- Because I'm not J. Cole
people think I didn't bar up in the song.
I really bared up in the song.
You gotta really,
let's really go through them.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm down.
That's what I'm here for.
Let's go through them.
♪ I like the tango twisting and tango. ♪
♪ Shout out to Jada. ♪
There's tons of bars in the song.
Break them down.
Okay. Take your time.
Don't let, them go over your head.
So me and Z's had this concept for London.
We love the song and we were so enthusiastic about it
that we were like, Cole
could we please play you the song before we go?
We really wanna play you the song.
Cause we pulled up on Cole
for a completely different session.
And he's like, yeah all right, go ahead play it.
Like I'm excited, let's hear it.
So we play it
and he loved the song just as much as we loved the song.
So we was all really excited.
A week later we sent him the song.
We talked about him getting on it and he did.
And that's how it came about
and it was just crazy.
Well, it's crazy because they don't shop at malls in London.
They shop at the shopping center
but like it doesn't...
♪ I'm in London. ♪
♪ I like to go and shop at the shopping center ♪
Doesn't sound as good as I'm in London.
I like to go shop at the mall.
Like when I'm in London
I like to go and shop at Bond Street.
I like the shopping centers, but we brought the mall
to London.
Shout out to the people that wear Crocs
and do it in a cool way.
But Crocs are just like a staple in themselves.
I just, I said that just to kind of like
it was kind of like
♪ Mans outside in Crocs and shambles. ♪
Because when you're wearing Crocs
you don't think it's like you putting your best on
but you can still put your best on with your Crocs.
Okay. No, my goals are really like world tour.
Be a worldly artist
and to like sell out and out do myself.
I haven't had a number one record.
I still want that.
I haven't had a number one album.
I want a world tour.
I wanna go on tour with my girl Rihanna or Nikki or Cole.
You know, some of my favorites and really like kill it.
You know.
You know that famous line it is like
back then they didn't want me
now I'm hot, they all on me.
That's what that line is.
And "innit" is just, you know
the best word to me because isn't it true?
Innit'
Shoreditch is a cool trendy
like place in London where like cool people go.
I've partied there before they got some bars there.
They do some shows and just different things.
So, you know, it's, a vibey little place.
Well usually when I record, when I go into the booth
I do a pass at the beginning.
That's kind of like my feeling take
and that take for me is like breathable.
I don't really have to stick to too much like bar structure.
And that's kind of like where I get my flow
from where I get my form.
And from there sometimes like my adlibs
I'll find some come
in the beginning and then I'll lay another ad lib track
at the end where it's like where the
♪ Rrahh ♪
and different things like that will come in.
And that was one of the ones that I felt like
is good to let adlibs breathe in the track.
Like the,
(breaths twice)
you could take a breath from rapping
and just give it a moment for like swag.
Designer, future, rrah
Like that was just perfect.
It's like I'm wearing designer, but I'm in the future.
It's a bar.
Do I need to even explain it?
If you don't know, then you're not.
You're not cultured.
I like material things, but I'm not
like a super materialistic person
before I have all those things.
I'm still very much the same.
So it's look at the Timex.
Well if you got a Timex,
look at your Timex
or whether you got an AP, look at your AP.
Just, you know, be that
like be that that's you, you got it on,
you wear that shit.
Kick game, kick game, kick game.
That's a sneaker store in London.
I love sneakers.
I'm a Jordan girl.
I love Jordans. I love Nikes.
My favorite Jordans actually
when I was growing up, I loved the sevens.
I loved the sixes.
I loved the thirteens.
I loved the, oh my gosh, the ones I had them all.
So that's why little Jordan referenced in there.
That's a Smiley ad lib
Can't even honor it
Is like a Toronto, like can't even honor it man.
Like that's we're not doing it.
Can't honor it.
It's not going down.
I'm not rap... I didn't think that I was gonna rap
with J. Cole on that song.
If otherwise I would've bared up a little bit.
I would've really bought that baseball bat
out and barred up on his ass.
For real.
I told him too, I actually told him, I said,
oh fuck man I gotta redo my verse.
He's like, no, no, no.
I like your verse. Leave it leave it leave it
I was like, mm, like...