I got like this oversize, brand new Celine bag
that like I was scared to buy for a long time
'cause that shit was mad expensive.
Now I have two, I have a green one and a gray one.
Rappers ain't flex a Celine bag in a song,
so I'm like, I'ma be the first to do it.
Maybe I could get a Celine deal off of it or something.
I was like pitching.
I think I was jet lagged 'cause I was in Australia
or something like that and I
just landed in L.A. and I started working
and my body is like in the future.
So I'm literally jet lagged.
We made the beat, me, Ben, and Billionaire.
They was playing a rack of stuff and I was just like,
"Yo, we got the energy in here."
We had a bunch of people in there.
I'm like, "Let's capture this energy."
So they started cooking up a beat, I went to go eat,
I came back, and they had the beat.
And then I'm like this shit hard, turned it up,
and then I just went in the booth.
That's usually how I do it,
I just go straight in the book.
It is surprising that some of those songs that
it take me less thought becomes fan favorite because
my personal favorites be like the more technical songs.
But what I tell myself,
and what my manager tells me is that,
"You're gifted, like, you don't have to work as hard as
"other people to make hits."
So sometimes, the shit could be right in front of my face,
but like, we call 'em low hanging fruit.
It's like boom, I'll take that, like I need this.
But I like try to climb up a tree to like
get like the best fucking fruits and shit like that
when the shit is right there.
I love Asian women.
So it was like, I was just showing love
to the Asian community.
My first time going to Japan bro,
I went to Shibuya and Osaka.
Three stores blessed me with bags of BAPE.
I came back with gifts for the family.
And they even had me in this BAPE documentary
that Nigo did with Biggie and along, all the people that he
did collabs with.
I went to Nigo's house which is
a museum now.
I seen the BAPE Nextel, I seen like all the art, and,
the Campbell Soup cans and the dope rooms he got and,
all his collectibles and stuff like that.
And it was just a helluva experience.
I will hope that I'm in my family prayers because
as artists, we're vulnerable.
We're accessible, we can be touched.
We go into these clubs, we go into different towns.
Look at Rocky, he went to Sweden to do a show and wind up
getting locked up for a long ass time.
The $30,000 trench coat was this vintage
Prada croc coat that I actually didn't get.
But, I was just hoping that
I spoke it into existence.
And it just came to me.
So we still waiting for that Prada trench coat.
Me and the universe.
It was just as important for me to get this Club Monaco job
as it was for me to get a deal.
I would walk up in these interviews
just like I would walk into a label office
and play music and everything like that.
I would have to have
my fits right.
I would have to have my history on the company right.
And I would try to get these jobs,
but I never got the job at Club Monaco
and Caleb, my cousin, which was the manager at the store
at the time, didn't get me the job.
He said he would.
So shout outs to Caleb
because you made me bigger and better.
The natural girls think we don't love 'em.
Natural girls think like, I had a girl tell me,
she said, "Oh, I be thinking like all rappers just like
"the crazy, fat asses and the titties."
No, we love little booties too.
We love all shapes and sizes and that's why
you're unique is because you don't look like this person.
We don't want everybody to look the same so,
the natural girls, we love you too.
Ferg loves you.
Me making millions off "Plain Jane" not only money but like
it went three times platinum.
So like it's millions of people,
gaining millions of fans.
I remember YG paid me to do a video for him.
He paid me to do, when I shoot one of my first videos
for somebody else was him and Mustard
and they came to Harlem and
I took 'em to the Y3 store.
He bought his first pair of Tims,
he let them ship to my house.
I wanted to wear them 'cause
we were the same size. (laughs)
So we like real brothers.
So when I go to the West Coast I'm like fucking with him.
Like if you look at me in the Pesos video I'm like
rolling dice, I got the silk Versace shirt on
with the Versace shades.
I would love to be a creative director for Versace.
I talk to Donatella, I tell her like yo,
I got the vision.
I know what your brother would want.
I remember the first time I went to Philippe's,
and they hit me with that bill,
and I was like damn.
My cousin wanted to be all fancy.
He's like, "Yo, put your blazer on" and all of that shit.
So we all came out with our girlfriends and shit.
And that bill came back and I'm like wow.
This is why everybody rapping about this shit, huh?
It's a flex.
And then also, my uncle, he gonna hate me for this but,
he used to work at Philippe's.
He used to do the dishes when he came home,
you know what I'm saying, that PO is checking in.
Liberace was so gaudy and so blinged out
that it's like every black dude that has 10 rings on
plus a thumb ring feels like they're Niggarace.
So it's like, that's just like I think it's a black thing.
I paid homage to Rick Ross for the horns
and Jeezy for dope ad-libs.
But I took the ad-lib game to the next level.
So it's like I paint a picture but they try
to crop me, that's just,
like I created this shit and you just try
to take the pioneer out of it.
But nah, I'm here.
147th and Amsterdam, that's the place, it's a deli.
They got like the best chopped cheeses.
Mad tasty.
I ain't eat a chopped cheese in like three years though.
Man, you know the meat be tearing your body up,
your body can't be breaking all that shit down,
so you gotta be easy with all of that.
It's a movie named "Baby Boy" which is one
of my favorite movies.
Tyrese plays in it and Taraji.
They call him Baby Boy 'cause his ass is not grown yet,
like he not acting grown.
He got like two baby momma's and baby momma drama
and wilding out in the streets and
towards the end of the movie he starts to grow up
and become a man, so like,
you my son, my baby boy, go get Taraji.
I wonder if she knows that like I shouted her out.
I don't know if Taraji know,
so if she ain't know, I hope she know now.