00:00When I was younger, I used to question, like, why am I in the hood?
00:03And as I got older, I realized I wasn't punished, I was privileged.
00:07Because I got to play life on All Matt, Call of Duty, Kill Confirmed, everybody had Aimbot.
00:13I spent life literally waking up like that.
00:16I never stressed when my plate was empty, never.
00:18I knew eventually it would come.
00:21We're at Treesound Studios in Atlanta.
00:30We had already been cooking for about three or four days in something that was seven days.
00:34So it was like the whole seven-day creation process, you know, God said, let there be
00:38light.
00:39Cole was working in another space, which I still don't know where, some magical space
00:42he was working in.
00:43And I was working upstairs in the main room upstairs.
00:46So every day he would come up and ask me, like, yo, you know, how many fucking records
00:50you cut today?
00:51So I'm like, yeah, I'm on, like, number seven right now.
00:53He's like, yo, all right, play me the first three, the first one.
00:56Like, we didn't even get to three.
00:58Collard Greens came up.
00:59He was just like, how, like, how the fuck are you doing this?
01:03Like, how?
01:04Like, how, how?
01:05I remind him of just the time when, like, you can just be a raw MC without thinking
01:11about all the other stuff.
01:12Because, again, where we at now, you know, I think people is thinking about how to put
01:17the song out before they even thinking about the goddamn lyrics.
01:20They think about publicity or promotion and all the trickery before the actual skill aspect.
01:24Let's just worry about the skill.
01:38So Out The Gate is actually like a quintillion entendre, like Out The Gate.
01:42I've learned something called double speaking.
01:44A lot of people might know what that is, but after today, you can go Google it, double
01:48speaking.
01:49It's basically like to rap something that you can basically talk to both listeners.
01:54And then you'll have people that create their own meanings, too.
01:56Pray for me on the third.
01:57Like, so the first layer of that is just, like, I'm on 103rd Street.
02:00The third, that's what we call 103rd Street.
02:02But then also, too, like, this was the third day that I was recording this.
02:06And then also from a biblical standpoint, like, this is the third day of creation.
02:09It's a body chopped in thirds, I heard.
02:11This is an actual story of someone that got chopped into three pieces on 103rd Street.
02:16The Jews come in pairs, so he got set up by his homies.
02:19His right-hand man actually set him up, and then they chopped him up.
02:31That's the bar that connects everything.
02:32So all this time spent, the mind sent the haters at me.
02:35So the mind is like the brain.
02:36But they found out where his head was because of where it was smelling from the preacher.
02:40So the mind sent the haters.
02:41It make me happy knowing, like, they can't touch me.
02:44Them same niggas that did that to him, they're not going to be able to touch me at all, because
02:47I'm just walking in a complete different light.
03:00And this is where we do something called chain punching.
03:02The ghost, the rugby, all this stuff tied back into the body in the house.
03:06Big Homie also had a ghost, too.
03:08It's like the verse of the Paso Gay to the pulpit.
03:11They mad adore me, but I ain't here for the bullshit.
03:13That's when Cole stopped the song.
03:15He didn't hear no more of the song after that.
03:17He was like, stop right there.
03:19Give me this record.
03:20I'm out of here.
03:21That was the bar that made him stop.
03:22It was like the verse of Paso Gay to the pulpit.
03:23This also ties back into the homie dying, the ghost, the funeral.
03:28It's all leading up.
03:29So this is a whole sad ass story.
03:30It's just simple wordplay.
03:32They mad adore me, like y'all adore me, but I'm not here for the bullshit.
03:35But mad adore and bull, whatever.
03:37That's a flag on the plate, too.
03:43That also ties back into the beginning of the verse.
03:45Some people just can't take it when other people are blessed.
03:48It's probably a nigga watching me right now saying, yo, how the fuck that nigga get there?
03:52Nigga, it's supposed to be me.
03:53Those thoughts are why you not there.
03:55I've seen almost everybody in Los Angeles get there before me.
03:59I'm the last one out of my era.
04:01I'm the last one here.
04:02Not once was I like, man, what about me?
04:04Not once was I ever like, when my turn gonna come?
04:07I didn't stress at all.
04:08I just kept walking.
04:09All that stressing, you're gonna block your own blessing.
04:17This is literally history in the making right now as you're listening to this record.
04:21With me even breaking the stigmatism of the battle rappers can't do X, Y, Z, and they
04:26should stay down there, and we should stay down there.
04:28Those walls are broken.
04:30The rest is greatness from here on out.
04:35We rep these hoods.
04:36We claim these hoods.
04:37We bang these hoods.
04:38We really think we running shit.
04:39We not.
04:40Someone can come over here and say, hey, all you guys have to move today, like they just
04:45did with my neighborhood.
04:47Literally gentrified it.
04:48Our neighborhood is no longer a slum, so we can't even be gangsta no more.
04:52It's a nice area where you can walk your dog, and the nigga still trying to hold on like,
04:56no, it's real.
04:57No, it's not real.
04:58Becky has a chihuahua right there.
04:59It's over, guys.
05:00Go home.
05:04Sometimes I'm relaxed, but then sometimes I do relapse.
05:06I live in Orange County, and I be at Disneyland having a fucking nice-ass time with my family,
05:12and somebody will kind of look at me crazy, and my brain will automatically be like, nigga,
05:16who you?
05:17And then I have to remind myself like, no, it's over.
05:19We at Disneyland.
05:20It's over.
05:21All people that grow up in the hood struggle with that, moving out of the hood, but still
05:25dealing with your mindset of how you maneuver in the hood.
05:28You got to change your mindset.
05:37You're a clown, because you have all this aggression, and the aggression comes from
05:41stunted growth and not being man enough to break the cycle.
05:45You have all this energy for the ops.
05:47You have all this energy for these people, but yet you would voluntarily let someone
05:51put handcuffs on you and put you right in the backseat of the car.
05:54Like, just keep that same energy all around the board.
06:03My son's name is Sunlight.
06:04I've had my son with me at almost 90% of the events.
06:08My first event that I took him to is probably like two.
06:11So now he's what, 14 now?
06:13So now he's listening with a different ear, and he asked me about that too.
06:15It's like, dad, like, you talking about me right here?
06:17It's like, yeah, tell all your friends that your dad got a record with J. Cole, and you
06:20go back to school, and you know, what's up?
06:22So he went back to school too, and it's like, yeah, you know what I'm saying?
06:25It's me right here.
06:26It's me.
06:27The response from the YouTubers, the reactors, the you guys, all the sites, again, it's just
06:36dope to see people promote this type of rap, again, on a major level.
06:41We rarely get it.
06:42It's rare.
06:43It's like a shooting star every nowadays, but then my name is Daylight, and Daylight's
06:47technically a star.
06:48We're not going to go there.
06:49I'm just happy to be in a position to help lead that mindset or that concept into the
06:56next generation.
06:57Hot Collar Greens, I think what sparked him to write to it, and this is after I had already
07:01settled in, and I kind of built a name for myself in this space, where people were like,
07:05yo, this nigga's the boogeyman up there.
07:07I think Cole was like, nah, I can't let this nigga come in my castle and get crazy like
07:11this.
07:12Hey, send me that.
07:13Send me that shit, right now.
07:14We airdropped him the instrumental.
07:15He's like, yo, I'll be right back.
07:17You know what I mean?
07:18I didn't see him for maybe about a couple of hours, then he called me downstairs, and
07:23he was like, yo, listen to this shit.
07:25I listened to it, and I was like, oh yeah, it's go time.
07:27One of my favorite parts of Cole's verse as a collective is, it was personal.
07:31He ventured in his upbringing, how he grew up, and stuff like that.
07:34I don't really get to see that side of him musically, with all the stuff that he's doing,
07:38so that was probably my favorite part about the verse.
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