The record to me creates a moment for anybody.
You could be going through anything.
If you put on this record, it'll make you smile.
You could be at the lowest moment in your life and just know that if you get up and
do something, you can change your circumstances.
And that's what music is about to me.
It ain't about no drugs, no alcohol and no shooting, no nothing.
Kids can listen to it.
Have fun, do whatever you like.
When I first got the track, my homie brought a lap steel to the studio and I saw them messing
around with it and I had never played the lap steel before.
And I tuned it like I tuned my guitar over E and I made one chord bar fret and then I
kind of made the loop.
And after I got finished doing that, I was just like, “The song is so joyful, I've
got to make some lyrics that feel just as exciting.”
Joy and dance to me is kind of like the same thing you know ’cause my joy comes from
the church.
And when people got joyful they got up and jumped around.
The joy in the record was telling me you know maybe if I give people a little direction
with what I wanted to do, then I can make like 2019, 2020, “Achy Breaky Heart” or
something, you know what I'm saying?
Just something cheerful.
You know it's called “The Git Up”, but it don't say get up one time in the song,
so I dedicated it to my grandmother.
Get up, be joyful.
Bow.
When you hear someone talking at a concert, if it's towards you, you're going to respond.
You know just giving people that, “Alert, alert, here we come.
We about to do something great.”
It was just that moment for me.
I mean I don't even know how the words came to me, they just did.
Well the dance is like fairly simple.
The two-step from my perspective is like growing up listening and looking at ‘House Party’
you know what I’m saying?
Kid N’ Play.
When they was going to do the Two-Step, that was my take on it.
The cowboy boogie is a traditional country line dance, it's a boom, boom, boom, boom.
The spin out with it is you know typical, spin, boom.
Do the hoedown is another traditional line dance song.
Hoedown.
Then one of my favorite parts of the dance that had nothing to do with nothing is the
heel, woohoo.
That was my moment where I knew I would like, I just did something magical.
I started doing the dance in my head, then I start trying to do the dance.
You know it just felt like lean back, you know it ain’t the Rockaway “Lean Back”,
it’s a lean you know what I’m saying.
Put your hips in it made me think about like my mother and my aunties, when they go to
moving they hip you can’t tell them nothing.
They in they moment.
My slip and slide was more so thinking about a rollercoaster or something,
you know what I'm saying?
Roll your shoulders, you could roll your shoulder however you want, you know what I'm saying?
With slip and slide it's just something fun to me, something I visualized.
A lot of younger, younger kids like nine, 10, 11 they'd be doing a dance and they'd
be boom.
You know what I'm saying?
So I visualize that moment for that part.
Slide to the left slide to the right now cool down do the butterfly.
Everybody know the butterfly.
The butterfly is just a classic move that I used to see my mother do all the time.
The move is like I’m gonna get you … and stuff and ‘Harlem Nights’ when people dancing
and stuff and they going down low it just made me feel like wanna take it to the floor.
When I got to the point where I said do whatever you like just have fun I ran out of lyrics.
And I was just like do whatever you like.
Just have fun.
Number one on the hot country just holds a special moment to me because you know I grew
up listening to country music and grew up listening to rap music I mean I made it with
what I loved the most.
808 Drums, and country music.
It’s just always been apart of me.
So to have that all in one and for people to actually consume it and download it and
stream it with like no money behind it thats the fan’s talking.
You can’t ask for that. That’s God-given like divine appointment
The track told me what it wanted what it needed.
I went with what the track said to do.
And no matter how you do the dance you can’t mess it up as long as you’re up and you’re
having fun.