I just lost my sister last year from overdosing in September right before The Cozy Tapes. I lost Yams from overdosing from my last album before that. I really do pray to God I don’t overdose. Me and my niggas, we livin' that lifestyle, man. That’s why I don’t judge little niggas. They doin' their little beans and Xans and leans and you know, it’s like too each his own. That’s especially why I wanted to work on, talk about that other song and break it down, it’s just because it’s like I’m going to make it brief but everything that our parents feared, fear about us is what they did to some extent.

Everything comes back around. In the ‘60s and '70s and shit, it was really about like pill popping and shit like that. The '60s, a lot. If it wasn’t heroin, it was pill popping. The '70s was more cocaine-driven kind of shit, you get what I’m saying? And obviously '80s was crack, and now it’s coming back around. The new crack is what, like meth and shit like that. You’ve got spiced blunts. Motherfuckers smoking K2, all type of weird shit, right. Those for the burnouts, though, right?

Then you’ve got niggas that’s just been on lean all day, and they be on opiates or the new word, opioids, that’s where it’s like they be on opium just either weed or, I mean lean or pills or Oxycontins or whatever the case is. Xans and shit. I mean Johnny Cash and ‘em, Elvis and 'em, was popping pills, you know what I’m saying? Everything comes back around. Weed, I think, is the most innocent drug out of all these drugs. I don’t even think it should be classified as a drug at this point, obviously, because it has stimulation and you can be under the influence but at the same time, I mean damn, bro. It’s not the same. I haven’t heard a story of weed ruining anyone’s life besides making them very lazy and sluggish.

It’s intricate, but the complicity of it is just like, you know, the minimalistic portion. It was minimalistic when I said, I said, “I’m on a live alone die Vlone.” Obviously, everybody know I’m Vlone thuggin' til the casket drop, but I’m talking about the mentality. Live alone, die alone, die Vlone, die alone. That’s the same shit. Like, most of the time you’ve gotta think about losing people, you just feel alone. “I’m on my aloe, die Vlone.” That’s me, I could be talking about business, I could be talking about a fashion brand or I could be talking about emotions.

“I’m on my live alone, die Vlone"—I ain’t talking about spending or buying clothes. I’m just talking about I’m compassionately alone, feel me?

It’s like one of those situations where Ferg told y'all like six, seven years ago, “All my Dominican niggas, got me speaking Spanglish.” Like, that’s uptown. That’s New York. It’s just regular. I love my Spanish food. I love my motherfucking tostones, platanos, I get it in. It’s mad love with the. That’s how we’re giving it up. That’s how we’re coming. We don’t even call it a community. You don’t call it the Spanish community. It’s the brothers, nigga. That’s my brothers. You look at Hodgey, you look at Yams. It’s been going on.

My best friend was Dominican Puerto Rican, you feel me. It’d be like that. So you know, I ain’t no Dominicano, but I eat the tostones or platones.

The Margiela Mad Man could be me, it could be you, it could be Ferg. Yams gave gave me the name, like, “Margiela Mad Man, in the words of A$AP Yams, I smack the shit out of niggas in these skinny pants.” That’s was the mentality when you don’t know no better, and you ain’t got shit to lose and shit, and when you start getting into fights and shit like that early on and shit and then you realize that, “Damn, these cases do take seven years to weigh out. And you’ve got other bigger shit going on. You’ve moved on in life, you’re not even doing the same kind of shit, and you still gotta deal with that.

That’s why I just like, “Margiela Mad Man, with cases I’m still tryna beat, a buncha shit from a long time ago.” Simple as that. Because the bigger they are, the harder they fall. Most of the time, if I gotta put my hands on a nigga, I feel threatened, you feel me? It’s usually a big nigga that’s acting up, put your hands on him, next thing you know he’s suing you like you started it. But you can’t talk too much on it, but that’s how the cases is back in the days.

But I will tell y'all young niggas and y'all young artists and entrepreneurs and y'all niggas with a little bit of chicken—protect your heart, bro. That’s how they get you. That’s how they get you in every form. You’re gonna have hood niggas acting like they wanna smoke with you. As soon as you snuff em, lawsuit. Don’t take my word for it. Find out on your own.

That’s so simple, it’s minimalistic. Most of the chicks I deal with is fucking crazy, out their minds. No disrespect, they are. I don’t know if that’s because I attract them or whatever, that’s another story, but “she’s losin' her mind.” Usually when I get the mood right, one of the albums I might put on is Frank Ocean. So you know, we get right to Frank Ocean, and then, you know, I just be trying to convince my chicks to do fly shit like so nine times out of 10, at the time it’s just like, “Yo, rock this. Cut your shit. Rock it blonde. Rock a wig the next day. Rock a weave. I don’t give a fuck. It’s just lit.” That’s fire.

I’m weird, man. I still value being a normal human and being able to do human things. I just expect the decency from people. I expect people to literally just have manners and morals and such as me, just because I feel like to an extent, I know I work to be privileged, but to an extent, I come from where they from. Back in the day, if I’d seen somebody famous in the streets, man, I would say something. I would speak, “Hello, how are you doing? Thank you.” Keep it moving.

I saw Dave Chappelle when I was younger. “Yo, Dave Chappelle. Yo, you a funny-ass nigga, bro.” “All right, B.” He was way across the street. I mean that might’ve been a lot, but at the same time, come clean is better than being like, “Yo, you know what I’m saying, can I get a picture,” or stopping somebody what they’re doing, “Oh my God, my nephew la la la,” all that kind of shit, like y'all don’t understand like you’re not being rude, like sometimes niggas just be human. So I always felt a need to justify that or have an excuse like, “Damn, yo, I’m a celebrity so I gotta duh duh duh.” Fuck that shit, nigga. If I don’t feel like taking no pictures and it ain’t coz I’m on my high horse nigga, I’m tired and I’m high. That’s it.

I don’t want to take a picture with you. For what? I remember things, and I cherish them. It’s moments, you feel me? I get why people like to collect pictures, because it’s collateral, and they can show you like, it’s something tangible. “Look, this is proof. I got a photo with the person.” That’s why I don’t fuck with that, because it’s not like, “Yo, I took this picture to remember this day. I took this picture to have a picture with a famous motherfucker and put it on Instagram.” That’s what it stands for.

So I ain’t a part of that, and not only just that. It’s just other things that come with it. Go to the club and you’re sitting on the couches, motherfuckers looking at you like you’re in a fish bowl and shit like that. It’s just niggas popping bottles and shit, and you’d just be like, “Man, aight.” Sometimes you’re like, “Why the fuck am I here right now?” And sometimes you just gotta say, “Fuck these bottles.” Go on a regular dance floor with a regular joint, just dance up and have fun with your niggas like, “Fuck this other shit.”

That’s what I mean. I’m done with adjusting to fame, man. I’ve been me for a while now, and I’m not making no excuses for it no more. If you don’t fuck with it, suck my dick. That’s how I feel, like word. Everybody unapologetic, man. Like, it’s 2018. Trump is in the office. Suck my dick—I don’t give a fuck how nobody feels, like word.

I just lost my sister last year from overdosing in September right before The Cozy Tapes. I lost Yams from overdosing from my last album before that. I really do pray to God I don’t overdose. Me and my niggas, we livin' that lifestyle, man. That’s why I don’t judge little niggas. They doin' their little beans and Xans and leans and you know, it’s like too each his own. That’s especially why I wanted to work on, talk about that other song and break it down, it’s just because it’s like I’m going to make it brief but everything that our parents feared, fear about us is what they did to some extent.

Everything comes back around. In the ‘60s and '70s and shit, it was really about like pill popping and shit like that. The '60s, a lot. If it wasn’t heroin, it was pill popping. The '70s was more cocaine-driven kind of shit, you get what I’m saying? And obviously '80s was crack, and now it’s coming back around. The new crack is what, like meth and shit like that. You’ve got spiced blunts. Motherfuckers smoking K2, all type of weird shit, right. Those for the burnouts, though, right?

Then you’ve got niggas that’s just been on lean all day, and they be on opiates or the new word, opioids, that’s where it’s like they be on opium just either weed or, I mean lean or pills or Oxycontins or whatever the case is. Xans and shit. I mean Johnny Cash and ‘em, Elvis and 'em, was popping pills, you know what I’m saying? Everything comes back around. Weed, I think, is the most innocent drug out of all these drugs. I don’t even think it should be classified as a drug at this point, obviously, because it has stimulation and you can be under the influence but at the same time, I mean damn, bro. It’s not the same. I haven’t heard a story of weed ruining anyone’s life besides making them very lazy and sluggish.

It’s intricate, but the complicity of it is just like, you know, the minimalistic portion. It was minimalistic when I said, I said, “I’m on a live alone die Vlone.” Obviously, everybody know I’m Vlone thuggin' til the casket drop, but I’m talking about the mentality. Live alone, die alone, die Vlone, die alone. That’s the same shit. Like, most of the time you’ve gotta think about losing people, you just feel alone. “I’m on my aloe, die Vlone.” That’s me, I could be talking about business, I could be talking about a fashion brand or I could be talking about emotions.

“I’m on my live alone, die Vlone"—I ain’t talking about spending or buying clothes. I’m just talking about I’m compassionately alone, feel me?