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Dominic Fike pulled up to Genius to discuss his song “Babydoll.” The actor-singer gets candid about why he thinks he does unrequited love songs best, carrying the weight of his family, working through his mommy issues, and more.

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00:00The song Babydoll is another tale of unrequited love from your boy.
00:04It's what I do best.
00:06It's just about me and women and me, again.
00:15At the time of making Babydoll, I was making a series of songs.
00:20These songs came to be the Don't Forget About Me demos.
00:23Babydoll was maybe one of the last songs we did on it.
00:26I did on it.
00:27I don't know why I'm saying we.
00:28It was like a band.
00:29It's just me.
00:40The hook is a banger.
00:42The hook is great.
00:44Outclassed as a word.
00:47I just put women up here.
00:49Especially if I have a thing for them, I'm putting them on a pedestal.
00:54That's actually a problem with my relationships.
00:58It's actually a problem that I have.
00:59You can tell because I'm just like, you're so much better than me.
01:02I'm out of class.
01:03This is outrageous.
01:10Also, there's been this theme throughout my music throughout the years of me talking
01:14about taking the weight from somebody.
01:15And that's something I do a lot for people in my family.
01:19Why?
01:19Because I just feel like maybe I'm very capable of holding it.
01:22And I feel like a lot of people aren't.
01:24So, if you can carry the weight, why not?
01:27Find me on Miami concrete.
01:29I'm looking for somebody different because my daddy was a pimp.
01:31My dad was not a pimp.
01:34No.
01:34He was not a pimp.
01:35Drug dealer.
01:36It felt like an adult.
01:37Like, I was going to be an adult when I was in Miami.
01:39My mom never knew I was there.
01:40You know?
01:40And we were always doing debauchery.
01:43We were debaucherous over there.
01:44And I made it in my friend's mom's house in his sister's room.
01:54Remember, his mom was home and she was making arepas.
01:56Do you know what those are?
01:57They're fucking mad good.
01:58I was waiting for her to get done with the arepas.
02:00But while she was doing that, I was making this song.
02:03And I remember I had to keep it kind of low, like quiet volume.
02:06And that's why the verse is like, find me on Miami concrete.
02:12Which is cool.
02:17I've been roasting my mom for 10 years, I realized.
02:21I gotta stop.
02:22My mom's the best woman ever.
02:24I love her to death.
02:25She definitely had her issues.
02:26But I don't have to talk about them all the time.
02:29I realize that.
02:29She deserves to make a mixtape where she just talks about my penis being small and fucking
02:34how I was like, I was a weird kid or something.
02:42I think in this line, I'm acting like some sort of player.
02:46So I'm like, don't call me to talk about your feelings.
02:49We both know I'm thinking about sex.
02:52Weeks pass and I never grow tired cause I never said never and I rarely ever lie.
02:56I said never like three times.
02:58And then I'm like, I said I never said never.
03:00Then I'm like, I don't even lie.
03:01But that is a lie cause I just said never.
03:03You see?
03:05Songwriting brother.
03:06I mean, what can I say?
03:07I'm on the road to an original place and outer space.
03:10I didn't make it up but you can't find it on a phone or a globe.
03:15And I could take you with me if you really want to go.
03:17In outer space.
03:18I didn't make it up but you can't find it on a phone.
03:20Cause it's the metaphysical world.
03:22I did not make it up, but it doesn't exist.
03:24Or a globe.
03:25Once again, metaphysical, not physical.
03:27But I can take you with me if you really want to go.
03:29I'm inviting her into a state of mind.
03:32You know, I was doing a lot of DMT at the time of this record.
03:34And then I like burnt a hole in my leg one night, so I stopped doing it.
03:38Oh baby dog, I can't move on.
03:50I never move on from anyone of anyone I've ever dated.
03:55So if you're still out there, any one of you, please.
03:59God, I'm getting old and I don't know.
04:05Maybe it's not in the cards for me, I don't know, but I'd like to try again.
04:11So please reach out.
04:14We're doing a baby doll tour, baby doll China, baby doll Indonesia.
04:18We're doing a baby doll movie.
04:19Get it on your baby doll TVs.
04:21Get your baby doll remotes out.
04:23Sorry.
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