What's up everybody? This is your boy Brian B-Mac McIntosh
-and I’m here with: -the boy Tory Lanez and I'm pulling up.
All right I appreciate you being here man, joining BET.
For sure. Thanks for having me.
Your album is dope. I've been listening to it ever since the drop at midnight.
One thing I noticed is like you're really spittin’ God bars on there.
I feel like on your last CD
you know, you had tracks on there I feel on this one
you are really trying to prove to people that you'll really do this.
-Yeah definitely. -Was that one of the goals of this album?
Yeah, I feel like my whole career has always kind of been like
somewhat proving people wrong
or you know like a "I told you" moment if you will.
And for me I just for this album
I wanted to make sure that all of my talents came to the table
and you know I brought certain flavors that I didn't get to do in the first one
so basically this was just kind of picking up
from anything that the first one may have lacked
and just kind of being super strengthened this time, you know.
Absolutely, absolutely. Now the track with 50 is dope.
It´s a dope storyline. I want you to elaborate on that,
the story behind it
and then speak on your relationship with 50.
Well the song " Pieces" basically deals with this girl, she is a rape victim
and she got raped by her uncle.
And pretty much her uncle... she ends up killing her uncle
and ends up having to raise the uncle's son.
Then the son grows up and his whole like outlook on life is like:
I gotta find out who killed my father
and what the reason was, you know what I'm saying so
there is a whole like little thing, you gotta listen to the album,
listen to the song pieces.
You gotta understand what´s going on there
but the way it´s intricately told when I first showed this song to 50
he heard it and he was just like, I think he immediately kind of
had like a cinematic kind of mind frame towards
looking at like how I do when I wrote it.
And I think he started seeing the visual of it
beforehand and he was like
and I was like: It´ll be dope since I know you story-tell too,
for us to come and collaborate on this and that´s what it ended up being.
Okay, now speak on your relationship with him. How did you guys get so close?
I met him through one of my friends named Sena
and Sena knew somebody he works with named René.
and I was like on to him like I was telling Sena like:
"if you can get me a meeting in there with him"
"Like I just love to meet him, I´ve listened to him for years, it´s like
you know what I mean?
So I get in there.
I remember the first time we met he sat and we just talked for like,
we sat there and talked for like three hours.
I played him a couple of songs
and we just kicked it and I showed him my stuff
and he was just like you know he was listening to the music
and he was [bleep]-ing with it
just like knowing that he was actually paying so much more attention like
he pays a lot of attention to people to understand like,
he watches everything, you know what I´m saying and
just knowing that he was paying attention
to little things that I didn´t even know he was paying attention to,
it just shows, that its as big as him,
you know what I´m saying?
Absolutely, absolutely.
And then we just kept on building, kept on building and then
I asked him to be a part of the movie that I´m shooting for this album.
So I´m shooting a movie, not a documentary, not like a music video film
but like a real like short film, probably like 50 to 60 minutes long.
Basically it takes from the story of the " I told you" album
which is my first album
and it takes from like the experiences in this album
that I’m kind of talking about.
There are two different dynamics to those albums
but the story is very much the same so
now the movie for them both colliding is called:
"I told you, memories don´t die".
So I asked 50 to be a part of that and he agreed
and it´s just one of those things like
from that point on I just like [bleep]
it´s just super ill I didn´t believe like I´m about to, you know,
cause he looks at me like,
he looks at himself like as far as cinematic-wise
this is [bleep] trying to do his thing like
and I´m helping him like so I [bleep] with that.
Speaking about the album title man like...
-Memories don´t die.
I called it "Memories don´t die" cause I feel like,
well basically it stemmed from a certain time where
I had a certain memory of like friends that betrayed me
and they made me want to get into the music more
and kinda step away from that
the whole like life of trying to just be everybody´s friend and stuff like that
so I called it "Memories don´t die" because the memories of that time
like won´t ever really die so...
Also just like the memorable things that are about to happen in the future
and things I know that are about to come out
and things that I know
will always be super memorable to everybody.
These things won´t die, you know what I mean so
at this point in my life I want to create that
standpoint in the music and call it: "Memories don´t die."
Give me your best and worst memory in your music career and your life.
Best memory up to date I guess
was either like the first time I went platinum
or just the first time I´ve seen my album on a shelf.
And you know I bought my first album I told myself,
I did never bought an album in my life.
All the albums, all the hottest albums when everybody copped them.
I always said I was gonna cop them and never bought no album ever.
Never bought no album.
I told myself the first album I´m ever gonna buy
-is gonna be my album. -Okay.
And I did that.
The first album I ever bought was: "I told you" .
And it´s funny cause I did it so ironically that when I went there
I saw the cover and I said: "I told you".
That´s gold.
It´s like I told myself.
I saw it on the cover and I said: "I told you."
The first album you´re gonna buy is gonna be your album.
And I bought it. - I feel like you´re the best. Don´t you?
I mean I feel like I´m the best in music but I´m, I wouldn´t say cocky,
I´m not arrogant either
I´m just very confident in myself like you know what I´m saying.
And sometimes it gets like over swayed
I don´t think I´m better than anybody and I say this all the time
I don´t think I´m better than nobody when it comes to
being a human being, being a spiritual person.
Just being an equal person like I´m not better than anybody,
you know what I´m saying.
I´m one of those people I look at myself like
I could be the same person just like
if there is somebody on a corner who is less fortunate than I am
I am the same person as them,
I just happen to be in a more fortunate situation.
Okay.
My thing is just that when it comes to music,
like my craft that I do my
my thing in like I try to do my grace and my best like
I´m better than all you [bleep], my [bleep]
and I don´t care and I will always stay true to that because
I know that it´s like talent for talent
I hadn't met nobody that can match up in the room
they it might be [bleep] sing better than me but they can´t rap.
There might be [bleep] that can rap better than me.
whatever might be some [bleep] rap better than me
but they can´t sing.
For me it´s like if you can´t put your talents to a place
where we can match them up and we can compare
and you´re beating me on a stat list, I can´t see you.
And it´s hard for me somebody who pushes myself every day
to be better than my last [bleep]
It´s hard for me to push myself to being this guy
who is seeing everybody as competition
because I´m already competing with my damn self
so I have no time to compete with you.
That´s why people think I´m cocky because like they look at it like:
"Wow you can´t say that cause you don´t know who is in the world."
"You can´t say that cause you don´t know what this guy did and who this guy is."
You´re right. I don´t know who that [bleep] is.
Know why I say that?
Because it me in this [bleep] going [bleep] room [bleep],
I´m going to do whatever it takes [bleep], to make sure that I win.
No matter what it takes as far as talent-wise.
You know what I´m saying. If we put the toss up,
if our talents go on a treadmill, I´m gonna run till I die [bleep].
- I feel that. - You see what I´m saying?
If you´re not willing to die with me,
then you´re not going to beat me at this race.
And a lot [bleep] are not willing to die.
Facts, facts, facts.
So give me your top five rappers right now that you feel like
maybe not better than you but in the same category?
Dylan, Dylan, Dylan and Dylan and Dylan.
I love it. I love it. Okay I feel you on that.
I feel you on that.
Now we´re all here at BET, you know.
You expressed that BET has impacted you as an artist.
Give me your best music moment of BET.
I love BET to a point like I ask people about this show all the time
and nobody seems ever to remember this.
- Nobody remembers Cita´s World? - What?
Like the animated girl
like every time I [bleep] ask [bleep] about it
looking at me like "[bleep] Cita´s World?"
Like that´s how long like I was, like that girl like
remember like I was really small when that came out
and so like for me to watch TV, I couldn´t watch,
I couldn’t watch 106 at this time.
I was watching, my sisters and brothers were watching.
I wouldn´t be like tune into TV but it had Cita´s World
and it was a different way of like me looking at it
it was some digital chick and she looked like a cartoon.
But she was just showing what the next video was
talking this [bleep] as being cool, being fly like
and that for me always was like a memory for me.
- Okay. - That doesn´t die.
That is like one of the moments I think that like
I kinda was first introduced to BET
and then after that you know cause I got older,
Big Tigger in “The Basement”
-The classic free-style. - Classic free-style.
Tigger was always rapping with you.
AJ & Free on 106 & Park, you know what I´m saying
And now they are bringing Freestyle Friday back too.
-O yeah? -They are bringing it back March 30th.
- That´s one of these days. -Yeah, they are bringing that back.
I wanted to ask you a question to end it.
You touched on your mom on the album.
With all your success now, so second album,
all this success, you´re a superstar,
how do you feel your mom will feel about you now?
I think she’d be very happy.
She would just tell me to keep on,
keep pushing to push the positivity to the youth
and just make sure that I fed my generation
in a way that is incomparable to anybody else.
You know, so.
-Any last words? -Yo this is your boy Tory Lanez,
make sure you cop my album "Memories don´t die."
It´s out everywhere right now and I just pulled up.