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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