I've said it before, and I'll say it again.
I belong to the streets, okay.
I don't even know how to explain it,
but for some reason, girls they often see me
as like the boyfriend type,
'cause I honestly would be a great boyfriend,
but I'm just not ready for that,
for that phase in my life.
You know, I'm not mature enough
to be in a committed relationship like that.
And, you know, we can have a great time.
I'ma treat you with love and respect, but
I can't be cuffed.
It is not the time to be locked up right now.
So, this song was actually written almost two years ago
and we completely forgot about it.
It was me and Omer,
and we were just hanging out with our friends.
I was like, "Alright, I'ma freestyle,
and I'ma put all of our friends names into the song."
So, Omer is playing the same chords
that you hear in the song.
And we're with this girl named Coco.
So, I'm like, "Coco Chanel,
Dragon ball Z,
you could tell,"
'cause I had this Dragon ball Z shirt on that day.
One of our friends was filming it
on like Snapchat or whatever.
They saved it to their memories.
And you know, like how on Snapchat,
you'll go in,
it'll be like a year ago today,
this is what you were doing.
And I guess that video popped up
for Coco and she sent it to us like, "Oh my God,
so funny, y'all remember this?"
And Omer sends it to me like,
"Yo, that was actually a hot song.
We should, we should do something with that."
So the same day we go link up with 94Skrt,
another producer and friend of ours.
We just pull up to the studio
and kind of take that, "Coco Chanel," and rework it into
the song you know now.
I was literally in the studio and this girl just
kept calling me over and over and over again.
And I was trying to start the song and start doing the hook.
But he kept recording while I was on the phone.
So I'm like, "Yo, I'm in the studio.
How many times are you going to call me?"
'Cause I already told her.
And you just got to know for a artist,
the studio is like the sacred space.
That's the holy, the holy temple right there.
So you can't disrupt my studio time.
He played it back and I was like, "Wait, wait, wait.
That was hard.
We're definitely keeping that,"
'cause it just fit the whole theme of the song.
When I was first writing this song
I had a whole different verse to it.
And it was a lot more storytelling, right?
It started like, "She don't want to work a job as a waitress
but I bet she saved enough to get a facelift."
And it's kind of about this like typical LA girl
and she's spending all her money
on Chanel and she's touching me too much.
And her priorities are all out of whack.
Like you're trying to make her realize like, "Yo, come on,
we can, we can do better than this."
I'm a real fashion connoisseur.
You know?
So from Valentino to Coco to, I don't know, maybe
the next song will be called Prada or something like that.
But fashion is always on my mind.
And I grew up admiring these designers and these brands.
So they're, they're always tucked in my,
in the back of my head somewhere.
So while we're on the topic of fashion
I might as well break down the fit for y'all.
So we'll start from the top.
You got some Gucci glasses right here.
Franck Muller, Bitcoin watch as well
as a very nice friendship bracelet.
You know, 'cause I love my friends.
The shirt is Comme De Garcons Homme Plus,
a little archive piece,
you know, Eldorado piece busting
Dolce & Gabbana beads 'cause I'm a, you know,
I'm a Bay Area boy,
we do the beads. And on the waist, of course,
a double C lock on the belt.
People try to test me for asking unreasonable things
because I'm a really nice guy.
I say yes, too much.
That's actually my New Year's resolution to say no more.
I don't have time to worry about
your problems and your text messages
'cause we are too turnt up right now
in the back of the jet stream, which is a private plane.
So it was just like, I'm having fun right now.
I don't need anything,
that's gonna kill my vibe.
I think the biggest lies people tell
are really to themselves.
You know, like trying to act
like you're this person, or that person,
or portray a character, or a version of yourself
that isn't who you really are.
Me, having dealt with
so many of those types being in the city I'm in
and being in the industry I'm in, I'm like, yo, I can tell
if you're lying to yourself. You can lie to yourself,
but you can't lie to me.
It's funny to me.
People would be like, "Yo, can you sing this song?"
And I'm like, "This is not no Genius Verified.
You do not get the acapella performance."
You know, the checking your temperature line,
that's a double entendre.
You know, I might be checking your physical temperature,
you know, to see if you could get in.
But also I'm checking like, "Yo, what are you on right now?
What are you feeling?"
And the best way to do that
is to ask the right type of questions.
This was a COVID smash right there.
I threw thermometer line and I'm like, "Yeah,
that's slick right there.
They're gonna feel that during COVID."
I wanted this part of the song to feel drastically different
than any other part of the song
because it's so upbeat and bouncy.
And then you just get into this smooth,
you know very ambient section.
Whatever type of coco it is,
the Chanel, or the other, it's driving you crazy,
and in turn, it's driving me crazy.
Literally, as soon as we finished making the song,
I'm like, "Second verse,
we need a hard-ass rapper,"
And who's a harder rapper right now than DaBaby?
Like, he does not miss on his features at all.
So I was like, "This is a no brainer."
He's got the personality, you know,
like a lively personality that will work well
with mine in the video. He got the bars.
He's able to tell a story.
And this is a song that kind of tells a story.
So he just was a natural fit and continuation
of the vibe we had already been going off of.