When I was younger, it was mad New York niggas flooding the game.
To see this shit now, it’s beautiful.
The mentality used to be "New York, nigga," you know what I'm saying, like you know so
and so from Atlanta but it ain't like, "Atlanta, A-T-L shawty," like nigga, everybody representin'
where they from but it's more so everything is directed about craft.
It don’t matter like it used to.
All you need is a couple face tattoos, man.
And a weird ass name and you might be alright.
“A$AP Forever” is like the forthcoming of just something else that was just long
awaited.
When I heard it, I thought about victory.
I thought about glory or empire, something like that.
I think me, just thinking to put the Moby track on it and feature Moby on it.
Shouts out to Moby, man.
He resung it and everything and came in the video and gave us more sounds for it.
Shout outs to Moby.
Right in the hook at the end, having my little sis Khloe Anna on it, shout outs to
her, sing on that part.
I ain't know that that was called producing.
I thought I was just a composer on some Quincy Jones shit.
They sayin' I only want to do fashion.
They sayin' I only want to fuck bitches.
They sayin' I only want to be pretty and jiggy, man.
That's true.
I only kind of want to do that but I do a lot of things that are in addition to that.
I’m a musical artist first.
I think it's time, man.
It's time to give em what they need, man.
Fuck what they want.
Sometimes we catch niggas just throwing up A$AP so you'll be like, "I ain't even meet
this nigga before man," but that kind of shit is inevitable.
Not just with A$AP, I'm quite sure Migos got motherfuckers that claiming that they down
with this and they down with that.
I'm quite sure it's people false claiming in every group.
I saw Dave Chappelle when I was younger.
"Yo, Dave Chappelle.
Yo, you a funny ass nigga, bro."
"All right, B." He was way across the street.
I mean that might've been a lot, but at the same time, come clean is better than being
like, "Yo, you know what I'm saying, can I get a picture," or stopping somebody what
they're doing, "Oh my God, my nephew la la la," all that kind of shit like y'all don't
understand like, not being rude, like sometimes niggas just be human, so I always
felt a need to justify that or have an excuse like, "Damn yo, I'm a celebrity so I gotta
duh duh duh."
Fuck that shit, nigga.
If I don't feel like taking no pictures and it ain't coz I'm on my high horse nigga, I'm
tired and I'm high.
Usually when I get the mood right, one of the albums I might put on is Frank Ocean.
I just be trying to convince my chicks to do fly shit like so 9 times out of 10
at the time it's just like, yo rock this.
Cut your shit.
Rock it blonde.
Rock a wig the next day.
Rock a weave.
I don't give a fuck. It's just lit.
Yams gave us, gave me the name like, Margiela Mad Man.
In the words of A$AP Yams, “I smack the shit out of niggas in these skinny pants.
Word to ah ah, I'm the Balmain badass” that's just was like the mentality when you
don't know no better and you ain't got shit to lose and shit.
When you start getting into fights and shit like that early on and shit and then you realize
that, "Damn, these cases do take seven years to weigh out and shit like that," and you've
got other bigger shit going on.
You've moved on in life, you're not even doing the same kind of shit.
I will tell y'all young niggas and y'all young artists and entrepreneurs and y'all niggas
with a little bit of chicken, that's how they ... protect your heart, bro.
That's how they get you.
You're gonna have hood niggas acting like they wanna smoke with you.
As soon as you snuff em, lawsuit.
Don't take my word for it.
Find out on your own.
Come on, Flackito!
That’s my name.
So I had to hold it down for my oye’s one time.
You feel me?
Ferg told y'all like six, seven years ago, "All my Dominican niggas, got me speaking Spanglish."
That's uptown.
That's New York.
I love my Spanish food.
I love my bacalao.
I love my motherfuckin' tostones, platanos.
You don't call it the Spanish community.
It's the brothers, nigga.
Everybody know I'm VLONE thuggin' til the casket drop, but I'm talking about the mentality
die VLONE, die alone.
I could be talking about business, I could be talking about a fashion brand or I could
be talking about emotions.
I just lost my sister last year from overdosing in September right before 'The Cozy Tapes.'
I lost Yams from overdosing from my last album before that.
I really do pray to God I don't overdose.
Me and my niggas, we livin' that lifestyle.
That's why I don't judge little niggas, they doin' their little beans and Xans and leans
and you know, it's like to each his own.
When we came in, bro, I'm keeping it a hunnid with you, it wasn't like it was no A Boogie
Young M.A, fucking Bobby Shmurda and Rowdy Rebel.
Niggas wasn't fucking with New York.
When we came out, you remember, voice of Harlem, you remember.
Yeah nigga, it was like some other shit.
Niggas didn't know where we was from because we look like we got gold teeth, we got braids
we got hats, we on that.
Now, it's standard, bro.
You can wear braids and be from New York.
You can wear braids and be from Cali.
It don't matter no more.
Dipset, G-Unit, A$AP, Wu-Tang fucking put New York on the fucking map, you heard.
Straight up and down and shout outs to everybody carrying on that legacy today.
Fire!
Bars.