- When the song first dropped,
I didn't know it was gonna go that crazy.
I thought it was just gonna be something
that stayed in Atlanta.
Even out of the United States,
people can relate to this all over the world, literally.
The motivation behind the song was just me
basically trying to set the record straight,
and tell people that's not...
There's some from the surrounding area.
So start telling the people where they actually from,
instead of saying that they from Atlanta when they not.
For this song, I had the beat first.
I actually made it when I was sitting in my friend car.
I was bored and I just pulled up the beat,
and I really didn't know what to write about.
So I was like...
I just might as well go ahead,
cause they had been on my mind for a little minute.
So I was like I might as well...
(lady laughing)
Go ahead and write about this,
because I was like I need to go ahead and get these out.
I always go hard about Atlanta cause it's where I'm from.
So it's like...
I always see people just saying
so many different things about Atlanta.
They have it so misconstrued.
So I just like, we just tired of it.
Like (indistinct)
Let me set the record straight,
cause enough is enough.
You know what I'm saying?
Most of Atlanta is the trenches.
You feel what I'm saying?
And it's just like a place where
people don't really have that much money, like struggling.
You know what I'm saying?
So it's like we living in these neighborhoods,
we making the best out of it.
We having fun,
but at the end of the day,
this is our real life.
And people come down here and have fun with us,
but they go back home to they nice homes and stuff.
And then we was still struggling.
I appreciate the struggle.
Like I don't glorify, but I appreciate it,
because it made me who I am today.
So I'm from Zone three.
I lived in Lakewood, Cleveland, Polar Rock, Summerhill
John Alan South, full season.
And I was born at Georgia Baptist's Medical Hospital,
which is in Atlanta.
Atlanta school systems,
I would say they're like...
Cause a lot of people from around the world,
when I drop the song, they say...
They like, "I can tell you had APS school system education."
They think I'm slow, but I'm not slow.
I'm very smart.
But I will say that APS is, do kind of be behind
with the teaching and stuff.
But I really feel like it got a lot to do with...
Like I said, the funding and not having enough money,
because even a lot of the school books that we had,
they was all ripped and toe up and stuff like that.
We didn't always have like new school books
and stuff like that.
And I don't think they able to pay the teachers as much.
You know what I'm saying?
So I still feel like they got a lot to do
with the money situation.
It don't matter what nobody say about me.
Even my haters, the one thing they have to admit,
is I be going crazy.
Like that's the one thing they got to get me pissed off to.
All this place is probably like
30 or 25 minutes out from the city.
None of it is like super close.
The only place that's super close to the city,
and I didn't say it was East Point,
because East Point is not considered Atlanta,
but is literally like the next street over from Cleveland.
Boyett is still not Atlanta, but I just spared them.
I needed some more places to say,
but I was like, "Okay, that made more sense."
Because the North, they always saying
like Atlanta is shit.
The South, they always screaming Atlanta.
South okay, the North and The South
let me go ahead and say, it's not Atlanta.
Cause I never hear like East and West...
I don't really like...
Cause the West side is Atlanta.
West Side, cause nothing else considered like the West Side.
Right now, Atlanta...
The new Atlanta is getting so gentrified to the point
that it is like,
I don't know what it's gonna come to be.
Our culture used to be stronger.
You know what I'm saying?
That's why I feel like when I dropped this song,
everybody was like, it woke the whole city up.
And the city needed that,
because I feel like we was falling off.
Like we was letting so many people in the city,
and it's just like, all this is getting mixed up.
But this kinda separate the real city from
whatever going on today.
You can tell exactly who's from Atlanta
and who's not from Atlanta, by their responses.
If they mad, they not Atlanta,
no matter what they trying to say.
Like, "Oh we did, if we did."
I don't care what you say,
whatever you did,
whatever you think you did.
You're not Atlanta.
And you can clearly tell because
anybody that is from Atlanta,
they not gonna be mad about this at all.
They gonna leave cause that is our city.