 What they gonna do with me now? I'm still a troke of the town I'm talking to the sisters, I'm hooking them down I'm reaching the smiles and the frowns again If I give it all back, shit'll never be the same That's why I'm trapped in pitching on the mission, fast lane What's up y'all, it's ya girl Brianna Imani and your tuned in to another Token of Town interview and today, who do we got in the building? Grease ball, I ain't with the slack Yeah, back block, speed bill nutty this bitch You ain't out of the column We got speed bill nutty coming from Where you coming from? Rack, you know, sorry I can't You know, I'm glad I was breathing You know, yeah So Welcome to New York How has it been so far? How's your time been here? I've been in New York a lot a lot Whole lot of New York What's your fuck with New York? What's your fuck with New York? It's just how the bills and the blah, blah, blah It's just extra city What I don't like is how y'all got no grass on y'all sidewalks Y'all don't believe me Grass on the side? Because it's just in the way We got too many people in New York We walk and we got places to go Grass for what? No grass Grass is on land, grass is on property Street, curb, grass Y'all just got street sidewalks Yeah So what, is this your first time in New York? Yeah So after your first time here You coming back? Like, you've enjoyed it? Enough for another trip? Yeah, I'll be back in New York I need somebody like Somebody really out there You don't really know what the fuck's going on You know How do you want to know? In terms of what? Like what you trying to get into? Both sides, female In the block In the block They know Like R.P. Love They know They know what I'm talking about Man, you know You see the fuck going on I'm not here, man I'm fucking New York A lot of life So how would you say it is Like just based on vibes Like how would you say it is based Compared to Chicago Just based on vibes People outside People outside Yeah I see where y'all be like outside Y'all really be outside Chicago ain't outside Unless you on the block You don't want to be in the wrong place At the wrong time In every place At the wrong place At the wrong time So let's talk about that Like you grew up in Chicago Yeah And what was that like? Um I was going to It was cool It wasn't like it is not It just got changed Because you know Everybody's just Doing their thing For this music They want fame For stupid reasons You know It'll come with the wrong attention But Yeah, my life was cool I was playing basketball Baseball, football So you were like You had to go over to Chicago Yeah There was shit going on But Yeah, they were like You know it's so interesting That you say that Especially growing up there Because I feel like From a New Yorker's perspective At least when we hear about Chicago We don't really hear those That side We hear it's like Not to say it doesn't happen But it's mainly always Shoot them out bang bang It's always because outside It's all Like those are the stories That we hear Um More than like The normal lifestyle stories So do you feel like Growing up Was there anything that influenced you To get into music? I think I was In school or some shit My They had to help teach you something Music telling me about Whatever you do In life When you get older Make sure you love it Because You gonna be living life For the whole bunch of regret And you gotta be able to do it all day And not get paid for it too So I was just thinking What I was gonna do When I get older And I was just like shit I like run around with the guys Fuck this shit up Throw what we do And what career is that And shit Lil Wayne and rapping At the time Gucci and everything So Like rapping I do rapping So you were inspired By like Lil Wayne and them Nobody local No one who was in Chicago By that time By that time Like Bob J was the big dude We had Solid folk Bro And now you said That was in high school So what kind of music were you making When you first started out? Really I was trying to see How I go As you all like Some trap shit She's always getting some money And something like that Or some pain music Either boy Do you feel like You stay consistent to your sound As you rule in your Like artist streets I don't know how it's been All over the place So I never had like A direct sound It depends on whatever it be Talking about Okay So when you're making a track Do you look the beats Before you start making Before you start Writing down your verses Or what? Well recently Like I said people Were just giving me Certain type of beats Cause they want me to like Appeal to What's going on So They have forced me To be certain beats So I don't But when I pick my Beats Be different So who Who Let's get into that real quick Who is it that Forces you to like When you say they Who is that You know I got people in the industry Being All these guys People got different teams You know different people You know No less than the industry Shit Do you have a team? I got my own You know Shit going on Everything got to Independent though I just got people Placed in different places Moved certain Pieces for me On the board By the seniors And you seem like You know Like You seem very Like Savvy Know what's what So how do you know What advice to take From somebody When it comes to like Your career In terms of like What people might just Be telling you That's like Throw away information Shit It's just be like Really I just do this shit Cause I fuck with it Like So it's like Everything else Be extra Like once I like Make the song Doing the videos And stuff And put it out Everything else Be extra Interviews Possibilities Doing the show Possibilities Doing the deals Any of all that shit All that shit be extra Cause that's when it gets Irritated Complicated But when I just Doing the music And stuff Doing the videos That be the fun Shit about it So I just go off that I don't be like Worried about Alright now What's the business aspect Of it Well no Because You were saying like How Like certain people Who you're consulting with In terms of your career Like they're telling you To hop on Like different types of beats And different types of sounds So I'm like How do you know When it's like This is a good tip Like I should Hop on this So why Nothing like Back to my boy For him That's something That get money Something He ain't even Wanna do that He ain't even Like that Something like That's when The creative process How does that How does it start From the time that you Have the idea Of a stone in your head To the time that we hear it Officially After it's released What does that time In between look like It depends It depends man But sometimes Like okay If I got a session Like if I got My shit booked out I'm gonna have to Read the song I just go through my day I already be locked in My brain is locked in So I go and still you know what I mean Like I'm gonna be Five out of nine From like ten to three I go in there And make like five Four songs Guaranteed And are you writing them While you're in the stool Or are you already Got them written No no no You know what I mean Oh it's just All the time Yeah So what did you say You're a good freestyler No I don't really I don't even Wrap through I just Under shit talk Like I don't Get on here Ain't tryna No Can't do your mouth And you don't have to I was gonna just Tell you a whole bunch On the shit You know You speaking from your I might have a little rhythm So I'm a little You know But if you listen I'm on this bitch's rhythm Yeah So On your ass down I don't know So you get in So you get in What's like The ideal situation What you smoking You drinking Yeah I'm smoking Would you say That like music Is like an outlet To get out Yeah it's the really like The only outlet Really I could Disappear on my phone Like if I had it my way You know I'd be locked In the studio somewhere And never be So I gotta like Go on with some shit And you say You booked out the studio For like A week And stuff like that What's the longest You ever booked out the studio Like The rest of the I don't really Be in the studio like that Cause I be really Involving real life So I don't know if I like A month A few weeks As long as I ain't like I did it all the time I did it like One time So you said that You've been dealing with Like real life shit In addition to the music stuff So how do you find a balance Between What you're doing outside And what you're bringing To the tracks Or the time you spend Making the tracks Like you said I don't know how to be Doing shit for life short When we having like I can't really like I don't like Planned I just You know how I'm gonna do some shit Like I knew one day I was gonna come to New York Cause I just I didn't know You had to play And you just needed to Planned for me Just do shit That's why people Be procrastinating They be trying to Plan to Just do it So you just Live like Freedy Yeah, you're gonna Die What else you gonna do You're gonna Plan your bill I mean I like this I like it I'm here for it I'm just saying Like People be Planned and everything else When they plan They definitely So you just take life As you can It gets trickier Then It's like hold on It was all about Making the right shit Planned and deaf Then too I'm gonna see that So what's the Angle for you Or is there an Angle for you When it comes To your artistry Do you see yourself Being at a certain level Oh yeah For sure Depends on Like I gotta be locked in To your life I gotta be like I know Like you know I be like Your conscious Like anytime You think of something It'll always tell you What you're really Supposed to be doing What you be like Nevermind Like your old David be Planned Your new moves The moves You got going on Oh shit You be trying to fix Your conscious You be telling How you do that Do that Do that Do that Your conscious Is what's telling you To get in the studio To do that Yeah So once you stop Living life And going with the flow And you actually lock in Where do you hope to see yourself Like where do you think It will take you That's the beauty of the journey Oh come on That's really good That's the thing She did you You always get About to change The unknown The better you Like you know That should be hard If you ain't in competition No So You always try to unlock Your hidden potential And it be Day to day Goofy shit Always be stopping Different vibes And et cetera Right But I'm saying So you're just Willing to take Whatever comes with it You don't really Have an end goal Or a Set Place where You would like To see yourself Cause that's what I'm saying I'm saying I'm saying this Like really being a force Like really changing Shit On some new shit You don't have Hard diet They be like You done And they put that You know That's me I'm gonna Y'all forgot about that You know Rating that bitch back to life Rating this bitch back Popping for real Uh huh Rating that I'm a bunch of goofy Talking about a bunch of goofy shit So I'm just So interested Like if you had to Choose one of your songs To describe you What song Would it be And why Cause I need to I'm I gotta I gotta I gotta hear this Shit Any pants If I'm just like Just on some fucking shit Started tweeting And bros Cause I tweet with your ass In any aspect You don't really know It could be positive Or negative Oh then Well I thought you off Whatever I said I'm tweeting I'm tweeting And what do you think Is the song that Got you lit What's the song that People usually fuck with the most Shit Shit So sweet So I know We talked about The trap stuff A little bit But you're here In New York And you're from Chicago So I really I'm interested In getting your thoughts On the drill scene Uh New York drill scene Well first I wanna hear You First I wanna hear Like How Would I've asked this Before What do you think That constitutes As a drill song What makes a drill song Drill Shit First of all You gotta be front of rap Really Yeah So you have to be From Chicago You're saying To make a drill song Yeah Why What you mean Why What Is it about Chicago That you have to be From there to me So like UK drill New York drill All of that is a dog That's what you're saying? That's the New York shit A dog Like that shit That shit Overwit That means like You're not jacking it From there you go And she do not Damn I just heard Jim Jones Pop on that bitch You think you said the Breville Club song You're gonna try to say Drill music is New York Like What the fuck Did you talk about Well I think that he was Saying like right now That's what's going up In New York You know he said Drill music is like No But that don't That don't even make sense That's what's hot right now I'm here But you know he's saying Drill music is like New York created You ain't seen that You ain't seen that I don't think that That interview I don't think that That's what he meant I think that he's saying Like right now I think that he's saying Right now Follow Jim Jones Couple stuff Of course But wait Hold on Cause we gotta get into this This is so interesting This is my first time Asking somebody From Chicago They're fussing on it So I'm very interested In hearing this So for one I think that when Jim Jones said that He's just If we were to take a snapshot Of the New York music scene Right now It would be Drill And I think that New York It would be Well you're only saying that Because you're being biased I'm not being biased I'm just saying that The only reason They don't fucking Change my song For five years Do five years No But so okay That's the biggest Like So you don't think like Drill beats Or like There's certain types of lyrics There's certain types of things That make a drill Drill is just different It's just not I think It could be a different drill It's like Kobe and Mike You see what I'm saying Kobe tries his best To beat Michael Jordan His whole life But they still play basketball If he just stayed Kobe Bryant He might have Would have had six rings That's why he only had five But they still play basketball So you could have A Chicago drill rapper A UK drill rapper A New York But they all still Do his work shit A New York rapper And a Chicago rapper Anywho won't make drill music Drill sound That's all shit That's I think It's not I could If people Y'all trying to take some shit And make it there It's not It's just a song That they make So just because Chicago Drill is where You can't make a drill song If you ain't come From that club That's like Claiming some shit They CripMap Yeah You just came Flip flop You know what I'm saying Yeah It just don't work Like it doesn't hurt Nobody's feelings are Discouraged Nobody's feelings are hurt This is why the world Fuck done I'm gonna fuck Run around this bitch Acting like Like no Y'all don't even know What the fuck Going on Like this shit is for real Like ain't no Chicago Niggas get on Right now Rapping on song That y'all like We got on We talking about Clapping the motherfucker Ears together We ain't Ain't this bitch Talking about two still But the motherfucker Up You can't be in the club Violin full of But we ain't on None of that I'm fucking on this bitch Talking about We gonna get up with y'all When we see y'all Every song that y'all like Like it ain't The song like So it's like But I mean Y'all New York got real music This is the motherland Of music Real music Like most death And motherfuckers Who out there Shitting eyes Y'all got real music Real sound Why the fuck would y'all Want to call y'all Shit New York drill That don't even make sense Because there are There are different types of New York views But there are different types New York got a new sound That's what y'all Got a new That's not drill So what makes it So what makes it So different Is it the authenticity Of Chicago Is that what you're saying That that authenticity Is what What drill is And that's why Chicago only has it Y'all only has it But I think We the only We the only one Understand Everybody from Chicago Hear me say that And be like I get what he's saying Like it don't matter What song you can make You can never Make a drill Or something Because you Don't even know the root You don't know where that C came from You just watch some shit You don't know where that C came from So if you You don't even know The energy The gasoline Another fuel behind it You just like The something did it That's cool Because I ain't hating You know what I'm saying I'm not tricking Another day I'm just telling you How T.I. is So you I don't even give a fuck About it I don't even think about it It is what it is You made a good song It sounds good That you duplicated Off some other shit Now that you imitated Because you can't duplicate Shit Ain't no copy Nothing The imitation is the best Form of flattery But it's not the real thing You know what I'm saying But why So you don't think The drill is like It's only one talk Of the town something Yeah it's the It's the UK talk of the town Yeah that's cool But you know As long as you know that The job Stim it from us And it can't I don't think that I don't think But it's all shit Ain't no