- My dream for that record the whole time
was to eventually get a crazy bone.
So it was cool.
It took a while for it to happen but,
I have to just be patient, and from then to now
you see it's finally finished, complete,
how it's supposed to be.
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony is how I became a rapper.
I was probably like 8 years old or something.
Discovering their music through like Notorious Thugs
that was my favorite song ever when I was a kid.
So it's like, it's hard for it to feel real,
but I remember the second I heard it I'm like "Damn!"
He spit the exact verse
that I would have wanted him to spit.
I sent it to my dad, my mom, my grandparents and shit,
'cause they was the ones that was watching me,
you know what I'm saying? When I was a kid singing,
all the Bone Thugs-N-Harmony lyrics.
So I'm like "Yeah look, this happened."
The second the beat was made,
that's produced by DaeDae Pivot and Daru,
I kind of knew the direction to go, cause it felt nostalgic.
So I knew where verse wise, I would end up.
I understand like,
scene setting and the importance of like creative writing.
Like that's how I always grew up writing
where, if I'm describing something,
I'm talking in a way where I assume the listener just knows
what I'm speaking of and when you don't,
you use your imagination to plug in certain things.
When I think of the opening of this song,
it sets the scene and really just brings you
right to the exact moment that I'm talking about.
I had a scholarship.
Something ended up happening with my scholarship
where I no longer had the same amount of money
for my second year that I had in the first year.
It wasn't my grades.
I was getting better grades when I got to college
than I was in high school when I got the scholarship,
so, I to this day have no idea how I lost that scholarship,
but it ended up happening around the same time
where I started taking my music career
and everything serious,
where it felt like it was supposed to happen like that.
And that's something that only
a few of my family members understood.
It's just like really shouting out
to people that were important to my upbringing.
You know what I'm saying?
It's such a neighborhood tale.
One of the titles that I considered
for the the song instead of Coming My Way
was calling it A Poverty Song,
and, I just wanted to tell that story,
what that was like,
it's fans, its shooting, it's all of this,
but it's still so beautiful, like it's not dark.
And I wanted to offer the juxtaposition.
I feel like when we talk about tales
and, being in the hood,
it's always painted as this pitch-black nightmare,
every day was terrible and we had to shoot everybody.
They were beautiful days where we just wake up,
and, the first thing on our mind is playing basketball.
You know what I'm saying? Shit like that.
And, that to me, that sense of nostalgic just reflection,
is really at the heart of this song.
Losing Walt in 2017 was always fresh on my mind.
You know what I'm saying?
Like somebody that I see every day.
You know what I'm saying?
Somebody that's just supposed to be there,
not there and it's just like it happened so quick in a song
where I didn't want to dwell in it,
but I just wanted to acknowledge it.
The signs that,
I think I was meant to get to this shit.
When I think of that, it's like pretty easy
because it's like, if we wasn't supposed to be here,
we would not be here.
As far as this career, this life, it's hard to doubt it.
It just feel like a calling,
like the beginning of a calling too.
Cause I think I'm just getting started to be honest.
When I say blood I mean the vessel
I'm talking to my family and my bloodline,
and I'm gonna tell my family to be careful.
We already acknowledge that we could lose family.
So now it's like, I'm gonna tell my people to be careful,
and when I say multiply my problems by the day,
new problems are introduced here
where now it's not just the neighborhood,
but now we gotta worry about the cops
and all type of other shit,
and when I say I'm run it like the Pharaoh is just like,
it's just resilience.
You know what I'm saying?
I think everybody that I know from Chicago,
it's like you almost born resilient.
Like you have to be.
And then I say this for the peasants
who worry about the peso,
and that is back into that "A Poverty Song" title
that I was gonna potentially go with,
but to me that was just like,
this is for everyone who can relate to this
because of poverty.
'Cause that's what every scenario that's introduced,
from the tube socks on Madison,
to dropping outta school,
to losing people that we love,
to telling your family to be safe,
to playing ball in the backyard.
All of this is a direct result of poverty.
I'm constantly even to this day,
like trusting my imagination
to get me to where I wanna be.
When I think of daydreaming,
I think most of that is imaginative.
Kind of considered like manifestation almost.
You know what I'm saying?
'Cause that's just what we was doing.
It wasn't real, it wasn't tangible,
but we felt in our heart that everything
we was gonn' do, was gonna work, and was gonn' pay off
and we was gonna be good.
This song actually has a place and time.
Like I'm describing a time period,
but, by this part of the song it's like,
it positions it as like a glimmer of hope.
That was something that was important for me with this song
like I didn't want it to be sad,
and like depressing describing these things,
but, I wanted the fact that this is temporary.
Like, I'm on my way, we on our way to somewhere better.
Like I wanted that to really shine through,
and what it kind of became to me was,
come my way, and then I'm describing my way
just around my way,
and, it ended up working out.
I made Come My Way, actually right after Care For Me.
It was 2018,
my plan was honestly to drop two albums that year.
But Care For Me ended up doing really well,
and it was like, relax.