I’m from Brooklyn, Crown Heights. New York’s my city, but I just be all over the place. But I started making music at a young age because I just witnessed everybody do nothing and I always felt like I always wanted to do something. I came from poverty. My mom didn’t really have a lot, my pops didn’t really have a lot, growing up not having money and shit like that. You either choose to run with it and do something or you choose to just stay in the streets and do nothing. And I tried to just influence people. So I really just do it cause you have one life, why not just go out with a bang. Niggas just, they live with regrets. And one thing I don’t want to do is live with regrets. I want to hit a certain age and be like, yo I was able to do everything I wanted. Because it’s like, I feel like a lot of people just spend their life wasting time and you could do anything nowadays.

I grew up listening to Tupac, Biggie, Nas, I’m from New York. That shit was getting played every day. My mom, anytime I woke up and she’s playing Jay Z, I already knew what time it was, she was cleaning the house and shit like that, but I just grew up listening to that type of music. I love Nas, Big Pun. A lot of kids my age don’t really listen to that type of music. And it’s harder now because I make music. So it was like, “How the fuck do I stay to myself but at the same time get the whole like world listening?” And it’s hard because a lot of artists struggle. A lot of artists that really want to bring back lyrics, they really don’t get the exposure that you deserve because that’s not really the main focus in the industry nowadays. People want stuff that they could really just dance to and just feel comfortable listening to. So that’s how I just tried to mix everything together. That so nobody really has a problem. It’s like everybody could relate.

I was in the studio, I already had like two records recorded and I’m in the studio, with my man Doc A.K.A Docondabeat, that’s the producer. And I just had the sample of “Best Of Me” from Jay-Z. “Best Of Me” in general is just a beautiful song. You know Jay-Z, you know that song. It’s a New York classic and it’s just too powerful for me to not do anything to it. So I just, I had to do it.
I just had it in my head and I’m just like, “Yo, we got to use the sample.” And like he listened to that, I played the record for him and then he already knew it. He heard the sample for like three seconds, pulled out a piano and just started coming up with a melody. But then I was like, “Yo, we got to make the drums different.” We had to really add a reggae and because it was summertime too, it was August. I didn’t want to record the record while we made the beat because, I wanted to go home and write to it, but two weeks later I ended up going to the studio to freestyle it anyways. But I just felt like the record in general, it needed the work on it. It needed to get perfected. But I just, I still went to the studio, freestyled that shit and it came out dope, like it’s just crazy. Like how I heard the record and I’m just like, I really hope this shit really takes off and it’s crazy.