It seems like you and Young Thug were always locked in together over the past year. What is about being in the studio with him that's special?
He's like my twin. It's like seeing me all over again. He younger than me, and I just don't want him to make the same mistakes I made. I want him to be bigger than me in every way. So, it's just me being around him and understanding him, and he understanding me. We just feeding off each other. I never thought it was gon' be that deep, but through time and through conversations and a combination of everything, I feel like it brung us closer, it's still bringing us closer to help us understand each other. Just being these two big superstars that have two different missions and family that's looking up to us and family that count on us and depend on us to bring it together. And I have that individual mentality. Once we together it's like, to me, it's still something special.
I feel like nobody wanna see that happen because it's too genuine. It's too right. It's too powerful. So, once you get something that's genuine and powerful, and it's authentic, it's like the inevitable is for people to want it to fukk up. But we trying to find a way to make it more big and more powerful and just do something artists never did. And that's just being off me being loyal and him being loyal, and we just want our friendship just to be genuine. And that's it, with no business involved. There's no ulterior motives. It's just pure. It's just all about real love.
What advice have you given him towards him becoming that bigger star like you say?
It's so many things we talk about. So many things. Numerous things. Even with him telling me things that make me better. He's super smart. He always tell me certain things. I'm like, Man, sometimes I need you to be my eyes, and I need you to be my ears. I'm not gon' see everything. I'm not gon' hear everything. That's what I got you for. Feed off you; you feed off me.
He give me advice all the time. Two, three days ago, he just telling me the most realest shyt ever on the phone, and I'm just listening to it, because I just had the time to reflect. In 2018, the last month, December, just had a lot of time to reflect about myself, about everything going on. And just some of the things that he was saying, it hit home. And I was like, “You right.” I been away so long, and I just never had time to change certain things about me. Certain things people love about me. Then, not even recognizing the things that people love about me but don't like, but they might put up with it because they love me. And it's like, Damn. I just took advantage of that. Did I take advantage of that? Or did I take advantage of real loyalty? Did I take advantage of friendships? Did I take advantage on just me being who I am? Take advantage of everybody just know how I am and just making that the excuse.
So, it's just certain things that you recognize, and you just take time out to recognize, and be like, I need to change it. It'll make me a better person. So, if you see this making me a better person, man, I appreciate you for telling me