- Regardless, with the pressure on, I'm still pressured.
Cut it all some more like that wasn't enough.
And then she's like,
"What? Oh, you thought I was finna fumble?"
Nah, Nah.
Touchdown.
I feel like I'm doing what I'm supposed to.
I feel like whoever doing
what they're supposed to, you're pressured.
Whatever I do now is just extra.
I did what I was supposed to.
I don't write at all.
I freestyle everything.
Writing I feel like it's,
"All right I wrote it and that's what I gotta say."
Freestyling is I could say this,
I could say there's no rules to this.
So I really like the freestyling catch up vibe.
I'm like that in the studio.
Like what's going on.
I feel like the music just easier to make like that.
I heard that beat like two days before.
I was like, "Goddamn, this beat hard,"
but certain beats be so hard.
I'm scared to jump on it and play on it.
It's like, "Nah, I gotta wait,"
I gotta wait until I'm ready for this beat.
And then I need to talk about something on this beat
so it's like it was just the right time.
And I be like, "Oh yeah, play that beat."
And then, lemme show this beat what's up.
I'm gonna show this beat I'm pressing.
One of the persons that said it was Kodak
like through a jail call,
telling me like--
'Cause you know I'm signed to him,
so he's like "I'm real proud of you.
What you got going on, how you done elevated
what you doing out here, everything."
Then it was some of my home boys in different situations
like just telling me,
"Man, don't give that girl no attention.
Bruh, you pressure.
You can't even like her picture for real for real."
I ain't gone lie.
I can't even speak on it cause Detective Miller
is still trying to arrest us.
He's a little sneaky, I know sir.
I ain't got no metal, Detective Miller.
Stop following me man.
He gone love that.
Shout out, shout out Miller.
A lot of people that do music,
the ones that's in the streets, it's only a handful.
But for them it's like at any moment for little stuff,
like little petty stuff,
they willing to just throw away this whole rap career.
It might be somebody say, "Your mom ugly."
Where I'm from, people ain't going for that.
They tryna shoot at you, all type of wild stuff.
And then some might be like,
"Yo, we got a little problem with them."
But then they're like,
"Forget that and let's pull up to these venues."
And now we just made 30, 40 for a show
and now they lookin'--
they real sad now.
They even sadder than they would've been getting shot.
School ain't gonna teach you to really
be on your craft like that.
You gotta have it on you.
The streets, regardless, is hustling.
Regardless it's selling $5 bags of weed.
They teachin' you how to be in your bag.
None of them like, "You on it, you on it."
So like even with the music,
it's like this just the same way,
same energy was giving the streets
as far as robbing, selling drugs, whatever.
You put in the music,
now you gone end up looking like this quickly.
And then, 'cause the work ethic.
I was from Haiti, I was born in Haiti,
but I raise down in south Florida.
Certain stuff people had going on
like food stamps, all that.
Little stuff.
Even the broke people.
People be like "I got food stamps, I'm broke."
No the "F" you're not.
'Cause my mom a Haitian immigrant,
if she go apply for food stamps right now,
we getting our ass deported back to Haiti.
So it was like, it was kinda a little harder.
But it was like I still always had the hustle then.
That's why I was always a badass little kid,
but people thought it was like,
"Damn, he a badass little kid."
But it was like, "Nah, I'm just not gonna struggle.
I'm gone go get it,"
and sometimes jail came with it,
but I was willing to accept it, like, all right.
But it was always in my mind,
I just felt like, "Man, this is not it."
A swoop: that's like a Florida word
for a thot or a hoe.
'Cause we don't really say thot down here.
People be like,
"Man, she a gnat, she a swoop, or she bodied."
And then or she a eater.
They the reason you here.
Now they the reason you be rocking them designer drip.
They the reason you getting head
from all them Instagram models.
That's just something you just gotta do.
I always felt like I gotta do like,
"Damn, if I have money.
I could never just have my mom living here.
She gotta be gated community."
Shout out to my PO, but I listen to my PO one thing.
You know I listen to you.
Don't even do that.
You know I be listenin' to you.
But certain people,
they shouldn't cause I feel like a lot of people get like.
That's what the POs don't understand.
This man, before he went to jail,
he still had problems.
And these people he had problems with still have guns.
Just because I'm the rapper Jack Boy right now
and I wanna change my life,
don't mean you tryna change your life
when I robbed you four years ago when I was broke.
Even in jail, I never asked the police what time it is
'cause like I'm 22.
I've been locked up 8 years of my life already.
I went to prison two times, not counting jail.
I hate how people go to county and be like,
"Oh, I went to prison."
No, that's not prison.
I went to the prison, Department of Corrections, two times.
Once at 17, again at 19,
so it was like I don't even look at the time on this.
It's just on my wrist for real, for real.
I don't use it for nothing, it's just there.
It was like, "Hold on man, I'm pressured."
Just like this videos says,
stop playin' with me like I can't do it.
I'm pressured.
And then, it's nothing.
I don't even need it, but it's nothing,
I'm pressured.
Yeah, yeah all of that.
Now I like it.
Now I want another one.
And then now I wanna protect.
Now you done started something.
So, in my hood, it's like,
"Oh, he might be the neighborhood hero," or him or whoever.
Whoever has G.
Them boys the neighborhood hero.
But them boys still got guns and stuff though.
So to somebody else, they're like,
"Hold on, they're villains man.
They got guns."
But it's like,
"Hold on, we just tryna protect everybody out here."
All the ones that's with me for real, for real,
it's a lot.
They know who they is.
You know what I'm saying?
'Cause at the end of the day,
I don't even know who it is.
I know what you give me.
I feel like, "Alright, these the ones
with me like for real, for real, for real, for real."
But at the end of the day,
you know who you is deep down.
So, shout yourself out.
You know deep down like, "Bitch, this my shout out.
This my moment right now."
So enjoy your moment.
It's too much people to shout out.
A lot of people, I might distance myself from them.
Before social distancing was a law or whatever,
I was social distancing.
People feel like you finna leave them behind,
but it's like, "Nah, I'm getting my mind right.
I'm working on the next album.
I gotta fall back and think of some shit."
I can't get all the same thing
or y'all ain't even gonna wanna be my friends no more.
If it flop, who gonna chill with me then
when this music flop?
So it's like "Nah, you gotta leave me.
Let me think.
Let me get rolling.
Let me do my work."
At first, when I first started rapping,
I felt like I had one flow with it,
like, just real deal, hardcore.
I'ma get some street shit and that was it.
But now it's like I'm more versatile with it,
opening up more.
It's like, "I don't need you to sing on my hook."
I'm gonna sing on my own hook.
I'm gonna use my voice.
I can sing a little bit too.
You can't sing for real, for real,
just how I can't sing for real, for real,
so we both finna--
I'm not afraid of pressure.
It's like, "All right, it's cut on."
All right, I'm in a messed up situation now.
I'm not finna just think, "Oh my god, oh my god."
No, I'm finna--
How do I get out of this?
And how do I look the rawest way out of this,
not just get out of it.
I'm talking get out of it looking good.