00:00Every collaboration that I've done before, all the features and things, Jay-Z, all them
00:07type songs.
00:08I usually do my verse first and then they come through and they be going crazy, but
00:12for the verse on his song, I just was like, let me just go with my first mind, do it,
00:17knock it out.
00:18But then the song evolved.
00:19When he was on set and I heard the third verse, I'm like, damn, I could've probably ended
00:23it.
00:24I was like, oh, you're trying to go like that?
00:26I'm like, oh, okay.
00:27I remember being there, obviously it was too late because I was shooting a video, but I
00:31remember being like, it's all good, I'm going to get them again.
00:43The first thing I saw immediately is that you understood the idea of what a beautiful
00:51scar is.
00:52Oh yeah.
00:53Let's keep it real.
00:54Will, he a real one.
00:56He'll hop on the phone with you, talk you through your life, you know what I'm saying,
00:59and really get a feel.
01:00I appreciate him being as high up as he is and still like that, you know what I'm saying,
01:05as a real man.
01:06It ain't too many authentic people out here like that, especially after they get the quote
01:11unquote accolades or the money or whatever it is you're after.
01:16Sometimes that changes people's character and you can tell he's just evolved as a person,
01:22you know what I mean?
01:23But it's still the same him and I appreciate that.
01:33We wrote this eight months ago, so the fact that the song is coming out right when the
01:40Eagles are going to the Super Bowl.
01:43It is what it is.
01:44It's been written.
01:45Because I'm an icon, somebody you can base your life on, that you should place your sights
01:49on.
01:51And that's when hip hop was, you know, barely on the East Coast.
01:55And I saw Run in Tokyo take his sneaker off and hold his Adidas up in the air.
02:04And 20,000 Japanese b-boys all had Adidas on.
02:10I was like, that power of that kind of iconic status and imagery was brand new back then.
02:19I did yearn for that kind of global connection with people.
02:33I actually, you know, put my hip hop career to the side to dive into acting.
02:41I'm a master actor.
02:43I've never given myself the opportunity to elevate my poetry, my concepts to the level
02:51of the mastery I've attained as an actor.
03:13The idea of the matrix around the idea of beautiful scars is that I turned down Neo.
03:20The career loss of the matrix is a beautiful scar.
03:25I am a king with a queen, reign and supreme, bend through the rain, mud on my feet, tracks
03:29in the street, fame can be steep, mask off, see my face ain't clean, dip my dirt, made
03:34it hurt worse, went to church feeling curse worked on myself, Kintsugi first, couldn't
03:39tell I've been through hell on earth.
03:40The word I was using when I kept thinking about the past couple years of my life was,
03:45it was brutal.
03:46It was brutal and beautiful, Kintsugi first.
03:49The idea of Kintsugi is a Japanese pottery art.
03:53You break a dish, right?
03:54If a dish falls and normally you break it, you throw it in the trash, Kintsugi, is they
04:00take it and they put it back together with gold bond.
04:04So you end up with a piece of one of a kind, unique art that has golden scars.
04:12Now the broken dish is actually more beautiful and more valuable than the original.
04:19The truth ain't burned, you live and you learn.
04:20Now I'm like Confucius, see life is confusing.
04:22I hate when I lose it, but I face the music, oh why did he do it?
04:26See I'm only human.
04:27Of all the lines in this song, that is the line that was hardest for me to say.
04:36I hate admitting that I'm only human.
04:39My ego wants to be Superman.
04:41I want to be invincible.
04:43My deepest hope is that by admitting that I'm only human, I will realize that I am much
04:51more than Will Smith ever was.
05:01When you keep it G and beat the I's, that's what you call God.
05:04As soon as I was writing to the beat, that's just the first thing I heard.
05:09When you write rap, sometimes they just come to you.
05:12It has a couple meanings.
05:13I guess it's like a double entendre in a sense.
05:15You grow through what you go through, right?
05:17Your experiences make you who you are.
05:19We all got God inside of us, so it's like what you make it through, that's who you are.
05:23We gods.
05:24And then obviously it spells it out too, so.
05:38Bruh, on a daily basis, I used to blame anything that was going wrong in my life on everyone
05:44else.
05:45I was like, there's no way I could be fucking that.
05:47Whatever you put out is really coming back to you, period.
05:50If some shit is not going right in my environment, well guess who's the source of it?
05:56Guess who's the creator?
05:57You know what I'm saying?
05:58It's not Tyler.
05:59It's me.
06:00You know?
06:11That's one of the best lessons I learned, because I trusted them more than I trusted
06:14myself.
06:15Whether it be a mentor, whether it be somebody who is in the same profession as me and who's
06:19done a lot more than me.
06:22Sometimes I've done stuff where I didn't agree with it all the way, but it's like, since
06:25they said that.
06:26But now, I'm at a point in my life where I'm taking things with a grain of salt.
06:32Mr. Anderson, obviously, is my last name, Mr. Smith.
06:35If anyone who's seen The Matrix knows the historical connection between them.
06:40It was just ironic.
06:42So when he hit me on the phone and was like, yo, why don't we just do it for the video?
06:47And I was like, I don't know how you could pull that off, because The Matrix is so high
06:54production value.
06:55But then I remember I'm talking to one of the richest niggas in it.
06:58And I was like, oh yeah, okay, I mean, as long as it's on your budget, let's do this
07:03shit.
07:12I'm a living legend.
07:13I'm a dying legend.
07:14I ain't trying to get it, bitch.
07:15I gotta get it.
07:16I'm not even really concerned with credit or this and that.
07:19I know the contributions I make creatively to hip-hop, from flows to styles, at the end
07:24of anything.
07:26Any type of movie, any type of television, you get the credits at the end.
07:30And that's just a metaphor for life as well.
07:33There are no limits to send through the universe.
07:36I believe in me like it's religion, but I am the only one who converts.
07:39You have to be the person that believes in you more than anybody.
07:44It's really hard to do something that you don't believe you can do.
07:51The universe moves based on our thoughts and our beliefs.
07:57The power of manifestation starts with what you allow yourself to think.
08:14Your reality is your reality.
08:17My reality is the only thing that's real for me.
08:21I rebuild with the broken pieces that are shattered on the floor.
08:25I can look at that as an absolute mess and horrible and it's terrible, or I can look
08:33at this as a really great kintsugi opportunity to rebuild something beautiful and powerful.
08:55You are the answer.
08:57You are the power.
08:58You are the principle.
08:59Every second that you're living is pivotal.
09:01And I think really deep at my core, seeing the suffering, dreaming of healing them is
09:06the thing that makes me feel best in this lifetime.
09:11Ultimate healing is recognizing that you are infinitely powerful and your mind can do anything.
09:21Your mind can cultivate any kind of internal fragrance that you're seeking.
09:30Anything that's broken is remixable.
09:32Even when it's not physical, you are not alone.
09:35Trust the invisible.
09:36Ancestors flex when it gets critical.
09:38Top of the pyramids.
09:39I am the pinnacle.
09:40The you, you, you is really we.
09:44It's all of us.
09:45The I am the pinnacle, the top of the pyramids, I am, is a reference to the Bible I am, not
09:54to the ego I am.
09:56God is the pinnacle, but the play of the I am is your relationship with God is not separate.
10:05I am the pinnacle.
10:09This dude got hops.
10:12So we were doing a scene, it was like, so, you know, how they do the cameras that go
10:16around.
10:17360.
10:18You have to time it to 360.
10:19You have to do one, two, three.
10:21You time it and you do, you do the jump, you have to do everything at the same time.
10:25And you, it's like, you know, two seconds that you have to capture it.
10:29So they were like, one, two, three, jump.
10:32So we jumped.
10:33So I jumped.
10:34And then he just kept going and I was like, hey!
10:40Yo, man.
10:41Yeah, I don't skip leg day, bro.
10:44I don't skip leg day, bro.
10:45Hey, man, come on back down here, young fella.
10:48I turned down The Matrix and made The Wild Wild West.
10:50But that's a classic too.
10:51I've made better choices.
10:52No, no, come on, bro.
10:53I mean, don't downplay us.
10:54You know, niggas fuck The Wild Wild West too.
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