IPhone is about relationships.
Every human being has a phone.
A lot of toxic relationships a lot of time
are similar to the one that you have with your phone.
You don't let nobody hold it.
You don't let anybody like,
in.
You don't let anybody know the passcode.
Like you're very protective of keeping that safe space safe.
You don't want nobody going through your phone.
Cause you got a lot of weird shit on there.
Like whatever people have on their phones.
So, you hide and you try to just act like
I'm a regular person, even though we all know,
we have weird shit on our phone.
You can't act like we don't.
The topic in the studio session that day was social media.
And the idea of like, we was just taking it back,
like to Myspace and shit like that.
Just thinking about 2006, 2007 type vibes.
When you do bring up like, old times,
like Myspace and kind of like the beginning
of social media, whenever there's a new app,
I feel like that's like,
the slogan.
This time won't be nothing like the last one.
We got better this, uploading skills.
We can do this, you do that on this app.
So I'm kind of just looking at life in a sense, like,
like an app.
Like, there will be a better app,
just like there'll be a better day.
And like everything evolves into something else.
I wanted it to feel like a new world, a new vibe.
I kind of wanted my fans to say goodbye to the old Rico
that they had new and get ready
and prepare for the new one that I had built.
Bruh, when I tell you the pandemic wasn't happening
when I wrote that.
I don't know what I meant that as.
Smoking, so like a gas, like a gas mask, I'm a stoner.
So like an actual gas mask.
And, I was thinking like futuristic
and I had this like post-apocalyptic vibe.
And that's so weird because even now listening
to the song and you hear like,
smoking so much gas, I forgot to put my mask on.
It's so relevant because like I said, I'm a stoner.
And a lot of times I be in the car on my way
to go somewhere and I'll smoke,
and I literally will forget to put my mask on.
I'm not really a ice type of person.
I thought I was
when I started like getting little lump sums of money.
I was like, oh yeah, chain, definitely.
And then I was like, oh yeah,
vacation,
villas,
other shit that does not have to do with diamonds.
That's like a part of a relationship,
is your guy getting you a gift, whether it's a necklace.
Most times in my case, it's like a fucking necklace
or some shit, or, you know,
you had that moment with your boyfriend
where it's literally like,
and he puts it on for you.
Like, you know, it's, it's one of those moments
where you feel like you earned it.
I don't know.
It's, it's very cute.
It's a very intimate moment in relationship when somebody
put something around your neck.
So I was just like,
you know, let me hold my hair for you.
You know what I'm saying?
You don't gotta be back there,
like trying to do it.
Cause guys are not good at that.
Like, let me just make it easy for you.
You know what I'm saying?
That's just a prime example of how bitches be acting
and I'm bitches.
Like, we really might hangout
and then I literally go AWOL.
You never hear from me again.
I'll never talk to you again.
I don't know why I'm like that.
But I know that there's a lot of girls that's like that.
It's like, he's, he's cool.
But like, I'm never hanging out with you again.
It's definitely a pull reference.
But it's also a coke reference
because there's like two months to get over
any type of drug or anything you could
possibly be addicted to.
So like, that's kind of like a relationship,
like two months without me,
and you're still having withdrawals.
You're still like, not over.
You still wanna go again.
Like I need more.
So, that once again,
like love is like crack.
Your phone is like crack.
Like you don't know when to just walk away, bitch,
just turn, turn it off, bitch, go away.
You don't never know when enough is enough.
Tamagotchi is something that you would kind of take care of.
And it would be on your hip.
And once again, that's a form of a relationship.
That's a form of social media before it was social media.
Like a pager, almost like you just always checking your hip,
always checking your hip to see if that person is there.
See if that person paged you, to see if like,
Are you hungry?
Do you need something?
And I just remember Tamagotchi's being like super fire.
I would buy so many and I'd never like take care of them,
but I would just have so many key chains
until they just died.
And then, it would be real sad.
Cause it wouldn't turn on.
That's what we used to do back in the day
when you had a crush on somebody.
Put them in your top five.
You would put a heart on their wall.
You put a smiley face on their wall,
and let everybody know,
this who I'm crushing on.
In a relationship when you are begging
that person for like attention
and you're begging them for like,
you need them and you want them to hold you,
you want them to like, love you.
Like you're the only person that they could love.
But then you have to realize that the only reason
why you want that is because you don't have it internally.
The only reason that you expect so much from everybody else
is because you don't give to yourself.
That's when you realize you need your space.
I feel like that's, that's a lot of times
a red flag in a relationship.
When you just constantly wanting, wanting,
wanting more from this person and it's like,
what are you giving though?
What are you giving them, a headache?
Standards?
It's not fair.
That's not cool.
So, you need to take space.
You need to like figure it the fuck out.
Why are you so needy?
You getting better over time
is a form of
your-
this app in a sense.
So can't go back to my old ways.
Like, I know that these things have worked.
They worked and they're memorable things that I remember.
And I love 'em because I mentioned them in a song,
but they're old.
And I can't go back to just doing what I'm comfortable with.
We have to,
we have to do something that makes us feel crazy sometimes.
I'm speaking for myself when I say this,
but I can tell that a lot of people are in love
with a nightmare.
A lot of people are in love with this like idea of things
that look so good, but they're not good at all.
Like, people like jewelry, right?
They'll kill over jewelry.
Like you're in love with a nightmare.
You're in love with something that could end your life.
You're in love with something that could
ruin like, everything.
Like you're in love with it to the point-
it's like your-
like a phone.
Like how many fucking kids cuss they parents out
over a phone?
Like, this the person that put food in your belly
and got a roof over your head.
You cuss them out because they took your phone.
Like, you don't play bout your phone.
It's just,
that's really what it is.
Like I'm in love with a nightmare.
I'm in love with something that is an arm's reach.
But I just know I'll never have it.
The person that you love
might not be the person that you met.
If you get what I'm saying.
The person that you fall in love with
might not, like once you get to know their skeletons
and the shit that's wrong with them,
they could be completely different from like,
the first year that y'all was dating.
It could be like crazy different stuff.
Sometimes, you know what I'm saying?
You gotta face those demons and you got to help
the person you love face those demons.
You gotta fight your own demons.
I feel like at the end of a relationship,
that's how you feel.
You feel like, bruh, is my phone tapped?
Like, what the fuck is going on right now?
Like, or not even just at the end of a relationship,
but like throughout a relationship.
When you look something up on your phone,
on Google, and you go back on Instagram,
it's on Instagram.
Whatever you're looking for.
It's like a ad.
I thought that you were-
you would be down for this nightmare,
for this rollercoaster, for this.
I thought you would be down for the heartbreak
and the heartache and the getting to know,
and all that shit.
But some people not with that shit.
Some people just, like I said,
they know how to turn they phone off.
They know how to get out before it gets too crazy.
My MySpace wall used to be hot pink
with a lot of like glitter and shit.
The cursor, minds would always like leave-
have like a trail of sparkles.
And I just remember it was like a lot of Bratz
and a lot of Paramore.
A lot of Bratz dolls and Paramore.
And like memes with Bratz dolls,
That were like sparkly and ghetto.
And it probably said like 90 percent angel
with a Bratz doll or some shit.
I don't know.
With Maroon 5 playing while you scroll.