My main focus for this song was to show
a glow up within three minutes.
To show people like, "You know what?
I started right here and my car broke down.
I couldn't help my mama with the rent.
Now, my racks too big. I can't even fold it.
I don't need help from nobody.
Honestly, I went to the studio
and I was just chillin'. I was freestyling or whatever.
'Cause that's how I come up with my melodies
and how I come up with my hooks and all that.
I just freestyle and I'll fill in or whatever.
Calabasas just came in my head.
I was... I said moonwalking
and I didn't know what city I wanted to say,
and I said, "Calabasas."
Blueface hit me up,
and he was like, "Let me hop on the remix."
So I was like, "Bet. You know, what I'm gonna say, no?"
Sent it to him, pulled up to the studio,
and he did it right then and there.
This was when I first figured out about YouTube,
you know what I mean?
I didn't know nothing about the platform, or nothing.
And then I went on there and I was just making little skits,
'cause I wanted to act. You know acting
was like my first real like dream job or whatever.
So I go in there and I make little skits for my homies
and then my friends be like,
"Oh, that's dope, woo-woo-woo, make another one,"
and I'd just keep making them and stuff like that.
But then I found out you can make money on it,
and then that's when I became this little internet monster.
Before all of that,
I wanted to be a professional gamer
or I always... I made music before that,
you know what I mean?
So it's like, my dad was an engineer back at home.
So it was just like a bunch of different
hometown, childhood things that made me want to be rich.
And growing up in poverty and being in the hood
and all that, I always had aspirations
to live better than that.
As a kid, we don't realize what our parents go through.
We just, we just there. We just dumbfounded.
We don't know if our moms or dads struggling with bills.
We don't know nothing about bills, you know?
And as you get older, you start thinking back like "Damn,"
'cause I mean, I used to be struggling
to the point where like,
my mom probably wouldn't want me to tell nobody this,
but we used to have to like boil water,
so we can take like a hot bath.
You know what I mean?
It used to be really bad back in the day.
So... but as a kid, I'm like "Oh, this is normal."
You know what I mean?
"I'ma just grab this big ass thing of water,
and I'm gon' put it on the stove,
and then I'ma heat it up, take a bath.
This is regular." But growing up
I'm like, "That is not, you know, that is not life."
You know what I mean?
And it was like, at the time I'm just a kid.
I couldn't help my mom.
It's just certain stuff that
happens in my life that I had to highlight in this song.
I don't know what it's like
to be friends with somebody
that just took off into the universe.
Not to sound cocky or nothing,
but I don't know how it feels.
But I do notice that a lot of people
is more intimidated by me.
Like I'm not the same person.
Like a lot of old friends don't speak to me the same.
A lot of people want to see you win
but they don't want you to do better than them.
My mama's very, very proud of me.
I don't think that she thought it would be this big
of a song that she'd hear it on the radio.
And she'd call me and she told me she's crying
'cause she heard it on the radio and all that, so...
That's a little cap because I just got
a Lamborghini on my birthday.
I drove Lamborghinis before
and I don't like how low they sit.
For like Lamborghinis are very, very uncomfortable.
And I feel like it's strictly just to flex.
You know what I mean?
So when I said that, I kind of don't like Lamborghinis
but I do like Lamborghini trucks.
I like how Lamborghinis look,
but I prefer to drive a Wraith.
If I had one wish, I would wish to be happy
24-7. No sadness.
When you get to this point where I could circulate money
24-7. I can make money in my sleep.
Money does not make me happy, so it's like,
if I can... If it was a wish,
if it was a genie that can make me happy
24-7. Never down,
I would love it. Not give a fuck.
I hate giving a fuck.
I wish I didn't give a fuck anymore.
When I think Michael Jackson, I just think
I thought moonwalk. I thought smooth.
And I feel like I'm a smooth dude.
I'm living a very, very luxurious life right now
at such a young age, and I like to kind of remind myself
and just let myself just soak in my blessings.
So, I was just feeling myself.
The greatest thing that I spent money on
that brought me satisfaction, I'll say my house.
My house is absolutely incredible.
When I wake up every morning,
I walk around my big ass five-bedroom house
and it's just my little ass in there,
and I say, "You know what?
This is cool.
You know what I mean? This is dope."
I don't never feel no type of way
if somebody don't post my shit.
It was just me saying like, "Eventually you gon' need me,"
you know what I mean? So I'm gonna just remember that.
I just remember how people treat me when I'm not
as lit as I'm finna be.
And then when I get there, I remember that.
Sometimes I let things, or situations or people,
whether it's like fans or people in my actual life,
make me feel like I'm not as lit sometimes.
You know what I mean?
But then I gotta snap out of it and I say,
"Wait a second, I just hopped out this mansion
and hopped in a Rolls Royce, you know what I mean?
And then I hopped out the gate
and I went and did this and that.
And I'm only 23.
And I moved my mama out of the hood
and I bought her a Benz and blah, blah, blah, blah.
Just got off a jam, woo woo.
I'm doing a lot of lit shit.
You know what I mean?
Like I can't let nobody tell me I'm not lit, what the hell?"
So I just be reminding myself, you know?
'Cause it's not a lot of people
can tell me shit but me.
So I got to tell myself and give myself that pep talk.
Internet beefing is really irrelevant.
I feel like, beefing is irrelevant in general honestly.
I just don't really see the point in it anymore,
especially over the internet.
None of it has ever transferred to real life.
If I beef somebody on the internet, I note it.
You know what I mean?
I put it in my head and then I do something petty in return.
That's just how I am.
People that beef on the internet
they know what they're doing
and they doing it to make money.
So I'ma collect money off you,
and I'ma hurt your pride and your dignity.
I win every single beef online.
I don't know why people keep trying me online.
It's just like, my fan base is crazy.
DDG Squad, if you listen to this,
you know, you lit.
You know what I mean?
Like they can't mess with us.