Like you know, back in the day man when you going through it sometime, you ain't got it
like that, man.
You got to do what you got to do to get what you got.
To get what you want type of shit.
I used to be the guy on Black Planet looking for white girls.
Preferably the bigger ones because they don't have a problem with sharing their goodies
with you, you know what I'm saying?
So I was putting the dick on the track for a minute.
I wasn't doing crimes, you know what I'm saying?
I was just breaking a couple fat bitches' hearts.
I wrote it more in a talky flow.
It was just my version of doing a stand up comedy set.
Working with Q-Tip, man, it was a humbling experience because we always think you know
everything but when you're around somebody like such a legend like him you got to take
his criticism to heart, you know what I'm saying?
He ain't going to steer you down a wrong path when it comes to making music.
Once we started to start talking about this album, it's always want to have an executive
producer.
He just came across the board to ... My managers just hooked it up, so shouts out Tip.
A lot of my stuff is influenced from stand up comedy and stuff, and one of my biggest
influences and mentors is Coco Joey Diaz, you know what I'm saying?
My uncle Joey.
And uncle Joey had this bit where he talked about how he took Niacin and he was still
dropping dirty, and he was itching like crazy to the point where he just put pool cleaner
in his uncircumcised dick and tied a rubber band around it, and he broke the probation
machine.
So he got cleaned up, so he was beating the case.
So that's pretty much a throwback to that joke he said.
I never even fucked with niacin, I just was dropping dirty.
I wasn't even trying nothing, I was like, "Fuck it.
It's over."
You get to the point where you see roaches, you don't even kill.
You're like fuck it man. They're just in here.
We together now.
You watch this motherfucker
grow up.
Now he a part of your life, now he having kids.
You know what I'm saying?
Hell no. I ain't no public freak like that.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm intimate.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm romantic with my shit.
You know what I'm saying?
I aint about to be all up in ... That shit be uncomfortable anyway.
I can’t see how some people be fucking in cars and shit like that?
Y'all crazy man.
You grown.
Once you become 20 and shit you can't be just fucking in weird places.
Once you grow up, man, you got to get that waterbed going, you know what I'm saying?
I don't fight, man.
I'm old as hell, man.
If I sleep on the wrong side too long I wake up sore, you know what I'm saying?
Ain't got time for a motherfucker putting their hands on me, you know what I'm saying?
So yeah, I'm more player than that, man.
Once you get a certain age, ain't no fisticuffs no more.
Baby daddy coming at me, I'm going to run.
Fuck that shit, man.
I'm grown, man.
I ain't no bitch.
I'm safe.
You know what I'm saying?
In the song I'm dropping a lot of hustling bars here and there.
You know what I'm saying?
So that's just talking about, you know.
When you messing around in the streets like that, you know what you're swimming towards.
You know what's coming with this, man.
That's like you trying to swim towards a current.
You know you're about to get drowned.
You know what I'm saying?
Like a big ass fucking wave or some shit, you know what I'm saying?
I mean, I don't toot my own horn, but that's poetry shit.
That's poetry emotion for your ass, you know what I'm saying?
No, I never sold any...I mean, when I was in the street doing that, wasn't nobody in
my family smoking crack no more, it wasn’t the 80s.
Maybe some weed here and there, you know what I'm saying?
But nah, man, I wasn't…
I mean, I would though.
If they wanted to buy it, I would.
But I didn't.
One time, man, me and my homie we had went in on some stuff, and we got some work or
whatever, and he let his girlfriend hold it.
And she put it in her purse, and one thing I didn't know that cocaine absorbs shit.
So it was around perfume.
She had a bunch of perfume and Victoria Secrets and bullshit all in that shit.
So when we cooked it up and made crack with it, we let the motherfucker hit it, he said,
"What the fuck is this shit?
Michael Jordan cologne?"
We're like, "Man.
I don't know."
But we spent a lot, it really fucked us up too.
I even tried to take the shit to Ohio and sell it.
They were like, "Man, what the fuck is this shit, man?
Shit making my lips numb.
This shit tasting like berry berries.
I don't know what the fuck is going on."
I don't know how to write jokes.
But I came up with that in my head, and I told myself, "I'm going to try to flesh out
a joke.
I'm going to try to write a joke."
But I can't really ... I couldn't really make it funny like that unless I rhymed with it,
that's the only way I thought.
But that story, it never happened.
Just something I just thought of.
You know what I'm saying?
There's no such thing as a strip club named Hunky Dories, at least I don't know.
It's just something that rhymed.
Imagine you go to a strip club and you leave your wallet at home, but you're like, "Fuck
it, bitch.
I got some change in the car."
You know what I'm saying?
She like, "Fuck it.
I take it.
Fuck it."
And you gave her the change that you were intentions on having to wash your clothes
with, then the next day you go to laundromat and you see the stripper in there washing
her shit.
You got some of them dryer sheets over there?
You know what I'm saying?
Hook your boy up.
We in this together.
We got to make that comedy roll.