♪ Mama, don't you worry ♪
♪ I'll see you again someday ♪
What's going on, guys?
It's me Sueco and I'm gonna play a game
of Song Association with Elle.
I'm gonna be given a word and I got 10 seconds
to either sing or rap that word in a song.
Let's see what happens.
I think I'm gonna do terribly at this game.
So we'll see if I'm right.
Before we get into the game,
make sure you go peep my album,
'It was fun while it lasted.'
Out know everywhere.
We're gonna do it now.
(Sueco grunts)
I'm ready, let's go!
Cry.
(clock ticking)
Only thing I can come up is,
the nursery rhyme.
♪ Hush little baby, don't you cry ♪
♪ Mama's gonna sing you a lullaby ♪
(Sueco laughs)
Help.
(clock ticking)
No, okay.
Yeah, what's that song?
♪ Help, I need somebody ♪
♪ Help, not just anybody ♪
♪ Help ♪
(Sueco laughs)
End.
(clock ticking)
It's a song by The Doors.
It's called The End.
It's the last song in their album.
And it goes like,
♪ This is the end ♪
♪ My dearest friend ♪ (bell dings)
♪ The end ♪
It's like a spoken word piece.
Fast.
(clock ticking)
Version one,
♪ Fast, four hundred on the dash ♪
♪ Fifty five bills, buck fifty for the tax on the bag ♪
That song.
And then number two, it came out like the same time,
it's the Juice WRLD song, he goes,
♪ I been living fast, fast, fast, fast ♪
♪ Feeling really bad, bad, bad, bad ♪
That's what he says.
I was in the studio with my homie Kenz Dean
and he pulled up this kind of like vocal sample.
He just kind of manipulated the sample
so it sounded pretty close to the melody of Fast.
And then he had sent it to me, I thought it was fire.
And then like a week later I was just at the crib
and I pulled it up
and just laid a super simple drum pattern and 808.
Maybe it took like a minute on it.
And the entire beat is literally one vocal, like one sample,
a clap, a high hat and a 808.
That's the entire beat.
Drink.
(clock ticking)
Swimming Pools, Kendrick.
One of my favorite rappers of all time, Kendrick.
Yeah.
♪ Pour up, drank ♪
♪ Headshot, drank ♪
♪ Sit down, drank ♪
♪ Stand up, drank ♪
♪ Wake up, drank ♪
♪ Pass out ♪
Or whatever the fuck. Yeah, drank, yeah.
Fall.
The first song that came to my brain
was that Post Malone song.
Fuck, I can't even remember what the fucking note is,
but it's like, "I fall apart".
♪ Ooh, I fall apart ♪ (bell dings)
Fuck, what is the actual note?
(Sueco humming)
Dance.
♪ Just dance ♪ (bell dings)
(Sueco mumbles and snaps fingers)
♪ Just dance ♪
Yeah, I've been listening to a lot of Lady Gaga recently,
actually.
Literally like that album, that whole album.
It's fucking hard. I love it.
Fun.
(Sueco mumbles)
♪ Every night getting blasted ♪
♪ Waking up in my casket ♪
♪ And now that we're past it ♪
♪ It was fun while it lasted ♪ (bell dings)
Title track for my album, 'It Was Fun While It Lasted.'
Definitely like the toughest
and the most meaningful song to record
was the song, 'Today.'
♪ If I don't hit you back by tomorrow ♪
♪ I'll have made my great escape ♪
♪ This pill is so hard to swallow ♪
♪ But it makes me feel great ♪
♪ So, mama, don't you worry ♪
♪ I'll see you again some day ♪
♪ And maybe that day ♪
♪ Maybe ♪
(Sueco laughs)
♪ That day ♪
I always fuck up that one note.
♪ And maybe that day is today ♪
I always fuck up that note, but yeah, that's the song.
Wrote and recorded it the night before I went sober
and it was like almost nine months ago now.
So I've been sober like nine months.
It was a really tough song.
It was about a really dark chapter in my life.
And that was kind of like the turning point really
in writing the album.
I had wrote it
about halfway through the creation of the album
and everything before was very dark.
And then everything after
kind of had a little bit more of a lightness to it,
obviously.
Dealing with the problems,
but not running away from them anymore
and not trying to run away from them.
Just kind of accepting them.
There's kind of a journey in the album.
It kind of goes from dark to light, like death to life.
And that's kind of what was my journey
or still is my journey, kind of, in life.
That's kind of what I wanted the album to feel like.
Night.
♪ Exit light ♪
♪ Enter night ♪
♪ Take my hand ♪ (bell dings)
♪ We're off to never-never land ♪
Yeah that's 'Enter Sandman', Metallica.
Year.
(clock ticking)
Everything I was thinking of
just was like had an actual year.
The first thing that came to my brain was like,
(Sueco mumbles)
(electric buzzer sound)
It's so two thousand and late.
No. (laughs)
Alone.
♪ The only one that I have ever known ♪
♪ Don't know where it goes ♪
♪ But it's home to me and I walk alone ♪
There you go. (bell dings)
Good enough.
Life.
♪ You got me paralyzed ♪
♪ Go ahead, baby, take my life ♪
♪ Because I don't wanna live if I'm living without you ♪
♪ Suicide love, take me out if you have to ♪
Yeah, life.
A couple of songs that help me through dark times.
'I'm not okay', My Chem, right?
'Wake me up when September ends', Green Day.
'Have faith in me', A Day To Remember.
A Day To Remember is actually the band
I've seen the most live.
♪ I've gone crazy ♪
♪ Because there are things in the streets ♪
♪ So don't believe ♪
♪ So we'll pre pretend it's all right ♪
♪ And stay in for the night. ♪
♪ What a world, I'll keep you safe here with me ♪
♪ With me ♪
It's a A Day To Remember song, 'Have faith in me.'
Why I decided I wanted to really pursue music
was I wanted to help people how it helped me.
Right?
And this type of song resonating
because it's so deep and it talks about such dark stuff
and this can resonate with people.
It's clearly helping people.
At these shows that we're coming up to
people are telling me
how much my music has helped them
and how it's saved them, right?
And that's really what it's all about.
At least for me.
Again that's why I wanted to do it in the first place.
So it means a lot.
Favorite.
(clock ticking)
Yeah, I mean,
my song, 'Primadona.'
Yeah.
♪ She says I'm her favorite ♪
♪ It's probably because I'm famous ♪
♪ I can't let her get too close to me ♪
Yeah, It's 'Primadona.'
That's like the oldest song that appears on the album.
I think I made that end of 2020
maybe like September, October, 2020.
It was just this period where I was lost and fucked up.
I was still drinking a lot in the LA scene.
And let's just say there's a lot of fake people.
Lose.
♪ I'm such a loser, swear to God, I'm the worst ♪
♪ I always fuck everything up, it's a curse ♪
It's my song, 'Loser.'
For one reason or another,
I got really, really pissed off
when I was at the music video set
and I was doing takes in that, question.
There's like a question mark scene
where it's like, all white and there's question marks
and in a question mark fit.
And I was really pissed off during one of the takes
and I didn't plan on it at all.
And I punched the wall
and it punched a hole through the wall
and I'm just really lucky I didn't punch one of the beams
because I would've totally broke my hand.
They tried to film clips, through the hole.
I don't even know if any of those
made it into the video.
I don't think they did.
Strong.
(clock ticking)
(electric buzzer sound)
I think I did so incredibly bad at this game.
I think I did terrible.
Probably the worst contestant that's come
and performed on this thing.
I would make other people play this game
so I can watch them suffer just as hard as I just suffered.
Don't forget to go stream the album,
'It was fun while it lasted.'
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