00:00 When I first started making music, that was the most pure form of me.
00:05 But as you go through the business and you get more and more success, it's easy to fall
00:10 into these traps of forgetting why you do what you do.
00:14 This song is truly about knowing that I started off with good intentions, knowing that I fucked
00:19 it up a little bit in the past, but also knowing that I'm back on track now and there's only
00:24 more greatness to come.
00:25 [Music]
00:32 The process of making it was as honest as it sounds on the record when you listen to it.
00:36 This is everything that I've been thinking for the last two years.
00:39 It just like came out.
00:43 This just how it is.
00:45 No more what it was.
00:46 Wake up, take a shower, then I roll myself a blunt.
00:49 If I'm being honest, I've been going through a rut.
00:52 Victim of my selfishness is finally catching up.
00:55 Heavy way to start a song, right?
00:57 I think a lot of people always like to act like everything is fine, especially artists.
01:01 We always want to be fine and everything is okay.
01:04 Keep a smile on your face.
01:05 But I think there's a great strength in vulnerability.
01:09 Money over love, bitches doing drugs.
01:12 When you getting famous, they're going to shower you with love.
01:15 Copy, paste, and compliments don't mean a single one.
01:18 I'm addicted to attention, anything to catch a buzz.
01:21 People are always telling you the same things like, "Oh, you're him.
01:24 You got it.
01:25 You sold this many records.
01:26 You're lit."
01:27 It starts feeling hollow.
01:28 It feels like y'all just copy and pasted this from somebody else.
01:31 People say, "You the GOAT.
01:32 You told that to seven other people today.
01:34 How can we all be the greatest of all time?"
01:36 Roses in the grass, hoes up on the bus.
01:39 I had good intentions 'til I started slipping up.
01:42 Love took over love, now look at where we ended up.
01:45 With the only one that really know me, blocking me for months.
01:48 In that state of being of selfishness and losing my good intentions,
01:53 I feel like I pushed away a lot of the people that cared about me the most.
01:56 Women, family, friends.
01:59 It's no fun when you're successful but alone, you know?
02:03 Or the only people that are there are there for the wrong reasons.
02:06 It's weird losing friends.
02:20 With relationships, there's attractiveness and all these other things that play into it.
02:23 But with a friendship, it's like, I see you as a human being and I fuck with you.
02:27 So when you lose a friend, it's like them saying,
02:30 "I see you as a human being and I don't fuck with you anymore."
02:34 It's funny that we're having this conversation today because my dad called me yesterday.
02:49 He was like, "Your mom loves a new song."
02:51 She said it was all about her and I'm like, "Well, partially."
02:55 You know, but I'm glad you like your mom.
02:59 Bottles on the floor, models in the tub.
03:01 Rumor's still a mess, been too depressed to clean it up.
03:04 Plaques on every wall but they from 2021.
03:07 Take a picture, smoke a swish, a reminisce on how it was.
03:10 I like that line because it starts off thinking like,
03:13 "Oh, here he goes. He's bragging. Okay, we get it."
03:16 But then it switches and it lowers the veil a little bit and it's like me being vulnerable.
03:21 I know what's going on. I know where I've been.
03:24 But I also know where I could go.
03:26 And that's why I feel comfortable saying something like that is because I know that I can be honest
03:31 and I can admit that like, "Yo, we was lit in 2021."
03:36 But don't count me out yet.
03:38 I've been great in the past and I'm going to be great in the future.
03:41 We got to end it on an optimistic note.
03:55 What good is a song that just talks about how bad your life is?
03:58 I don't know. For some people, sure, go ahead, go crazy.
04:01 If you feel that, you feel that.
04:03 But that's not me and anybody that listens to my music,
04:06 I don't want them to listen to a song and feel hopeless at the end.
04:10 And I wanted to make everybody else that listens to this song
04:13 feel like they got the power to change their own lives too.
04:15 You won't go there, we can go there. Take a look in my mind, take a glance at me.
04:22 You won't go there, we can go there. Take a shot in the dark, take a chance on me.
04:29 If there's no love, then there's no love, then there's no love.
04:35 But the crystal balls that deck these halls keep showing up.
04:41 I took the time, I did the work, I'm showing up.
04:47 So take a chance, baby, take a chance, take a chance on us.
04:53 I wanted to make people feel like they were taken off and flying
04:56 when they listened to that part and the sun was shining on their face of,
05:00 "Oh shit, all this stuff in the beginning is true."
05:04 But that was the past and the outro is the future of what can happen
05:10 and what will happen.
05:13 Almost every lyric that you hear in there was the original thing that I said
05:18 on that first take.
05:20 I cut this song on my balcony at 2am.
05:23 The energy you hear in that song is from a real specific moment.
05:26 It's cool to be able to capture that in music.
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