I was really sick and while I was going through it I was sitting on the stretcher and I could
only really think about that song.
It's my favorite Chance song I've ever heard.
It was originally supposed to be on 'Acid Rap' and then, I believe, Mike Will Made-It's
project and I had heard in the background and when I got sick.
All I could think about and remember was Chance has this one part where he says "Eyes glazed
as a donut" and I was just like, “Man I need this song.”
So, I called Chance and originally, I called him to just ask him to send it to me so I
can hear it and he was like, "Yeah.
Yeah, you can have the song."
And I was like, “I can have that shit?”
And I wasn't going to go back to him and say anything else because it's my favorite Chance
song.
My grandma came into Chicago to visit my mom and while she was there she ended up getting
sick and she never really repaired and she passed away.
But, I spent time with my granddad.
I went to the hospital with him.
I saw him going through all the stuff, but I realized it was the first time I've seen
a man who loves his wife so much and it hurt him so much.
That's what the verse is really reflecting.
So, I wrote his perspective of my grandma passing away.
When you get sick and you've taken all of these pills and all this medication, when
you get older and you just keep taking them until your doctors tell you "Yo, you good!
You're doing better!"
And they're really persuading you that you're becoming a stronger person.
The person that you love, you want to be able to help them out as much as you can and I
think that when you get to that point, like I saw my granddad, there was really nothing
that he could do.
You know what I'm saying?
But I could tell it was to the point that he definitely wishes that he could've gone
to med school.
Now I’m talking about God.
So, Picasso obviously, you know the famous artist.
God is the best with no work but he still, ‘architects narcissist stretcher.'
You also know what a narcissist is.
But it was a similar story to Adonis, which is some one that was just very overly blinded
by their perception, but just the idea that perfect with no practice and it doesn't matter.
God still designs no matter who dies.
You know, I talk to my brother a lot about wearing jewelry.
I wear a little bit of jewelry and shit.
But you know, there's a lot of people that wear jewelry and I believe they wear jewelry
because they think that it gives them a sense of more strength.
I think especially just being black and being from a neighborhood that I'm from.
This is actually my grandma's bracelet she gave me.
I always wear it.
That’s my grandad watching my grandmother on her deathbed and seeing her teary eyes
and realizing that she's rethinking about all of life right now because in a couple
of minutes, it's going to be gone.
And that whole ending, those whole ending lines are all him wishing that he was dragging
on because he wants time to keep going.
And that's why he says the stanzas are so long that he could stand in the moment.
I’ve had friends that pass away and you know time by time I'll call their voicemails
just to hear their voice.
I’m sure he heard it, I don’t think he knows it’s about him.
My mom does.
He knows now, right?
My mom loves this verse though.