00:00Been looking up to Alckmin my whole career, you know what I mean?
00:02Before I even made beats, he already had classic beats.
00:04You know what I mean?
00:05Just us tapping in, man.
00:06It just made sense.
00:07I just was a fan of what he was doing with his brand and really doing this thing with
00:13the rap stuff on top of producing albums for a bunch of artists.
00:17So I feel like we're carving a new lane for producers and showing you that you can do
00:24a lot.
00:24You don't have to be limited to just selling a beat or whatever it is.
00:30To me, that's one of my most energetic beats, just raw essence of hip-hop.
00:40That's one of the reasons we put it out first, because it really had a triumphant sound and
00:45the beat was just so crazy to begin with.
00:47I felt like this is the type of sound we could push out there right now.
00:51It's energetic and it has a certain color to it that's bright.
00:55Definitely have the right type of confidence on it from the performance to the rhyme to the beat.
01:12I've been doing therapy for maybe the last eight, nine months and I realized a lot about myself.
01:17I never had to set boundaries, you know what I mean?
01:20I just let too many people feed off my energy.
01:24That's what led to me having so many vultures in my circle.
01:28Like, bruh, I gotta focus on me.
01:30Why build a bridge just to watch niggas set it ablaze.
01:32Don't get me heated.
01:33Ain't no way to control the inferno.
01:35Feel the spirit of the prodigy.
01:36Y'all been keeping it thorough.
01:38Alk just brought to my attention, like, you know, they just dropped the Infinite album,
01:42Op Deep album, produced by Alk and Havoc.
01:44And it's like, the line came out right before that album dropped.
01:47And it's like, it's just all just like a, we didn't plan that.
01:50It just happened.
01:51But for you know me to be showing homage, us to be showing, paying homage to bro.
01:55I know they had a great close relationship.
01:57I don't know.
01:57It's just like, sometimes it just line up like that.
02:14Yeah, we definitely the new standard, man.
02:16As far as like quality and just like imagination, you know what I mean?
02:21Like we taking it everywhere we want to go with it.
02:23There's no map sometimes.
02:25Like if you build it, they will come.
02:37Having values, man.
02:38Sometimes it be kind of feeling like I'm being weighed down by being a good nigga.
02:42You know what I mean?
02:43Being a good person because I seen, man, I don't wake up and try to finesse nobody.
02:48I ain't never took a nigga beats and said they was mine.
02:50But I've seen niggas get rich and turn up off of doing that.
02:53Damn.
02:54Like it be a struggle sometimes for me to be like, bro, I got so many styles, so many bounces,
02:59so many waves, so many sounds.
03:01And it's like for some niggas to be getting looked at in a certain light when I know the truth,
03:05it be fucking me up.
03:06Separate award winners from award presenters.
03:09I seen some evil done.
03:10I'm still shaking off the jitters.
03:12I'm coming with the thunder.
03:13Yeah, I'm going Thor with the hammer.
03:15I was counting six, seven, eights before I lived in Atlanta.
03:17And it be just like niggas talking shit.
03:20And it's like, what have you done?
03:21You know what I mean?
03:22Like bruh, like you don't have no Grammys, my nigga.
03:25Like you don't have like a lot of shit I got.
03:28You know what I mean?
03:29So why would you even speak on me type shit?
03:30It's good, man.
03:31Like this game is what it is.
03:33I've been insecure before.
03:34I've been, you know, ego driven, like on my own island, in my own world.
03:38But it's like, bruh, niggas be playing.
03:41They be playing out here.
03:42They be talking crazy.
03:43And it's like, I just like, I got to speak on it.
03:57It's like the watered down line and the nine to five line go together.
04:01Bruh, like what do you do for real?
04:02My nigga, like what have you done?
04:04Like I really touched the music.
04:05I really put plays together.
04:07Like bruh, like these niggas hoes.
04:09I'm the type of guy that I look in the mirror, like whether something bad happened, good happened.
04:33Like, hey, I let this person around me.
04:36That's what happened.
04:36You know what I mean?
04:37I might've even seen the tendencies.
04:39I might've seen that they was a fucked nigga or this girl was on some wack shit.
04:43Still let them slide in my life.
04:44That's why I fucked up right there.
04:46Taking that look in the mirror is what gets me through life where it's like,
04:49okay, you know, I might've fucked up with this circle of people.
04:52But if I just start from here today and X them type of motherfuckers out of my life completely,
04:57you know, I'm going to get to a good place.
05:11First lines are always like important.
05:13Right now I'm speaking with my chest out was a good way to enter the room.
05:16Like, you know, cause this is not a sad song.
05:20This is, I'm stepping out like this chest out.
05:24Here I am.
05:25Fuck that.
05:25And the Lamborghini got the breast out.
05:27The Lamborghini is a rag top.
05:29It's a convertible Lamborghini.
05:31Sometimes I just try to come up with clever ways to say the same
05:34shit that everyone's already said.
05:36If you could remix it, you know, I'm not always trying to reinvent the wheel,
05:39but I felt like that was a clever way to step in and just let you know that I'm here.
05:44I might do a donut.
05:46There's no, there's no top on the Lamborghini.
05:49I'm working with a different type of textile.
05:52Everything's simple Janet in a Patek doll.
05:54I'm not a vegan.
05:56I'm a reptile.
05:57I mean, working with a different type of textile is just another way to say I'm cut
06:00from a different cloth.
06:01I'm working with a gabardine material or like something really exotic.
06:07And I'm not a vegan.
06:07I'm a reptile is also like, I'm neither.
06:10I'm a hunter.
06:11I'm not a gatherer.
06:12And you know, I was taught as a kid, you never get what you deserve.
06:15You get what you negotiate.
06:16My appetite for destruction is very trifling.
06:19No ciphering.
06:20Don't go to clubs if I can't sneak a rifle in.
06:23Got paper in circulation.
06:25I keep it cycling.
06:26And when I write, I think of my closest friends.
06:29And then like, when I get them in the room to play the verse, I need them to laugh once.
06:33I need one like, oh, you're an idiot.
06:36And then I'm good at one of those and I'm out.
06:38I like to be witty and say something ridiculous sometimes, but not saying I'm going to the club
06:43of the rifle, I'm saying that's the type of club I'm going to where if I had a rifle,
06:47they're like, we don't care.
06:48Alchemist, you're good.
06:50It's basically making more statement on how we move.
06:53We don't do collaborations.
06:54It's a business merger.
06:56Cut a pie, split a burger, make it stretch like a fitness worker.
07:00When we connected, it was like, it felt more like a merger than a collab.
07:03Like I'm taking notes from his camp.
07:05They're taking notes from mine.
07:06We both have a successful thing going on by ourselves.
07:09And it's like, okay, I could rinse and repeat with AOC all day.
07:13And he could do the same thing.
07:14But it's like when we come together, we create a different thing.
07:17That's just science.
07:18Put two things together and you get a new compound.
07:21This is way more than a collaboration.
07:23This is more of a business merger.
07:25I'm on my shit for certain on stage, checking the mic behind a custom Dr.
07:29Romanelli curtain.
07:30Shout out to Dr. Romanelli.
07:31That's a good friend of mine.
07:32Always was a big fan of everything that he made.
07:35He's always been a couture designer, one-on-one jackets, everything, one-on-one, everything.
07:40I just thought it would be fresh if I was on stage and he made a curtain.
07:44I might have to have him make one now.
07:45I can't be, I gotta live my raps.
07:47You know what I mean?
07:48I give you extra cuts like a deluxe version.
07:50A couple of stripes.
07:51When I'm finished, you need a cut surgeon.
07:54Hits drum and got the truck swerving.
07:57Meetings with a tuck shirt and you can never put enough work in.
08:00Hits drum and got the truck swerving.
08:02Like even when he sent me that beat, I mean, his drums are always, like he set a precedent with
08:06drums, you know?
08:07But like, it made me feel like if this beat is in a car, we might be tilting, you know?
08:11And the beat is, got the truck swerving.
08:14I think it's always about using less words to say more.
08:32We had dreams to do the shit we do now.
08:35Like have our own studio or have a name or, you know, our favorite artists knew who we are.
08:40So like, it's been a long time and that's why I said I put a hundred thousand hours in.
08:46I always tell people like, you got to put that work in.
08:48That prepares you for those unforeseen moments when you're going to end up meeting someone
08:53or being somewhere.
08:54Now those hours you put in are what are going to make it work.
08:59We just had a clip go viral with Jada Kiss and Joe, Joe, Fat Joe.
09:04And it's like, just seeing their facial expressions, reacting to the beat, reacting to the rhymes.
09:09And it's like, okay, this really hit that hip hop spot that we was trying to get to.
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