- Rap music as a whole is fucking literature.
Like this is what people are getting their morals,
their values, their like way of life, their living.
Albums going into the Library of Congress,
being studied at Harvard,
rap music is literature in its totality,
all facets.
Playboi Carti is Literature.
I pulled up on Hit-boy at the studio,
as soon as he played this beat, I started writing to it.
I wrote like the hook,
and some of the first verse.
The beat just gave me like a sinister vibe,
maybe that was the name of the beat,
I don't even remember, honestly.
It just gives that gritty, nasty,
like sinister like vibe you know.
Wayne told me like, sending him some and he got me,
and I was letting time go pass, time go pass,
and I was in the studio with my boy Ian, and I was like,
"You think Wayne would sound good
"on Sinister, on this joint?"
He was like, "Yeah." And I'm like, "All right, cool."
So I just sent it to him,
and he sent me the verse back in like 12 hours.
When I got the vocals and I heard the lighter flick,
I turned that up 13 DB.
20 years from now,
I'll be a stadium artist
Producer of the year,
it goes without saying.
It's not even like,
and I remember I was telling him this like
a couple of years ago,
like, 'cause he's already Hit-Boy.
He already made the biggest of records
that you can possibly fathom for culture,
for, you know,
niggas in, he made "Niggas in Paris",
he made "Backseat".
So many other crazy joints he made.
I told him like, "Yeah bro, you-you I feel like
you finna go like just straight goat mode again."
Like, at an even higher,
like, he just,
man his work ethic is crazy.
Like following trends,
we used to just call it, like you just dick riding schlim.
And like, nobody wants to be a dick rider bro.
Like be your own person.
That's why I love like growing up in Maryland.
Like everybody's just themselves.
And we think we cooler than the whole world.
Like for real.
I didn't really grow up
listening to Tech N9ne's music like that.
But I always knew him
for being like a nigga that was independent,
who had like his own fan base, on his own wave,
and just a nigga that was just rapping his ass off.
But I like, I couldn't name you like, a Tech N9ne album.
Like I wasn't a diehard Tech N9ne fan, you know.
But I always respected like his movement.
I think what fame does to people,
it just brings out like who they really are.
I don't think it changes you.
Sometime it can change the people around you,
like truthfully.
If you was a dickhead, bro.
Nigga, you're going to be a bigger dickhead
when you're famous.
If you like have a sense of humility and understanding
when you're broke,
or like when you're just chilling,
then as a famous nigga,
that's gonna carry with you.
We're in a black renaissance right now.
It's not just one path you can go on.
There's so many different ways.
Like you know, TV,
and television,
film, fashion, electronics.
Music.
Working on this album, man.
Don't put the phone up.
I had, 'cause the phone is a major distraction.
I ain't gonna act like I don't be getting shit.
I be on my phone,
you don't know what you might see in that private tabs.
I just put my phone in the safe, bro.
Said, "Fuck it."
I was trapping off the iPad.
You know what I'm saying?
iCloud, email, whatever.
You be on your phone for 10 minutes
just to check your texts.
And before you know it, two hours done flew by.
You know, wasted two hours on your life on the phone, right?
Like, I'm still in the very beginning of my career.
I got so much work I gotta do.
I can't afford to just give away fucking hour and a half,
just looking at ass all day bro, you know?
That's just not the way.
Man, I feel like sometimes people just talk too much, bro.
In a lot of situations,
now what's understood don't even gotta be explained.
It don't ain't gotta be said.
Like people just be talking too much,
and revealing too much information.
I just can't stand that shit, bro.
Like nigga, just shut the fuck up sometimes, you know?
Like man, people be burning bridges
just cause they like to talk too much, man.
The more you speak, the more somebody know about you.
'Cause you done over indulge.
You done overexposed.
You done played all your cards.
How many like dumb situations you done been in your life
'cause somebody just spoke too much?
Or spoke at all?
Myself, I don't like that Chatty Patty shit, bro.
Just keep that silent like.
My mind frame right now,
it's all over the place, to be honest man.
I have no fear of the unknown,
but everything is unknown.
But I know one thing, I'm always going high level.
Always going to be high level.
But like I said, I'm in love with the journey bro.
Like I love this shit, I make music full-time bro.
Nobody can ever keep my spirits down.
New hoodies out, by the way.
This is this, ain't out yet, you know what I'm saying?
This is that good, high qual-o, you feel me?
Word to AB.