I feel like the only reason that my career ever survived and I’ve gotten to where I’m
at is literally because I’m really good with managing money.
My first vocal booth I ever made, there was hella plywood in the outside, like I had an
alley behind my house.
And me and my brother late night found some and then we started making a booth.
If you’re going to hire somebody but you’re going to have those extra hours to just watch
TV, just do that yourself and use your money on something else like some tangible promotional
items or something.
I was in my feels about doing a lot by myself.
I kind of just was rapping about what it feels like to just wanna make it and not be able
to and everybody kinda saying, “You changed,” or you did this or you did that.
And it’s like I’ve been grinding forever.
Really, I gotta give it up to my manager and Riggs at my label ‘cause they were just
like, “What about DRAM?”
And I was like, you know, “That would be perfect.”
He was very fun and very positive and in the studio, we really got to kick it and talk
a little bit about…
And he’s been grinding for a long time so it’s one of those like…
It’s cool to have genuine people that you collaborate with.
People come at me and they're like, "Oh, you're lucky, like you got this or you got that."
And it's like nah, like when you were chillin', I was already out here gettin’ it.
So it's just a little affirmation of what I've been doing.
It’s super important for people to get up early.
I feel like there’s so many people that complain about their life situation but I
see them like chillin’ and sleeping and smoking and doing all this like hanging out.
And I’m just like what are you doing to improve your life?
I’m kind of reminding people because I think a lot of times I have been known for being
like struggle rap or rapping really fast or like certain songs I’m just very emo.
And then on this kind of stuff, I get to finally just stunt a little bit and be
like, “Yeah I’m about to turn up on y’all," because I deserve that because I’ve been
working really hard and because you know, if you don’t have what I have but we come
from the same place, you shouldn't talk crap.
That’s your fault, not mine.
Everybody that I run into will be like, “It’s so hard to get a hold of you.”
And I’m like, “You still got my old number?”
And they’re like, “Yeah.”
And I’ll be like, “Hit me up.”
And then they’ll hit me up and I’ll be like, “There it is."
"It’s not that hard to get a hold of me.”
It kind of just happened.
You know?
I am very…
I can rap my ass off so I guess a lot of people are like, “That’s what’s up."
"You dope.”
But it’s like, everybody’s just gonna kinda go this way.
And that’s fine.
It worked out for me.
Now I get to say it and I know that sometimes I say it a lot but at least I get to say that
because as a woman nowadays, it’s hard out here.
Any chance that you get to be able to be proud of the accomplishments that you made and no
man can take that away from you is awesome.
Even with like merch and stuff, there’s been times when we need to fulfill orders and fans
are waiting for their stuff and literally we haven’t slept, and we’re like short
some items and we gotta drive hours and go…
Like we do everything ourselves in my warehouse.
There’s been times when I’m literally about to drop a music video, plus we got merch,
plus we haven’t slept.
I still gotta record a verse for somebody.
And then I gotta take a flight in the morning cause I gotta go act or something.
Yeah.
There’s times when it gets crazy.
In my family, a lot of people are immigrants and some don’t have their citizenship or
papers and some of that gets you know, crazy.
So there definitely has been a lot of times when our family just has to have some faith
that it’s going to be alright.
That’s why I feel like this song feels good right now for me cause it is a crazy time.
If I started rapping about everything that makes me mad right now, I feel like I’d
become like a super political rapper so I’m happy that I can put it in some happy songs
cause I’m trying to just take a different approach because honestly a lot of us are
just mad about the current state of affairs.