A lot of rappers are caught up in the hype of getting on a magazine cover to progress their audience and get their material to more people, which is a great thing, without a doubt…

… but here, there is so much negativity going on outside, that its hard to find the motivation to even care about music in general. We’re plotted against each other and our environment, we don’t have music or exposure as a priority.

When I was writing this, a few days beforehand, a local sandwich shop was held-up at gun point.

Shouts out to Jersey Mike’s Subs.

This is an altered hook that follows a switch-up in the instrumentation.

The beat calms down due to the activities shown in the new hook, whereas in the first hook I was looking for a match, and now I’ve found it and have started smoking something to ease my mind; calming both myself and the instrumental.

http://rap.genius.com/Dey-kon-what-up-lyrics#note-3467928

My high-school shows no concern for the growing heroin epidemic in the surrounding area, even though multiple students who have attended the high-school have either overdosed or ultimately met their end due to drug usage.

The general populace of the school seems to act oblivious to the epidemic as well, completely ignoring the repercussions of their actions as drug-users; they continue to party hard.

I’m guilty of this as well. So I decided to embody this persona for this lyric.

Much like the hook, I’m talking about being too busy getting high or intoxicated to deal with the world around me.

‘H’ is a slang-term for heroin. Like I stated previous, my county, Ocean County, is the heroin capital of the United States. So dealing this narcotic is a very possible lifestyle choice at one point or another.

Its like Biggie and Meth said, ‘Fuck the world, don’t ask me for shit.’

This, again, is just a common mentality in my city; where we’re only for the betterment of ourselves, since we feel like the world or our surroundings have never did anything for us.

This is pretty much the only braggadocios-related lyric that I’ve ever wrote. I’m comparing my ability as a writer and performer to that of which can rival a God.

The same goes for my collective, TrapBang. If anyone tries to beef with us, or talk negatively about us, then lyrically, we’ll leave them destroyed.

#We’re hungry.

I’m painting a picture of a dream that I had, where Tupac Shakur, the unanimously hailed King of Hip-hop, asked me what I’m doing creating rap music.

I snarkily reply that he’ll find out soon. I like to think that I make introspective, depthful music. I feel like the genre needs more of it, and that is exactly what I’m providing.

Kendrick Lamar had a very similar dream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCGS25RXaDE

Again, I’m illustrating the harsh reality of my city. My dream to find success in music is very much not reality-based, especially coming where I come from; where selling crack to make money seems more positively-enforced and supported than creating expression.