Me, my wife, Juicy J and his wife were at dinner and he’s a vegetarian but I was fucking
some steak up.
So I was like man, as an OG, it would be really dope if you can help me rap from the perspective
of a person who’s fronting cause once again, that’s all these different lives that this
person has lived.
So here’s another one.
So I was like, “Are you comfortable with that?”
Because in raps it’s all about writing your own shit.
He doesn’t even write...he’s like Jay Z.
He’ll go in the booth and just write, write but I was like, “This is already written.
I want you to help.
I want to utilize your voice to help me paint this picture.”
And we were talking about people that flex on the Gram and all this other shit and we
weren’t clowning, we were like isn’t that kind of crazy that somebody just feel the
need to really go out of their way to act a certain way.
Or “I’m going to shoot you or flaunt guns or ice or this or that.”
And he’s somebody that was about that shit.
He was really running around with guns and doing that shit, especially back in the days
with 36 Mafia, which I’m a die hard fan of.
That's insane.
That’s why I’m so glad that’s my homie.
We playing Shoots and Ladders and shit.
It’s so funny.
He’s a very nice guy.
Basically the first half is me rapping from the perspective of a rapper who feels like
he’s doing the right things but he’s seeing all these other people who like glorify all
the bullshit and don’t actually take the time to care and learn about their predecessors
and just young dudes and that’s fine.
But this guy cares and he’s like, “Can somebody show me the light?
Can somebody show me how to do this right?
‘Cause obviously it ain’t working.
Like I just went in the booth and sang that.
I didn’t go, “Alright, I’m a guy who doesn’t know what’s going on.”
I just went in there and let it flow.
You hear me then rapping from the perspective of this rapper who’s bullshitting.
They’re not really trapping.
They’re not really all of the things they say they are doing because if they were doing
all those things, they would not be rapping.
It’s just is what it is.
You’re not going to be rapping and selling coke.
You know how stupid that fucking is?
You can go make 50 grand in a show or 100 or all these fake numbers, fraudulent numbers
that you're saying but you’re also selling coke?
Did you take it on the plane?
I’m just being real.
And that’s not anybody specific, it’s the person who knows they’re fraudulent.
The person who knows it’s all bullshit and they’re using their image and being taken
credibility and just getting money.
It’s all for monetary gain.
It’s almost the opposite effect of this, where it’s like, I look white and I say
real shit but people don’t give a fuck.
Some people, cause they can be like, “You’re white.
Fuck you.”
It’s the same way as, “He looks good.
He looks dope.
Yeah, I fuck with that.
I fuck with that image.”
Even though it’s not necessarily real.
This is something that this person would never actually say.
So it’s almost more like he’s saying to himself or his homies or just in his mind
so it’s really funny you weren’t being real but at the same time, you’re being
real because you’re saying, “I’ma be real I’m the man/I’ma be real I’m the
rapper/I’ma be real I’m that mothafucka makin millions now I ain’t no trapper,”
but I’m faking like I am so it is a bit of back and forth.
Like who’s to say that auto-tune or mumble rap or this or that is like wack or not?
I mean there really is a time and place, bro.
If you’re at the club or chilling with your homies, you want to listen to some fun turnup
shit.
“Ima get it/I'mma love it/Ima…” like that shit is tight as fuck.
It’s fun.
But that shit don’t make you think.
And that’s not a slight.
That’s not a diss.
It’s the fucking truth.
I don’t have to think about that shit, I enjoy it.
And that’s why there is the space for hat and a place for that because it’s music
that makes you just feel something.
It’s energy.
That shit is fucking fun.
It really is fun.
And it’s fun when it comes from a credible person who like knows what they’re doing
and they’re like, “I’m not here talking about selling crack.
I’m talking about bitches and being at the club and like having some bands.”
That’s a real person right there.
That’s a real person that’s making trap music or doing the auto-tune and utilizing
these things, that’s really amazing.
That’s awesome.
And then you have artists that are actually saying something.
It’s just fucking true.
There is no slight.
You have that and then you have Nas and Big Daddy Kane and Mos Def and Logic and Kendrick
and Cole.
And you have those artists who dedicated their fucking entire life to words not melodies.