I know what it's like to know your full potential and that shit not be executed.
I know what it feels like to be slept on for sure.
I tweeted the other day, I know what it’s like to be slept on.
It's painful because it is.
When you know that full potential, but you gotta let that ignite you.
I had a reference to it for awhile before I finished writing it.
I was in London, and we was in the studio every night.
I was irritated that I still had this song because I knew it was something.
But I couldn't find the time to get it done.
One night I just like, yo I'm not leaving until this shit done.
I had to snap on that second verse. I did it once and then I wasn't satisfied.
I had to make longer.
That's a part of winning is taking a loss.
You measure the character of a person of how they bounce back.
How they handle themselves after that.
Is it gonna tear you down?
Or is it gonna make you come back even harder?
My phone been ringing since I sat down honestly.
It’s on vibrate right now.
It rang like two times since we been sitting down.
I do vibe out.
It's hard to simplify things sometimes like that and for it to still be some type of cleverness
to it.
You know the Paramount Mountain got all them stars surrounding it.
When I thought of that line, I didn't know if it was too much of a stretch.
Some people be trying to over rap.
It be like, “Okay come on. We get it. You can rap.”
I almost didn't use that line.
But then, I thought about it and was like, no that's hard.
I'ma put that out into the universe that I'm top 5 because that's what I want to bring to the
game.
That's how I feel every time I step into the booth.
I feel like I'm the best.
I'm gonna keep proving myself.
I'ma keep going hard and putting that work in.
We should be the best at what we do, man.
What you think, you gonna go to work saying “he's better than me at what I do.”
That's some bullshit.
Damn, that's some bullshit.
The artwork and the message is take no L's.
So if you fuck with my glory, I'ma drop the L. So I drop the L, ‘cause I'm dropping
a loss and get gory.
And then if you take the L out of glory, it's gory.
Little random stuff.
It’s like that chef that be like...
I seen people change up compl etely.
Just how they act, how they treat you, what they think they entitled to. Honestly, it's
good to change.
I'm not saying you shouldn't change.
I think change is for the better.
Sometimes when people keep changing, they change in different ways, and they grow apart.
I'ma keep it 100 with you.
When I came up with that line, I didn't realize that's why Jordan picked 4,5.
It only makes total sense now that when he retired 2,3 he came back with 4,5.
That was like the one up.
I was just like “ohhhhh, okay, I'm 'bout to kill 'em.”
Honestly, I'ma keep it real, I looked it up too just to make sure I wasn't biting or no
shit like that.
It just felt good to get that off.
When I thought of it, I didn't think of the song “Control,” like on taking back “Control.”
Obviously I can't take it back, because the song is out there.
But I don't give a fuck if you think that, that's cool, too.
I guess that makes it a double thing.
I was just talking about taking back control of my life.
I remember my manager told me, “You know what happens to the underdog?
It eventually turns into the big dog.”
That always stuck with me.
Just that mentality.