00:00 I'm sure Ja Morant has heard the song, but I don't know that he would ever reach out
00:04 'cause it's not the most wholesome flip on his name.
00:07 He might not appreciate it, but Ja, if you see this, it's all love.
00:12 You're a dope player.
00:13 I'm dope at what I do, so it just kinda worked.
00:15 I'm always watching basketball, and as a lyricist, I think that's something rappers do pretty
00:26 commonly is you think of some quirky little thing or some wordplay, you put it in the
00:30 notes app on your phone.
00:31 I probably had like 10,000 notes on my phone.
00:33 But I had just typed out in my phone, "Ja Morant," 'cause I thought that was funny.
00:36 It actually wasn't gonna be the hook.
00:38 It was actually how I started my verse.
00:40 When we played it back, he tied my engineer and was like, "Yo, that's gotta be the hook."
00:43 And I was like, "Really?"
00:44 He was like, "Yeah."
00:45 I was like, "We gotta call it Ja Morant."
00:53 That's my lyrical way of saying I'm good at giving head.
00:57 So I have given a lot of wisdom in my day.
01:00 First, I love that because it's a sneaky little wordplay that I think a lot of people miss
01:11 on their first listen.
01:12 And that was some of my favorite lyricism growing up, whether it was Jay-Z or Lil Wayne,
01:16 early chant stuff, like Lupe.
01:19 I would listen to something a couple years later and catch something I didn't catch.
01:22 So I always loved those kinds of nods like that.
01:25 But why would I let a hoe tell me shit?
01:28 When somebody's trying to say something to me in the comments, I'm like, "You're not in
01:31 the arena.
01:32 You're on the bench or you're in the bleachers."
01:35 Why would I let a hoe tell me shit?
01:49 When you have things and people don't have them, they want them from you, they want favors
01:53 from you.
01:54 Yeah, I just feel like if you're gonna suck up to me, I'll loan you some bobby pins.
01:57 Pin it back.
01:58 My DMs are flooded.
02:07 It's a lot of simps out there.
02:09 So I'm just enjoying the ride.
02:11 It's a good thing to smoke on.
02:12 You gotta be so good.
02:19 You gotta just be heaven sent.
02:21 Somebody's gotta meet you and be like, "Damn, you're really everything I could've wanted."
02:25 That's how you give atheists a reason to believe.
02:27 Not enough people say "kapish."
02:36 I think all the time you flirt with somebody or you respond to a DM and it's like, "I might
02:41 think you're cute, but I'm not trying to link up."
02:44 If I'm just being a tease, if it's not that deep, then it's really not that deep.
02:48 It's like, "Kapish."
02:49 A real one is someone who just keeps it a buck with you.
03:15 I'm a very blunt person.
03:16 I don't do a lot of in-betweens.
03:19 I like to be honest.
03:20 I like to be up front.
03:21 So I like to be with people who are also that way.
03:24 So if you're playing games or you're wasting my time, I can see through that bullshit and
03:29 I'm coming for you.
03:44 I'm always thinking about music.
03:47 I'm always thinking about lyrics I could come up with.
03:50 I'll be in the club putting notes in my phone, thinking of things, seeing some funny shit
03:54 and being like, "I don't want to write a lyric about that later."
03:56 I'm scheming.
03:57 I'm thinking about my next move.
03:58 I'm about my business, so I'm locked in.
04:01 I have done this before and it's kind of egregious.
04:06 Like imagine.
04:07 Imagine.
04:08 Yeah, that's tough.
04:09 He trying to cuff me but you can't possess a demon.
04:12 He's breaking down in front of me like he's on Genius.
04:15 We're having a moment right now.
04:17 This is a moment.
04:18 This is a classic platform.
04:19 Everyone wants to do one of these videos.
04:21 So when you talk about breaking down in front of someone, I think it's a hilarious imagery.
04:26 The people I have around me is a blessing for sure.
04:34 They're very grounding.
04:36 Making sure you have good people around you is super important.
04:38 These moments when you're coming up as an artist, people think it happens overnight,
04:42 but I've been rapping, like I said, since I was nine.
04:44 I've been in the industry since 2016.
04:46 So I'm actively working every day I wake up and I think about my goals and where I want
04:50 to go and I'm working towards those things.
04:52 So when they start coming to fruition, it's like, "Oh shit, I did this."
05:05 I love the wordplay of connecting.
05:07 Basketball references for the hoes.
05:09 Which doesn't always connect because most of my girlfriends don't watch basketball,
05:14 but it's reality TV for the boys.
05:16 That's all basketball is.
05:18 So yeah, to post on Instagram, post up on the block, under the hoop.
05:24 It's like the concept of Drake starts his verse on "Used To" with "When you get to where
05:35 the fuck I'm at, you gotta remind 'em where the fuck you at."
05:37 Don't play with me.
05:38 I've really been here doing this for a long time.
05:39 I'm about my lyrics.
05:40 This is real shit for me.
05:41 So I have to let 'em know.
05:43 Don't call out my name if you don't have it in your phone.
05:45 You can't.
05:46 You scroll on Twitter and it's got highlights everywhere, especially during the season.
05:51 So I'm sure I was scrolling or watching a game or something and it popped up, but my
05:55 favorite player is Damian Lillard, to be clear.
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