I really just came up with that bit. I don’t know how to write jokes or write great comedy. I don’t really know. But I came up with that in my head, and I told myself, “I’m going to try to flesh out a joke. I’m going to try to write a joke.” I couldn’t really make it funny like that unless I rhymed with it, that’s the only way I thought. But that story, it never happened. Just something I just thought of. There’s no such thing as a strip club named Hunky Dories, at least I don’t know. It’s just something that rhymed. Sometimes people got to understand man, you just be a rapper, man. You could be entertaining in ways that you’re not being fake about it, it’s not something that it can’t happen. But it just was funny to me. Imagine you go to a strip club and you leave your wallet at home, but you’re like, “Fuck it, bitch. I’ve got some change in the car.” You know what I’m saying? She like, “Fuck it. I take it. Fuck it.” And you gave her the change that you were intentions on having to wash your clothes with, then the next day you go to laundromat and you see the stripper in there washing her shit.

Because you’re nasty, that’s just being nasty. You know you go to them beep shows and shit. Well, you probably don’t. But I remember one time I went to one in Amsterdam and you put your tokens in and then the screen come up, boom, boom, boom. And my dumb ass tried to put my head, and motherfucker almost got stuck. But that’s just me being freaky, you know what I’m saying? That’s just a freaky little bar.

That’s really something really true that happened, though, but just in a different context. One time, man, me and my homie we had went in on some stuff, and we got some work or whatever, and he let his girlfriend hold it. And she put it in her purse, and one thing I didn’t know that cocaine absorbs shit. So it was around perfume. She had a bunch of perfume and Victoria Secrets and blue as shit all in that shit. So when we cooked it up and made crack with it, we let the motherfucker hit it, he said, “What the fuck is this shit? Michael Jordan cologne?” We’re like, “Man. I don’t know.” But we spent the lot, it really fucked us up too because of that shit. Because we bought a lot and we just had this fucking perfume tasting crack. I had to try take the shit to Ohio and sell it. They were like, “Man, what the fuck is this shit, man? Shit making my lips numb. This shit tasting like berry berries. I don’t know what the fuck is going on.” So yeah, that’s where I got influence for that line, just happened in a different way, that’s all.

So I was just trying to play on The Temptation and Four Tops and still throwing the laundry references in there, but still trying to weave and tell a story. When I was in the street doing that, wasn’t nobody in my family smoking crack no more, when their 80s. But maybe some weed here and there.

I’m dropping a lot of hustling bars here and there. You know what I’m saying? So that’s just talking about, you in the streets, man. And when you messing around in the streets like that, you know what you’re swimming towards. You know what’s coming with this, man. That’s like you trying to swim towards a current. You know you’re about to get drowned. Like a big ass fucking wave or some shit. So it’s like that’s me getting my metaphor, what I feel like it is to be in the streets like that. You swim towards the current, and the system going to drown you.

The, “High tide, gain off the Arm & Hammer. Swim towards the current, systems trying to drown me.” That’s amazing to me. I don’t toot my own horn, but that’s poetry shit.

That was just like, back in the day man when you going through it sometime, you ain’t got it like that, man. You got to do what you got to do to get what you got. Get what you want type of shit. So I used to be the guy on Black Planet looking for white girls. Back in the days dude. Preferably the bigger ones because they don’t have a problem with sharing their goodies with you. So yeah, man, when you starving and you in the hood, you ain’t got it like that, man. You got to do what you got to do, so I was putting the dick on the track for a minute.