I’m mad smart.
You know what I’m saying?
Humbling speaking.
Bro, the industry be thinking rappers are retarded and it’s like, you be walking into
offices and they’re sitting there telling you about like, so like, here’s how you
grow a fanbase.
I'm like bro do these fucking people know, what the fuck like...
Like I’m sitting in your office cause of what I did.
So like, a lot of times with me, what comes first, what I hope comes first, is the melody.
And then I just fit the words into the melody, it’s like a puzzle.
You know what I’m saying?
So like that first verse melody, that shit like instantly came out and the words kind
of came out too.
So this one, I made the beat in the studio and instantly did it and you know it’s a
minimal beat, I like minimalism, it’s like four instruments.
So it didn’t take long at all.
There’s this youtube clip of when Kendrick Lamar got the verse back from Jay Z on “Bitch
Don’t Kill My Vibe” and Ab Soul was sitting there and was like “They really let us in
the mother fucking rap game.”
And it was such like a honest, woah type of shit that at that time I really related to
cause I was like man, they really about to let me in this shit!
Lola was... those are not exact names of people that I know.
It was more so, like I said like names that sounded good on the beat.
That represented girls that I know.
She feels like the ocean, a lot of people might think that that’s a sexual reference,
which like, it could go that way, but it’s also just like a therapeutic chick that like
you’re cool with, you kick it with.
Katia’s the like, you know, the chick that
just comes through and you know what time it is with her, then you send her home.
A lot of people get lost in the aura, people don’t even fuck with people they just fuck
with the aura.
They get lost in the sauce.
I was starting to first get this kind of onslaught of a bunch of people in the industry and shit
that I didn’t know, they want a piece of it.
Everyone wanted a piece.
NOW y’all talking to me, but I know what y’all want.
You’re on the outside of the industry, right?
So you don’t really know what’s going on behind closed doors.
Then all of a sudden you get behind closed doors and you start like seeing how much fake
shit is going on.
You start going to these label meetings and they start telling you about these artists
that are signed, that have been signed with them and like oh no we’re gonna wait to
announce it for like 7 months, 8 months, and you’re like what?
You start realizing that not everything is what it seems.
That’s why I said like, I’m the DIY pioneer cause I really did that shit myself.
I know people that stopped after dropping one mixtape and it didn’t work, like I dropped
eleven.
You know what I’m saying?
And then I dropped a song every week on soundcloud, like I could have stopped after song 20 and
been like to I’ve given it 11 albums, 20 songs, it didn’t work, it’s not for me,
but like, that’s why like, these people who try to say they are independent like no,
I was really independent.
Not independent but you have 2 million dollars behind you and your dad’s this person.
That’s not independent.
If that’s independent than I was fucking homeless.
That’s how fucking psycho I’m willing to go, I’m willing to literally shoot until
I put up 81.
I was not on some like, indie deal give me 25k.
I was like, give me a lil 7 digit vibe.
My grandfather, rest in peace, Pop Pop, was like, just a boss.
Everyone in the family always like would tell these stories about boss shit he would do.
There was always a vibe with him like an aura and that got passed down to my dad, and seeing
how my dad would move around.
You know, whether is because he's Sicilian or whatever there was just a vibe that
I think I inherited it, cause I was watching it.