Pain, and a lot of shit I don’t talk to people about. I feel like as much as there’s a little pocket of people who do know me, there’s a whole bigger pocket that doesn’t and I want them to know me and understand who I am for real before making pre-judgments. It’s the most introspective record on there. Why lead with “Lullaby” as the first single off the project? It’s like cooking – some things you slow cook, and some things you flash fry. I wrote it in one session and recorded it in the next. With Boi-1da, he was playing me the joints and I was conceptualizing them in my head as he was playing them and writing them down and then by the time I had picked out what I wanted, I kind of knew where to go with everything. Like I’ll almost hear what it wants me to say on it. I’ll just write with no music, no nothing and then try to apply it to music and sometimes, a beat will speak to me. What type of environment do you prefer to record in? He’s been involved in at least every project I’ve done. I’ve known him for years. It’s like working with my brother. What’s the chemistry like between you and Boi-1da in the studio? Boi-1da came in and started playing me beats. Everything me and Boi-1da did was done in two sessions, which is about seven or eight joints. I needed to make sure that I put something out that first of all can express those dark moments that I felt - and second of all, I wanted to put something out to showcase me rapping, and I think was the best way to do it. Like Abel came through and gave me something so monstrous, Pharrell gave me something that was legendary, Mustard gave me something crazy - and I felt like I had a real, bright album that had hits on it and I was covered. I was working on my official album and I finished it rather fast and I had all the singles I wanted to put out. How’d you piece the whole project together? We’ve had guys that were just bigger characters than their music, so their characters carried their music - we’ve had that since back in the day.īut, every single era pretends like, “Oh that never happened before, this is brand new.” All this shit is recycling itself, so I could never look at rap and be like, “They’re wack for doing this.” I may not like all the music, but if your music can move the people, you’re doing something. I was like, “You know, the best way to take the power away from this word, that these ‘rap purists’ are trying to coin, is to create an amazing rap project where I actually rap my ass off and call it Mumble Rap and every time you think of “mumble rap,” you think of this amazing rap project that came out and the amazing things the younger generation is doing.Ī lot of people are too pure with this shit… When you look at hip-hop, we’ve always had guys that could really rap, and guys that know how to get by with just making dope music, and don’t have to necessarily know how to rap. A lot of people don’t know me for my rap shit. A lot of people know me for my more melodic, more radio I did a couple of freestyles to allow people to see like, “Oh shit, he can rap!” One thing that bothered me when that happened, people would start asking me questions like, “Well, what about these mumble rappers out there?” and I’m like, “Mumble what?” Was the title of your project a subtle shot to today’s “mumble rappers?”įor me, I do all kinds of music. And so I felt like it’d be dope to have a cassette tape and music that matched it really well. It was reminiscent to some shit I grew up on. Belly: I think the sound, the feeling - it reminded me of an era.
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