It was two moments that inspired this song.
One, when I was first heard obviously “1985,” and you know I was just thinking from the
young nigga's perspective.
Ironically like that same day my car got like a flat tire and shit that morning.
And an old head who like lived in the same apartment building as me, kind of helped.
As he was helping change my tire, we was just like talking and shit, like having a real
dope ass convo.
At the end I was like, damn this needs to happen more, because it's like a generational
gap
I ended up with this beat by literally typing in J. Cole 1985 instrumental.
YouTube, man.
The size of the pants.
Like old heads always wear baggy ass, fat ass jeans, and then we like our shit more
fitting, more drip, you know what I'm saying?
That's the main difference between the old heads and the youngins.
And I feel like everything just stems from that.
I remember like when Yachty first came out, like all the old heads was fucking slamming
this kid, you know what I'm saying?
Yachty's fucking hard.
I understand what the old heads are saying about a lot of the new rappers to a certain
extent, you know what I'm saying?
I get what my generation is saying about the old niggas.
I'm a student of the game, you know what I'm saying?
In order to be a great, you got to study the greats.
So I watched all the origination of hip-hop through documentaries, whatever, whatever.
All of them have the same common theme, when it first came out all the O.G.'s was like,
“Aw get that bullshit, boom bap, hippity hop shit up out of here.”
Then look what the fuck that shit turned into, that shit is ... rap is the new pop, it's
the number one genre out right now so...eat a dick old nigga.
In the words of Thugnificent.
All my uncles and shit, was like drug dealers, and like my cousins they're drug dealers.
You know what I'm saying?
Then my uncles they be like trying, going and talking shit about them.
“Man you ain't shit, you ain't done shit."
I'm like, "Motherfucker you was doing the same thing."
The nineties era and early 2000s was the era of talking about selling drugs, now we talking
about doing drugs.
Why the fuck you think we doing drugs?
Because y'all niggas was selling, talking about selling drugs.
When I see people I look up to failing me, that shit break my heart man.
I be like damn he was the one.
He was supposed to be the one, you know what I'm saying.
When you said that shit, I believed that shit.
Old heads just unreliable as fuck.
They always talk, like I said they always talking that shit, but they never do that
shit.
So I'm just like y'all niggas unreliable, like D. Rose knees and it's like the last
five years that nigga knees been motherfucking made out of plastic nigga.
Shout out D. Rose, I fuck with D. Rose, he my favorite player, but you know how you got
your brakes on 0 and 10?
And you got... them joints is on negative 3.
I don’t know.
It's always been like a trend throughout hip hop, those have always been the number one
fans like white kids.
And I fuck with white kids.
Fuck with my shit white kids, because y'all, I fuck with y'all.
A lot of people don't rap no more, because they like genuinely love to make music.
They rapping just to get rich, you know what I'm saying.
To the old heads that's complaining and shit, talking that shit...
Stop complaining without a plan of action.
Do some shit about it.
For majority, all my friends like, they dad wasn't around ... a lot of my friends they
dad in my neighborhood, they dad's wasn't around and shit.
So you think I'm about to listen to some random old head that's talking shit to me?
My dad wasn't here, y'all niggas aint shit, so I ain't about to listen to what the fuck
y'all about to say.
At the end of the day we staying out the streets, we not robbing, we not killing, we not scamming.
Yachty is rich as fuck.
How the fuck can you hate on a young, black man who is getting money 100% legally?
I'm going to be the first generation of my family that's like rich as fuck.
That's just going to set up shit for everybody else to get on this money train and get rich.
My parents ain't leaving me no house bro, I don't got no will, or no trust fund waiting
for me nigga.
It's like yeah you just hating on him bro.
Because at the end of the day, that little nigga seventeen.
That nigga seventeen and he's fucking rich as fuck.
You can't get mad at Lil Pump even if the music ain't your cup of tea.
I get it, he's saying some basic ass ignorant shit, but I like the basic ignorant shit sometimes.
That shit get to cranking.
I'm talking to like the figure heads of rap, like the top of the top, I'm like get ready
to pass that torch to me, because I'm trying to take that shit.
I'm coming for your heads.
That was a direct rebuttal to what J. Cole said.
He was like “In five years you gon’ be on Love & Hip Hop,” but like that's what
we all originally knew Cardi B from.
She’s fucking a superstar.
You know what I’m saying?
So I'm like she got rich from that Love & Hip Hop shit.
Ten, fifteen years from now I'm going to be the greatest to ever do this shit.