- I was surfing on the beach one day.
- You surfed on to the wave and then started
rocking with me.
Did a remix. - Yeah.
- I heard in the distance, you gonna rock with us, yeah.
I was like, oh shit, what's that, that voice is beautiful,
it's like a angel.
Like a beach bird, it's like a seagull.
It's like a mine, mine, mine, you feel me?
- "Beach Ballin'" I made in Malibu when I was working
with my boy Cisco Adler on my album.
I was just like, yo, me and Blackbear are overdue,
you know what I mean, I need Blackbear on this album.
He's one of the first people to reach out,
bring me on tour so, it was only right, you know.
The album's called "Back to the Beach", it's going back
to where I started basically, you know what I mean?
- I think they had sent me, three songs that are a
possibility that you could work on three of these or
whatever but I was like, "Beach Ballin'" is like the single
out, I wanna be on the single.
- Yeah.
- I just heard that (mumble singing).
And I was just like, bro, hoo ooh.
- When I drive down PCH I just reminisce on growing up.
Reflect on how far I've come, you know.
From like, riding around the city in my girls Corolla
to ride around the city in my Benz.
The view's different looking out the window, you know
what I mean, the way you see things is ah, instead of
I wanna do all this it's like, damn I already did all that.
What else could I do?
Growing up I was kinda like, I was a popular kid but I've
always been kinda introverted and then when I became
famous or started coming up or whatever you wanna call it,
I started having to be more extrovert.
Always people around me, not as much time to myself,
just gotta like, grind you know what I mean, so.
You gotta make a lot of sacrifices and then, now at this
point in my life where I been doing it for so long,
sometimes I just wanna be alone.
I just wanna be myself and I don't wanna say please either.
You know, I personally like going to the beach.
Kinda ironic but obviously you know that's my spot,
just reminds me of being home, I feel comfortable
no matter where I'm at.
If I told people what I felt all the time people would
just know how deep I really get, you know what I mean.
Girls or whatever, people just be like, damn bro,
I didn't even know he was that intellectual or he thought
like that or he was going through all that stuff, you know?
So I try to keep my distance from certain people and just
stay with my day ones and my same friends.
"Beach Ballin'", made it from the beach and I'm balling now,
you know what I'm saying?
It's like the same thing that bear is saying.
I should be back home working a nine to five by the beach
but instead I'm out here beach balling, drop top,
made all of these M's and now I'm living my dreams.
- I worked for them, I want people to know that,
yeah they're kinda like trophy pieces or whatever it is.
You see all these things but a lot of blood, sweat and
tears goes into this and that's just real.
There's a lot of sleepless nights that went into that and
it didn't just appear in my life like, oh he has it and
I don't, I'm gonna be salty.
It's like, no.
I literally had nothing and I came, I came from nothing.
Whenever I get close to the beach, I feel close to home
and I think that's a whole part of Pinch's joint,
just back to the beach, back to the roots because it's just,
for some people, skyscrapers remind them of home,
some people, red barns remind them of home, you know.
For me it's just water and sand.
There was times in my life where I had flat lined in the
hospital, you know I suffer from a bunch of physical and
mental disease so thank God for rehabilitation and people
being in that field to help nurse me back to
the 2020 bear that you see today.
Happiness is relative to how you see it, you know?
Beauty's in the eye of the beholder.
Achieving happiness without any drug or alcohol for me is,
is happiness and being healthy and waking up and not
needing a crux.
For me, I'm living my dream when it comes to that and
it's just, I never dreamed I would live a life where I could
just wake up and be okay with me.
- Growing up it was my, it was my big homie Maddox.
He was like the rapper, you know what I'm saying,
ff the city, of Huntington Beach and he took me under his
wing, let me record at his house, started selling presale
tickets and doing shows together and then I really just
took off with my 714Ever album, started getting
millions of streams, got my song played on the radio,
started going on tour, selling out shows, sold out
The Observatory and there's no one else from Huntington
Beach that's done that in this lane,
you know what I'm saying, there are no rappers from
Huntington Beach, it's unheard of.
Now everyone sees that it's possible, you got a lot of
people trying to follow my footsteps.
There's a lot of girls that want me, that wanna be with me
but I know their intentions aren't pure.
A lot of these girls got a heart made of gold in the sense
that, made out of materialistic things, you know.
Their heart beats to get these things that aren't
the same thing that would make my heart happy.
Yeah I got a Benz, I got a AMG now, it's like the first
car that I ever bought for myself so,
that was a big deal for me.
Man, I pulled off the lot with two of my boys to
what's that Drake, Lil Baby song?
I was like, ah I got a digi dash, I'm in a Benz with
my boys, this is surreal.
I was just in the booth freestyling and I just started
doing that on some punk rock shit, you know what I mean?
Straight punk rock and they were like, yeah keep doing that,
keep doing that, that's ill.
That's just a whole lot of bullshit, I've heard a lot
of that in my life, you know what I mean?
From a lot of different people.
So that's like a chant to me, that's one of my favorite
parts to the song.
Just start rocking out like, don't tell me nothing,
that's a whole lot of blah, blah, la-di, da-di, da.
"Beach Ballin'".