We like to develop all components before driving straight into release or rollout or whatever the case is. You gotta figure out what you want to do. I think that’s always the most complicated portion of the process, just figuring out how you want because your sound has to match your shoes, and your shoes gotta match your video, your video gotta match your bitch, your bitch gotta match your car. When you’re making art, everything has to be cohesive. Everything is a look, a sound and a feel. I’m a visual artist, you know what I’m saying?

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I wanted to say something. That was more me being like wrestling Eminem, kinda like, I wanted to say something provocative and stupid. It’s saying something really sly and slick—it’s just something disgusting at the same time.

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In hip hop, every story you hear is, “I ain’t have no pops. I ain’t have no pops. I ain’t have no pops.” I had both parents. I was lucky. I had a great father, so that’s why I was like, “My mamma named me. My poppa gave me cock to take a piss with,” like that’s it.

I’m named after one of the best rappers alive, Rakim da lord da God MC himself.

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If it’s 12 months out the year, maybe it’s sporadically a month here, a month there, a month there, three months out the year, I’m not smoking. I don’t know. Sometimes it might be more months than that depending on how I’m feeling. For the past three years, I’ve been off and on. Sometimes I take breaks. You gotta stop smoking when it’s things outside of artistry, and you got administrative shit to handle, or you just got other business inquiries. Sometimes you’ve gotta just be on point for it, and I had the privilege of being in artist form for a long time right now. But sometimes, I even stop smoking when it’s time to focus. Get in my zone. Sometimes you’ve gotta really have a clear head to do that.

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That’s real life shit. If you get a call and you don’t know the number, don’t pick up, especially if you’re somebody of status. You should definitely wait ‘til that call has ended and then check and see if you got any text message history with that number before you pick up, because it might be a prank or somebody you don’t want to speak to. Word of advice. Flacko facts, you know what I’m saying.

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Everything we talking about is just shit that was just going on in life. It was like, “pockets loaded, rocket loaded. Okay let’s rock and roll, it’s time to go. Lock, stock and two smoking barrels, locked and loaded.” That’s a Guy Ritchie film. We was in London watching Snatch, Guy Ritchie. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is his movie, so that’s the whole purpose of that me throwing that reference in there. It’s just what was on, what we were looking at.

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Honestly, for real, I’m happy to be here. I’m glad that I can provide something for people to make me feel better, to make the world feel better, for my followers and shit. I’m just blessed to be in the position that I can be in and kinda like knock down for other motherfuckers and shit who I think actually deserve the light or recognition for certain things. I’m just glad to be in position, and I’m glad to wake up with the challenge of continuing. I get crazy love every day, and I’m blessed man, for real. I’m just, I’m glad that I got the talent and abilities to do what I do.

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Well my mother thought that, so I was like, “Nah ma, you know how I be wearing the jeans with the chain.” “Oh, yeah.” “Yeah, ma. It’s just my style.” It’s like talking about what they love about me. “My Vans, my braids. My pants. My chains. My pants with the chains.” It’s not like I’m just saying my pants for no reason. It’s like, “My pants, my chains, my paints with the chains,” you know what I’m saying?

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It rains every day in London. It’s almost like a double entendre. Every time I put out an album or every time I’m about to release an album, for some fucking strange reason, I always lose somebody close to me. It was my pops, it was Yams, it was my sister. Like, I always lose somebody close to me. Shit feel like some crazy shit, like jinx or some shit or something. Without being superstitious or paranoid, it takes a toll. very time. Every time. Not one time.

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I’m more of a spiritual person than a religious person. I grew up in a Christian household, so I have that relationship with God. My God, I don’t know if it’s a he or she. I’m praying to a higher power. I grew up believing that Jesus Christ was lord and all this other stuff, and a lot of people might disagree and say, “God is the lord. Jesus is the son of the God.” It’s really political. Whoever you choose to pray to, that’s your business and whatnot.

I like to take the best qualities from a lot of religions, Buddhism, Hinduism and even Muslim people, Christianity, Catholic people, everyone has a set of morals that are really up to par and just with making you a better person in life. And I think sometimes you don’t have to be so rule strict driven and you don’t have to be so strict about rules. You could just take the best from shit to make yourself a better person.

I’m just here to promote that. On top of that, it’s just a bad habit of going to sleep, I gotta say my prayers every night. Before I eat, I gotta pray for it, you know, and I’m more of a spiritual person who believes in energy and I feel chemistry from people. Energy is all around us, even though we can’t see it, right, ‘cause you can’t see through the floor. I’m not transparent, but it’s like it doesn’t mean that there isn’t energy between us. It’s just your brain is only using like 10, 8-12% of its capability. Vision, how much of that could you really be, do you think you’re using, right.

So with that being said, I kinda feel like when it comes to energy and when it comes to being more spiritual, that’s actually something that I can say I came close to seeing more. And that’s something that I feel like is evident everyday. Where you go after you die? I’m not too sure. Hopefully, it’s heaven, nirvana, or maybe some reincarnation shit, whatever you believe in. For me, I’m a go wherever God has me destined to go. Hopefully I’m going to be with Yams, my pops, a couple of people, that’s about it. Other than that, praise the lord and break the fucking law, ya heard.

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