$crim: This dude paid me for studio time when we were coming up in bath salts.
I took this big ol' rail and I mean, I couldn't even ... I was just so speeded out.
I was just like ... I couldn't talk or nothing, and the crazy thing about it was I had an
interview the next day.
I got the job and I worked there for three years before I got my hands tatted and got fired.
Ruby: Carrollton is a street in New Orleans, it runs through mid city all the way through uptown.
I've probably been on that road every single day of my life, getting from point A to point B.
$crim: I made the beat and as soon as I made the beat there's these very rare times like
in Paris and other songs we done where it's just feeling so overwhelming.
Ruby: Lyrically I wanted to just write about swagging out, or bragging about me being a
piece of shit.
$crim: Actually I'm a very forgiving person.
I'm a human though, and I am flawed so to say that I don't hold grudges would be a lie.
But it's something I'm practicing and something I wanna get rid of.
At the same time it's like, don't screw me over.
$crim: Usually after every tour I go see my homeboy Jared who's been tatting me since
like 16.
I got the savage tatted on my face because long story short you come up the way I gotta
come up, you got no choice at times but to do as you gotta do, it's a survival instinct.
$crim: I have witnessed and he's witnessed two of our closest African American homies
get pulled over and me and him, cops nice as could be to us but I mean the way they
treated them and searched them and everything was just outrageous.
Dude had $500 dollars on him he was asking what he had it on him for.
It's 500 bucks bro.
Ruby: They sort of pulled us aside and said "Look we know it's theirs, just tell us it's
theirs and you guys can be on your way."
$crim: Ever since I was young and him doing that, I finally got to watch the video one
day and it was lethal, man, because he didn't even know he was getting a real bat, from
what I heard, and he got a real bat and he bit his head off and killed the poor son of
a bitch
$crim: It was originally called North Shore, but I hate that name.
It reminds me of Jersey Shore, so I called it Northside.
"Tony gripping on the Tommy" because Tony with the Tommy is one of my nicknames.
$crim: I felt like an alien.
I felt like my hair was up to here.
My forehead was a 10-head.
It was crazy.
$crim: You put Boosie on, somebody gettin' fucked up if they around me.
It's like that's my mosh music.
Ruby: I had this homie, Jeff, who when I started making beats when I was 19, he was really
one of the only ones ... the only one out of my friends that would hear my stuff and
actually encourage me to do it, and be like, "Damn, this is actually not bad, dude."
Blah, blah, blah.
"You should keep going," and then he passed away.
Ruby: It’s an ode to Pimp C. He quit smoking with haters back in 1994, I think.
Ruby: I guess it's sort of referencing how I don't ever wanna be sober.
I kinda referenced that fucking iconic Chief Keef song, I Hate Being Sober, which is the
most fire fucking simplistic phrase.
Ruby: I'm talking about my drivers license.
was just like looking at my ID.
I was like, "That's my face and I use that shit to smash up drugs to put back into my
face.
Is that something that I could reference someday?"
I did.
Ruby: We also don't feel like we get along with a lot of artists in this rap industry.
Not-
$crim: Personally.
Ruby: Yeah.
I'm not gonna say like we hate everybody, but it's just some artists.
We don't go out.
We don't go to the strip clubs and shit.
We don't click with ... I don't know.
It's just hard being in this social scene of a music industry and not being social.
Ruby: I'm talking about Heaven's Gate the cult, but I'm also referencing ... It's a
double entendre.
I'm referencing "Meet me at the pearly whites," You know what Nike Decades are right?
That's the shoe that they were wearing when they all committed suicide.
I want to do a fucking collab with Nike, so Nike Decades, throw that in there ... Holler
at me Nike before someone else steals that fucking idea.
They were all covered by a blanket and the only thing that you could see was ... They
were lying on their back and you could only see their black Nike Decades.