I get a high off of just freaking people out.
You have to figure out other ways to make strong art.
How do you create something that’s also new?
Ain’t nothing you’re gonna say to me that I ain’t already heard…
A lot of chaos…
a lot of bafoonery…
and a lot of f***ing yelling.
Got the system down packed.
You can go look in our refrigerator right now— ain’t shit in there.
But hell yeah, we’re still struggling, man.
Every day we’re struggling.
We worked so hard to get to this point.
People would look at us, and just wave us off and give us the cold shoulder.
Today, we see they’re looking at us like, “Oh man!
Yo, can we do something”?
And we’re like, “What?
Five years ago, you didn’t want to come to New Jersey and do the show with us!”
You know, it is what it is.
We were all young…
The first time I met you, you came to my job.
Yeah, I was working at the mall in Woolwich.
Yeah, I remember that.
[crowd banter]
This m**********’s like a maniac, you know?
I noticed.
I didn’t know the half.
Like, this n****’s really crazy.
Stage dive, front flips, f***ing cartwheels, kicking people in the head… s*** is fun.
Controlled chaos.
Yeah, this n****’s like a loose dog.
With that energy together I’m like, “Alright we’ve got to balance this,
you know what I mean?”
I can still be that laid-back dude or whatever, but we just had to find a way to really really
make it work.
We weren’t exposed to punk or rock or any type of alternative music, other than hip-hop
and rap.
That’s what we grew up around and what our parents were listening to.
My first cassette tape was Bone Thugs and Harmony…
... it’s stuck in my mind.
That shit would’ve f***ed me up, actually.
My parents hid that from me.
That just opened the doors up for Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliott, Andre 3000… this n**** was
wearing football pads with, like, f***ing fur pants with some f***ing stripper boots.
Wearing wigs and like all types of s***.
My minds always racing for s*** like that.
I get a high off of concepts and costumes and just freaking people out,
because I’m a freak.
I ain’t never been trick ‘r treating ever.
That might sound like some corny s***, but my mom was so religious.
But, as a kid, that’s the tightest s***— like, who doesn’t want to dress up?
It’s just those little freedoms that I didn’t have as a kid that I have now.
I can dress up now and throw candy at my fans.
That’s tight to me.
Ain’t nothing you’re going to say to me that I ain’t already heard, because we come
from the hood where m**********s don’t like n****s in skinny jeans, nail polish,
and hair like this.
You know what I saying?
They don’t like that s***.
You look at Marilyn Manson— this n**** was making hits, but he was still Marilyn Manson.
M*********s will say whatever they want to say about you, and you still keep you.
That s*** is beautiful to me.
We ain’t trying to be nobody’s role-models, though.
Nah…
I’m just trying to be me.
That’s it.
I’m not trying to be— I am.
That’s just what it is.
I’m just being me.
You’re forced to learn at school.
You’re forced to believe in whatever religion, or you’re forced to believe that this rapper
is God.
Whatever it is, don’t listen to none of that s***.
Just follow you.
Now, these are freaks that you’re watching here…
At the end of the day, we all believe in something.
We all believe in a creator, whether you believe in God or you don’t, but…
you are a human being.
You could let this wheel go right now— God ain’t going to grab the wheel and take us
back home.
We’re going to crash!
We’re not saying that we don’t believe in God.
We’re not saying that we believe in a darker blah blah blah…
We’re simply saying that you’re held accountable for your decisions.
God didn’t make you do that.
The devil didn’t make you do that.
You did that!
You want to do that.
You feel good doing that.
Do you focus on that, m********?
If you like my s***, that’s tight, too.
Sick— I’m glad we can relate on something.