Ricky is my father.
Ricky is the one who got me here.
He was mainly the first believer in my music when everybody was making fun of me.
Him, my brother Mo like they used to be there 24/7.
My dad actually flew out with me for my first out of town show in LA.
That was dope.
He was like yo, you can do this show, I just gotta come with you.
Make sure everything was straight, I got my money and everything was cool.
We had a whole week of duds, like our whole week was just full of whack ass tracks and
Shit.
This is the one that came out hard as hell.
We didn't complete it that day.
We just chilled for like, probably like five days, you know get the energy up get the chi up.
Then I just stumbled across, I was looking for this song, from DJ Screw like you know
Fat Pat and stuff like that, just going through their freestyles and then I stumbled on a
freestyle on accident and I was like Oh!
This is hard.
So I sent it to them and then he was like yo, this is really tough.
I free styled it.
It was all the top of the head because you know.
You gotta put your mind to the pad to remember it then back to the mic and you've gotta recite
it over and over again and you might get tired of that same flow.
So, my process was like mind to mic.
I don't want the middle man, the pad was the middle man.
So it was just mind to the mic.
Man, people still make fun of me man.
I got roasted by Smino people still make fun of me.
Ay it happens, everybody gets roasted.
Everybody gets made fun of so it's like whatever.
And plus where I am from everybody be ranking everyday if you don't know how to rank in
Floria, you’re pretty much done.
I'm not even the best roaster, I'm not I'll tell you that straight up, I'm not funny I
just know when to attack at the right time.
Everybody just thought I was “Ultimate” and that was it.
Even before that people just thought I was “Threatz.”
I had to work twice as hard for people to hear me.
So that's when “Taboo” came out and “Clout Cobain,” they was like “oh!
He's really good” like nah, I been good.
Ya'll just though I was trash.
Money separates families off top.
That's when it comes down to me and my family, I'm just like yeah I know I got money and
stuff like that but I'm only gonna use it to help out what needs to be done around the
house or whatever the case may be.
I'm not just going to throw money at you because I don't want you out of my life, nah.
It doesn't go down like that.
Everytime I would ride with my dad it would be me and my brother Luke, or one of my brothers
be in the car, and he would just tell us stories of like his childhood and stuff like that.
Stuff he learned.
Him always pushing forward on what we wanted we wanted to do with our lives, my dad was
really big on that.
G shit!
My momma don't trust nobody.
My mom doesn't trust nobody I can say that for my mom.
My mom loves us to death, she loves all her kids to death but you know she don't trust
people.
You know my mom's a Scorpio, so it’s like…
My moms just gives me mad game about like you know stay prayed up stay away from these
evil ass energies that’s around you because they be trying to trap people.
Because she watched the news and she's watched what is going on with other rappers and she
was like my son aint going to be that.
That was actually a shout to both Fat Pat and my brother Treon.
My brother Treon, every time he used to come on the block he be like, oh yeah boy, what
it do?
Don't even look at you, he was like what it do?
And then clap you up and just keep it moving.
But the whole imma act one, two, that was my spin on what Fat Pat said on like one of
his freestyles.
He was like 'imma act one, two imma act just like a nigga do' That's pretty much like flip
of that.
My dad and my mom they had a thing like, if we fighting people outside the house, cool.
Long as we win.
Once me or any of my brothers fight in the house, it's already messing up the whole energy.
And they’re mad, like hell naw.
Ya'll fighting in the crib naw.
And we’re all getting our ass whooped.
'Fear no man but the man above your head' Okay it could be a man it could be a woman.
Or basically whatever entity is, yeah you know only fear that entity, because whatever
you throw out into the universe is what you gonna get back.
My mom’s a Jehova's Witness so,
she would try to bring me to church and her mother, Emma Baker god rest her soul.
It's a nod to "Parents."
‘Nostalgic 64’ was the first tape and I had song called "Parents," where your momma
aint shit and your daddy aint shit.
Let’s go back before 'Nostalgic 64' and what you get is 3 mix tapes back when I was in
Raider Klan, which was ‘King Remembered’ which ‘Was King of the Mischievous South’
and strictly from Raiders ‘Nostalgic’ came after those three tapes.
So it was a nod to the lo-fi era.
I used to always wear Dickies.
I don't know what it is bruh, I used to fight in Dickies.
Dickies was my shit.
Like you seen me with a Dickie on, yeah I'm gonna go like fade somebody or I'm just wearing
black pants and I didn't have no like skinny jeans like I didn't wear that shit.
Now I do but, well slim fitted.
I realized like majority of the people, that you know that are big now, used to listen
to Raider Klan and were influenced by Raider Klan.
You could see it, it's dominant in the rap game.
And I know ya'll did a genius on the influence of SpaceGhost Purp and Raider Klan.
That's pretty much it.
I get respect from a lot of rappers because I used to be in Raider Klan.
Shit even mother fucking, the DJ Marshmallow dude came up to me and was like, “Yo!
Denzel Curry you're legend!”
I was like “What the fuck?
How did he know who I am?
I am, damn?”
Three 6 Mafia because that's what everyone was comparing Raider Klan to.
Then you have Wu Tang because that's how deep we was.
Because there was mad people in our own Raider Klan.
And then Dipset because we was some fly ass niggas but we just seem like fly ass niggas.
You know what's crazy, my dad took me my mom and my brothers to a concert with this dude
named Norman Brown.
That was my first ever concert and I was four years old.
I remember it vividly.
This man was playing the guitar, then he took his shirt off and he was like in a white tee
just playing the guitar like Norman Brown I'm telling you.
Then I was like what, and then I took my shirt off because I had a white tee under and I
was like I wanna be like guy.
Jewels like food for thought you feel me?
That's what Jewels you dropping gems on your ass.
No PE.