Niggas don't be having that
many words in they raps now, do they?
They be like,
♪ Yeah! ♪
♪ Oh! ♪
Like y'all job be easy as fuck
coming in with these new hits.
(crew laughing)
Exactly!
As difficult as it is for y'all,
it's difficult for me as well.
Niggas don't understand the skill that's put into this shit.
- I talk in cryptic code.
Some people, it goes right over their heads.
A lot of time I'm in there with Ye,
and he's like, man what does that mean?
To other people in the street it's like,
oh my God, he's speaking the language!
He's speaking directly to me!
If you're in touch and in tune with the life,
then it's gonna mean the world to you.
So if you know, you know.
The Lord Infamous was my favorite rapper at that time.
Him and Andre 3000, that was the only two
I really looked up to.
At that time one was dark and one was light,
but when it came down to it, like,
both of their flows are great.
But like, I got into Lord Infamous
because the shit he was talking about was just dark as fuck.
On the flip side, I am a black woman.
And I live in this world, and you know,
I know how the world looks at us.
We're not beautiful and we're the lowest of the lowest.
Not only are we black, but we're women, at that.
Well, if the world's treating me like this,
and my man has got all this on his shoulders
and I gotta hold him up, who's holding me up?
I was binge watching a whole bunch
of Dr. Umar Johnson speeches.
Not only Umar Johnson, but Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey.
Marcus Garvey has a quote where he says,
"Everything you do today that is worthwhile
"will inspire others to act at some future time."
You know, Sesame Street was lit.
You know what I mean?
When you really think about it,
it was in the field out there,
everybody was outside on the Sesame Street.
Woo, that line was hard than a motherfucker, boy.
I'm the black Jack Tripper, nigga.
Black Tripper, Jack Tripper.
That nigga had two bitches all the time.
Suzanne Somers?
The Thigh Master, you remember
Suzannne Somers did The Thigh Master?
It was whole bunch of white ladies on the floors
twerking that ass in that commercial.
I'm 'bout to go watch that shit.
That's a bar, you know what I mean?
You know you be in the casino and they bring you liquor?
They hope you trip, they hope you splurge on that table.
And they gon' keep feeding you that liquor.
I was responding to they expectation to rappers.
We gon' go to blow the bag at, you know,
the luxury boutique, whichever one.
You know what I mean?
And yeah, that's cool, but this the real bar.
I was really trying to get a story off.
I was trying to steer away from, like, punchlines.
I was trying to steer away from anything that could
take away from like, the picture that I was trying to paint.
That's why I was saying certain things
and highlighting certain words that will make it feel like,
oh wow, you can see that.
If you literally listen to the words, it's more sad
than it is like, oh we barring!
I'm barring, like it's fun 'cause the beat is getting you.
But what I'm talking 'bout, like,
I was really talking 'bout like,
some real painful shit for real.
I made this fucking sone in 10 minutes, G.
I swear to God, this is the song that made
that was the easiest song to make for the whole album.
It was the best song that I recorded for myself.
Like the happiest, most genuine song.
Like, just freestyling basically,
not freestyling at the same time.
And niggas was like, hey you should do this more!
And I'm like nah, just chill.
I like to write. (laughs)
It's also a play on words.
We're talking about wet weight, then you're talking about
weighing the odds of like, hey wait a minute,
do I go to war with you or do I chill out?
The possibilities, the different configurations
of a bar are limitless.
The limit only comes in when you limit yourself.
So I try not to do that, I try no to limit myself to
the way a word is traditionally pronounced.