I think I was saying it kind of sarcastically. I don’t adhere to most fashion. I’m not a big high-fashion guy, and people say I don’t have taste. And I usually don’t rock Js most of the time. I do own some Js. In Chicago, Jordans are like, that’s the thing. Everybody, a bummy hood nigga, have hella Js, all the new-release Js, but terribly, terribly dressed.

There’s the saying that not all heroes wear capes, and shit like that. God is my hero. That’s a cool way for me to say that and real quick.

The jet doesn’t have plates. It has dinner plates in it for whatever I order, whatever they cook, but no, there’s no license plate. There’s a tail number, but that ain’t no plate. They don’t got no plates.

That was another moment of trying to do the phoneticism thing and trying to get those words that felt like they were supposed to be there there. But also, “works, don’t got no brakes,” people call your bangs, like your ability to footwork, they call them works. “Get them works. My works don’t stop, they don’t have no brakes.” I was still thinking about that car from the last line.

That’s more perspective of like, I’m not dancing for two. I’m doing this shit because I love to dance. It’s not about a partner. It’s about dancing for yourself.

I want to say most of it is just in my DNA. I don’t think you could teach this. There were a lot of influencers growing up in the city that’s very musically inclined and big on dance. I used to dance in talent shows when I was in third and fourth grade. That was my thing. That was my first entrance to music was watching Michael Jackson.

When I was in preschool, at our preschool graduation, I did a Michael Jackson impersonation. It was on the bill, like it was a thing. So I been doing this shit, you know?

The War Zone is a series of basically parties that was happening for people around my age and a little bit older when I was a kid. People would come and they’d have hip rolling battles and footwork battles and battles and bopping battles and all types of different Chicago dance, like culture shit. It was the hub for that shit happening in person, and then Wala Cam was the video representation of that.

This is another perfect example of Chicago slang. I’m just saying, like, you getting that home cooked meals mixed with intensive choreography and fitness training that is creating the perfect body for the both of us. So I’m just saying, like, you getting that positive affirmation.

It’s all inspired by my girl. A lot of things are inspired by family and my friends and my experiences and how we grew up and shit. So sometimes my girl is just dancing like she’s on Wala Cam. She’s a West Side superstar is how I’m looking at her. It’s just raw, you know. It’s dope. So I’m just saying I want to turn my Instagram, you making my shit Wala Cam level. You making my shit Cannes Film Festival—which is in France—level, if you let me put you on the story.

They call it different things in different cities. But ours is very specific. It’s like, I don’t know, grinding? Is that what they call it in other places? I don’t know what you call it. But you have a basement party or a juke party, and motherfuckers will just be getting juked on. You stand on the wall, or somebody holds you up, and you get a juke. If you really good at it, then you pick the motherfuckers up, put them on the floor.

It reminds me of the daggering shit that they do in Jamaica, but to slow music, though, and not that level intensity. But that’s some Chicago shit that I grew up, and juke music, that’s like footworking music. That’s more high tempo. That’s shit that people hit bangs to. That whole culture of juke is so much. It’s hard to explain.