during a MackWop stream \u2018It\u2019s been awful doing the right thing.\u2019 Can you expand upon that for me?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tMan, I come from a generation of muhf\u2014a tellin you \u2018f\u2013k b\u2014chs, get money,\u2019 all this other type of rhetoric that\u2019s not necessarily healthy for the developing mind post-25 type s\u2013t. They run out of basics, bro. I be eatin\u2019 healthy, bro; that s\u2013t sucks. I be wantin\u2019 fries every day, some type of fried food or some other s\u2013t or my body telling me I want sugar.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tWhen I wake up, and have to put my s\u2013t up; just daily maintenance sucks, but it feels good on the other end. I can tell how my life seems to go from ironing the night before. Just small tedious things; adulting sucks, that\u2019s really what I was sayin\u2019 without going into everything. Adulting sucks, especially when you\u2019re tryna do it correctly. Checking in on my people, that can be exhausting. I could just got off a phone call with my sister and then I gotta check in with my other sister. It\u2019s exhausting, but it\u2019s worth it. I call it as I see it; that s\u2013t is awful. Making sure I\u2019m on time with these bills and separating work from family time to make time for my kids and traveling. I\u2019ll go from here to Chattanooga to see my mom, then to Chicago to see my kid, then fly back to Tennessee to check up on my son, then fly him to LA because he lives with me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tI be doin\u2019 all this kinda s\u2013t, man. I can\u2019t say I was always on time about it; it used to be when I had time and now I\u2019m making time. That s\u2013t is awful. When you tryna find time, it seems to always work in your favor. When you make time, it\u2019s never when you wanna do s\u2013t. It\u2019s what you\u2019re supposed to be doing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tIt\u2019s something about the mundane where we can become absent-minded for a second. The vitamins be off in the corner of a cabinet and you don\u2019t even think about it.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI\u2019m on that right now! The milk thistle, the slippery elm right now, bro. A shot of apple cider vinegar in the morning.<\/p>\n
\n\tThat might be why the Larry June s\u2013t hit so hard, because he makes apple cider vinegar seem cool as s\u2013t.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tIt feels better than what it feels like when you don\u2019t do it. Once you start doin that s\u2013t for a week, you\u2019re gon\u2019 feel it. Your stomach biome and the bacteria breakin\u2019 down s\u2013t. N\u2014as really just sitting with bulls\u2013t, at a lotta levels.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tI\u2019ve been learning that slowly. My girlfriend got me a big \u2018ol pack of fish oil, hair gummies, Vitamin B3 and all that.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tYeah, you need that Vitamin B3, you need that Vitamin D. S\u2013t, depending on what you got goin\u2019 on, you might need to pop a couple iron pills. I\u2019m poppin\u2019 more than I was ever poppin\u2019 when I was on the bulls\u2013t. [laughs<\/em>]\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\tGoin\u2019 to the doctor for the first time in years is an accomplishment for me.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI\u2019m in that b\u2014h like every month, n\u2014a. I use my insurance like a motherf\u2014er. I use every bit of that s\u2013t. If my toe feels weird, I\u2019m making that appointment. You use Zocdoc?\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tNah.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tYou ain\u2019t even gotta mention it, bro. Too much free promo. But it\u2019s a good app to use if you\u2019re on the go and got a good PPO.<\/p>\n
\n\tOn \u201cDo I Look High,\u201d you talked about grappling with writer\u2019s block, and usually when you come back with an album, it seems like it\u2019s after you gone through the ringer. Do you feel like you have to go through a lot of bulls\u2013t in order to create?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tNah, but I definitely used to, though. A good portion of my life might have been sabotaging for material when I was younger. 21, 22, besides like father and single mother angst, I ain\u2019t have a lotta material to grasp on, but I wanted to be able to identify with my audience and the common woman or common man type of s\u2013t.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tI identify with pain. I didn\u2019t know The Struggle was The Struggle until I got older; I thought we were all living like that. Thank God for experience and being older and being in a place where even writer\u2019s block is a technical term for \u201cuninspired to my standard.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tWith this whole album, I just wrote. We\u2019d be in the studio for days and I wouldn\u2019t be hittin\u2019 something I wanted to hit. Sometimes, you just wanna say something and there\u2019s a specific type of way you wanna say it. You wanna sound cool or prophetic or to nail whatever kinda hook you goin\u2019 for. But I reflected more than anyone. Even that line in that song, I was addressing it after I\u2019d dealt with all that s\u2013t. Like \u201cThis was me not knowing what I have to say.\u201d For me, I don\u2019t think writer\u2019s block exist no more. Seeing you and talking to you today, I might wanna go write a verse about your life. That\u2019s kinda where I\u2019m at right now. I used to be so sprung on what\u2019s in front of me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tIt seems like you\u2019re revealing even more so than past records because you were much more direct; from sex and porn addiction, to grappling with family and substances. What inspired the decision to go completely naked on this record?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI would say my [other] projects were just as revealing, but now I\u2019m better at writing it out plain now. I used to think I had to have this line behind this line, but I think it was always there. I just got really better at\u2026I just stopped trying to make things complicated.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tThat\u2019s the one critique Dot [Kendrick Lamar] had for me for a while was \u201cNobody gonna understand what the f\u2013k you\u2019re saying. It\u2019s too puzzle-y.\u201d I took that as an insult for a long time, to the point where I bucked it. I was like \u201cF\u2013k this guy.\u201d But with this project, I be lookin\u2019 for change in everything. I\u2019m kind of a scientist with this s\u2013t, and all artists are scientists with what they do. I\u2019m just tryna stop writing in hieroglyphics.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIf I Was Your Girlfriend\u201d was a huge inspiration on \u201cBoy in Red.\u201d You said on \u201cAct Normal,\u201d \u201cSome girls come with a d\u2013k, some come with child support.\u201d What was it like exploring that more fluid style in your songwriting?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI was moreso like \u201cWhy not?\u201d If I act like things are all normal, that\u2019s not gonna read well. I have this rare opportunity to say everything \u2014 I wish I would\u2019ve said more about whatever I feel or whatever I\u2019ve been through. This is the one time that people are gonna be listening for what I have to say, so I wanted to take advantage of the open ear, at least. It seems like y\u2019all caught just about everything. Even you bringing that up is\u2026yeah.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tWas there a moment during the recording process where you felt \u201cI shouldn\u2019t say this\u201d or \u201cI shouldn\u2019t be airing this out?\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tNah, man. I made it with my little brother [Keem The Cipher]. How old are you, bro?\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tI\u2019m 26.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tYeah, he 27, so he come from y\u2019all generation where you\u2019re either a super bigot, or everything\u2019s love, bro. He\u2019s like that, so he was like \u201cF\u2013k them motherf\u2014ers.\u201d He\u2019s real protective. And my engineer is this really sweet sensitive dude. It was the universe working out for me. With my last engineer, I might not have been able to be as\u2026even though he knew me, his name\u2019s Rory, he\u2019s one of my best friends. But this gave me an opportunity to have conversations with people without the past foundations where we could talk about s\u2013t. This n\u2014a Julian probably knows me best in a short period of time more than anybody else. He knows more about me. It\u2019s an opportunity to be your authentic self.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tI assume you doin\u2019 it with your brother allowed you to be more honest about talking about mom and pops discovering the porn stash and all that s\u2013t I assume doing that with family made it a lot easier.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tYeah, because me and my brother have a different perspective on life. We had different childhoods. We shared one, but it\u2019s good to be able to vent to somebody about something he\u2019d notice and see now as an adult and find some understanding on how we grow up in all this crazy s\u2013t. I dunno if I made it out sane, but I made it away from the s\u2013t.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tAnd because you\u2019re so family-oriented, and you talk so openly about your kids and whatnot, I wanted to know: After releasing an album like this where you just release everything, how has all this informed your approach to fatherhood?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI don\u2019t know if I could say, since it\u2019s been two weeks, but it was already in progress way way before. The last couple years have been what I\u2019d call like my adult formative years. I\u2019ve still made mistakes every once in a while. I\u2019m not perfect, but it\u2019s my priority to be a father. And I feel my family will understand this, too: It\u2019s my mission to be a father and a nurturer. Because my kids are gonna do things that impact the world in ways I never could. I\u2019m a vessel for a message I could never understand. But my family also understands I do this s\u2013t because I love it and I love people. They\u2019re both equally important to me, but being a parent definitely tops it. I don\u2019t know if making music is making me a better parent at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tI wasn\u2019t even saying in the immediate two weeks after or anything. You just made it a point to be direct and extremely honest on the album in that way.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI\u2019m super honest with my kids, though. Those are the first people I\u2019m honest with. My kids know me better than anybody. They know the most authentic version of me. My older one seen me learn how to deal with stress; they\u2019ve seen me attain patience and learn to be a teacher because I was a young ass parent, so I didn\u2019t just know how to do s\u2013t.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tI wanted to dig into this one lyric from \u201cM.O.M.\u201d: \u201cElon diggin\u2019 through the cell phone records\/ Everything for sale, even hell.\u201d I think you\u2019re speaking to a real sense of paranoia in the world.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tI don\u2019t know if it\u2019s paranoia.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tHow would you explain it, then?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tAll that s\u2013t was real literal. Everything is for sale right now, y\u2019know?\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tThey\u2019ll be tryna sell air soon.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tYou could hop on Google right now and get you a bottle of Norwegian air. And my auntie on the oxygen machine, n\u2014a. Everything for sale. N\u2014as are digging through your cellphone records; n\u2014as are watching your internet history. You have agreed in some clause in some s\u2013t that you don\u2019t realize that you\u2019ve given up your rights for people to go through your s\u2013t.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tI think we understand that, but a lotta people call that s\u2013t conspiracy, so I was tryna see if you could tell who might downplay that.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tIt\u2019s not for me to say I talk for people who know, or who wanna know. If you don\u2019t wanna know, it\u2019s none of my business. Red pill, blue pill, man. Who am I to judge you, bro?<\/p>\n
\n\tThis was my long roundabout way of asking if you\u2019re a conspiracy theorist? Because I might be a lil bit. And if so, what\u2019s your biggest conspiracy?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tA conspiracy? Isn\u2019t that like a group of ducks or something? What\u2019s a conspiracy?\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tA conspiracy theory?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tA theory, though\u2026I dunno. I check in on what\u2019s going on in the dockets of the Supreme Court every once in a while, all that kinda s\u2013t. I don\u2019t consider my worries conspiracies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tThat wasn\u2019t what I was getting at. We\u2019re just digging into some stuff that a lotta people brush off or would call bulls\u2013t.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tIt\u2019s so much out of people\u2019s control for real, outside of buying your way in. Who cares if you know? What you gon\u2019 do with that knowledge? If knowledge was power, but power is power.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tThere are stretches throughout the album where you weave in radio station transitions as DJ Sunny Roshi. If you had your own dream radio station like that, what would be the five songs that would need to be in rotation?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\u201cVoyage to Atlantis,\u201d Eem Triplin\u2019s \u201cA Love Song for You,\u201d \u201cPoint and Kill\u201d by Little Simz, gimmie\u2026damn. Gimmie one second. Gimme Prince\u2019s \u201cIf I Was Your Girlfriend,\u201d and then I might go \u201cSlum Beautiful\u201d by Outkast.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tYou told me last time we talked that you were excited to take this s\u2013t out on tour because you wanted to bring the band out for a lotta these joints. What\u2019s the song you\u2019re most excited to play with a band?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tWith the band? Honestly just because of how live it would be, \u201cM.O.M.\u201d With all the extra instrumentation and s\u2013t. That s\u2013t\u2019d be hard.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tCrazy drum solo type s\u2013t?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tType s\u2013t.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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