- The way that title and everything came about was really
because a while ago, some of my friends
and some of my peers were like,
"You know, you're all cryptic and shit."
and I didn't realize I was like that.
I was just speaking in my own language.
This whole song could probably get
taken like two, three ways.
It was kind of somewhat intentional
in the way I structured it.
There's head shots.
It's like the hook is either
about losing somebody or dying yourself.
so it's more, you know, you're taking the shot
or are you getting blammed?
The initial inspiration for Headshots was kind of,
it kind of went and how most of my songs go,
whatever it was around me or whatever I was thinking about.
And, I wrote that song while I was riding to the studio.
I got the beats from Hollywood Cole
probably a couple of days before,
and I was just listening to it in the car.
And, literally like Numero UNO was on a billboard.
So, I started writing it down.
It came from everything.
It came from watching everything around.
Luckily for me, I have a really good memory,
so if I say a couple of things in my head for long enough,
it will just stick and I usually remember whatever
rhythm I had on a track
when I started thinking about it
and I got my phone usually.
So, I usually just write stuff down.
Literally, by the time I got to the studio,
the whole song was done.
It was a 45 minute drive, like two blunts.
Easy shit. (laughs)
The whole hook is really about getting shot.
I have a weird,
I wouldn't call it obsession,
but interest interested in death
and I guess I'm okay with it.
I'm trying to be okay with it, whatever the fuck.
That shit tight.
Shit like that mortal and morbid shit like that,
people, people fuck with that shit.
I fuck with that shit.
It's why people watch zombie movies, all that shit.
But, it's really just about not drinking too much,
not killing yourself
and not slipping and getting fucked up.
Who wants some liquor?
I got two and like the homies who used to ride with me,
know I used to when I was really in the mix,
I had to go get like a shot, shot or two.
That type of shit.
And just thinking about that, man,
like alcohol abuse and like going to centers and treatment
centers and shit like who want to die?
You know what I'm saying?
Who ready to do this?
Niggas'll talk to you about waking up on benches and shit.
You know that type of shit?
It's like who want a shot?
Let me know.
I got two. I got two for you right now.
No diggity, no doubt.
You know what I'm saying?
You coming over a fucker, slurred the fuck up.
You know what I'm saying?
Say, you smooth like an R&B song.
You think. (chuckles)
You think how you keep your problems away from me?
You think ain't got no problems,
or you think this shit is sweet?
Like, nah, they killing me.
Giving out hoes, not kudos.
I'm a cold nigga, man.
I don't even know. (chuckles)
I don't know.
That's, I 110% fucking agree with that though.
Like, I'm definitely giving bitches back
more than I'm giving thanks.
In the back of my head, any time I think of Doja Cat,
she's amazing by the way.
I just think of her biting the hamburger,
which is, I don't know,
maybe not the sexiest thing, but it kind of is.
But, I just see that in the back of my head,
you know, the moo shit, still.
And, I've been knowing her for,
I've been knowing me and her met a long time ago.
And then, I don't know, if I'm trying to spin it back
to what it means to me nowadays,
it's like, you know, you got to take that shit.
She's gotten a little bit of internet battering.
She's taking it.
Look at her right now.
I'm saying you got to take those bruises
and eat those burgers.
Half a brick, quart of...
Hey, man.
Yo', OJ Juiceman, Gucci Mane.
Yeah, definitely.
I definitely play homages to all of my inspirations.
I mean, he like Master P to me too, Gucci Mane.
man, a lot of my early music had a lot
of Master P references,
so I guess I kind of just updated my homages
to like mid-200's (chuckles)
and the 90's! The Budapest line came from
The Budapest line came
from The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson.
I'm a big film buff,
like a lot of his movies and shit,
and that was manifesting, dog,
shit I want to have for my family,
things I want to accomplish.
The dude, the family that they,
that he makes with with the dude,
And, you know, he ends up inheriting it.
You know what I'm saying?
The kid who's a doorman,
he ends up owning the whole...
You know what I'm saying?
That shit, kind of rags to riches shit.
Okay, so the shots ain't bringing my soldier back thing,
really comes from one of the last conversations
I had with my brother, Terrance,
was about taking care of myself.
I missed his funeral and shit.
And, he was, he was in the Navy.
He was in the Navy for, I think, about 10 years.
And, he passed a September ago.
And, no matter what happens, or what I do
and it don't bring back your people.
You know what I'm saying?
No matter what you do.
You got to just be cool with that shit and enjoy that shit.
I think people call me smooth or they think I'm smooth,
but I think, in reality, I just have a good way
of leaving without making a scene when I leave.
My top three, four favorite R&B songs, it's probably
"Do it to me" by Usher, "Can you handle it" by Usher.
This is my college fuck list.
(Isaiah chuckles)
Probably, one of them Trey joints, you know,
just from that radio album, I think.
That was,
I don't know, "Your side of the bed"
was my shit back in the day.
And, I don't know,
I ain't listen to a lot of R&B lately.
I've been trying to, you know, stay out of that bag.
It's a devil in there.
The back I'm talking about is really
just like some sobriety shit.
I have not yet felt like I was coming back to music,
because I ain't never felt like I left music.
I done always keep, kept making music type of shit.
But, back from the dead,
that's how I would describe
how I felt the past couple of years,
dead in some type of way.
And, if you know, you know.
Type of shit, I can't really break that feeling down,
but it feel good.
Like it felt good to feel alive,
but my priorities are totally different type of shit.
When I reflect on,
when I reflect on the changes that are happening,
happening to me and around me,
pretty overwhelmed for the most part.
I don't know.
I like uncomfortableness of progression, you know?
Like I liked that.
I liked the type of feeling.
"The weed couldn't settle my fire,
"it can't cover my pain."
It's actually probably goes in a different way.
I started just doing what every kind of drug after that,
or just at least trying shit
and just escapism.
I've been there.
I mean, you know, I'm familiar with that place,
but the whole verse is really reflection of me understanding
of what self abuse is.
I talked to God the most when I'm alone
and when I'm in the car.
I have a lot of long rides where there's no music on.
I'm just thinking.
The boy, "you always riding around with a target on,"
that line really about,
that sounds like some shit my momma would say to me,
but it's less about people looking for you,
but more so you looking for trouble.
Feel me?
Niggas be trying to get in the mix so much,
they don't realize they just looking for a bad time.
You always running around with a target.
So many times, I could have went to jail.
Yet, I didn't.
But then, on the flip side,
that if flip and say,
"If a nigga follow me to the car garage,"
that's on some shit where I'm saying it to myself
or speaking to whomever, you talking to yourself,
you know what I'm saying,
like fuck it, I know I'm living that way,
but I'm ready for that shit anyway.
That's dumb as hell.
That's how a nigga was feeling.
You know what I'm saying?
And, I liked it.
"Boy, if a nigga followed me to the car garage,
"I'm going to spark it up."
It's like damn me.
But, you don't really want them problems anyway.
Where I'm from, dump is like,
when we was kids they probably don't say it as much though,
when it was dumped though, it's like,
it's full in this is bitch.
It is dump
If it's family that you seeing surprise you in that whip,
shit, when we all come together, I'm going to spark it up,
but when it's the enemy, when they all come together,
you know, we going to spark it up.
I kind of freestyle the lyrics.
It might rain on my shit now.
Now I try to get into zone where the intent is for real,
because I can totally tell when I'm just
finna freestyle some bullshit
and I probably never put that like that shit.
Like that 200 shit that we put out.
That was just bullshit.
Like this is a freestyle-freestyle, I guess,
like I'm really trying to think of something.