[Music] you don't know what you got stuck in the studio by the looks of it man I walked in here as just ooze you've merged everywhere I haven't walked into like a commercial studio has seen such a presence from an artist in one place before it's like you built it from the ground up or something no I just got here it was already here I just took it over you know how long have you been
here how long you been in this in this place for recording in this place like two years did you know when you came in here this was the place you want to record it feel good from the start no I hated it um I don't know I just wasn't rocking with it you know yeah new environment it doesn't feel homely it um so by the time people see this we'll have something new nine months after he
first sort of said this is coming the sequel to lovers right fans are gonna have it we're gonna have this new album which is exciting you know have new music yeah why do you why do you sneak up sneak up on us like this why do you decide to release your records and you've always done this way like I am surprised think I have this record um I don't I don't really I'm not playing the
game like I really don't I don't mean it I do it because like I'm just in the moment with everything I do if I don't feel like it's the right time and everybody's still like you know heckling me or everybody's really really once there I still ignore them because it's not the right time I know when it's the right time is gonna be the biggest impact yeah yeah and how do you and when
do you know that like last minute like last second I go this feels at the time tonight oh no I guess you could say last second cuz usually when I feel like that is the moment he comes up yeah yeah it's incredible man when I think about the way you can release records now and get it to rate to your fans like that and have their relationship with your fans like that and know that you just need to
just like a switch in the music's available but you know you're on generation now and you work with other people you know you don't do it all yourself you have other collab and things like that how's that experience being for you you started fully independent and now you're teamed up with a label and stuff I do you enjoy that side of it I won't say I enjoy it those people really don't
know me they act like they know me but you know regular stuff so who does who knows you then who do you keep close hmm my clothes well your fans tell you the most what's the most common thing you hear from your fans when you talk to them to RIT because I imagine they're pretty open with you because you're open within that asks me do a lot this is lately no and I got it more than 40
times ask me do my piercings hurt can you pass things first off with your hero you're a kid right you're the king of the kids right okay so here's the thing if Beyonce is like the queen of everything yeah Drake's right now he's the king of the child you think I'm gonna king it again I think you're the king of the kids tell me why you think I'm the king of you just gave me that
time I think you speak really direct to them I think your music is very much in line with a combination of electronic dance music and hip hop and pop music and all these things combined and it speaks in a language that they really understand you had a garage in it yeah I can hear totally hear the email in the grunge in there without a doubt like I know you're a Manson fan first sure but
I also hear things like Deftones in there I him I am melodies in there like Chino Moreno like that emotion that he gets to where it's almost like you know cuz he was influenced by Morrissey right so when he sings he have one thing so he's a new metal singer but he was never that right and the same way I think people look at you like a rapper I don't know the man I don't know if you are a
rapper I don't know if any I could categorize you you and your music in some respects I'll just say um I son I think it son I'd like instant it's unidentified so you know if it's not identifier what does that mean I pull it up in a UFO that means Amalia that's all I can say and if you don't believe me that's not you I hid a lot of sadness in your music that's right here
I hear like real yearning man in your music - why not it you know what I you know I'm a music associate why because I love my songs like my children that I don't have and once the song is over it's over on to the next hmm sad like we can't do I can't make one song forever that's why it is kind of sad yeah I get how many artists I ask if they listen to their own music and I
would say 99.99% of them say no they don't listen to their own music how sad is that you make this beautiful music and I guess I'm now you listen to me and I won't get that I guess I'm that one you and Joshua homie from Queens that star that she listens to his records as well so you get in the car you blast you and you bust your old albums as well but stay black I only listen to my own music
what's your favorite so far I know it's tough but lady do you have a favorite mixtape the spot probably 1017 version the world it was me and Gucci Mane stick my favorites and it was personal to me haven't and how did you guys record that were you in the same studio recording and vibing and stuff yes that's important to your right because it caused so many people do it now like we
made in like two days amazing what was the experience like you tell us what was my making that EP he moved fast really you were fast he was faster than you yeah which I mean we're faster than me and I'm fast he's way fast how does he like what's his process what can you tell me oh he just goes in there doesn't beat and I do that I'll do that too but to see somebody else do that yeah I think he
does that he really does future moves fast the future does future moves fast I've seen that move fast dummy like summer songs in the night it's on a good night that's crazy so how many songs do Rick and you have that haven't been heard like at this point just estimate how many songs sitting on a band bag yeah yeah we don't know about is if you're recording all the time and you move fast
I can only imagine what has I like 27 honey that's ridiculous I love that you just picked their number out of your head though it's like 20 did you have it all mapped out did you know that love is rage 2 was always gonna like love his rage was always gonna be a sequel I didn't know that because what I hear on those records his lovers rage is like chase the girl lil uzi reverse the world
fight for the girl get the girl then the last album perfect tight perfect love tape got the girl so is this in line with with that kind of your you get it it's not really too much I don't I'm not here the like I said I'm not here to trick nobody it's what it is you get it you get it you don't you don't but all I can say is and the only thing I will say is no matter how I'm like moving I'm
like kind of past that point it's the time though you know turn all the way up why sequel why now why lovers register I like the name it's a beautiful name it's a beautiful man it's me yeah misspelled oh yeah I start crying laughs I'm saying exact like that iron stopper agent since I got here you know I haven't stopped raging right now yeah I might seem calm but under these
glasses over agent yeah always I don't stop raging I don't stop it off it's where they come from where's that sensation come from oh no I wake up like this it's just an energy mm-hmm so I'm I can't control we have Ivy patrolled it you know like I'm I'm very calm for the most part but you know how hard it is for me to be calm as well I'm always calm because it's a challenge to me yeah
yeah it's a real big challenge to me it's very very hard to become I can never you are very are this harder than becoming a successful artist just an calm yes but it I'd be so hype sometimes letting myself headaches so as music being a part of that is music like is that like an important outlet in terms of maintaining that calm like that sure cuz music took over in my life mmm and I
can't go outside anymore to express myself like you know kicking a ball or just relaxing outside so I guess yeah music is the only way that I can go outside it's hot man isn't it was you fine with it you fine with that trade I hate it I didn't don't give it a tug people who thought its arm I don't get me I'm not gonna stay here and fight it because it's a beautiful thing and it's
a beautiful thing that I can make noise and people react to it a certain way that they react to it but I'm rocking with it oh right what it like I just cool don't get me wrong I am running from nothing idiot what it is I was I'm beer but I am I don't like being famous it's okay though like this like one of those days you know it's one of those things it's like you know it's like a family member mmm you
know it's like it's like a family member that you know you love them because they're your family member but as a person you hate him mm-hmm so it's nothing you can do about it mmm you got me mmm just like that you're good to your fans though I mean I've seen people who would way more withdrawn because they can't deal with that kind of attention it's anxiety inducing but you
seem - my thing is you know my thing is like get it done and get it done move on to the next thing yes and I was younger I always would do something halfway and then I said sure so is that getting done that's so you were a good skateboarder or good you know you were good at things but you're always good as good a good at things but I wasn't always like all that one yeah
yeah yeah that's what I'm saying so like I would always know how to do I always make sure I know how to do everything but I was just enough yeah just enough so you're popular with school then because those kids tend to be very probably I mean every school ever went to everybody know who I am yeah are you surprised that this is the thing that your life has settled on yeah yeah I didn't I
I set back one day I was I would like what like I really get it there's no weirdest thing ever to my company's like wow said this is my life crazy here we go yeah when did that happen at what point did you realize like all right this is serious now I come in I like less than a year ago trying to work it out money longer yeah yeah I know is something yeah funnier to me man like when I put
on that first well not the first tape not real easy but lovers rage the first one and it gets to ban from TV you know why cuz you choose really good beats like you've got great taste in beats man thanks absolutely like some of the beats you rap on to some of the best out there I think and some of the weirdest most dumb things out there as well huh hey congrats I have a harpsichord me so love
is rage - is it feel different no good people talking about this like it's your debut album you know I mean like out out there in the meteor stuff they just hype but your hype and like what you do is have your performances a hike or live show is a hype your fans are like the definition right now of hype like they are hype about your music oh you talk about my job I'm talking about the fact that this
feels like a moment and it's loading to this moment here like first week sales Bam Bam all that stuff feels big ah yes yes a thing though yeah that's big and that's cool and it gets you you know nice mansion and stuff but I like it for like I remember when I was on soundcloud and a hundred people was listening I felt amazing like how does a hundred people know who
I am so if a thousand people brought it or anything or a thousand people listening that'd be cool I know one person I'm not sure I'd be seeing anywhere for where I said how do you persist twenty six million people looking at you and coddies video and like the kind of numbers that you do now like - I'm processing when it was a hundred thousand people because I'm
telling you when I got a hundred thousand or five thousand or something it was something I never got before so it felt that's I get that same feeling so I know what it feels like I know what it feels like I look at it like that mmm mmm it's gonna be I take for ralphing up in City Yakko Mia Farrow collaborated buddy come on man you were in the studio you did other tone you're
in a spot you went in the room he's dude he's from out of space how was that experience what was it like working with him well he's like the best person on earth he's the he's the man he I think he's like the king of the artists like oddest look to him he's like the type of person that like somebody nuts has way more like call to him was still looking in like he's like the biggest
person ever like yeah he's like the big there's nobody there's nobody as like he's the boat he's the gun yeah we may be made a lot of stuff and we made a lot of stuff by mm-hmm we went crazy I can imagine you and him have a really good rapport in the studio I can imagine he vibes with you in a big way creatively yeah I even like you know he's he's in there he's a early guy he's
in there early I'll really say he's with his work ethic is early what are you like in the mornings not so good no but you know that's Pharrell he's got to go yeah so I mean just show up you've never got to do anything but you know mmm just you sure I showed up because I know it's something that I always wanted to do I mean man isn't it must be moment when you were in his studio and he's playing
his music and you're like this is Pharrell yeah it was that you get that like when you first that moment when you first in there you know snap like yeah especially I never you know I just got here I don't know nobody yeah yeah so when I finally see him I'm like oh yes fire like this mouth well like remember I watched like I designed my Giri off his jury like woman duh he was in there
he's talking about regular stuff - it wasn't just like yeah we made so much that's what I'm saying we made a lot of stuff I didn't just make stuff we didn't just make stuff in the album just keeps keep going for me but you're well like man like artists a lot of artists speak really highly of you of course man of course I mean you know I know you're good friends with Chloe yeah well thug yeah future these well
they you know Pharrell the weekend took you out on tour I mean these cosines man I mean you know you've you obviously as far as artists are concerned and trust me not all artists are likable I think artists you know obviously really respond to you you know them in yeah who talked about young folk for a sec because I feel like you guys came out around the same time and it's been
lovely watching both of you at work um you know like that's like my brother like he actually like took me like under the wing just as a like you know building my money he taught me like he taught me like you know how to stay humble he really like a real good person like he I watch him he showed me how shall he take care of his family it really showed me how I opposed
the move as a man stuff like that and I just not gonna that's showbiz Bush well that's the stuff that really made me like really write with people like I said I don't like you could be the best you're gonna be the best that just don't mean like I'm gonna be your first of all you already a man and it's like what do I need I don't need to know no more man I already know everything about a man
cuz I'm a man I want to learn about women so it's like if you already true to yourself is no it's no like this is his room Israel for you to come over and be cool I love a saying I everybody you name they still you know happy no cardi asked my little brother yeah so in some respects it must feel like you're kind of doing that for him descender great which is crazy yes only a couple of years for you and
now it's already moving that fast yeah like cardiguez yeah I love that car day like it's time to turn up like night you you know that's just time to turn up like you here for a reason yeah don't think me and you is turned up and I got you with me for no reason I the time for you to turn up right you you ain't just gonna keep being here you got to go out away so yeah not keep him
level-headed the stuff like that just something see what I do is just with the germs that get dropped on me I just dropped my on somebody oh yeah yeah I take him and walk around why would I keep a wild I don't talk yeah and turn it in stone yeah got to hurry up and keep it moving anymore yeah who else gives you those jams who else do you look to I mean we spoken up for raava
you're in fact who else do you look to thank you for that kind of guidance I think it's cool that you look that way especially considering how fastest have able right I gotta you know it was crazy me and Abel we make me able we work we can work anyway like we can work on we work and mansions and work in Suites work over scenes work anywhere does I mean cards to like we
would do that too but like able like he just own just the the lifestyle he just showed me like just just the way he moved the stuff that's what I like about it with a lifestyle he's not I ain't trying he keeps a close change to ain't trying you know like you just ain't just don't wanna do and that's how I am mmm my mind trying I got I don't know I don't ask for nothing like I ain't tryin
ear same thing well he ain't he's not trying it's just it's real who are some of the producers that you work with on the record I didn't work with Holmes a young guy from Philly named Molly rock do you live in lemon you live in Philadelphia but you live in Philly so you live in Philly right do you see how much Hungarian spin here a lot weight is so close mm-hmm this has become kind of like
music capital of the world man right now like Atlanta the kind of everything is coming out of Anna's crazy what are your impressions of working out here like what I know that you came out here because of the relationship with those guys but what what have you learned what do you like about out here you could focus out here you know home I really like and focus goes home but out here I
don't really like yeah achoo what are you founded what does your mom think about all this it's time she believes in there no she gets it yeah was it tough at first achievement because you were saying it you weren't really applying yourself completely for any one thing no no she just like just imagine she don't know no rappers like that you had to become a rapper like
shame believe it mmm how many chains you go now Oh nope are like 30 and you have the Manson one right yeah you know he's coming out with new music you know that no I didn't know that yeah and why do you know how deeply clearing up it's kind of smart what do you love about medicine I hate him he's annoying you should just FaceTime video right now you should just face
that video right now he what time is it tell me what Tommy they hope you asleep you know how I know because it's still daytime here yeah it's midday in Los Angeles right now he's not gonna he's not gonna answer the phone hey he'll call me back and did you guys enjoy a song together that would be crazy we already know he never did what do you think of his new music what Oh
Manson that's beautiful yeah yeah it's back on Tom man it's very beautiful but you know they don't talk about music no what do you guys talk about we just be like turnt up but you know turned up in a professional unguided what I don't know how you doing man like two years we'll be talking about three hours you really three hours and 18 months or mixtapes what's the difference between a mixtape
in an album these days anyway can you even answer that I don't even know same thing it's the same thing so I'm just encouraged that you're putting a collection of songs actually together in a row because the way that a lot of people are putting music out is just like have a song here have a song there but if it's not one of you isn't that won't be it's about you know I'm not
songs filled with I try to make it like one big song right I write so their orders really important to you how often do you like how long does that take you I always think this must be the most fun part when you have like all these songs you get to pick which one get out 30 minutes yeah but you must do that's because I you know people being extra all that it took me a month abutment
right there it's not that hard I'm doing it by myself doing it by myself so it's not that hard once like I know like I don't like nobody to get in my way I don't like cannon I'm getting in my way anything I don't get in can and wait so when you do it by yourself you get it out of a real fast you're done you want to follow something you want you want to come with me music quick after love is reg - you
only saw 2700 songs sure 2,700 children see what I was gonna do you want to put like this song I got when I was raised and I'm putting it on here no more because I'm gonna come out with a rock out are you out yeah cool have you got a band are chicks have you started recording stuff writing thought all right I just go in here just do it yeah Toki you here yeah what about
the band are they writing stuff well you ladies gonna do it is not it's not serious just go see oh so you're gonna you're gonna make a rock record like you've been making your rat records just go in there and just do it off the top yes huh beautiful that's interesting we'll wait and see it could be maybe alright gonna be like one of these if it's terrible right if it's absolutely
terrible we store release it oh no it's kind of it's kind of hard for it to be bad because I don't even be looking at my songs like they're good a bit alright nobody in my children yeah so when I put them up it's someone except so rock out and that's gonna be crazy you can film it yeah so you're it's done your voice start recording these songs and maybe enough people accept them you know to
make it go triple platinum so ok what's important to you then who is he like what what what really matters what really matters like well that when when I go outside and I got a day when nobody asks me for a picture alright look dad good luck you know how hard does like we like make those bets good lives you have to go like the Moldy but isn't stuff does I don't know what I
just I don't want to call it I don't know just regular stuff I just relax and Gillian gone out I mean you must be able to like I don't know is it naive for me to think that you can work towards controlling this to a certain degree because yeah you're in the eye of the storm right now but artists do can live or is it just imagine been in the eye of the storm with like not like
equipment that you brought from a store that says this is gonna save you in the eye of the storm but like equipment that imagine bike you saw other people that was already in the heart of storm and you know that and you took that equipment and and added your add-ons to it yeah I'm in the middle of the storm but I'm dry I think it's exciting man I think when I hate your music I think it
sounds like now like to me it feels really exciting and your melodies that's one of the things I want to talk about real quick is your melodies because I don't think you get enough credit for your actual melodies like I think a lot of people talk about your floor or they talk about your performances your style whatever then two layers for songwriting who are some of your key influences and
like melodies like who are the people you look to as singers especially gonna make a rock record hayley williams she's great she's great she can fight you sang the best yeah it's hard to top that like she's the best just of like my gym make my generation bronze nobody nobody bro it's nobody so yeah there you go Haley one experiment it's nobody I could she's like amazing have you met
her V no that'd be great collaboration so the album so two breakup album right to breakup out yeah that sucks I mean it's said before every cuz you know and a lot of time to think about it but you know no that's cool alright man whoa it's really nice for you to live us in here what's on your mind right now what's on your mind right this very second I'm trying to grab this fire I
was I don't swallow reflex I'm not thinking right now it's nothing it's nothing I really think about when it's time to think it's nothing to think about everything right now is all about being effortless I'm in the mold right now just do it just do it whatever happens happens and I didn't know you will all be here today amazed it makes me feel like I got an important you talked to our important guys