I just couldn’t change that. That’s Juicy J. You know what I’m saying? I had to bring that back because it was like man when he just went there and said that, it was like raw emotion. That’s how he felt. I was like man I know everybody feel like this, so I just left it.

Yeah, my grandmother she had mad pills, like prescriptions and stuff like that because she had arthritis really bad. Her hands would start to cripple up and everything. She used to just have mad pills around, green ones, red ones, and all types of colors. It just reminds me of now like how everybody is with the over-counter drugs and the prescriptions and everything, so it’s like rappers in society. I picture my grandmother as like if she was a rapper in society, or comparing it to.

Dummy packs is like fake crack or fake anything. Once you run out of work or it’s a drought, you’ve got to fend for yourself. So that’s when you start putting the Ivory soap in there making it look like little pieces of crack inside the, you know, doing your thing.

It was crazy, because when I first started rapping and going on the road and everything like that, my mother didn’t know what I was doing really. She just like, “Oh, you dropped out of college, you’re not working right now, and you’re talking about you want to be a rapper.” I stopped telling her what I was doing and just I was going at it. I was like, you know what, I’m just going to have to prove to her that this is working out for me.

We wasn’t as tight as we are now, but this is around the time I went on BET for something. I think I went on there with Rocky to receive an award he got, and my mother … I remember me coming back home and she was in the bathroom crying. I’m like, “Ma, what are you crying for?” She’s like, “I got to find out from my friends you’re on BET. How do you expect me to feel?” I was like, “Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t even mean to do that.” When I won my award, which was rookie of the year, I gave it to her.

That line is so hard. That line is one my hardest line,s I feel like, just because just starting the joint off like that is crazy. It’s like giving all praise to Yams, getting the blessings from him before I just demolish all of these rappers. That’s how I feel. Yeah, Yams had that aura with him. He was iconic. The iconic tattoos, the face tats, before everybody started getting the face tats. He was very confident in is swag and how he maneuvered. Yams was one of those dudes before his time because he studied history. I feel like history always come back in tenfold, what goes around, comes around. He knew that so he was a student of it. He had a lot of knowledge of it. By the time we came out, we already was ahead of the game because he already got all the knowledge.

The last piece I got done with Ben would probably have to be my hood pope chain, which got different color stones in it. I got the infamous Yamborghini piece, the bull with the horns, and the Hermes link with the diamonds in it.

“Plain Jane” means when you ain’t got no diamonds or nothing in it. This represents class to me without all of the diamonds and everything in it. It does have baguettes on the inside of it. When you keep it plain Jane, or OG or somebody that’s very classic, they be like, “Oh, yeah, he didn’t …” You kept the stock rims on your car, that’s what it’s like. You didn’t have to throw the spinners and all of the trinkets on it to make it stand out. You ruin a watch that way. It’s like you buy a car and you just fuck it up with everything else. You buy it stock and keep it that way. The only diamonds that you’ll see on my watch is the ones that come with the watch.

When you add diamonds on to your watch, you lower the value of it. This is like an investment. If I ever go broke, I could really just trade this in and I’ll be good. But once you add the diamonds and you start flooding it out, it just ruins the art. It’s like taking a Picasso and just saying, “You know what, I think I should add green on it.” You don’t need to do none of that. You keep that Picasso the way it is.

When artists is coming to my city, they definitely hit me up and be like, “Yo, I’m here. I’m performing here.” That’s why I be like coming out on so many stages because people just feel like they got to show love.

I’m not Muslim. My grandfather was Muslim, but I’m not Muslim. It was just another way to say all praise go to god. At the end of the day, there’s one God, right? There’s one energy.

So, I switched the flow up towards the end, because I told Khalil to add these guitar riffs, which he totally disagreed with. He was like, “It’s going against everything else in the beat. It’s not musically right.” It shouldn’t be done this way. It can’t be done this way.” And I was just like, ‘It feels right to me. Let’s do it.“ And then he added it, which reminded me of some old Run-DMC shit. Like, just the guitar riffs. And then, I just wanted to go in between in those pockets with the words and do something simple that everybody could chant and remember. When I perform the song a cappella, I usually cut the beat off before those guitar riffs come in and I just a cappella it and I freestyle wherever I’m at, and I’ll start pointing to the people in the crowd and getting them involved and people be like "Whoo!” They say the 'Whoo’. It just kind of gets everybody excited.