That line is just about what’s happening. What’s happening now. It just came to me. That’s one of those lines that just came to me and it fit so perfect like a puzzle with the flow and everything. But just the messaging behind it. Like yes, we can turn up, turn up, turn up, but I’m gonna definitely slide in that little bit of those seeds in there so it could just spark in your brain and grow into something.

“Knuck If You Buck” is one of my favorite songs, and I wanted this song to do the same thing that “Knuck If You Buck” made me do. When I heard it in the club or a party setting and I was moshing and we was turning up. Drinks spilling and all of that. Girls breaking their heels. I wanted “East Coast” to feel like that. So that’s why I added that reference in there.

I’m talking about my little homies that’s carrying the backpacks. They dumping and the pump had the best of they bad boys runnin'. There’s always a tougher guy for the tough guy to answer to. So the pump will have the best of the bad boys running.

“Send him through the ceiling,” meaning send him to heaven. Throw a nigga off the building, that’s on some Juice shit. That’s like, Bishop falling off the building. That’s another East Coast reference. “I’ll kill him, they’ll never found out.” I’m just talking about my words. I’m killing them with my swords of how swift I’m rapping.

Yo, the illest mosh pit I’ve ever seen in my life would have to be in Australia. It was during the festival I did and you know, I told some people to come on stage, because I seen them representing. They was doing something that just caught my attention, and I was just like, “Yo! Let’s go! Y'all come on stage!” And that was the wrong thing I possibly can do. Because it was like, for that split-second, it seemed like a good idea, but the moment they started climbing over the barricade, I knew it was over, because everybody was gonna follow. So everybody followed them, jumped on the stage and the stage collapsed. Before the stage even collapsed, I jumped off the stage and jumped into the crowd so they could follow me. They didn’t care nothing about me. They just stayed on the stage and the whole thing just imploded. They made the news and everything. So that was the craziest mosh pit. And the scariest that I’ve ever experienced.

It goes back to the whole “Trap Lord”, “Hood Pope” theme. Growing up, I always seem symbols. I went to Catholic school and always seen crosses. My uncle was a preacher and in a way, I feel like a preacher now, where it’s like I go to my concert and I’m holding church. I’m telling everybody to put your prayer hands in the sky and bow your head for A$AP Yams and I’m giving sermons. I’m talking to them. I’m letting them know my trials and tribulations and the people learning from my mistakes and my ups and my downs. So that’s basically what that line represents. My rap book being a Bible. The Bible is nothing but stories of what happened in the past for us to learn from them. Good and bad. You got Revelations. You got all types of stuff. My rap book, my album, you can see the same thing.

I was speaking New York terminology. Ground Zero. This is for all the people that’s fallen. You know, the underground dudes that can’t come out. I’m talking for them. I’m talking for the have-nots. The people that’s dead to the world. That’s Ground Zero music.

I’m definitely ready for the Mr. East Coast title. I’m six years in the game, and you know, it’s no other young dude that’s taking the East Coast around the world. I’ve been to Australia, Japan, China, you know, London. Everywhere. Ukraine. And I’m repping East Coast. Whenever they see me, they’re like, “Oh that’s that brown boy from Harlem.” It’s nobody doing that. We have JAY-Z, of course. He’s the king. And we had Biggie Smalls. But it ain’t nobody else that’s doing it on my level, that’s still repping the block. I still live in Harlem. I want the kids to see me. I moved my mom out, but I’m still in Harlem. I want the kids to be able to see me, to know that it’s real. You can do it too. So that’s why I’m Mr. East Coast.

“Run it up” just came to my mind. It was like one of them things where I just let God flow through me, and I just became a vessel at that point. Just for his words. And it was just like “Run it up, run it up, run it up, run it up,” and that’s just what I kept saying. When I started freestyling on the beat, that was the first thing I could think about, and it felt so right. And I just thought about Onyx with the “Fuck that shit, we get turnt ‘til the sun is up. All of you niggas get burnt when the gun is up. This that East Coast, mothafucka.” I wanted to do a call and response for the people to be able to say something. Because I knew “Run it up” was gonna get stuck in their head.

The “Fuck that shit, we get turnt ‘til the sun is up…”, that was gonna be bit much for them to say. That’s cool. I’ll say that part. And then y'all can just say… I say, “This that East Coast, mothafucka,” and then the response is “Call me Mr. East Coast, mothafucka.”

But “run it up” can mean mad different things. It’s like “Run those jewels,” like how M.O.P. was saying. You know. Run it up, basically. What Remy was saying in the verse. That’s why I say it was God, because I wasn’t even thinking about none of that when I was doing it. It was just like it just came together that way.

The guys reached out to Alex da Kid—they’re signed to Alex’s label. Me and Alex da Kid work on a bunch of music together. He actually introduced us. That’s how the song happened. The guys are just great—very talented, have amazing voices, making a lot of noise in this world. Two different worlds came together to make great music.

My mindset was vividly picking up where I left off on the song “Psycho,” which is about my uncle. Anybody that knows my music knows that he was a prominent figure and a muse of mine that I use a lot in my music. I was just continuing that story.