I just did that first verse and it was just gas, you know?
It gave me a Wu Tang energy, you know?
And it was really a moment for me to get my bars off.
I had been trying for a long time to write a second verse.
Really, I had sat down so many damn times and just motherfucking turned the music up
and been like, “I’m gonna do a second verse.”
But it wasn’t really until I got Pusha’s verse that it really pushed me – no pun
intended – to write another verse.
I was a skateboarder as a kid.
Before I was even ever into hip hop.
Pharrell really opened up the doors for me to feel like that was cool, because on the
Southside of Chicago there’s not a lot of skateboarders.
Before people saw Pharrell skating and people saw Lupe skating, you didn’t have hip hop,
black examples of skateboarders.
You know, fast forward however many years – and now I’m jumping out of the Bentley with the
dirty Vans.
I could spend hours in the morning just watching racists get beat up on YouTube.
Like, “Klu Klux Klan gets beat up."
- when you search that.
I could do that for hours, yo.
I talked to Coach K and he kind of put a bug
in my ear that was like, we have so many people trying to hold us back as a people, that don’t
want us in the building at all.
To where it’s counterproductive for us as young black men to be pulling each other back.
Who do I really not fuck with?
Bill O’Reilly.
Fox News and racists – I got real ill will towards.
So, I thought maybe I should refocus my vitral towards the real enemy.
Well, you know the whole beat kind of feels like some Western - where he just walked in the saloon
and just slapped this nigga, man.
Just carried him out by his ear.
So, I was just on some Desperado shit with the whole beat.
You know, Frida Kahlo is a legendary painter who had a very strong
unibrow, in my opinion.
It kind of looked like it was mean mugging.
She was very beautiful, but she had a stern look to her.
Yeah man, I was salty when I was locked up because I was supposed to be in the studio
with Mike Dean.
I had been chasing Mike Dean around for some weeks.
I still had my assistant and them, and my engineer go over to Mike Dean’s crib.
So, I told my girl all the notes on the mix to translate to Mike Dean I'm like, "Make the hook
feel massive, turn down the synth bass, and turn up the 808’s."
She still remembers it.
Yeah, Dylan Roof is a horrible guy.
Trying to play an insanity plea right now or whatever.
Zimmerman, man.
He’s a mess.
You know, he sold the weapon he killed Trayvon with.
Man, I actually haven’t talked to Bari since the VLONE been really really running.
But I always have that love for him, though.
I don’t really ask for much from niggas, you know what I mean?
I just show love.
Ronald Reagan started the War On Drugs around 1980.
You think about the number of incarcerated people we have in America now – it’s millions.
A large percentage of them are African American and Latino people.
At that same point in time, Ronald Reagan waging the War on Drugs where they got battle
rams and they kicking people’s doors in and dogs are eating niggas and they’re locking
niggas up at a crazy alarming rate – while they’re putting drugs in the street. So,
I mean, you can put two and two together and see who really created the crack epidemic.
'Cause you know, you got
the Lamborghini Gallardo.
I think it has suicide doors.
And “sacrificial lamb” – that’s nice, though.
That is a bar.
When I said that.
That was one of those easy bars that just rolled off.
I was like, “Woo!
I’m gonna keep going.”