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.

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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.

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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.

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They saying I don’t want to do music. They saying I only want to do fashion. They saying I only want to fuck bitches. They saying I only want to be pretty and jiggy, man. That’s true. I only kind of want to do that, but I do a lot of things that are in addition to that, and music is definitely in the first spot when it comes to all that shit. I just want to show them my origin with this whole thing is started in music, and as far as fashion, acting, or any extra things that go with my charisma, it’s just part of me. It just goes without saying. That’s my personality.

I’m a musical artist first. I think it’s time, man. It’s time to give em what they need, man. Fuck what they want.

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That’s my brother. Yeah, we had to compete because I bring a certain energy out of Tyler. Tell me if you’ve ever heard Tyler, The Creator rap like that in your life. Wait until you hear new shit we’ve got coming. We’ve got even more crazier shit. That nigga is just as much blood to me as most of my A$AP niggas. That’s my bro. I wish I knew that nigga my whole life.

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Niggas need to hear that just because they made $30,000 that don’t mean shit.

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Giuseppes is trash.

All that other shit they wearing is trash.

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Gucci and Dior? Bidding wars? I’m not even trying to be funny, but that’s two different fashion houses. That’s never been—I’m scared to almost say it, you know what I mean? I don’t want to fuck my own shit up, but isn’t somebody gonna realize what I’m talking about? Open your eyes! Look what this black man is doing. Look!

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I’m just feeling like I’m at that point where, not to be cocky, but I already left a legacy so if I die now, I’ma be a legend. It’s Godfather raps I wanna give niggas now.

The kids aren’t familiar with all that shit so we just putting them on. We young-old niggas… I would definitely say I have an old soul so we’re trying to put them on, for those who don’t know. For those who do, it’s lit… You gotta pay homage, show them where we get it from. We get it from these niggas, man.

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I just feel like, man, I fuck with shit but I don’t fuck with shit low-key. So for me, it’s just copacetic. I kind of just want to get to a place where all the real comes back around and motherfuckers genuinely love shit, believe in shit, do shit. I’m trying to do it through music.

It’s like, I fuck with niggas but I don’t fuck with niggas. You’ll know when I fuck with something for real, man. Like Tyler, The Creator, that’s my nigga. ScHoolboy Q, French Montana, Danny Brown—they’re my bros right there. But I don’t really fuck with a lot of these rap niggas man, because they… I’m not even gonna get into that, but what I will say is, I got darkness in my heart but I’m not just gonna let that take over and be the thing that reflects who I am as a person. I gotta be Yams to an extent now. I’ve gotta be the one who shakes hands and kisses babies and shit, and keeps relationships poppin’. Other niggas ain’t.

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