"Pour Me Water" is like, more about the feeling of wanting somebody and even though you know
that person is gone, you're stuck.
You don't want to move on.
Kind of a sad song.
My producer E-kelly had just come from Nigeria and we went for a wedding.
Finished the wedding, he was supposed to record, boys had too much wine.
He put me in the room and he was like, "Yo, let's record something."
And then my other producer, GuiltyBeatz walks into the room and he's like
"Pour Eazi some water because he's like, sleeping.”
As I woke up, he was still making the beat and I just like, "Pour me water, holy water."
He's like, "Yo that is it right there."
So he stops making the beat and he just puts it on a loop and I just freestyled the whole
record.
“Pour Me Water” is a mixture of Nigerian Pidgin English, the way we speak on the street.
Ghanaian Pidgin English, and then I put some Twi there.
So, “Fa syε me.”
That means like, “put it on me.”
And then it says, “Mese daada me.”
Don’t lie to me.
And then it says, “lie to me.”
It’s that confused feeling.
You’re saying “Lie to me,” like even though you don’t love me, just tell me you
love me.
You know something is not gonna work but you still just want
to stay in that moment.
I would call myself I'm a religious person, but I would say I'm in touch with some form
of spirituality.
Holy water there is just a metaphor.
What it really means is heal me, heal me from this sickness because I'm
love sick, heal me.
That's a reference to an old relationship when I was at uni.
We became friends and from friends I began started having feelings for her.
My friends used to tell me, "That's trouble man."
"She's out of your league in the first place so just let it go."
I'm like, "Nah nah nah, this is gonna work."
She was seeing two other guys, an older guy and a younger guy.
I found out I ended up being friends with the older guy.
One day we were having drinks and he just tells me, "Oh do you know this girl?"
"Oh you go to this school right?"
And I'm like, "yeah yeah yeah."
He's like, "Oh I have a friend there."
He pulls out his phone and shows me and she's the one and I can't tell him, "Yo."
"That's my girl."
I ended up telling my friend and my friend told me, "Yo, I just didn't want to tell you
but she's seeing this other guy."
I was the fool there 'cause I got played.
It's gone from me being emotional to me being angry, so I switch the delivery.
Instead of goodnight I’m saying good morning because we’re not in the same place anymore.
What you've done to me is like kung fu.
It's hurting.
It's heavy.
I've seen this before, I've been in this same place before and that's why I'm pissed because
someone has played me before and now I'm here again.
Her names not Abena but I needed to find a name that was far away, far away from her
real name.
The way I say… there's no way she'll listen to the record not know
I was singing about her.
It's not a mistake, this is your record.
A lot of people don't get water, a lot of communities, deep, deep communities.
In the urban areas we forget what's going on.
My tour made me go across a lot of places and every
million streams we've been doin we'll be doin one well.
It's at 4 million and the 4th well is about to be done.
For me now it's gone beyond music.
I'm singing this song to 5, 10, 15 thousand people and they're streaming, we all get to
give back to communities.