I filled out every single position at the hospital.
Brain surgeon, dietary aide, I didn't care.
I was just checking off everything off the list like these motherfuckers
gotta hire me for something.
Usually the beat takes me where I'm gonna go in the record.
Soon as I heard the beat, the melody at that point.
Nuh nuh nuh nuh ... "Just like you."
And from there I'm like "Just like you."
Hmm.
"What can I talk about that has to do with just like - oh shit.
I got it."
Everybody has their superheroes in their head and people that they look up to.
If it's not your parents, which it should be, then who else do you look up to?
As a father, as a man, as a person those is all fears.
But you gotta understand when I wrote the record I already knew what the video was going
to look like.
I already knew I wanted the kid to say it.
I already knew that the kid was going to be the one looking at his dad saying that shit.
So I was writing from the perspective of that.
I'm just not the guy to go to the strip club and just make it rain everywhere.
That's just not - that doesn't do nothing for me.
I have sold drugs.
I have done all that stuff.
I got locked up, you know?
Got caught with shit.
I've lived that life before and that's something that, again, a fear of mine - having a child
and then having to go through that.
It's a lot of women with four kids that are hopeless.
Single moms, you know?
On welfare.
You know, no job.
Nothing to look forward to.
That's just, there is.
There's a lot of that.
Belligerent, just out there.
Just extra.
And then at the same time, sanctified you know, when it's convenient for them that's when they
want to be saints and they wanna speak the good ole gospel and wanna switch sides real quick.
When it's convenient for them.
My mom used to drop me off to school. She used to smoke cigarettes.
Smoke used to just come straight.
The window open so it used to just go straight to the backseat and I'm just like "Ma!"
And she was just like "Sorry."
You know what I'm saying?
But she don't realize that shit. I'm smoking more than you off of you doing that,
you know what I mean?
But she quit though.
Shout out to my mom for quitting.
Mentally being a king to your castle, just being the man of the house.
You know what I'm saying?
Standing up.
Doing what you have to do.
Being a king.
You know, not being a fuck nigga.
Being a man and taking care of your responsibilities and that's what a king to me is.
That hit me, bro.
Just listening - like I just know how I feel when I hear certain records and I'm just like...