Any beat Rocaine sends me, I record to it.
I like that gutter, like that raw sound.
Like I feel like ain't nobody making that kind
of music. Real hard beats.
Like they sound
like he made them in the basement, which he probably did.
I love that kind of music.
So when I hear them kind of beats, I just be rapping.
I was in the studio on regular nights, just vibing.
And my little homie had sent me the beat,
did a freestyle to it.
And then everybody in the studio was like
"Man, You gotta push Smurk on that."
He going to go hard on that.
I knew he was going to crush it
but it was just like, God damn, Durk crushed it.
Like he be killing all his features,
but it was just like, that shit was just different.
"Yeah" pretty much
mean anything in Detroit, like
if you was to hear me in my homies talk
or me and anybody from Detroit have a conversation.
You'll literally probably be confused.
Like for instance we'll be like,
"You going to the yeah tonight?"
"Then they had the uh-huh."
"Yup, with the all right."
And I know everything this person is talking about like,
that's just how we vibe
but like it got to move cautious.
Whether you in the streets
or you're not, it don't matter what world you in,
you got to move careful.
That whole part, that
"Up the scoe. Up the scoe,"
that was all on my verse.
Once I got done, we made it a hook.
Whatever you doing
you can up the scoe
at absolutely anything in life
It's literally nobody
on a planet that can't relate to "Up the scoe."
You know what I mean?
That it ain't nothing but another analogy
for turning up or, you know, elevating yourself.
We all start off at zero.
And then we end up at a hundred.
Some people never end up, you know, some people don't
up the scoe, but the motive, you know
that's the goal to up the scoe, to get bigger
to get better at what you do.
You from the streets.
You know what that means.
But if you not from the streets
you still can relate.
You know, when I was a kid, my mama did her thing.
We had roaches and mice, but our shit was nice to me.
So I didn't understand our position
until I got older until it got time
for me to fend for myself. It was just fucked up.
I really ain't have a pot to piss in.
And I realized like
we really in the slums, we in the hood, you know
I was young watching people get killed.
That's what I mean by fuck the competition
and opposition.
Ain't no reason to be competing with no man
like at all whatsoever, it's not a competition.
Get your money
change your own life and change your surroundings.
I was shooting out the bag when they was Breitlings bro.
I was hustling.
When they was, you know, when they was buying the
when they couldn't afford it, I was hustling.
Niggas was just buying one watch.
I was stacking it up so
I can later on spend 400,000 on jewelry.
I got a lot
of people that'd be asking like, "What is a Breitling?"
I'm like, "It's a Breitling, a watch."
We buy this shit like
we work hard.
Like I deserve to get what I want.
You know, it might be foolish to somebody else
but that's what I want.
I want to smile.
Everybody wants to smile.
It's like, whatever, make you smile.
I bought a Rolls Royce Wraith.
I can go buy that four or five times if I wanted to
right now. I own property.
I own land in my name.
I just bought my wife and my kids
a brand new house built from the ground.
I also own property in my neighborhood
on the same block that I grew up on.
People see jewelry and see them cars
and think that's our only focus, but it's not
you know what I mean?
You gotta be secure.
I'm scarred internally from my pain.
You know, my feelings, my heart
my mind, my soul, my spirit is scarred.
You heard.
And I'm also scarred physically.
That's what I meant by,
"I'm really scarred from all my pain.
Yeah. That and hopping fences."
I got scars on me.
I could show you. I've been shot,
stabbed, all that shit.
Like I say, man
I lost people that I still haven't gotten over.
I lost people that I really love. That I cry
about still to this day, just last week.
I ain't afraid to cry. I'm a man.
You know, I cry in front of my wife.
You know what I mean?
Like, cause I be hurt.
You know what I'm saying?
There's people that haven't gotten over. Got a lot of pain
but I know I'm blessed and I should be happy.
So I try to stay happy.
You gotta be careful, man.
Rest in peace to Speaker Knockerz.
Then I send my condolences to his mother and to his family.
You know what I mean?
I know he was a kid.
He was so talented.
Like that kid was extremely talented and that
was more of a metaphor to saying, I know better
but I don't do better.
We literally watch people pass away and overdose
and we still do this shit.
And if we don't do it, we still glorify it.
I'm a fool.
I want people to hear it and be like, "That sounds dumb."
He said he got something in his pocket.
And he planned on taking it.
He know people ...that sounds stupid and it is stupid
but we do it.
It is what it is.
And it ain't no sugar coating it.
It is foolish.
But we do it.
It's a lot of shit that I know better that I still do.
You be in denial then you'll never get better.
You'll never get help.
Be careful out there.
You know, I'm talking to everybody, all the young dudes
and young women who in the streets and who moving fast
and who living fast and you will get cheated at your life.
So just make the right decision because it will happen.
You will get tricked out the streets.
Happens all the time.
Motherfucker puts you in a blender
and puts you on that trick bag.
You'll have a problem with somebody.
And then you see them and they say,
Y'all don't got a problem. It's squashed.
And then later on, you know, it's just, it's just reality.
Young brothers
and young sisters getting tricked out they life
It's what happens.
Don't get cheated.
I rap about harsh reality.
You know what I mean?
I'm not gonna change up the way I rap about.
It is what it is. You got to hear it.
'Cause it's going on.
Up the scoe.
You know what I'm saying?
Meanwhile, it's a game to the guys who took you out.
Ayy, you hard. You knew what I was talking about
but because I said Breitlings, we call it Brietlings.
But you knew I was talking about a Breitling.
You hard for that.