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xaviersobased dropped by the Genius office to break down his song “iPhone 16.” The young rapper dives into the inspiration behind his music, when he started taking rap seriously, and why he thinks being overly aware can actually be a bad thing.

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00:00I started rapping probably like 8th grade, 7th grade, like 2016, 17.
00:05But I started rapping seriously probably like five years ago.
00:14I remember making it on the Windows laptop though, the one that I had.
00:18I made the first version of the beat, the first part, then I made the second part.
00:21I rapped on the first beat and then I brought in the second version, the bottom, put it
00:25on there.
00:26I just kept going after that and I was just speaking my mind.
00:30Yeah.
00:31If she don't put it on, then I make a change clothes.
00:34If you ain't do it from the heart, then what you did it for?
00:36Got to do it from the heart.
00:37If you ain't doing it from the heart, then there's no point in doing it.
00:41You got to step with intention and purpose.
00:45Yeah.
00:45I'm rocking Jody 3's.
00:46My brother Siv and Link.
00:48Got an iPhone 15 and a 16.
00:51Yeah.
00:51For the iPhone 15 and 16, I really had it at the time.
00:54This was probably like March, springtime, like around the time.
00:59I made the video, I think.
01:00My first iPhone though was the 6.
01:03I got that shit in like going from eighth grade to ninth, like between that summer.
01:07So I was probably like 13 or some shit.
01:09Like I used to have the stick figure skating and the BMX and the snowboarding and all that.
01:16If y'all, if you know, you know.
01:17Those absolute guys.
01:23Like 16, 17, I started really taking the rap shit more seriously.
01:27Like that's like what?
01:282020.
01:28And ever since then, they just been taking swag.
01:32Facts.
01:33I just blocked a bitch because she's 16 and I don't fuck bitches if they don't show ID.
01:38I look younger than my age.
01:39You feel me?
01:40Especially without the facial hair and shit like that.
01:42So it's just like, if you're going to be dealing with people out here, like you just
01:47got to watch out for the ones that be lying.
01:48And you got to be conscious of that shit.
01:50A lot of people just go around just like doing anything.
02:10Shit, the being smart is hard shit.
02:11That's facts.
02:12I feel like being overly aware about certain things fucks up a lot of things for me.
02:23My favorite part of the song is probably like the in the trap part when the beat switches
02:28and it starts coming back into like, like I start rapping again.
02:32I like that part.
02:33I had made two versions of the beat.
02:35That first version was short.
02:38And then I had ended up coming back to it and making a new version of the project file.
02:43And then I changed up a bunch of shit about it.
02:45And then I exported that version.
02:47So now I just have two versions of this beat.
02:49And the first one was too short.
02:50So I just threw the other one right there.
02:52I just came in on some, just in a trap, in a trap.
02:56Cause like, I mean, especially fucking with the homies, like shit just be trapped out.
03:00So it's just, yeah.
03:03Facts.
03:10Shit, I just feel like a lot of niggas can't tweak with me.
03:13It's just not possible.
03:14Like niggas try, but it's just like, that's a hard one.
03:18There's a lot of shit that's worth blacking out over that I just be like, I just be like,
03:23fuck it.
03:23You got it.
03:23Cause it's not worth the, you feel me?
03:25And fuck what that nigga try to play you for.
03:27Like it's just the principle.
03:29Like niggas trying to play you.
03:37Niggas say.
03:39With my mask.
03:41Yeah.
03:41With my mask.
03:43COVID time when niggas had the mask on.
03:46You feel me?
03:46Niggas coming off like, it's like 2021.
03:48Niggas coming off of COVID and shit.
03:50Niggas used to be on the block with the mask on for sure.
03:53Posted.
03:54Chilling.
03:55Facts.
04:07Shout out study group.
04:08You feel me?
04:09And this bitch with my study.
04:10Shout out Cranes, Mag, the whole gang.
04:12Shout out Wreck.
04:12That study group, that's the producer group that I fuck with heavy.
04:15Met Cranes first, like early working and shit.
04:20Cranes just ended up making a collective, like a producer collective.
04:23And like we all just fuck with each other and shit.
04:25And like we all just be working.
04:38I mean I feel like those is pretty self-explanatory.
04:42I mean shit.
04:43Like if y'all bank with Chase, just let a nigga know.
04:49My favorite Jordan is probably Thirteens though.
04:51Thirteens is guys.
04:52I like the Ray Island ones.
04:54Ray Island Thirteens.
04:55That's probably like my best.
04:56It's like my favorite Jordan body.
04:58I want to get a pair.
04:59If anybody got them, I'm buying.
05:01There's some good business.
05:01No problem.
05:01There's some good stuff.
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