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HXG stopped by Genius to break down their song “Lifestyle.” The duo gets into the mindset behind the track, staying grounded, not living beyond your means, and building success brick by brick!

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00:00Stay in your budget.
00:01If you can't afford the real diners, don't feel like you got to go get some shit that
00:04you can't afford.
00:05If you got a thousand dollars in your bank account and a chain of thousand dollars, don't
00:09go get it.
00:09Go get you a $200 Morse and like handle your business you're going to get there.
00:13It's a grind.
00:14Stay down until you come up.
00:21For me, lifestyle was inspired by like a whole lot of red.
00:24I seen what a whole lot of red do, so it's for like a performance song.
00:28Hearing that motherfucker back, it was like, oh no, we got to go perform this motherfucker.
00:31Then we started performing.
00:33We seen they were fucking with it, it was over.
00:48First of all, it's like, I don't like what we was doing back then, like how we was living,
00:53for real.
00:53One foot in, one foot out.
00:54Trying to see if you really want to do it or not.
00:56See if we not want to do it.
00:57But, you know, we here and there, so you know what we want to do.
01:00Trying to make it to the next level every time we're in the studio.
01:03Trying to elevate.
01:14If you trying to replicate us, keep doing it.
01:18Just letting us know that we doing the right thing.
01:20We did the right thing.
01:21We doing the right thing.
01:22We gonna keep doing the right thing.
01:24Because if they not copying what you doing, then you ain't doing nothing right.
01:26You ain't doing nothing right.
01:27You ain't doing nothing right.
01:28You doing something wrong.
01:29We the inspiration.
01:31Before we was rapping, niggas was copying us.
01:32Before we was rapping, niggas was copping, trying to talk like us, trying to walk like
01:36us.
01:37Can't do it.
01:38It got to be in you.
01:39It's your little lane.
01:40I'm glad.
01:47We literally got Pakistan sticks that shoot missiles.
01:52Everybody got guns.
01:53Everybody got guns.
01:54Protect yourself.
01:55Protect.
01:55We not saying do nothing.
01:56Protect yourself at all costs.
01:58Better like shit catcher sticks.
02:00Schneider might cross my edit.
02:01Big bugger walking out shit.
02:03High over hell.
02:03We walk out of rats.
02:04Schneider might cross my edit.
02:05You ever cropped somebody out of the picture?
02:08Yeah.
02:09So that's basically what I'm saying.
02:10Schneider might cross my edit.
02:11Cropped out of the picture.
02:14You feel me?
02:14We be on opioids, bitch.
02:16Schneider come find me no trash.
02:18All those bros got them a cup.
02:20We ain't no sippin' no red.
02:21J5E Papa G6.
02:22He roll up a spark of the hench.
02:24Us him across a few kicks.
02:26V1 damn shit hit.
02:28Homesite gang.
02:29Cardi had just gave us, he had just gave us our first chains.
02:32He gave up with us matching chains to upside down costs.
02:34The whole gang got the chains.
02:35The whole look.
02:36Should've signed to the O man.
02:37Ain't nothing bigger than this shit.
02:38005 YBL.
02:39V1 damn diamond shit hit.
02:41Ain't no moist light.
02:42Ain't no loud.
02:42It's real diamonds.
02:43Shit really going on.
02:46It's like we building step by step, brick by brick.
02:49It's not like no overnight, then going to Del Mara.
02:53Nothing's overnight by the way.
02:54Cause Opium, we got like a cult.
02:56So it's like, we got like a solid foundation of fans that like really genuinely fuck with
03:00us and love us for us.
03:01Over the years, like that cult has just been getting bigger.
03:04That's all.
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