, amen.
It's like a prayer.
It really is, it really is a prayer.
It's a cynical-ass prayer, very cynical prayer.
Any regular-looking white man is, like,
the prototype for these type of people.
So, like, yeah.
When you see one of these motherfuckers,
you have to maybe be on guard,
depending on what they doing,
and depending on what the environment and situation is.
I'm presenting it in a jokey way,
but the sentiment is real.
Like, I really pray that they don't.
It's something black people have to think about,
so I'm putting it out there because it's a real thing.
I should pray for a better line,
but I don't want make all my peers resign.
It's like, ooh, if I had a fire hairline,
y'all niggas would be done.
But it would be no difference.
I'd be the same person.
No-one wold care.
I'm a nigga, so I mispronounced his name.
I'm not 100% sure how to pronounce it correctly,
but he's the lead singer of this group
called The Talking Heads, which I'm a big fan of.
Talking Heads had the album called Speaking in Tongues
that I really enjoy,
so I was giving him a shout-out
because I enjoy his music.
I mispronounced his name.
A) on purpose to make it fit,
and B) because I don't actually know
how to pronounce it in real life.
He sends me emails.
I'm on some email list for him.
I could email like, I'm on tour, like, it's good.
It's good, David Byrne.
You know how cars need gas?
I think the music industry needs fake shit to fuel it.
Like, if the music industry was real,
it would collapse.
Because all the money would go to the musicians.
All the people in power who have no talent
would have to find some other shit to do.
I try to approach masculine ideas
from a feminine perspective,
or approach dominant ideas from a submissive perspective.
We need to strip these stereotypes
and stop assuming people are like...
Because they look a certain way,
that you can just try them.
You can, go ahead.
But it's just like, it's not gonna work out for you.
You know what that means?
And you know who actually said it way better?
Jay Z.
"The rest of y'all only get half a bar.
"Fuck y'all niggas!"
It's just like, I'll put your soul into the laziest...
Like, I won't even give you no effort.
When you beef with a nigga and you're like,
you coming at him,
it's like you respect him enough to respect his pen.
I fear nothing from you, creatively.
So I don't even care.
So, I've always wanted to have a song
where I say praise the motherfuckin' Lord.
I don't know why.
I just find that phrase to be funny,
because it shouldn't exist.
Like, if you show that sentence
to a certain sect of people,
they'd be like, "Get that out of my face,
"It's offensive."
So, I think me, growing up religious,
and growing up, going to church,
I had to do it, so...
Bucket list shit.