I'm not innocent, I'm not perfect, I make mistakes.
I'm young, I got time to grow.
Sometimes I can feel like I'm evil,
like I've been called evil before, you know.
So, I'm evil
so, I deserve to die the way I've be doing like,
when you do certain things,
you ever heard the saying like,
"You get what you give" type of shit.
So it's like,
if I'm evil I deserve to die in a gruesome,
like a painful way,
just off of the painful things I be doing to people.
I feel like with this record it's dope
because usually I speak about
what the other person is doing.
I speak about, you know, you doing the fucked up shit
but in this record it's like,
"Alright, let's talk about what I'm doing
'cause I'm not innocent either,"
You know?
And a lot of people that know me personally, or they listen
to my music and they like break down the lyrics.
They could, they hear like the toxicness.
You feel me?
Like, you can hear like, "Oh, shit,
like he... he grimy too. I'm not gon' lie,"
so that's kind of what you hear in this record.
"Excuse my pain".
I kind of want it to give you both sides.
You feel me?
If you listen to my new tracks,
I start them off by saying, "Let me talk my shit."
So I started off like that
but then I kind of flipped that and said,
"You know what let me continue off of that.
Let me continue off that ad-lib,
and see where I could go with it."
And I just, I just continued talking my shit from there.
A boss doesn't really have to do much,
when you speak you're listened to.
And I feel like I'm a boss in many different ways.
Just how I hold myself down.
How I hold others down.
How I carry myself.
You understand me?
The way I move.
Just my aura, my energy.
I feel like people hate on me for no reason.
And when you a boss, people hate
on you for no reason, but those same people
they have a conversation with you, they feel stupid,
'cause they fuck with you.
I felt like maybe when I was performing
in front of everybody, like even just my family
and them seeing the shows firsthand.
And my people seeing like my, my team coming
to the shows and they seen the response we was getting
that was probably when like I really shut it down
and they was convinced like, "Alright, like, he got it."
You know, from me going outside, shooting music
videos and me shutting down
other people's neighborhoods.
Like, "Yeah, he got it. Aight"
Like, just different little things.
Me going platinum. Me just getting a certain amount
of views, or getting certain respect
from certain artists that we look up to.
Little accomplishments like that.
I feel like that showed people like, "Alright,
like he's doing it now.
Like it's a different ball game now.
It's serious."
Getting to certain points in your life
and seeing people you grew up with not getting to get there
'cause either they die, or they locked up.
That shit is OD.
Like, "Woah, this is world is cold."
We're not permanent.
You understand me? What's guaranteed is death.
You understand me? Life isn't guaranteed.
You living your life
the way you want to is not guaranteed.
You having a good life and a blessed life is not guaranteed.
You understand me?
Life is what you make of it.
Death is guaranteed.
So at this point, it's like, I've accepted the fact
that I just got to do what I do
'til my time is up, you understand me?
And that's it.
I'm just living my life for the time being
until... you feel me?
The man above decides my time is up.
I'm just tryna show y'all, I'm dangerous.
I'm a dangerous person.
When we was kids,
I'm the crazy one
your mother told you to be careful about.
You feel me? We all had that moment.
Your mother like, "Nah chill."
Your mother clearly told you this.
And now look what happened to you.
You're dead now, you understand me?
People know I'm short.
But like, it's just something that people joke on, I guess.
So I just want it to flip it,
like nigga, I got a little body
but I'm evil, I don't care.
It's on some shit where I don't got a soul in it.
I just move how I move.
I'm a very genuine person.
I'm a good person too.
But at the same time
I could be very evil and messed up and not care.
You understand me?
I'm not flexing, it's not on some shit where I'm asking
for something to happen, but it's just how I am.
I walk around and let my chain hang and you feel me?
Who gonna do what? It's still around my neck, you know?
So like I said, I had to throw that in there
just to let them know like I'm still who I am
at the end of the day.
Even if I'm in my bag, regardless.
This record is me trying to like,
show people the other side of me,
like the side, that's not innocent.
'Cause I always preach like I'm the one getting played.
So let me show y'all the other side of the story.
I kind of went all the way with it.
Like, fuck it.
You might as well gather up all my exes
just so y'all could all sing along,
'cause y'all all moving the same way right now.
I don't know what that song would sound like though.
That shit would probably sound mad off pitch.
I mean, when I got my first check,
I basically, I ran to the mall,
this is like my first check ever, just off of me,
like getting rewarded for something I did.
I ran to the mall in Atlanta,
and I got like a little Jesus piece, in 2016, with a Cuban,
and that shit left like a rash around my neck.
And then fast forward, like last year I got
like a major, like a, like a nice, beautiful big check
from the label and just off my streaming too,
off just me working and getting the money
and for my streams, I went
to the jeweler and I got like a, a real iced out Cuban.
It was just cool to see the little transformation
from that, to that.
And then from that to this.
I didn't expect for me to be able to use
those song titles and like,
have it kind of flow fluently and make some type of sense.
'Cause you used to get bad luck when you cry.
Like, it kind of makes sense
but then it kind of don't, but it just flows
like mad fluently throwing in those lyrics there.
So when I was able to do that, I was kinda hyped,
'cause I'm just like, "Oh, shit,
now hopefully the fans could catch this."
Like it's just, it's just always
I'm always trying to take things to the next level
just as far as my craft
because I don't want to sound simple.
You know?
And I don't want to sound repetitive either.
I apologize if people get offended
that I'm not on the same shit I used to be.
'Cause I leveled up, but y'all wouldn't understand that
'cause y'all on the same shit y'all used to be on
'cause y'all didn't level up.
My life changed in ways where I didn't even expect it to
you know, I had to move certain ways just off of my safety,
'cause who I am, I can't move how I used to move.
You feel me now? And I still move the way I used to move.
But there's precautions that come with that.
You understand me? Me walking around thinking shit sweet,
there's precautions that come with that.
There's prices that I potentially might have to pay walking
around thinking shit is sweet.
You understand me?
Because there's people hungry
outside looking for somebody like me.
They look at me like a sting.
They look at me like an opportunity.
You understand me?
So my life changed in so many ways.
I had to change in so many ways
to the point where I don't even feel comfortable,
no disrespect to my fans, 'cause I love them.
But there's times I don't even
feel comfortable taking flicks.
And I'll never turn a fan down,
and I'll take a flick with a fan, but I'd be lying to you
if I told you I felt 100% comfortable taking pictures
with certain fans,
'cause I don't know what's gonna happen next.
Nigga try to sucker punch me
or try to do some sucker shit after that.
You understand me? So I always got to keep my guard up.
Life is too short and I'm young.
Like I know I got time to make mistakes
but like, why make mistakes?
I don't feel like that's an excuse
to make a mistake, using my age.
I don't feel like, "Yeah, I'm young."
That's not an excuse 'cause I knew
what the fuck I was doing when I did it. You know?