- I think life's just got better because, you know.
As I just get older and shit,
I just learn, like, how to perfect my craft.
And sometimes it just allowed me to do things
like take a little break, time to myself,
and come back strong, and the work I put in just allowed me
to set up the foundation I got now,
and every year just been better and better.
The original inspiration for "In My Head",
I remember I was overseas, I was in the UK.
The sample is fire. I grew up on the sample,
which just brought me back to childhood memories.
I remember like Kidz Bop days and stuff like that,
and I was like,
"It'd be fun flipping it."
I really wanted to drop it a little faster,
but, you know, it just took me a little second
to set everything up.
I know the fans wanted it sooner.
I'm just like, I'm excited.
I'm just as excited as they are.
Normally, I don't really be on that.
I just like a vibe with a girl,
and won't have nothing on my mind,
just thinking about like a real, real, like relationship,
love, and shit like that.
I was just feeling like maybe that could have been possible
or future situation at the time.
Where I would take my girl?
I'd take her to Paris, London, the whole UK.
I love it.
I wanna go to Japan.
Maybe even Africa.
It's just places that somebody
like me never thought I'd ever go.
Like the person I was fucking with before, do ya feel me?
They ain't leave me all the way right, you know?
It be emotions left over from old shit,
so that's how I was feeling.
A ten out of ten is just somebody
I felt like just with like genuine
just not a liar, you know, loving person.
And just like my type.
I mean just all the way my type.
And then I just see you as a genuine person.
That that would be a 10 out of 10.
I might not show affection the same way.
Feel me and goofy gonna show you affection.
I'm different, feel me, I might not.
You know what I'm saying?
I might say shit to offend,
That might offend you one day and not even know.
When I say "tryna to catch it from a kid on me",
like, like love I missed from a kid.
I'm still trying to catch it from that.
The big idea trench kid symbolizes is just,
from a kid, I just was at the bottom, the trenches.
That's what it's like indicating.
Like just started from nothing.
My life started a disaster, I mean, I was young
and I was just, you know, going through a lot of shit.
Always in something, always something negative.
Most of the time, something negative.
And I just flipped it.
I turned nothing into something.
Normally I keep my guard up
because I know it's a cold world out here.
And that's what I meant by the line.
Cuz normally I'm the preacher like
don't do that, don't do that.
I feel like my guard is always up.
I mean when I lift it down a little bit,
it's just consistency.
Side step, that's my flex.
What I mean by that is see somebody working with their girl.
Yo yo run down on the shorty.
Like that's not my type of problem.
And when I say, "hate pain, but it's all through my veins"
is I hate being like somebody explosive.
And quick to react.
But that's just how it be from built up anger.
I feel like I was destined to win
since I was a baby, since I was losing.
I always just felt like I was different.
It could have just been confidence,
like literally nothing but confidence,
but I just always felt like, I was going be someone great.
It ain't nobody really wanna hear your problems.
I be like, I be feeling like
somebody entertain your problems
or what you got going on wrong in your life,
but that ain't going do nothing for you.
Just grind, grind, grind.
I think the hook on this song is untraditional
because I didn't really think about it too much
as like trying to make it like, you know, a proper song.
I just did like what I wanted to do.
And just like what felt right in the moment.
I mean, I don't really be thinking too hard
about the songs cause I've been making so many songs
that it just like flow.