When you think about holidays, what is it?
It's always a celebration.
Everybody's here.
Everybody's lit. Everybody's happy, pretty much.
And I feel like I didn't get to do that a lot.
When everything was happening,
I didn't get to celebrate my own successes.
I was just, you know, be quietly in the room, like, "Yay,
I did this thing," you know?
So it's like, nah, it's a holiday.
I invited my bro, Skaiwater,
he's an upcoming artist from the UK,
and it was me, Daytrip and Tay Keith.
And we all had a session together.
David from Daytrip started off, like on the keys,
he was like,
I was like, "Yo, oh, that's hard."
And then, you know, I started mumbling
and I was like, "Ayy, it's a holiday, something, something."
And then Skaiwater, who's also, he's credited on the song,
he was like, "I got hoes on hoes and,"
you know, I was like "That hits."
And then I came back around to the song in the summer.
And then I started turning
into this like kind of braggadocious-ass,
comeback kinda song.
Creating "Holiday," I thought about
how I would feel,
or what I would want to hear
if I'm like in the club, just like turnt.
So it's like, yo, it's like,
"It's holiday, I got hoes around me,
left and right, you know?
Ayy, this another one."
Also like, this another one is like,
"Oh, this is another one."
And everybody think I'm saying this another way
but I'm saying it in a way where it can rhyme
with holiday pretty much.
You know, I ain't never like being like super
rah rah, but you know, I have,
I have people in my family
that would go crazy for me, you know.
A surprise is those things that just come hit you
out of nowhere, which happens in life to me
like all the time.
I have to stay on my toes, 24/7, pretty much.
That's what that line means.
I'm always working.
I can't stay away.
I can't stop what I'm doing.
I have to make sure they know the name.
A bottom, and in top,
it's like, this is like the gay relationship.
It's like the boom, boom, boom.
Damn, I never thought I would have to explain this.
'Cause I haven't never directly made a reference
to anything like gay in my music career.
So I was like, "Ah, it's the perfect way to do this."
And I was almost like, even the studio, like,
"Damn should I say this in front of them?"
And it's also, top shit
is like kind of a double entendre
because it's like I top shit figuratively
and literally, you know
in life and yeah, in a room, you know?
With '7,' I wanted to break away
from any assumption that I was gonna
make a million "Old Town Roads,"
or that I'm gonna be like
a regular trap artist, you know.
Which, it's nothing wrong with either one of those,
but I don't wanna be boxed in pretty much.
Before that song popped off
none of my songs got anywhere near close to the charts,
but I was always like,
"I want to be at the very top," you know,
and I kept that in mind and it happened.
With fashion, I believe I've already
entered that lane where people are talking
about what I wear, which is super dope.
And my stylist, Hodo,
she really keeps me fitted,
or in something crazy,
just interesting looks all the time.
So I definitely wanna go further in that within my career.
Like, you know, Rihannas
and the Gagas and stuff like that, like insane.
With movies, I don't wanna get into that right now,
but I definitely wanna get into it in the future.
Maybe like 10 years down the road
or like in between these,
'cause my focus right now is 100% music
and being at the top of that
and being on my shit.
Michael Jackson's kinda defined what it means to be
like a real pop star.
Like the pop star with his moves, his crazy songs,
every moment he's had,
the music videos, everything, performances.
And when I look at him
or people like him,
like Beyoncé and stuff,
I'm like, "I can do that."
When I dropped "Old Town Road,"
I was like, "Okay, I'm gonna use this,
and I'm gonna use it to accelerate."
I didn't know, I would accelerate that much at all.
But it was this, gimmicky thing that
became an international success
and it's yeah, I did it,
because a lot of people always try to tell me like,
"Hey, you pull, that's all, you did all that for this,
you did all that."
It's like, yeah, I will do anything for my career, you know?
And I don't have any bad feelings about that.
That's what I love doing.
Resilience, that had to be my strongest factor.
Before I started making music.
If something wasn't working out,
I was immediately done with it,
but I felt something special with music
that I was like, "No, this is gonna work.
I don't know why I know that,
but I know this is gonna work.
And I want to make it happen."
And I had to always keep that in my mind,
no matter what life threw my way.
'Cause I probably went through
the hardest moments of my life,
like to the point where I'm like, "Okay, I'm scared,
I'm gonna die soon, but I got this,
and as long as I got this,
everything's gonna be fine."
Well, you know, I learned like that phrase, "Tease,"
like from stan Twitter and stuff like how
if was somebody who was
like doing a killer performance or something like,
"Oh, they giving Beyoncé tease,"
or somebody's like dressing crazy
it's just like Gaga tease or whatever.
So, you know, "No flex, my checks, givin' vet tease,"
is kind of like,
I'm getting money as a vet would, you know, like already.
And it's like, I'm not, not even, I'm not even
trying to flex, but you know, this is the case.
Other people would try to like make Nas,
the legendary Queens rapper, go against me.
And I got him on "Rodeo," the remix,
it was nothing nobody else could say to me.
There was one time where I was with Jay-Z
at him and Beyoncé's Halloween party.
And you know, he was like, "Congrats."
And like, you know, told me great stuff in general.
And you know, I even got a picture.
I was like, that was like, you know
these are high points in life.