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DDG, who’s no stranger to Genius, is back to break down his song “no smoke.” The track features Gunna and is off his latest project moo. The YouTuber-turned-rapper talks about being the greatest rapper alive, how the collaboration with Gunna came together, switching up his spending habits, and more!

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00:00I'm the greatest rapper alive, greatest singer alive as well.
00:02People got to catch up to it.
00:04I feel like a lot of people is fighting it, a lot of people is scared to accept it.
00:08If Obama dropped the album right now, I'm like, well, you're president.
00:12But if it's fire, when you press play and it's fire, you got to accept, Obama can rap.
00:24What inspired this song was really Ferraris.
00:26The song was actually supposed to be called Ferrari, but Ferrari is very strict and it
00:30was copyright.
00:32So they said we can't name it Ferrari.
00:34So we named it no smoke.
00:35I made this song maybe like a year prior, I probably sent it to Gunna maybe six months
00:40after I made it.
00:41He said he liked it, got in the studio and you know, easy, knocked it out in like 20 minutes.
00:45My favorite thing about working with Gunna, we easily compliment each other on songs and
00:50it's kind of like melodic sounding at the same time too.
00:53So I feel like we just mesh very well on music.
00:56I never had an Atari in my life before.
01:05I am 28.
01:06I never had an Atari, I'm more like a Nintendo type of dude.
01:08You know what I mean?
01:09Like Nintendo 64, but like I never really played Atari.
01:13So that might be rap cap, but I know that Atari is a game and you play games and you, you
01:18know what I'm saying?
01:19I don't need to get explicit, but you know what I'm talking about.
01:21Yeah.
01:22She called me cheating.
01:23I told her I'm too turnt, baby.
01:24I'm sorry.
01:25I'm from the Yachtown.
01:26I'm from the 313 of my Cartys.
01:28Yachtown is Pontiac, Michigan, which is where I'm from.
01:31And it's like 30 minutes from Detroit, but Pontiac, AKA Yachtown takes a lot of culture
01:36from Detroit.
01:37The 313 of my Cartys.
01:39Cartier glasses is like a big thing in Michigan.
01:43It's called Buffs.
01:44Like a lot of people died over them glasses.
01:47Literally.
01:48Like people get over glasses.
01:51They like $2,000, $3,000.
01:53That's like a big staple.
01:54And if you got Buffs on in Michigan, you automatically known.
01:58You gotta be a rapper.
01:59You gotta sell drugs or something.
02:01You know what I mean?
02:02I'm learning to ignore people constantly antagonizing me, constantly trying to speak negatively
02:14on me.
02:15Because I realized, I found a life hack.
02:17If you get an internet hate, it's a button on the side of your phone, it's a power button.
02:23If you hit that button, it literally don't exist no more.
02:26So once I figured that out, I'm like, yeah, it ain't really that deep.
02:29Niggas be acting like they want smoke with me, they don't want no smoke for real.
02:32People really don't want smoke with me for real, man.
02:37I realized that a lot of the hate that I get, a lot of the rage baiting that go on, it's
02:42really just internet.
02:43And I feel like people purposely act like they want smoke with me for financial benefit.
02:50Get online, bringing me up, people gonna tune in and see what you got to say.
02:53People just don't want real smoke with me.
03:02A lot of these new folks, whether it's rappers, content creators, they grew up watching me.
03:15Because I started off on YouTube doing vlogs every single day.
03:18You know, the people that's in their early 20s that's lit right now, they grew up watching
03:22me just because I started very early when I was like 17.
03:25So, you know, I had my air of like being one of the biggest black YouTubers.
03:31And I feel like that's stamped and it inspired a lot of people that's lit today.
03:35They talking about clout.
03:36They talking about chasing.
03:37I'm already popping.
03:38Bust down the chain to auto my plane.
03:40Got too many options.
03:41I'm really not into jewelry, jewelry like that.
03:43Like I've been wearing these every day for like the past month.
03:47You know what I mean?
03:48Like I feel like with me, I'm getting to that age where, you know, I'm buying plane watches
03:54and stuff I want to give to my son later on.
03:56You know what I mean?
03:57Stuff like that.
03:58So yeah, I'm into watches.
03:59I'm into nice things, nice things that hold value.
04:03I done already hit that hoe so I pass it to the homie like Stockton.
04:06I don't check no price, no clothes.
04:07If I want that shit, I cop it.
04:09My spending habits is absolutely amazing now.
04:12Like I used to be a Balenciaga bandit.
04:14Like I'm talking about, I'd be in Balenciaga every day, looking at stuff, spending thousands
04:19here, thousands there.
04:20But now I'm at a point now where I'm like, I got everything.
04:24I'm more into, you know, looking into duplexes and, you know, old people stuff.
04:28You know, I'm getting old.
04:29So, you know, I want to invest my money and get real estate, all of that.
04:33401Ks, whatever that is, you know.
04:41I can easily stop doing music and make buku dollars.
04:45Every day, wake up.
04:46I make money every day now.
04:48But when it comes to music, I can't give up on music until I sell out an arena.
04:53I don't care if I'm 59 when it happens.
04:56I don't care if I'm 68 when it happens.
04:58I have to sell out an arena.
05:00You know, something that's very, very on my bucket list that I must complete.
05:04When I think of my music, I think that's something that's very, very, very possible for me.
05:08I like independent women.
05:18She got her own.
05:19She ain't gotta be a yellow bone.
05:21It just rhymed at the time.
05:22But like, you know, I don't discriminate.
05:24I do like a girl with her own money.
05:25I'm gonna pay for everything anyway.
05:27But I still want a girl that's on her own.
05:30She not asking me, can I go here?
05:33Can I do this?
05:34I'm just doing it willingly because I want to.
05:37Not like, because I have to.
05:39You know, I don't want a kid.
05:40I want a woman.
05:41She had 10 out of 10 when I'm hitting that raw like some uncooked sushi.
05:44By the way she walked, the way she talked and tells she bougie.
05:47Walk around with a Birkin.
05:49Hermann's back, she ain't wearing no Gucci.
05:50I love Gucci.
05:51I was just doing comparison and pricing.
05:53Hermann's bags, Birkins, $20,000, $30,000.
05:57Gucci, you spending three, four.
05:58So, you know, a lot of girls, you see a girl with a Birkin, you automatically know she bougie.
06:03She gots to be because why do you have that expensive purse?
06:06It's just a purse.
06:07It's just a bag at the end of the day.
06:08It ain't nothing wrong with Gucci.
06:09Ain't no smoke with Gucci.
06:10I love Gucci.
06:11It just rhymed at the time, you know?
06:15So, with the music video, we shot it in Dubai.
06:17I remember after we made the song, he was like, hey, we got to get two Ferrari trucks.
06:21It just so happened that I got very rich friends in Dubai.
06:24As soon as I landed, he was like, hey, I got a Ferrari truck you can drive.
06:27I'm like, perfect.
06:28So, I didn't need to find one more.
06:30And we really just rode around Dubai, kicked it.
06:32Real lifestyle stuff.
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