People will try to wait until I'm gone to understand
what I represent in the game, you get what I'm saying?
Don't wait until I'm dead to make my album go diamond.
Don't wait 'til I'm dead to make me
sell 400,000 the first week,
'cause when I go, that's when everybody start to realize it.
Right now you just see it in their face,
it's hard to appreciate someone
'til it's gone, for some people.
People say my name for other stuff,
but then when a person gone, or they dead,
it's all this GOAT talk, and all this legend talk,
and all that, I don't...
I get inspiration from everywhere.
I get inspired off little shit, so...
It's hard to really put my finger on one thing,
but I was just in Cali with my engineer.
It was like an easy project,
like I was just rapping in the beginning.
When I hear the beat, it just triggered
them emotions and them thoughts.
The shit just come out, you feel me?
I wake up out of my sleep, and the first thing
I do is grab my phone,
because I'm so used to waking up to bad news,
waking up to all kind of stuff.
I be spooked when I got six, seven missed calls
when I wake up, 'cause it's like,
you never know what's on the other end.
I done woke up to saying that whoopty-whoop died,
and such and such tripping again.
Anything in this life, you never know what's next.
You don't know what's coming next.
I try my best to make my music around it,
so people can understand
like the details of the hard times.
But, when you go through certain stuff,
or when life take you down certain paths,
that kind of stuff kind of live with you forever.
I don't really even got no tattoos like that,
like I got three or four tattoos,
but I just remember when I went and got these,
like I didn't even feel it.
My mind was just in a whole 'nother place,
like my heart was so confused.
I was damn near numb a little bit,
so I couldn't even really feel it.
And I ain't talking like in a literal sense, just a mental.
I was raised around hustlers, bro.
I feel like, when the pandemic hit,
I kind of had to come back to reality
and say, "There's other stuff out there."
You gotta always be able to get up and make a way.
Even if, God forbid, they take the rap game from you,
I lived out my dream I did it, whoopty-whoop,
but it's still hundreds of millions of ways
out there to make money, make bread.
And feed the family, so.
And that always been with me, even before I became a rapper.
It's kind of hard to take advice
in the position that I'm in,
because not too many people been in my position,
but still, I try to stay sharp
and try to filter out the good with the bad,
whenever I need advice,
because it's so hard to see what's the next step.
You kind of gotta just go through it.
And a person like me, I'm scared to fail.
So I be like, what you think next, bruh?
What you think I should do?
So just talking to anybody older than me,
pops, aunts whatever, just keep me sharp.
I try to stay on my toes.
You never really know what life's got next.
That's just a heads-up for everybody
around me while we up, if it go down,
just keep it a hunnid, we can figure it out,
So that's just what it is,
no matter where life take us, let's stick together.
It is what it is, you know?
I don't want to get caught up in laying down.
I seen so many dudes,
have their dream's right in front of 'em and lay down.
I seen so many people miss out on they opportunity.
I probably will choose this over this,
because if I don't go get out here and chase my dream,
or chase this money, like we were talking about,
I wonder would you even?
And how am I gonna take care of us and you?
We got kids and shit now, so.
My life different now.
You got the rap game and then you got reality.
I feel like it shouldn't be like that.
Like, I live in reality.
I walk around all day, everyday like a normal dude.
And my music, everything is reality written.
Everything is based off real life.
When I'll finally be at peace,
it'll be somewhere by the water,
by the river or something.
I just see a big river that lead into this big ocean.
Just, be free.
In my mind, I can already see it when I make music.
The vibe of it, I see how it's gonna play out
before the song is done.
As I'm still creating it, that's where I get it from.
Now it's time for you to turn back
and see all the stuff that I was,
not really complaining about,
but just telling you what's on my brain:
I got my girl in my ear, I got pops
talking about the police and shit.
I gotta walk around with a gun every day.
I can barely get no sleep.
My phone rings, so now at the end,
I'm telling you when it's time for you to carry me,
finally I'll be resting in peace, finally.
I might take a little nap here and there,
but I don't really get no really peaceful sleep
because I have to wake up into this world,
where I'm this target damn near every day.
That's basically what I was saying at the end.
Finally, I'll get to rest, you get what I'm saying?
The right way.
But until then, I'ma just chase my dream,
and turn nothing into something.
Shout out my boy Travis, man,
for putting that record together,
working on making my vision come alive,
my engineer with the whole chorus,
and just the feeling, the vibe of the song, man.