00:00Coming back into the clips, it has been presented to me over and over, over the years.
00:06I just believe that now is the time we're able to do it.
00:10I felt like No Malice did everything he was supposed to do.
00:14I took my beatings.
00:15I was humbled.
00:16I was stripped.
00:17I sat down over time, read what the Word of God had to say about me, not who I thought
00:23I was, who I made myself to be.
00:25There's so much liberty in God, and I feel like He's allowed me to come back.
00:30When I hear Him talk, I hear the conviction, the confidence, and the assurity.
00:36I know Him beside me.
00:37I'm in good hands.
00:38Better know it.
00:47Chains and Whips came about, again, another Paris Louis Vuitton session.
00:53There was a best MC list or something.
00:55Evidently, I made the list, and it was just a lot of different opinions on whether I should
01:01be on the list, whether I shouldn't be on the list.
01:03Me, me.
01:04Out of 50 MCs, I was one of the people being questioned, should I be on the list?
01:10For me, it was a thing of everybody can have an opinion, but when you're talking about an
01:16MC list, I would expect for at least the opinion to be followed with, and I belong on it.
01:21My mind state on the record was like, okay, well, I'm going to give you my opinion.
01:25I truly admire his restraint.
01:28People think he goes over the top, and just with me knowing where all the bodies are buried,
01:32I admire his restraint.
01:33Pharrell started this chorus off.
01:46The chorus, actually, we were stuck on.
01:49Sometimes the beat's so good that you get stuck on the words, because you're too locked
01:54in to the beat.
01:55It's just grooving.
01:56You can't even get out of the groove to even know what you're about to say.
02:00P kind of keyed into the emotion of the track, and with that came just the statement, like,
02:06Uncle said, nigga, you must be sick.
02:09All you talk about is just getting rich, and he's just looking at it, just saying, yo, this
02:14is y'all.
02:15This is what I think of y'all, because the whole song was like, oh, what I think of you.
02:20You run from the spirit of repossession.
02:23The whole verse was sketched about looking at somebody and just figuring out their mindset,
02:28their fears.
02:29You run from the spirit of repossession was like a strong line.
02:34Too much enamel covers your necklace.
02:36I buy bitches, you buy them sections.
02:39You buy watches, I buy collections.
02:41I want to see stones.
02:42I don't want to see shellacked.
02:44Nothing.
02:45I don't see nothing shellacked on your chains.
02:48I want to see stones.
02:49Misery's fueling your aggression.
02:52Jealousy's turned into obsession.
02:54Reality TV is mud wrestling.
02:57Some sign checks I know better than.
02:59I've been offered reality TV numerous times.
03:01They offer my wife reality TV.
03:03She'd never.
03:04It's just not my taste.
03:05It doesn't look fun, it looks scripted, it looks fake.
03:08Even if it is money, not all money is good money.
03:11Beware of my name that there's delicate.
03:14You know I know where you're delicate.
03:17Crush you to pieces, I hum a breath of it.
03:19I will close your heavens for the hell of it.
03:22Some of the bars are to cater to also the mood of the song.
03:26As soon as you sat down and start talking about this record, you said spooky.
03:30You said scary.
03:31That's a different type of fear.
03:33When you talk a certain way and you put things out there, that evokes a certain type of fear.
03:38That evokes a certain level of caution.
03:42That's what you're trying to inject into the song when you hear bars like that.
03:46You think it'd be valor amongst veterans.
03:49I'm watching your fame escape relevance.
03:52We all in a room, but here's the elephant.
03:54You chasing a feature out of your element.
03:57And those lab diamonds under inspection.
04:00The question marks block your blessings.
04:02There's no tombstones in the desert.
04:04I know by now you get the message.
04:07The line, you think it'd be valor amongst veterans.
04:10I was trying to exude disappointment.
04:13I wanted people to know that mid-verse, I'm taking a step back.
04:17It's giving some common sense like, damn, you think it'd be valor amongst veterans.
04:21You think that collectively, us veterans wouldn't be at odds over nothing.
04:26Ignorance just follows you, man.
04:39To be honest, everybody knows what it's like when it gets tight.
04:43Some people are fearful of that.
04:45I have come to understand that with money or without money, I am truly the man that I am.
04:52I don't have that fear.
04:54For some people, this money is everything.
04:56It is their whole entire identity.
04:59Of course, if that's your identity, it's going to scare you, you know, to lose it.
05:03John 1010, that's my usual.
05:05Mamas is falling out in funerals.
05:07And bomb and bloat, they now viewing you.
05:10They never find the guns, but the sewers do.
05:12John 1010, the devil's not playing with people.
05:15People think the devil is out here to agitate you or to irritate you, but the Bible says
05:21the devil comes, but to kill, steal, and destroy.
05:27And that's what he wants to see happen.
05:29And if you play with him long enough, he will get you.
05:33Bubbles was sick.
05:34He need medicine.
05:35He need medicine.
05:36Brought him back to life.
05:37Now he dead again.
05:38From the wire.
05:39Yeah.
05:40From the wire.
05:41Bubbles was sick.
05:42He need medicine.
05:43Brought him back to life.
05:44Now he dead again.
05:45Nodding and dozing.
05:46You know, an addict or whatever.
05:48Just painting those street pictures.
05:49Things that I've witnessed.
05:50Things that I've seen.
05:51Now it's an epidemic that needs help.
05:55The crack epidemic was throw everybody away like they weren't people.
06:00I don't know.
06:01Just looking back at everything, man.
06:02And seeing where we are today and the disparages between groups and class of people.
06:09You know, you see a lot of injustice.
06:24Since my departure from rap, this is the darkest that I've ever been.
06:28I'm, you know, staying free of conflict.
06:31Just trying to do my thing.
06:33You know what I'm saying?
06:34And staying in my lane.
06:35This the darkest that I've ever been.
06:39My particular class, I feel like this is the first class that does not have to age out of rap.
06:45I believe that.
06:46Like, I believe that with my heart.
06:47Like, when you hear these records and you hear these songs and you hear these verses,
06:51you will always be able to put them in the ring for today.
06:55That's something our class, we have that luxury.
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