- I feel like some of the best rap songs that I make
are always the ones that I hear a beat that I love
and I'm like, "Oh my God, I'm so fucking hype,
I gotta record this.
Like right now, I gotta freestyle to it right now."
And those be the ones.
Those feel like the most natural,
like you actually hear my excitement, you know, in a song.
So, a lot of these lines, like the song is so fucking funny,
but lines are super intentional.
Like I wasn't trying to like put something
that wasn't ridiculous in this song, you know?
Every line had to be ridiculous.
It was like 3:00 AM and they had just started fucking around
with like this guitar and this like weird sound
and it just was a beat they just made really late at night
and I was drowsy and the beat just like woke me up
because it was so damn hard.
I made like most of this song and freestyled
and punched in like every line.
So that was me trying to be on my Jay Z tip,
you know what I'm saying?
All my friends is in the studio watching me
waiting for the first thing I was gonna say.
I just thought I was so geeked out of my mind
that I thought that was just so funny.
♪ It's a plane, it's a bird, it's a God ♪
I was genuinely like smiling and laughing when I did that,
I hope people enjoyed that.
That was just me getting ready
to actually come into the beat.
I loved it, and that was just me breathing
and then I was like, "Wait, this is so hard, loop that,"
and I did it for longer than it was intended,
and I was like, "No, it's gotta come back."
So, they're just breaths but they feel so good,
it's like I just drank a ice-cold Sprite, you know?
Like something from McDonald's,
like the one that burns your throat.
A lot of people be acting mad funny, man.
People need to be put in their place
and sometimes people just be on the internet, you know,
they see a button, they see 140 characters,
they think they can just live behind their phone.
This is me saying, "I see you nigga,
I'ma see you when I see you." (claps)
Not that I'm gonna do anything, I'm harmless.
It's just people that be talking shit about you,
be acting super funny when they see you,
meaning like they be really cool wit' you.
And then you hear through so and so
that they was talking shit.
Someone actually did that to me months ago,
actually fuck that person.
Like that happens so much and I hate it, I hate it.
It's like one of the most irritating things to me
because me, if I don't like someone,
I'm not gonna like make it seem like I like you.
I'm just gonna be like, "Hey, I see you."
It was just me being high out of my mind
wanting to spell big before,
I said "Big, big deal." (chuckles)
I had no lyrical intention with that,
it just sounded good saying "B-I-G, I'm a big, big deal."
But in literal sense, like Notorious B.I.G.
Is a big fucking deal, so it worked out beautifully.
And then, yeah, I was with this girl once
and she was really cool,
and I was showing her my music and she was like,
"Oh, that was dope."
And she told me she was a Navy SEAL
and she just showed me like some, you know,
like moves they used to do.
It was so funny to me actually that no one in hip hop,
I don't know if this is true or not,
but no one in hip hop has used Jordan Peele's last name
referencing a facial peel yet.
And I thought that was just insane.
And I was like, "There's no way,
no one has dibs on this yet."
I don't actually think I'm a cold mufucka. (chuckles)
I'm not Evel Knievel.
I'm not like, I'm not really a cold mufucka,
I just said that 'cause it sounds good.
There's not really much
to explain what that is, pretty literal.
That line is more so about a woman being so fine
that you would like to breed with her,
you know what I mean?
You would like to create beings who look like you
and create a family with her 'cause she's so fine.
Yeah, well, Sara is the Habesha way of saying Sarah.
Your mom and your father always want you
to date within your race, your kind, your bloodline,
and that's me just acknowledging that.
And it's just a funny diaspora line, you know,
for all my Habeshas out there.
I'ma be honest, I have never watched any
of the Star Wars like that.
I just know who Darth Vader is, you know what I'm saying?
I'm a poser, like y'all could bash me for it,
I'll take the hate, it's all good.
The main reason for that section
is because I wanted to let these old mufuckas understand
that I can rap really, really good
even when I'm bullshitting, you know what I'm saying?
It's such a turnt song and for it
to just go into some like beautiful keys
that sound like you in the back of a Maybach,
that's hilarious.
I love the juxtaposition, it's weird.
I love yerbas, I drink them all night.
I'm in the studio all night,
up on yerba, cracked out on yerba,
fucking with yerba.