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Nino Paid stopped by the Genius office to break down his song “Play This At My Funeral.” The introspective track samples pop artist girl in red’s we fell in love in october and is off his Love Me As I Am project. On today’s episode of Verified, the Maryland rapper dives into the inspiration behind the single, why he doesn’t cuss in the song, the impact of his father on his life, finally finding his career path, and more!

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00:00Hi, my name is Nino Paid.

00:01I'm 24.

00:02I'm from Landover, Maryland, PG County, Maryland.

00:05This is my music.

00:06I make pain music.

00:07Music for people that's going through shit.

00:09I named it Play This At My Funeral because I ain't cursing it.

00:12So it's like, this would probably be a good song for them to play when I'm dead.

00:23I was relaxing on the bus to Atlanta.

00:25My baby mother had threw me off.

00:27She had said something.

00:28I think I was just arguing with her.

00:30I just started writing a song right after.

00:32I did it in like 15 minutes.

00:43My dad was kind of hard on me.

00:45He did a lot of extra shit that a lot of other kids ain't go through.

00:49But at the end of the day, I understand how he grew up.

00:52Went through the same shit he put me through.

00:54So it traversed down with a motherfucker.

00:56I feel like without him, I would have been acting like a lot of these other people out

01:00here.

01:01And how they be acting sometimes, even around small situations, like around elderly people

01:05or out in public or in small rooms or whatever the case may be.

01:09A lot of people don't be holding their composure.

01:11I feel as though if I didn't have a stepdad, I could have ended up like anyone.

01:15You know what I'm saying?

01:16These other dudes.

01:17But I had somebody in my life to show me a straight path and keep me on the path.

01:20I know how I feel when I was supposed to be at home and you feel like there's nowhere

01:23to go.

01:24I know how I feel when you try your heart.

01:26It's all you.

01:27You still got nothing to show.

01:28I never thought I could be anybody but a nobody.

01:31God proved me wrong.

01:32God proved me wrong since the first show.

01:35I ain't gonna hold you.

01:36I was on the union stage.

01:38It was probably like my third, second show.

01:41And this was my first one in my hometown.

01:43Everybody knew the words.

01:44I think that shit went crazy.

01:46They was chanting before I went on the stage.

01:48And after I went on the stage, I was like, damn, that shit is different.

01:51I never thought I'd be able to jump on stage and people would know my song.

01:54I spent 22 years in this world and I'm hoping I still got 22 more on the clock.

01:58My little sister is 19, just had a baby that nobody told me about.

02:02I hope my future 24 years look exactly like my past two years.

02:06Legendary.

02:07I feel like every step of the way this shit get crazier and crazier.

02:10So by the time I'm 40 something, I'm trying to be rich as hell in the hills on some bullshit.

02:15You know what I'm saying?

02:32I feel like my life is a disaster.

02:33I feel like I'm cursed.

02:34I'm trapped in a cycle of life where I never could win.

02:37I'm used to the hurt.

02:38I'm trapped in a cycle of pain where I never can.

02:40Aces is any child that goes through a bunch of adverse childhood experiences at a young age.

02:46I can't remember how I found out about it.

02:48I might have been in therapy one day and might have just said it or some other shit.

02:52I might have just been too deep in line.

02:54But it's like basically a kid that go through a bunch of experiences that other kids don't go through.

03:00You know what I'm saying?

03:01If your dad die, your mom die the next week, your little sister go through this.

03:05Then the week after, your grandma go through this.

03:07It's a bunch of situations that most kids don't go through.

03:10I've been on the other side.

03:11Nobody told you the grass and greens they seem.

03:13I gotta go hard.

03:14The burdens are all of my brothers been living through me.

03:17I do it for all of my homies and most of the people who told me I couldn't.

03:20I hope anybody that I can, I know they ain't do it for me and I shouldn't.

03:23It's not really just about the homies that's dead.

03:26It's about the homies that's locked.

03:27The homies that don't got the same chance or opportunity to be here for whatever reason.

03:32You know what I'm saying?

03:33They got a bunch of kids that can't make it here.

03:34They don't got the time.

03:35They just don't got the resources to put out any music.

03:38You know what I'm saying?

03:39It's about doing it for not only you, but the homies that didn't get a chance to do it.

03:43That I feel like should be here too.

03:45Showing my dog a whole other way to his life and it do feel good.

03:48As long as they smiling, I'm happy.

03:50That's what I changed that I wouldn't.

03:51I could complain one day about this shit, bruh.

03:53I ain't gonna lie to you.

03:54This shit worth it.

03:55Everything I've been through, everything you gotta go through to get here.

03:59Signing whatever paper, staying down for whatever, how long, bruh.

04:02This shit worth it.

04:03And I don't really know how I could put it to y'all, but seeing the world firsthand,

04:07like the shit you be seeing on TikTok and the shit you be seeing on Instagram Reels,

04:11finally get to doing it.

04:12You know what I'm saying?

04:13You get to do it other by yourself or with your people.

04:15And really reaping the benefits of staying down for so long.

04:18You know what I'm saying?

04:19Trying to figure out what the fuck I'm gonna do with my life.

04:23And I finally got a career path with this shit.

04:25This shit beautiful.

04:26Let me tell you this so I can get on this nigga ass on camera.

04:31My favorite line is the first line because I got an adopted brother who used to always

04:36joke like, yeah, your mother addict.

04:38That's why I used that as my first bar.

04:40It was kind of a joke between me and him, but like real dead ass though.

04:43Like my mom was addict, my papa on there.

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