The people love it and the people want to see it. We’re dangerous on our own, but you put us together and it’s magic still.
If you and Monte were and NBA duo, who would you two be? I’ve never dropped mid shit in my life, and I don’t roll that shit up. You can’t be talking that shit and then it’s mid. On some Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Nelly shit. When 2020 hits, for 10 years, they’re going to play whatever I put out next. I’m probably finna make the album of the decade. I’m so many songs into my next shit, but I’m trying to give myself more room to experiment because I can do so much with my voice and so much with my words. We made songs together and it’s easy for us to make music, but now we’re back to being more meticulous with it. And now us putting out Noir and feeling like, damn we ain’t really make it together. We lived together, worked through hella shit. We grew more as brothers and understanding each other. Him growing and me growing, it makes both of us grow. He needs to go DJ over there, and I get checks doing this. I started doing my own kind of shows because n-as got checks for Monte. How would you say the chemistry between you and your producer Monte has elevated with each project? Me having that mindset, I was like, I’m just finna drop this bitch, let the people love it, and move on with what I really want to work on, which is the album I was working on before I started even making Noir.
Me realizing that shit, I was like, “Damn, bruh. I’ma just put my shit out because I got the people and like the 180,000 or something people who follow me, they actually fuck with me.” Motherfuckers pull up. I was fortunate to have a manager who could put me onto shows early and make sure I was playing. I’ll play certain venues and do certain shit and sell it out and the n-a who has hella more followers on Instagram can’t sell it out. I was like “My album’s coming out next week.” I was talking to my manager like it’s crazy, the perception game. Maybe if I had more time to move around with it. The only reason I say A++ is I did everything I could at the moment to get that shit done how I wanted to. Noir came out back in November. Looking back, what letter grade would you give it and why?Ī++. Noir was more of let me get these songs off right now that I love. It may be good to somebody else but to me. Anybody that knows me knows I got a lot of music, so I’m just used to my music just me sitting on it and not ever using it and it just expires in my head. I’m spending three years on the next album and n-as think I’m this mythological creature like you can’t fucking find him. I didn’t want to think too hard, like I did about blkswn. Yeah, but I started making Noir like I wanted to make a mixtape.
So when you were making Noir, you were having more fun the whole time. I was in a whole different place when I made that song, bruh. It’s crazy because sometimes I do go back and listen to it and I’m like, “Who made this? How the fuck did you make this?” Hearing “Anita” sounds weird because I’m so used to hearing it the live way versus the regular song way. I play it live all the time and I hear it at shows but it’s like muscle memory. When was the last time you listened to it? That’s probably the album I listened to the least out of all the music I ever made. Sign up for the Complex Newsletter for breaking news, events, and unique stories.It wasn’t what I was finna play when I wanted to have fun. Sneaker of the Year: The Best Since ’85 Book - Now available for pre-order! Sole Collector Mobile App - Your app for the Sneaker World The Complex SHOP: Designer Clothing and Brands Smino, Kenny Beats, and J.I.D Link on New Track "Baguetti" MadeinTYO Shares "BET Uncut" Video f/ Chance the Rapper and Smino, Announces 'Never Forgotten' AlbumĪfropunk Unveils Virtual Festival Lineup f/ Ari Lennox, Common, Masego, and More (UPDATE)
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"So I just cooked some fun shit, real free shit." No word on when the follow-up can be expected just yet. Upon dropping the latter project, he said that he was inspired to put it together while he was stuck at home during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. The rapper is expected to release a new project sometime this year, following up his last studio album Noir from 2018, and his 2020 surprise mixtape She Already Decided.
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