00:00I feel like what separates me from the rest is taste.
00:03Taste and principles.
00:04I don't gel well with a lot of artists.
00:06Artistically, we're just not all in the same place at the same time and in the same mind
00:10state at the same time.
00:11I want things to be exactly what I want them to be right now.
00:14And what they should be.
00:15What's funny is me sitting back and just seeing him out in the world.
00:20Like he said, he doesn't gel well.
00:22I'm seeing with my own eyes him not gelling with people.
00:27I see it.
00:28It's, we always stand on principle.
00:31I'm just glad to be back beside him.
00:40Ace Trumpets, every song usually starts with the beat.
00:43The track just kind of spoke to us and it spoke to us in a very arrogant, aggressive manner.
00:50The track basically set the tone.
00:51When working with Pharrell, he loves for you to find a pocket.
00:55He thinks that makes the song, he calls it sticky.
00:57Once we found a pocket, it was like, oh, that's it.
01:00It's the energy behind the track that really lets you know where you want to go with it,
01:04where you want to take it, how you want to take it.
01:06That first bar will tell you exactly how you want to feel from the top to the middle to
01:11the end and never go beneath it.
01:13It's just a metaphor for women in my world.
01:24The track is hard, but it's sophisticated.
01:26I came up with the first word, ballerinas.
01:29I was like, man, ballerinas doing pirouettes.
01:31And I was like, as soon as I said that, I was like, Wu-Tang level language for no reason
01:37at all.
01:38You know?
01:38But it just makes you feel like the urgency of it.
01:42And then you just start building from there.
01:44I just feel like we were building a world of luxury, nightlife, the nighttime scene in
01:54Miami Vice.
01:55You know what I'm saying?
01:56It's easy.
01:57Competitively, man, these rappers are my sons.
02:12You know, I'm the father.
02:13The sins of the father reach Lil' Meech.
02:26She couldn't please me.
02:28White glove service with the brick.
02:29I am Luigi.
02:31Sold ecstasy and disappeared.
02:32I am Houdini.
02:33The Houdini line's a double entendre.
02:35Wait a minute.
02:36I wasn't going to say nothing, but I just caught that.
02:40I just caught the ecstasy Houdini.
02:43Yeah.
02:43The actual group Houdini and, you know, of course, the magician.
02:46Sold ecstasy and disappeared.
02:48I am Houdini.
02:49Ecstasy was one of the members of Houdini, so on and so forth.
02:52Who's that going to resonate with?
02:53Who's going to get it?
02:54But the bar is so fresh to me that it's like, man, you just got to sacrifice for the greater
02:58good.
02:59Like, fuck it.
03:00I don't care who gets it.
03:01The three people who may get it, that's going to be enough because they're going to come
03:05to the show and they're going to be like, so that's the deal.
03:07That's the better.
03:08Who did it?
03:19I was in the studio.
03:20I'm with P. I got this beat.
03:23And I'm thinking to myself like, damn, y'all interviewing about me.
03:27And y'all got all these things to say about me, whether it be on Twitter or whatever it
03:31was.
03:32I'm making this shit.
03:33I'm making heat.
03:34And I know you waiting.
03:35I know you're waiting on him to give you something, throw you something, hand you something.
03:43You know, I know you waiting and I know it was never coming.
03:50I knew it was never coming.
03:52I hope you got your squeegees.
03:55I hope you can clean my fucking windshield.
03:59That's what you're going to do.
04:01Make you.
04:02I flew Air France to get to Paris.
04:11We recorded the whole album in Paris.
04:14And it's called Wi-Fi.
04:16You know, when you connect to the Wi-Fi, it's Wi-Fi.
04:18The mentality of the bar was simply just, what the hell was happening?
04:22Kind of pinching yourself like, dog, I am in the headquarters for Louis Vuitton.
04:28And I am actually recording shit like this.
04:31The Bee Gees line, that's just connecting words and making shit.
04:35This, right here, this is real life.
04:54When you hear an MC rap, you know whether or not he is of it, or if you know if he's
05:01just formulating.
05:02It's an image that I don't believe that they were ever halfway into.
05:07We don't start counting bread, or if you ain't got over half a meal, then that's what we call
05:12focaccia.
05:13Focaccia bread.
05:14When you can pull meanings from words and turn them into slang, that's the fun part.
05:21That's the artistic part, but that's also the fun part of hip hop to me.
05:32I'm going to play at the Oscars, persona non grata, mi casa su casa, drugs killed my teen
05:37spirit.
05:38Welcome to Nirvana.
05:39Never leaving home without my peace, like I'm Mahatma, Mahatma Gandhi, you know.
05:43Always promoting peace, talking about peace.
05:47Never leaving home without my peace.
05:48Never leaving home without my protection.
05:51Teen spirit and Nirvana, the innocence loss.
05:55I seen a fiend, just bought some work, and I also seen her kids telling her momma, I'm
06:00hungry.
06:01You know what I'm saying?
06:02That was a real scenario, and I don't think, it hasn't even left me to this day.
06:07We called dope, of course, white girl, and then Lady Gaga, and selling it, and being able
06:18to afford certain luxuries that come from that, you know what I'm saying, and the house
06:22of Gucci, of course.
06:24When it hit me, it was just crazy, and I just knew I had all the perfect pieces, and I couldn't
06:28wait to put them down.
06:29I was mad.
06:30I was mad.
06:31Don't movie entendre me at the end of the verse.
06:36I was mad.
06:38Sometimes you sit back and be like, man, I wish I had that bar.
06:42That always happens.
06:43I mean, vice versa.
06:46That was one.
06:47Yeah.
07:00Of course, at one point, it was my brother and myself making music together.
07:04I took one of the longest hiatuses.
07:06He's kept the whole game going, and he's kept it creditable.
07:11Like, I'm not just coming back to rap.
07:13If he messes it up, I'm not trying to force back the clips and try to reminisce in the
07:17past and make something happen.
07:19But it was the level that he has kept it is something that I definitely enjoy being a part
07:26of.
07:28The clips and Pharrell working together, when we work together, we find like a childish
07:331996 type of energy.
07:36You know, even earlier than that, because this was our childhood, and this is how we used to
07:40like work before.
07:42Like, just no holds barred, there's no wrong opinion, the thoughts flowing everywhere.
07:48And I feel like when we get in the studio today, we have that same energy.
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