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Wale is back at Genius to break down his hit song “Blanco.” The DMV rapper gets into how letting the song marinate helped him finish it, feeling empty even when surrounded by people, family pressure, and more!

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00:00A hundred motherfuckers tell you they got a hundred motherfucking girls, a hundred million
00:04dollars, a hundred guns with that.
00:06Like, alright.
00:07Okay.
00:08Cool.
00:08That sound cool.
00:09But let me tell you about what it feel like to be in a room and you've really just like
00:14overly thin your head and you just really want to mellow out and just get through it.
00:18Pressure.
00:19Pressure.
00:26My man Reggie, he was like, man, I've recorded you a lot of times.
00:30You do a whole lot in a day and then you kind of forget about stuff.
00:34He's like, I need you to let this one marinate.
00:36That jump just stuck with me.
00:38Marinate.
00:38Let it marinate.
00:39Came back a week later.
00:40I remember I'm in a sauna in LA Fitness and just listen to him like, hmm, something hit.
01:15A lot of people that got vices, they feel alone.
01:18They got vices because they feel alone.
01:20You see me around people all the time.
01:22I'm present.
01:23I'm enjoying whatever, but like there's an emptiness.
01:26I'm trying to tell the listener that's like, yo, like I'm genuinely alone at some moments,
01:31but like I'm not alone because I got Bon and Sato.
01:35People get the hook wrong too.
01:37They say Blanco, Reposado.
01:40They say all types of stuff.
01:41It's Blanco and Sato.
01:42Sato is not a real...
01:44I study a lot of the songwriters.
01:46You know what I'm saying?
01:47Like making up like funky shit, just make it, just go.
01:52It gives you more feeling and more replay.
01:54You would've heard it if I said Blanco, Reposado.
02:04The threesome is myself, Claire Tequila, and Reposado.
02:10They're the two vices.
02:12I'm trying to get through this event.
02:14Like I just did B.T.
02:15I got like blitz.
02:17As soon as I got on the carpet and it's like, in my mind, I'm like, this is not normal.
02:20I need a shot to like fix this, because I'm like really trying to address her.
02:27It's just like, I'm like, this is why I made Blanco.
02:29Let's go easy up.
02:31Let's go easy down.
02:32Let's go easy down.
02:33And then bitch will get too mixed.
02:34He might got to kick you wild out.
02:37Yeah.
02:37Can't figure this out.
02:39She made me numb.
02:41She made me smile.
02:42She make me talk more.
02:44She made me loud.
02:45She know I'm at J.R.
02:47She know I hate a crowd.
02:48I'm notorious for not smiling for real.
02:52It's not that I don't want to smile.
02:53It's just that I feel awkward smiling.
02:57That's just how we grew up.
02:58If I'm loosened up and I got one or two with me, I might be more prone to do so.
03:05You take a little, you talk.
03:06You can actually get me to talk too much.
03:08I'm going to be loud.
03:21Now we going back to the days of club hosting and there's a lot of girls in the Sprinter.
03:26I don't know y'all.
03:28I don't really, there ain't going to be no connection.
03:29There's not going to be nothing, but we can all have a good time.
03:32But I'm turning on the person that I believe that I'm expected to be for the club promoter.
03:38The women that's around that see me on TV or whatever.
03:42I'm trying to, I want to be this person.
03:44I don't want to let them down.
03:44Will I remember this tomorrow?
03:48A little bit, but I know.
03:50You know what I'm saying?
03:51Like I got through it.
04:09I know everybody got an angle here and I don't judge y'all because this is where y'all,
04:17I have this city of for you, but I don't want to participate.
04:21I've been through that backstabbing shit too much.
04:23Got me drinking whatever this is.
04:25White or brown, cause I got to be gold in my beautiful house.
04:28No friend.
04:29They're my well-markers amigo.
04:30My mama don't ever say hi.
04:32She said, why are you single?
04:34I said, mommy, I'm sorry.
04:35I'm trying.
04:36Nobody going to let me like she do.
04:38And nobody going to let me like she do.
04:39And nobody be loving like we do.
04:41The pressure of being the first millionaire in your bloodline when I'm married.
04:46I could do 60,000 people rolling it out.
04:51So what are you doing with your life?
04:53It's like, okay.
04:54Pressure.
04:55Paranoia.
04:56Family pressure.
04:57Industry pressure.
04:58Pressure to be who they want me to be.
05:00So mommy, I'm sorry.
05:00I'm trying, but nobody going to let me like she do.
05:15Whatever you can think of in that bar and a half.
05:18That me dumb.
05:18That trying to be shallow.
05:20Stupid.
05:22Foolish.
05:23Gullible.
05:23Overly confident.
05:25Too sad.
05:26Too broken down.
05:27Whatever that thought was, it's probably my ego.
05:33Very, very unorthodox style right now.
05:36In this particular moment, or for the past year or two.
05:39I'll get a driver to drive me around.
05:41And I'll just think, just listen to anything.
05:44Just try to spark something.
05:45I don't want to have a bunch of writers and stuff around.
05:47So I just got to wait for it to come.
05:49Sometimes it takes three hours.
05:50Sometimes four hours.
05:51Sometimes it takes 20 minutes.
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