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Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow “Industry Baby” Official Lyrics & Meaning | Verified - YouTube
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- What I like about Jack's bars is, like,
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he's gonna pop some shit
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and he's gonna have,
like, some fun moments.
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Sent her back to her boyfriend
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with my hand print on her ass cheek.
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See who's talkin' and taking notes
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Oh, I thought that was fuckin' fire.
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Hold on, let me think; let me think.
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- I'm chill.
- I have a bad memory.
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, and
like other fun lines.
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like, "I'm done making jokes
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'cause they got old like baby boomers."
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I'm a joked out-ass motherfucker
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You know I'm always cracking jokes online.
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I, like, felt that 'cause a lot of people,
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like, when they see me
having fun with them on live,
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online, like, laughing and stuff,
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they don't think I take
what I do seriously,
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but I very much do.
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- We feel each other,
you know what I mean?
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We do two different things.
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You know, we're in this industry
for two different reasons.
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You know, we came in with different music,
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but I feel him, and I'm a fan of him,
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and I'm a fan of what he's
doing and what he stands for.
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I think he's becoming a icon.
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I just like what he does, bro.
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Like, I salute him; I think he's brave.
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- Thanks, brother.
- Yeah.
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- The very first day of "Industry Baby,"
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me and Daytrip, Roy Lenzo,
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like, we were all in the studio,
and we were thinking like,
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like, "what the fuck are
we making right now?"
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And I was, like, upset
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'cause we tried, like,
seven different songs,
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and nothing was, like, hitting for me.
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And I heard, like, that...
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I was like, "Hold on, what that is?
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Run that back."
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When I first heard it, I was like,
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"Wow, this sounds like some, like,
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king intro, kind of Jay Z,
royalty kind of beat," you know?
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"Whatever happens with this,
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I definitely have to pop my shit."
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I was still, like, in the mindset of like,
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"Okay, these rappers, like,
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they not really fucking with me like that.
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Fuck these niggas.
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But then, you know, I started like
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talking to Jack like online or whatnot
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and he was like a real cool guy.
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And from there I was
like, ah, perfect. Boom.
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- I liked what he was talking about.
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It resonated with me.
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Y'all thought I was just
going to be here for a second.
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Look where I'm at. I'm here to stay.
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That's how I feel. You know what I mean?
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When I first came out,
I think a lot of people,
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they had this feeling of "man, we'll see"
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It maybe it's a fluke.
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So for me, this felt like a
chance to "look, I'm here too."
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So I really resonated with the content.
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I love Nas, everything he's doing,
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but what he was saying on the
song, I was like, I feel that.
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I feel that I want to give my story.
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- This was during the time
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before I even started
back releasing music.
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So, it was like, all right,
let me pop my shit, you know?
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'Cause everybody's always like trying to
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minimize my accomplishments to like,
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"okay, he did this one thing."
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It's like, hold on, hold on.
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We're gonna- let's bring
this back. You know?
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When people are telling you
that it's like over for you.
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Especially, like, when
it's a lot of people
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that you even like, look up to
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or like, you're like super cool with.
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Or like, you've like, been
watching online or whatnot.
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It's kinda painful.
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But it also like builds armor
for you to come back stronger.
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Once you finally do have that
breakthrough moment again,
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it's like this weight lifted
off of your shoulder, you know?
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Cause it's like, you always knew.
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But now they know too.
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So this was like a nod
to my mixtape, Nasarati.
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Where I was like already like
super cocky and confident
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about where I was going.
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So it's like I told you, I been told you.
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What's happening right now
is a manifestation of that.
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It's been so many things
in my career that I've done
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that most people would
see as a career ender.
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For the simple fact that, you know,
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my first big song was like
the biggest song, you know?
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I do the video for Call Me By Your Name.
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I've had to like, fight a
lot of battles like, inside,
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especially this last year and a half
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I could have gave up. I
could've stopped pushing.
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I could've stopped moving, but
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I know where I'm headed in life.
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I know what my future
is going to look like.
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So I'm not running, you know?
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So like go get whoever, go plan whatever,
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go plot whatever, go try
to find whatever about me.
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It's like, I'm not stopping, you know.
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It's kinda like those like
backhanded compliments.
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"I love him, I hope he saves his money."
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"He don't even have to do
anything no more. He's set."
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"I think he's cool. He's funny.
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But I don't know about his music"
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and it's like, you're
not really on my side.
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You're not really rooting for me.
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You don't really fuck with me.
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It's like, you're putting on this act.
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With this verse, it's kind of like,
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me walking back into
this place and it's like,
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making my demands.
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First, I need to get my album done.
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Like something I'm still working on.
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I'm putting the final tweaks
on it. I need more number ones.
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I mean, I got, I just got
another one. Let's get some more.
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I just want it all, you know,
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like I want consistent
success, growing success.
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I'm not like going to like
pretend that I don't, you know?
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Cause I feel like especially
nowadays people want artists
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to like, "oh, I don't
really care about the-.
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the charts. I don't even
care about the sales
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and I just, you know, I
just wanna make music."
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And of course, I love fucking
making music, but it's like,
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I want those accolades and
respect for my hard work too.
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You know?
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I still consider myself a
rapper too. Like I rap too.
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But it's like, I'm much more,
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there's a lot of one
dimensional rappers, you know?
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I mean like literally do the same flow,
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the same cadence and
everything on the same song.
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It's like, I don't see you.
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It's like, I'm on a whole
'nother level, you know?
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I feel like this is super
important because I know like
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following Call Me By Your Name,
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a lot of people like expected me to like,
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"okay, he's learned his lesson.
He's going to calm down.
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He especially wouldn't do
this in a song like this."
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It was like, you know what?
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Nah, I'm going to like
keep saying shit like this.
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Like these are, these lines are my life.
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Like this is actually me.
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And there's somebody growing
up, like hearing that.
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They're like, " damn, when I rap,
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I'm gonna say shit like
this too", you know?
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I believe, like, law suits come with it
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I feel like, you should be more concerned
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if people aren't tryna sue you
when you're in this industry.
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But I've seen quite a
few of those headlines
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before I may have even known about it.
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So I'm just like, "wait,
I'm being sued. Huh?"
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Luckily, most of them didn't go anywhere.
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But yeah, everybody's tryna
sue me, man. What's going on?
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When I like grew up,
like from zero to ten,
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like I lived in Bankhead Courts.
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It's like this hood Atlanta.
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I had my nickname since then.
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And my family members
still call me like Doobie
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They be like "Doobie".
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I think the name came from like
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when I used to watch
Scooby Doo a lot, you know?
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Scooby dooby doo and you know,
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everybody was like "oh, Doobie."
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For you to have a desire to bash me
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For you to want me up outta here.
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For you don't want me to be done, like...
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Maybe I'm flexin' too hard.
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Maybe I'm puttin' on a couple
too many jewelry pieces.
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Now, maybe you don't like how it looks.
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Y'all shouldn't have let the world gas me.
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Cause it's too late. They let me in.
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I'm here. The world's
feeling what I'm doing.
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Y'all shouldn't of let 'em.
Y'all shouldn't have let me in.
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I always felt like I was here to stay,
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but there's been moments of confirmation.
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I remember the night that,
that's what they all say.
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My album in December came out.
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I was in Atlanta. I had
a little get together.
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We ended up all going to Magic City
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and I was in there with Drama
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and I don't love the club.
I don't love the strip club.
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but we were in there.
I wanted to celebrate.
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It was a good night.
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I had people that had worked hard on it,
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but I remember there was a moment
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I was standing there with Drama.
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And I was kinda thinking about the album
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And I was thinking about his album,
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I wasn't really there and
he tapped me on the shoulder
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he's like, "how does it
feel?" I was like, "what?"
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He's like, "you're here."
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And I was like, "you think so?"
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And I knew he wasn't just
saying it in a loose way.
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He was saying any minute I'm here.
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Moments like that have, you
know, given me the confirmation,
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I'm here to stay. I'm not going anywhere.
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Being from Louisville, Kentucky.
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I get a lot of love out of there,
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but there's also plenty of hate.
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I keep up. You know what I mean?
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I see things. Probably
more than I need to.
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Sometimes I think the place you're from
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has more hate and envy than other places.
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I've seen people I grew
up with, old classmates,
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people I knew, switched
to crucifying me online
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when some people have my number.
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I love that line because I think
every time I hear that line
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I think of that line. It paints a picture.
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You see it happening. You see the dinner,
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you see, you don't even
have to know who it is.
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You just know somebody that's an OG to me,
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holding up a toast saying
they're proud and choking up.
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It's beautiful.
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I genuinely feel like anything
I want I can make happen.
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Out of pure will and determination.
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It's a cliche to tell you as a kid,
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if you want it, you can
have it, but you can
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You know what it is, I'm a control freak.
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It's something I'm actually
trying to learn how to balance,
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but I'm a control freak.
I try to control so much.
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It's really hard for me to let go.
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In that, I'm so extreme.
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And I think a lot of people
that are ambitious could relate.
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I feel like I can control my destiny.
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I feel like I can choke hold
out of this life what I want.
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I feel like I can get what
I want outta this life
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by pure will and determination.
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It's different. You get to this level
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and you have to like have
this moment where you
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kind of just let go and you realize
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you can't control what
they're saying about you.
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You don't have any control
over what the narrative is.
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So, for me, it's been, over
the last couple of years,
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a real process of stepping into
the limelight a little more
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and realizing that some of
these stories are going to run
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and I don't need to address everything.
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People think this and that,
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and it's a real freeing thing
for me to step back and say,
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whatever you want, whatever
you want. Think it.
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I'm at peace.
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I don't feel pressure
to joke all the time.
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People love when I joke,
they want me to joke.
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You know, last time I was
on here, I had some jokes,
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but I don't feel no pressure
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I've gotta make 'em laugh,
I've gotta make 'em laugh.
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Cause I'm a human being.
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I'm not a two dimensional character.
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I'm not somebody that feels like,
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"Ooh, gotta stick to the
script. They need to love me"
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When I wanna be serious
I'm gonna be serious.
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When I wanna be funny, I'm gonna be funny.
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When I wanna be outgoing,
I'm gonna be outgoing.
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When I wanna be shy, I'm gonna be shy.
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We'll see if I'm really done making jokes.
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I just want people to know
that I'm real about this.
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And I like bounce bouncing in and out.
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Nobody can tell me what I
am. I can't be put in a box.
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I can't be pigeonholed.
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I've experienced that my whole life.
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Seeing skeptics turn into, "you
know what? He's pretty hard"
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I've seen a lot of people on the fence
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come over to my side. So
I've experienced that.
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I think I meet, sometimes,
people that are older than me
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in the game and like, they learn,
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as much as I can take from them,
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they can learn something from me.
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I'm competitive and I see my peers.
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I see the people that are in
my class and my generation.
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It's like, "oh, you think you're the one?
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You think you're the one that
everyone wants to raise up?
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You think you're that guy?"
You're not that guy pal.
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That's how I feel though. That's
how you're not that guy pal
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You think it's coming
soon for you? It might be.
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But mine, my time is coming sooner.
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I'm 'bout to take over this whole shit,
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The Oklahoma Sooners,
University of Oklahoma's mascot,
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is the Sooners.
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In high school I couldn't dress that well,
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I don't think I was cuttin' my hair
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the way I would cut it now.
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You figure out how you
want to look along the way.
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But I was figuring out who I was first.
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I wasn't masking myself with
appearance. I was being me.
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I just think as I got
into this and I realized
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"oh, you gotta look a certain
way." I started cleaning up.
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I started paying attention
to how I wanna look.
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I don't think I, you
know, I switched it up.
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I just think I grew into
myself a little bit.
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What am I seeing online?
Ratio, ratio, ratio.
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L, L, Young Boy better.
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The Computers by Rowdy
Rebel. His very first line,
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"all these social networks
and these computers."
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That's kinda what I
wanted to pay homage to.
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I'm that motherfucker that's
grown up watching everything
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watching everything, how it plays out.
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I've learned the fall downs
of artists, the risings
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and what happened and why it happened.
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And I'm acquiring that
knowledge for myself.
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All right, let me look like
I'm not anxious or anything.
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- And posture
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- Aw man this is great, this is great
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might be the first time I'm doing this.
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- Bring it man
- I'm gonna be like this
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the entire interview.
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