{"id":442798,"date":"2022-05-05T21:05:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T18:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bobby-shmurda-isnt-looking-back\/"},"modified":"2022-05-05T21:05:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T18:05:28","slug":"bobby-shmurda-isnt-looking-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bobby-shmurda-isnt-looking-back\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bobby Shmurda isn\u2019t looking back"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2d4289e32fb\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" 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.custom-attribution a {\n   color: #fff8fc;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .content_block blockquote.pull_quote {\n   color: #fff8fc;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-232548\" class=\"content_block flush title center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"custom-title\">\n      Bobby Shmurda isn\u2019t looking back\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-description\">\n      Freshly independent, the Brooklyn r<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>er discusses his new daily routine and taking his music career into his own hands on the latest episode of The FADER Interview.\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-attribution\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Brandon Callender<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div 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class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <span class=\"lead-text\" style=\"color:#fff8fc\">Last December,<\/span> Bobby Shmurda posted a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#d7ffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/bobby-shmurda-posts-deletes-message-not-having-control-of-his-music-for-decade\">note to Instagram<\/a> explaining that he didn\u2019t have control over his music and that his label was to blame for delaying the release of songs he\u2019d been sitting on. \u201cI ain\u2019t been in charge of my music since I was 19 years old and I jus [sic] turned 27 and honestly idk when shit dropping so don\u2019t ask me shit go ask them mf\u2019s since they wanna control everything!!!!!!!\u201d the Brooklyn rapper said. The post has since been deleted.  At the time, he was signed to Epic Records and managed by Roc Nation. <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            Shmurda had been released from prison in February 2021 and dropped a few <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#d7ffff\" href=\"\/\/&lt;a%20href=\" https:>songs<\/a> in the second half of the year, but he\u2019d grown increasingly frustrated with the label. Two weeks before the one-year anniversary of his release, Shmurda took to Instagram to ask that he be let go from his contract with Epic in another <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#d7ffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/bobby-shmurda-wants-out-of-epic-records-deal\">since-deleted post<\/a>. \u201cI still feel like I\u2019m in prison,\u201d he wrote. At the end of March, that wish was granted, and he was released from the label that signed him in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>            A few days after the release of \u201cThey Don\u2019t Know,\u201d Shmurda\u2019s first single since parting ways with Epic, The FADER\u2019s Brandon Callender spoke to him about his newfound independence as an artist, adjusting to the ever-changing music industry since coming home, and what to expect from him this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-232563 {\n   background: #411db3;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> #content_block-232563,  #content_block-232563 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-232563 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #fff8fc;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-232563\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <i>This Q&amp;A is taken from the latest episode of The FADER Interview. To hear this week&#8217;s show in full, and to access the podcast&#8217;s archive, click <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#d7ffff\" href=\"https:\/\/link.chtbl.com\/thefaderinterview\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n          <\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-232564 {\n   background: #411db3;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> #content_block-232564,  #content_block-232564 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-232564 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #fff8fc;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-232564\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TFI7834680816\" width=\"100%\" height=\"482\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-232565 {\n   background: #411db3;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> #content_block-232565,  #content_block-232565 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-232565 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #fff8fc;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-232565\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>The FADER: How you doing today, Bobby?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Bobby Shmurda: I had a pleasant morning. I had a poppin\u2019, productive night, so I woke up happy today. Every day out of jail is just another day smiling, blessed. Waking up, period, is blessed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>What does your daily routine look like now?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            The whole shit\u2019s unorthodox. some days I might wake up, workout. Some days I might wake up and get worked out. You know what I&#8217;m saying? Them bitches be <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>pin\u2019 [<i>laughs<\/i>].<\/p>\n<p>            <b>You got out of jail a year and some change ago. How are you feeling about that? How&#8217;s life been for you since then?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Well, shit, who am I to complain with all this ice on me, with all these chains on me?  I&#8217;ve seen a lot of motherfuckers change on me, but who am I to complain with all these chains on me? [<i>Laughs<\/i>] Real shit, though, I feel like I went through a lot of shit that just they don&#8217;t know, and I\u2019ve gotta talk about it. A lot of traumatization, PTSD. I was just trying to maintain a happy mind state in a corrupted environment. The pandemic had the whole world corrupted. I was going through a whole bunch of shit with my career. I can&#8217;t talk about it, but you know how that shit is. So now that I&#8217;m free and not attached to nothing but parole, I feel like a fresh breath every time I wake up.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>When a lot of rappers get out of jail nowadays, everyone&#8217;s expecting a \u201cfirst day out freestyle\u201d type thing. But instead you waited a little while to drop some music. I thought that was interesting because everyone is normally trying to strike while the iron&#8217;s hot.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I can&#8217;t talk on it too much. I\u2019ll just say when I came home, my career was not in my hands. My career&#8217;s in my hands [now], so everything you hear is from me. I get the last say; I get the what&#8217;s good; I get the what&#8217;s poppin. If I don&#8217;t like the mix, I ain&#8217;t jacking the mix. We goin\u2019 out natural. I&#8217;m dropping two more songs this month. I&#8217;m dropping up to five before I drop the album. Now I&#8217;m free, I can do whenever I want [with] my timing. I can&#8217;t talk because of the NDA. Most I can say is if I had my career in my hands, there would&#8217;ve been a \u201cfirst day out.\u201d They Don&#8217;t Know\u201d would\u2019ve been the first day out.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-232594 {\n   background: #411db3;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> #content_block-232594,  #content_block-232594 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-232594 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #fff8fc;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-232594\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bobby Shmurda - No Time For Sleep (Freestyle) (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hQTfR3v3jJ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('232594');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-232567 {\n   background: #411db3;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> #content_block-232567,  #content_block-232567 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-232567 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #fff8fc;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-232567\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>Could you give us a hint about what kind of music you\u2019ve got on the way?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            The two songs we\u2019ve got dropping this month are called \u201cGettin\u2019 It Back\u201d and \u201cBadmon.\u201d \u201cGettin\u2019 It Back\u201d is an explosive, club, wild out, summer, sunny day, you feel good. \u201cGettin\u2019 It Back\u201d gives you that energy. Anything that threw you off track, you got back on track. It&#8217;s a revenge song. It&#8217;s like motherfucker was trying to play you. You end up getting some money, getting back up. And then we got \u201cBadmon,\u201d some reggaeton pop shit\u2026 for the hoes. For the females, I mean. You know I love the females.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Last year, you said you were trying to learn how to produce and get more hands on. How&#8217;s that been going?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I made a beat. I got a big artist on it. When you hear this beat&#8230; I&#8217;m saving it for the album because the shit is so crazy.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>The music industry has changed a lot since 2014. What kind of changes did you have to adjust to when you got home?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Social media was taking over when I first came into the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>. People were getting signed off of Instagram for going viral. When I was in jail, I used to read a lot, and I [saw] how it was taking over the whole rap game. Like before, if you heard [I was] being blackballed, you probably [wouldn\u2019t] even be talking to my Black ass right now. But because of social media, I still get the connections. You still get to directly connect with your fans. You can just grab your phone and upload. You ain&#8217;t gotta go through 500 people like in 2005 and be like, &#8220;Yo, I wanna post.&#8221; I can go straight to my fans now. <\/p>\n<p>            <b>It&#8217;s interesting you talk about how social media was poppin\u2019 off when you first started, because that&#8217;s how you got hot. People were making memes of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#d7ffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vJwKKKd2ZYE&amp;ab_channel=BobbyShmurdaVEVO\">Hot N*gga<\/a>.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            That&#8217;s the youth. That&#8217;s like your brother or your cousin or me. That&#8217;s what I love about that shit. We get to be ourselves. Nobody can tell us nothing. All they going to do is keep reporting us.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-232573 {\n   background: #411db3;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> #content_block-232573,  #content_block-232573 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-232573 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #fff8fc;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-232573\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>I was wondering how you feel about the state of New York drill right now, because it has definitely changed a lot. You\u2019ve got all the sample drill stuff, the UK influence\u2014<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Well, I don&#8217;t do drill music, but I feel like the king of New York drill is Kay Flock. I&#8217;m in a different category, but I do rate them. They put on. I feel like it was there because there was no face of New York [that] the drill scene took over in New York while we was gone.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>What you categorize yourself then, since you say that you don&#8217;t\u2014<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Shmurda music. You can&#8217;t put me in a category with nobody. You know why I say that? You ain&#8217;t going to find no nigga like me. I give you a million dollars if you tell me a nigga like me. Who else you know in the game gangsta \u2014 There&#8217;s a lot of gangstas in the game \u2014 but who else you know gangsta with swag? Who else you know gangsta that&#8217;s gon\u2019 make you laugh?<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Have you been paying attention to anything that&#8217;s been going on in New York with Eric Adams talking to Fivio and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#d7ffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/blovee.1\/?hl=en\">B-Lovee<\/a> about ways they can approach solutions to the problems that come with drill music?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I haven&#8217;t been paying attention. But I feel like music can&#8217;t increase murder rates. People <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch movies<\/a>. You can&#8217;t nominate fucking Al Pacino\u2026 They shootin\u2019 up everybody in the movie. It&#8217;s entertainment. But once a rapper do it and make money off of it, we&#8217;re influencing motherfuckers. That&#8217;s bullshit. You don&#8217;t hear them talking about [shutting] down action movies. I don&#8217;t listen to biases. Once I hear biases, I&#8217;m like, &#8220;Get the fuck out my face.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-232593 {\n   background: #411db3;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> #content_block-232593,  #content_block-232593 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-232593 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #fff8fc;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-232593\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bobby Shmurda - Shmoney (Official Music Video) ft. Quavo, Rowdy Rebel\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C2gSvt0LNSs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('232593');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-232575 {\n   background: #411db3;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> #content_block-232575,  #content_block-232575 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-232575 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #fff8fc;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-232575\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>What are some of your plans to move as an independent artist this year?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I just can&#8217;t wait for people to hear this album. I\u2019ve got so much more plans, but I&#8217;m so focused on this album right now. I just want this shit to come out and people to hear that shit\u2026 and understand the meaning when I say [the album title] <i>Ready To Live<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Why&#8217;d you choose that to be the album&#8217;s title?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            When you hear it, you&#8217;re gonna feel it. I&#8217;m talking about the past, present, and future on the album. The past is gonna sound crazy, but a motherfucker fighting to get out. The present is going to sound like a motherfucker got out, fighting to stay out. And the future is going to be a motherfucker reaping his rewards for staying up.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>How would you define success for you right now?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Success is me talking to you right now. Coming from where I come from, that&#8217;s success. Anything I&#8217;m doing positive any given day is success to me, because of the life I came from. If I wasn&#8217;t talking to you right now \u2014 [if] I wasn&#8217;t a rapper \u2014 I&#8217;d have been selling bricks somewhere and scamming. I&#8217;m blessed every day. I wake up and I see my FaceTime, I see a white guy talking about some money. That&#8217;s success. I used to wake up all day with my phone ringing all the time, since I was a kid. But it&#8217;d be 50, 60 crackheads \u2014 30, 40 gang bangers. But now it&#8217;s different.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-232578 {\n   background: #411db3;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> #content_block-232578,  #content_block-232578 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-232578 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #fff8fc;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-232578\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>I was wondering if you could talk about how your new song, \u201cThey Don&#8217;t Know,\u201d came together. You have all the viral dances in there that come off TikTok and Twitter in the video. How&#8217;d you link up with them?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            It&#8217;s premeditated murder, bloody murder. I went to California, and I&#8217;m in the stu, and I&#8217;m kickin\u2019 it with  my engineer. And the beat came on, and I heard that boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. I said, &#8220;Put this shit on.&#8221; I went in there and I ain&#8217;t come out for like two hours. I was in there high as shit. When I get in them zones, I get in the next realm. Anytime I&#8217;m in the studio, I sit in  the booth for like 20 minutes, get into the next realm, then go stupid for like 30 minutes, 40 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Do you like mainly write your songs or do you just go in and freestyle?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I go in, I sit with the beat playing in my head, and I smoke. And then I just talk my truth without no cut on it. You\u2019ve gotta get to that point where you&#8217;re in the studio and you don&#8217;t give a fuck about nothing. You let anything go. You can&#8217;t snitch, but you know, \u201cFuck it, ah ah. Yeah, I did it.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-232592 {\n   background: #411db3;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> #content_block-232592,  #content_block-232592 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-232592 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #fff8fc;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-232592\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bobby Shmurda - They Don&#039;t Know (Official Music Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n5Q1Oy6HkGU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('232592');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-232580 {\n   background: #411db3;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> #content_block-232580,  #content_block-232580 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-232580 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #fff8fc;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-232580\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>This is your fifth song that\u2019s dropped since you came out. How do you feel about all the music you&#8217;ve put out so far? Do you feel like all of it&#8217;s been representative?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            This is my first song independent. I\u2019d like talk about the independence.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Do you feel like it really represents where you&#8217;re at now?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I feel like this represents me because I\u2019m in control, I&#8217;m behind it. It ain&#8217;t 400 motherfuckers behind it, so it&#8217;s different. You know what I&#8217;m saying? It&#8217;s like a whole different hand. That gave me a whole different extra energy to give to my fans. It gave me like a whole gorilla, Super Saiyan power station.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Throughout this whole interview, you&#8217;ve really been focused on this whole idea of being able to do something yourself.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            You know why? If your mind says that you want to put this out by the fourth, your mind&#8217;s gonna work harder. You&#8217;re gonna come up with shit that you ain&#8217;t even know you could come up with. You&#8217;re gonna sound different. But if you know you\u2019ve gotta go through a hundred motherfuckers to do some shit, then it&#8217;s like, &#8220;Ah, shit, it isn&#8217;t even worth it.&#8221; I tell artists, you always want to keep your mind free, because that&#8217;s what [brought] you here. Whatever [brought] you there, don&#8217;t let motherfuckers take that away from you or try to rescope it, put their little stamp [on it], put their palms in the cement: &#8220;We should drop this first, or that first, and this mix \u2014 turn this down.&#8221; Fuck wrong with you, bitch? I&#8217;m from the trap. I know what motherfuckers like. 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Photo by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/huhalex\/\">Alex Siegel<\/a>.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Brandon Callender<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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