00:00 My favorite Yachty line is, "I am the grim reaper."
00:03 Top of the song.
00:04 Top of his verse, he came in knowing exactly what we were talking about.
00:09 That line right there was everything for me.
00:10 So number nine was primarily written and recorded at Sonic Ranch.
00:23 I went there with my brother, Nonchalant Savant and D'Lo.
00:28 D'Lo has been a good friend, a brother, and a collaborator.
00:32 And Nonchalant is my brother.
00:34 That's my blood brother.
00:35 He's my younger brother.
00:36 And this is the first time we've created on this level of trust where I had a melody,
00:42 I had some words, I had an idea, and he took that and he connected with something and really
00:48 made it work.
00:49 "Break lights off in the distance, don't follow me.
00:58 And the sky came crawling out beneath the waves."
01:05 The waves and us seeing the waves often during our childhood, especially in the summertime.
01:10 My dad was a teacher and that's when we got all of our time with him was during the summer
01:15 and he would take us to the beach, like religiously.
01:17 So we were in the water, we were watching the waves all the time and I think this is
01:22 something that grabbed my brother that he knew I would relate to.
01:44 There's a quote, this Hunter S. Thompson quote about life.
01:47 Not arriving at the finish line pristine, but arriving flames shooting out the back
01:53 and bruised and battered and scraped up was sort of what life was really about.
01:58 And that's how he wanted his life to be and how he wanted to arrive at his final, at the
02:03 final moment.
02:04 We should have these oscillations and it's not meant to be safe.
02:08 We should be pushing our boundaries and really pushing to the edge of ourselves.
02:13 This chorus is one of those choruses that just felt right.
02:36 And that's a testament to ultimate trust and creative collaboration.
02:42 It was a revelation for me.
02:44 I've never put a melody of mine fully in the hands of anyone else.
02:48 I don't think it's poetic.
02:49 That is my brother.
02:51 When my eyes shut wide and my mind goes blank.
02:56 When I don't know time and I don't know space.
03:01 When I number nine and I'm clean and safe.
03:06 There'll be no one else and nothing left of me.
03:11 There'll be no one else and nothing left of me.
03:13 It's almost like you've obliterated yourself from the me, the I, the ego.
03:18 Now you're a part of something greater.
03:20 You return to something greater.
03:21 And that's a little bit of philosophy.
03:24 Maybe it's what I hope.
03:25 Because I don't ever want to come back to this motherfucker.
03:27 I just want to keep going.
03:28 I don't want to return.
03:31 Call me crazy.
03:32 Let's go to the next level.
03:36 This whole thing has been an exercise of trust.
03:40 Trusting of self.
03:42 Trusting of choice.
03:43 Trusting of intuition.
03:44 That's very much in this album.
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