I kinda, like, put different names out
on who should be on the song.
The biggest response was Polo.
And at this time, I'm just like, "Damn, bro."
This song already was not exactly in my lane.
And it kind of went viral to a point where I didn't
even all the way understand it.
So I was like "Nah, I need somebody that is going to fit
this pocket, and just take this lane with what they
already do, and it's just set."
When I go to the studio, I normally just look on YouTube
and I get the free beats, and that's how I normally
do my process up to now.
This was a session with my boy, and like I really told him
like, "Yo, let's pull up the stems," and I worked on it.
The sample, that wasn't in it initially.
I don't know who the fuck voice that is. I know that,
the, "Get you off my mind,"
kind of in the sample, it was like,
"Get you off my mind," and then it kinda kept on singing.
I'm the one who kinda was like "Yo, just leave the get
you off my mind, and just keep putting it."
Got the song from my homie Tim, my A&R Tim.
And vibed out to it,
finished my verse. I ain't listened to it for like two days,
came back to it with fresh ears.
I didn't know what I was going to say, but I knew whatever
I said it was gonna fit like right in that pocket.
It was already like presented the perfect way.
Hook was already ready, beat was already ready,
so I just filled in the blanks.
I really be having this problem.
Like people be calling me, texting me, annoying me.
Something positive will pop up in the media, and you'll
just notice like a wave of girls coming in your inbox,
and then it'll dry down a little bit, and come back.
And it's just like, you feel me,
I'm bossed up. Like leave me alone.
You're gon' know I'm here. You know what I'm saying?
It's basically like move how you want to move right now,
or play, or whatever the situation is right now,
and I got you later.
The last time I really done had a real emotional problem
was it was this girl that I used to, like, be like damn near
obsessed with in middle school.
And she was like my little girlfriend.
And we used to just like flirt and just like each other
a lot.
When I went to jail, I came home, she had herself a little
boyfriend. She used to mail me and shit and cap,
feel me?
And that was like the last time I really had some like
real feelings.
Sometimes I speak too fast, too.
And you know you got to just retract a little bit, like
hold on, that's not what's going on.
You know how like you'll just tell a girl like,
"Yo, just chill out," or whatever,
feel me?
Even like as far as much as you doing too much, or something
along those lines.
And it will be an excuse, an excuse, or this, or that,
or I got you, and then it'll be the same thing,
over and over again.
"You done put me through some things that done
changed my aura,"
it's just like a negative energy that you just don't want
there no more. You know what I'm saying?
And you know the 'Dora The Explorer' line meaning,
I'm out of here. I'm 'bout to go
see what's up next, like, word.
Let me tell you something.
For anybody that's just saying, "Oh, Tjay's getting soft
and he giving R&B."
One, I just say like I'm an artist.
You know what I'm saying?
So, I'm trying to put my range from "F.N"
to "Calling my phone."
That's how impactful my shit is.
It's like, "Earthquake, make something shake, my love,"
like I don't really like to play the game not being vocal
about what it is you want or don't want.
I had to learn that for myself, too.
I was just referencing the first part of the song,
something that TJay had already said.
I think a lot of my verse, too, is going back to his
verse. Pulling from his verse, bringing it to mine,
so it could just connect as one.
And I would just click back to his verse, listen to it
again, go back to my verse, punch in the next couple lines,
go back to his verse, listen to it again,
and then just bounce back and forth.
I mean I got the visual, 'ATL,' when T.I. had snatched
his chain back off of Nunu,
and he's just like, you know, "Can't wear my chain no more,"
so, same thing.
A lot of that was just playing with bars, and playing
with different things that I know would make people react
to what I'm saying.
That was like another little reference to his verse.
'Cause in his verse, he had a bar about, what was it?
'Dora the Explorer,' that's what it was.
"Funny how this shit just flip like a quarter,"
that's self-explanatory.
You know flip a quarter in the air, shit, you never
know what side you're going to get.
When shit going sour you know you gotta really exaggerate
how you feel.
So, "Get a mood swing, I'll be gone by tomorrow,"
whatever that moment is, I'll be like, "That's how I feel,
so I'ma just say it."
For fans that want this vibe from me,
let me tell you something.
I got some shit for y'all.
I got a couple more love songs in the tuck.