I was like, “Domo, I need you to speak to me like I’m the white homie and I’m not sure if I can be here. And be like, ‘Gimme them bars,’ like I’m Rabbit in “8 Mile.” You tellin' me to get on that stage.”

He did a few takes—Domo is a perfectionist. We had to get him drunk off the Henny first.

Ab-Soul was working at the crib using the studio and I was rolling a blunt in the living room. He’d just gotten a bunch of beats dropped off and this was one of them. I was listening to it and that flow—“beh, duh-duh, beh.” Once the flow clicks like that, the words come easily. So I woke up Soul, like, “Can I have this?”

It feels like you’re flying when Miguel starts singing. It’s so beautiful. One time someone asked if that was me singing. I was like, “Yeah, definitely.”

I remember writing this rhyme scheme, like, “I’m getting off right now. This is gonna be nuts."

When I laid it down everyone that was in the other room was like “whew!” You don’t get a lot of that when you’re at a certain level. People stop being surprised that you can rap. When I was younger I’d lay something down and everyone’s like, “Yo, sick verse you killed it!” I don’t get that shit any more, so, when you get a “whew!” it’s a good day.

My weekend consists of going out, seeing some shows and getting back with the wife—having Mr. Nasty time.

This song is about going through stress during the week and getting to the weekend to let it go. The verses are downers and then the hook brings you back up.

I met Lil B at the XXL Freshman Issue shoot. It was sick.

I wanted everyone on the record to do things they don’t normally do, or not just write a verse. So I wanted the Based God—the prophet. Lil B has a lot to say beyond making music. On Twitter he’s an advocate for positive things. People take him as a joke but he’s fucking serious. He’s saying things that people need to hear, things that if Kendrick said people would be like whoa! He’s a very creative individual with a lot to say.