00:00It's not pressure to top yourself.
00:01I look at it like a crossword puzzle.
00:03The beat is the backdrop for the puzzle.
00:06You have to fit comfortably the words into weaving through this beat and still make it
00:12sound clean, clear, and concise.
00:14Once you find the flow and crack the code, then it's just about saying the freshest shit.
00:19And we can say fresh shit all day.
00:20It's a gift.
00:21It's a talent.
00:22It's a standard.
00:23Yeah.
00:24It's definitely a standard.
00:25I truly believe we could do 10 albums a year and everybody be satisfied with it.
00:32We just wouldn't be satisfied with anything mediocre.
00:35You know what I'm saying?
00:36When you get Eclipse music, it's chiseled.
00:38It is handcrafted.
00:39I think the Eclipse is a novelty and not fly by night.
00:50So far ahead, of course, once again, starts with the beat.
00:53The beat, man, is like an off bop.
00:58We had the hook for it first.
00:59So it was Pharrell singing in falsetto, but he was talking shit.
01:03Like heavy shit through the falsetto.
01:06The hook was so infectious, but the bop of the beat was so different.
01:11The bop was so unorthodox, we had to ensure that the lines were just cutting each time.
01:17That was the attack on it.
01:18I think it's fair to say, Pharrell lives vicariously through everybody that he works
01:24with.
01:25He studies them.
01:26He understands the artists.
01:28That's how he produces for artists.
01:31Pharrell and I actually had a conversation because I told him, I said, it seems to me when you
01:35make the beat, the hook comes right with it in your head as you're making the beat.
01:39And he was like, you're exactly right.
01:40You know, that's exactly how it happens.
01:43I thought it was ill that Brittany Griner got swapped for somebody else.
01:59And that's how she got out of her situation.
02:01The only one to swap for me is Chapo.
02:04You know, you got to top it, man.
02:06That's just drawing that parallel and it's taking it to the next level.
02:13The dope boys be fucking up the worlds of innocent people who are, you know, innocent
02:22women who ain't from the streets or, you know, and they just bring that energy on.
02:27Hanging out with the guys like us, it's a whole preconceived notion about you as, you
02:32know what I'm saying, as a woman.
02:33It's just shit that come along.
02:34We the dark cloud.
02:35That was just the whole energy behind the verse.
02:37It's just, you know, dope boy, dark cloud.
02:40This is what happens.
02:41Your co-defendant claim immunity.
02:43It was you and he.
02:44How'd you not know?
02:45Unless you leaving court in a Bentley sport just to meet you at the yacht though.
02:50Unless y'all done collaborated and then talked out what's going to happen.
02:53If he made a deal that you didn't know about, man, that's just, that's dirty work.
02:58Somebody's at ease and somebody's made the deal.
03:00Like somebody's calm and very convinced at what they're already going to do already.
03:05Somebody's eating and somebody's not eating.
03:07Someone doesn't have an appetite.
03:09Because of what happened to PNB, I'll probably just never go to Roscoe's ever again.
03:22I didn't like it.
03:23I just didn't like the, you know, I didn't like how that scenario played out.
03:26Just corny shit, man.
03:27Like that's corny.
03:28Like PNB super talented.
03:30With his family.
03:31With his family.
03:32Like, come on.
03:33I just ain't going.
03:34I ain't never going again actually.
03:35The attitude in the verse is like basically how the dope boy just kind of like, he don't
03:49give a fuck about shit.
03:51Like he, he really, he really fucks up a lot of what he encounters.
03:55A million ways to stop it.
03:56Pray for me.
03:57Cause we not though.
03:58It's just like, man, we not, we not going to stop.
04:00We know, we, we, we, we see it.
04:02We understand that it's the wrong way to go, but you just not going to stop.
04:14This music is being written in real time.
04:17So like, you know, everywhere I turn is like, you know, because I was such a part of good
04:23music, it was nowhere I couldn't turn when people were asking me about Ye, like what,
04:27what's he on?
04:28What's this mindset?
04:29At the time it was maybe had just turned into the Nazi thing or whatever.
04:33Everybody was asking me like, man, no more questions about that shit.
04:36Like I can't explain it for you.
04:38I can't explain it for him.
04:49My calling or what I felt I had to do.
04:52There were some people that, that tried to write it off.
04:54There were some people that thought it, that thought it was, uh, you know, crazy.
04:58Yeah.
04:59There was just a lot of things going on that were not within our code of conduct.
05:04So it really wasn't hard to leave, especially when you know what it is you have to do for
05:11yourself.
05:12When you know you have to look at your, yourself in the mirror.
05:15When you know that you having sleepless nights, it really was an easy choice.
05:19There is no amount of money.
05:21There's no amount of anything if you're, you know, in search of and seeking for your own
05:28inner peace.
05:29No mistaking me for the Reverend, ushering the money, my confession.
05:32How you passed a whip of Rolls Royce?
05:35That was me pre 9-11.
05:37That no mistaking me for the Reverend, uh, I didn't want anyone to misconstrue the choices
05:43that I had made for, for being or thinking that I'm high and mighty or passing judgment
05:50on anybody.
05:51I wanted to make that clear.
05:52How you passed a drive of Rolls Royce?
05:54That was me pre 9-11 speaking to a time when I had had a Porsche, you know, a 9-11 Porsche.
06:01And then of course we know everything that happened with the towers and all of that.
06:05You know, everybody wants to kind of discredit the pastor for having money.
06:11They think that if you stand for the word of God, you're supposed to be dingy and destitute,
06:16you know, and not have anything or whatever.
06:19It's not the money that's the root of all evil.
06:21It's the love of the money.
06:24Even in the Bible, Jesus said, do what they say, don't do what they do.
06:28The word is true.
06:30Everything man touches, he defiles.
06:32You know, count every man a liar and let God be true.
06:35People watch everybody and try to critique people.
06:38Everybody falls short.
06:39Look at me post Armageddon, walking with my dog, I am legend.
06:43Walking with my dog and I'm all about my dog.
06:45You know, I post them from time to time, but everybody that knows me knows I'm a dog fanatic.
06:50I love dogs.
07:04I feel like I relate to Mace and his walk.
07:09Being at the pinnacle of his career and having a change because what would make you give up
07:15everything?
07:16And not give up everything on one hand, knowing something's over here to catch you.
07:20It's giving up everything on one hand and not knowing how it's going to play out.
07:24I think that's just the biggest testament.
07:27I think as far as walks is concerned, I feel like I walked a very similar walk or experience
07:34to what Mace had experienced.
07:36I could even take you back to our first album, exclusive audio footage.
07:50And it opened up with a very sincere prayer.
07:54We knew the things that we were saying.
07:56We knew the things that we were doing.
07:58We knew the things that we were talking about.
08:00Even in that prayer, it was like, can somebody see past this?
08:05Not to harm anyone or anyone who would latch on it and try to replicate the things that
08:09we were into at that time.
08:19This whole project right now is a testament of me letting God take the will.
08:24When we first came out, we fought for this.
08:27We were able to accomplish a lot of great success.
08:31This time, I ain't strive for nothing.
08:34I ain't seek out no deal.
08:35I ain't look for no deal.
08:37I ain't look for no fashion.
08:38I ain't look for no jewelry.
08:40You know what I'm saying?
08:41I ain't look for nothing.
08:43That is me letting God take the will.
08:46And I would suggest that to anyone.
08:48Stop stressing so much.
08:49Stop worrying about a thing.
08:52Get some faith and fast.
08:54The album title is Let God Sort Him Out.
08:59It's funny because me and T was just talking about it and he thought I came up with the
09:04title.
09:05I thought he came up with the title.
09:06You know what I'm saying?
09:07So somewhere in our conversations, it just, you know what I'm saying, came into fruition.
09:11Looking at all of our titles of the albums, it just follows the same theme.
09:16You know what I'm saying?
09:17Lord willing, hell have no fury till the casket drops.
09:20Now let God sort him out.
09:22It plays right into who we are.
09:24In the competitive spirit of hip hop, you know, the full phrase is kill them all.
09:28Let God sort them out.
09:29I'm out.
09:30I'm out.
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