I'm a cancer so I have a hard time letting people in, so that's really what it is.
It's like yo, you either all in or you not.
You want to gas me and you want to be doing this and doing that, but if you ain't about
the real thing, then I'm sorry.
I met YG while I was at Coachella.
And it was brief, we were just passing each other.
I have my glasses on, I'm walking and he's like, "is that H.E.R.?"
He goes, "show your pretty face girl, take them glasses off."
And so at that moment I was like, we ought to do something together.
And yeah, I sent the song and he did his verse.
I did not tell YG how to do his thing.
I said "just be YG" and I got YG.
In the song he said, "you always wearing them glasses to show off them eyelashes."
I was so hyped when I realized it worked because it was a flow and I was like, okay.
(singing) Like, okay, he just want to gas me.
As soon as you hear that it draws you in.
This is all personal for me, it was like we got to be on the same wavelength.
Like we got to have the same kind of path, we got to be growing together and moving together.
That's really where it was coming from.
Sometimes opposites attract in ways where we have to balance out each other, but it's
all about that climb together, that we're doing together.
With all my songs, I like it to be conversational.
Most of my songs you could...
It kind of sounds like a text message or something.
So I felt like the whole song just needs to be a conversation between me and this person.
Why we doing this?
What's it going to be?
When I think about the Bay Area, I think about being home in downtown Vallejo and seeing
all the candy-paint cars.
That's really where that came from.
I grew up seeing people ghost-riding the whip and doing donuts in these amazing blue, purple,
different colored cars.
My ride is matte black, which I think is more me, a little bit more mysterious and cool.
My favorite time of day is sunrise and sunset.
It's just a small moment.
The song is about a moment and the sunrise is a very short period of time.
You have just a few minutes to catch it.
So that's where that comes from, it's just being in the moment.
“I got five on it.”
See, when I was a kid, I ain't know what the song was talking about.
I don't think anybody as a kid knew what the song was talking about.
In the song it's more so like I'm a put $5 on gas, on a gas tank, just put it that way.
The Hyphy Movement.
E-40, obviously, inspired that line.
"Tell me when to go.
Tell me when to go."
It's direct.
Tell me when we going to slide, tell me what it is.
People in the Bay always say, "I'm finna to slide.
I'm finna slide," or, "I'm going to come scoop."
That's just the lingo, you know?
So, when we going to slide?
When we going?
Where are we going?
What are we doing?
It's just, like I said, that urgency of let's be in this moment.
What are we doing?
Tell me what it is, you know?
Tell me when to go.
But the melody...
I don't even remember if the word came with the melody, but everything was just a flow.
Like it felt so seamless in creation.
When you're in the car with somebody and they play some Bay Area music, you're going dumb.
This is going dumb when you just, you just be in it.
And that's the hyphy movement right there, that's what we do in our candy paint car.
We, we go dumb.
When I say let's go to the moon, I'm like, there's nothing we can't do together.
There is nowhere we can't go.
This is literally building with somebody at the same time as it could be being in the
moment with somebody.
We should take a trip to the moon.
Who does that?
Who goes to the moon?
We can.
First time I met E-40 was when I was a really little kid and I was just a fan.
He's a Bay legend, so I thought he was this amazing person that represented the Bay so
well.
And then, as I got older, he was keeping up with me, and now we have that relationship,
which is so cool, you know?
And he loves that I'm representing Vallejo.
So that's what we do, we put on for our city.