If I saw one of my old teachers now, I would tell them I'm sorry for cutting class to go
the studio, writing in raps in the classroom.
I'm sorry I never had my homework, but it all paid off.
You know what I'm saying?
What inspired Ego?
I just heard the beat, it was that vibe, it was that turn up.
I just got in the booth, so I'm going through it line by line, it just came out like that.
Having Flex playing the song before it's out, it's real smutty, man.
Niggas ain't having leaked music on Hot 97, you know what I'm saying?
And I'm from Brooklyn, so it's Funk Flex, you already know New York, man.
If we was making a movie about my life, I'd have to play myself.
I don't think there's any actors that look like me, they can't get the smutty vibes like me, man.
They can't catch this drip.
I mean everybody know Ne-Yo, man.
Everybody done heard Ne-Yo's songs.
My boy used to have the moves back in the day.
You can't save none of these hoes, man.
They just looking for a come up.
They could feel like they getting saved, but we're low key not saving nothing.
Seeing LeBron on the Lakers is it ... it look weird at first, I ain't gon lie.
I'm thinking Lakers, Kobe.
Now LeBron's on the Lakers, but it's aight.
I feel like it's gonna work out, it's gonna be a good match.
Smutty, that's a New York word.
Smutty's like you flexing, you shitting.
It's like another word for shitting.
When you get booked for a show, get your money upfront, and you're waiting on the backend
when you get to the venue, you get your backend.
Shout out my boy Penthouse, he got his own clothing line.
That's my boy and shit fire.
He from Harlem feel me, uptown, like Bronx and all that.
'We in the penthouse, came from the basement', we started from smoking weed in basements
and shit, and now in nice surroundings.
My people, the people I care about they opinion, always believed in the dream, they always
seen it coming, but you know there's always doubters.
You know, you see comments, you hear people hating and shit.
When I was younger, I woulda appreciated to have that ... you know, somebody a little
older from the area, from my city, showing love.
It wasn't really no younger people I was looking up to like that.
There's a lot of younger people coming out the city right now, so if I could be a role
model to the younger generation that'd mean everything to me.
Imma keep showing them, that you gotta keep grinding, keep working feel me?
And you can do whatever.