 I've been knowing I want to do this all my life, bro. This is my purpose on Earth. As long as I got the ability to put music out in it and it touched the amount of ears that I needed to touch, I'm gonna be cool. Everybody don't got the talent to put what they go through in words, so I'll put it in words to help somebody get through it, get over it, but not go through it, you feel me? All my life, you didn't ask anybody who ever met me in life what I said I was gonna do. They gon' be all that. They gon' be doing this right here. They forget homie, get your n***a, feel the killer, n***a be homie. Wait around, turn around around with the speak on me and I do a walk through like rich homie. You know, I'm from Alabama, man. I'm from, I'm from the dead south, so I had to check out that LA Southern Barbecue, man. I had to see what y'all talking about, you know, get my ratings on it. That's how I always used to do it. Barbecue back in the day, for real, for real. I was like, I'm missing my grown-up player, blues music. I was born in Mobile, Alabama. I seen a lot of shit going up in the kid, right? Then I feel a kid shouldn't be exposed to at an early age. Like, I grew up in like a trap house, the crack. All this and my partner killed itself in front of me when I was like eight or nine, you feel me? So like, me seeing that early, I started looking at depth like a baby being born. You feel me? Like, I looked at it like it was normal, like, okay, people down, it's gon' happen, you feel me? But I feel like I started thinking like that too early because this pushed me to make a lot of bad decisions. I used to do a lot of like, pit and stealing. Stealing research, stealing research, stealing research. Stealing clothes, I'd just throw them, sell them at school. Steal a little pit and weed and shit. Anything to get the shit that I wanted. I was in the fourth grade, I had found my grandma dead. Come home from school, knockin' on the door. Her hood, he come home. He unlocked the door, everybody walk in. We go straight to my grandma's room. You know what I'm sayin'? I'm gonna say, hey, check out her. She face down in the pillow. She had overdosed her oxy-cap. She was on muscle relax and suffocated in the pillow. By that time, I was already looking at the devil like it was normal, but my mama had pulled up and got screaming. I don't like to see my mama cry. So my mama pulled up and got screaming. Yeah. My great-dad tried to get up, mouth to mouth. My grandma take one deep breath and blow all of that out, like, and it was all, and it was gone. Yeah, I lost a lot of people. So I'd say about two, three years ago, I started peepin' like the PTSD and then the demons. And when I really got time to sit down and think about it, back then, I wasn't thinkin' about it. I was just on the go. Just on the roll, was movin' around, but once I started gettin' older, really, like, seein' and somethin' like, damn, bro, like, certain ways I think. I ain't supposed to be thinkin' like that. Like, the normal person ain't thinkin' like that. The reason why I say, each show's like a therapy session. So imagine you got a diary. Nobody ever see this diary, feel it? You write down what you go through, how you feelin', how you feelin'. Then you go in the room for the people and you start just readin' out your diary. And they know the words that's in your diary. That's gonna make you feel like, damn, I ain't the only one, you feelin'? So when I'm rappin' about my life and I go to a show and they screamin' the words back at me, I'm like, damn, I ain't the only one. So that's my purpose in life, man, makin' music for people like me. Some of the fans that walked up to me crying, reached out on Instagram, like, you to help me through this, like, I want to be the key of myself. Your music stopped me, like, that type of, like. I'd rather make somebody cry than make somebody dance any day. Like, I don't go, they play me in a club and I don't go, like, if you hear my music and you want a two-step live, I want you to feel this shit. I want you to, like, you know what I'm sayin'? So I'd rather make you cry with my music than make you dance with my music, you feel me? I grew up with a little music just goin' to church with my momma and lil'. Like, that was the only, like, I ain't used to like hearin' to preach and talk. I ain't used to, like, hearin' to serve as a shit. But when the music played, like, that'd be the only time I had fun in church. Like, hearin' my A&T and them singin' shit. My big cousin them playin' the piano and shit. Ain't no lie, I grew up, uh, all type of music, bro. Alternative music, gospel music, rap music, R&B, blues. I grew up on a lot of shit. Like, my momma played anything from Kings of Lea to, um, Sir Charles, um, from them to goddamn Usher. Know what I'm sayin'? Like, so I had a wide variety of music, like, growin' up with them. I feel like that shit played a big part of me being an artist, I am. So my momma asked me to kidnap my dad, and feel him. I'm two years my brother, 14. She get out of jail, she callin' my brother for him. Like, y'all wanna go to California? So shit, I'm thinkin' like, where's Hollywood? Yeah, I'm thinkin' like shit like this. That's the only thing I knew, cause, uh, cause of the TV, you know, watchin' on TV. That's the only thing I didn't see. My momma pecked me, my brother and my sister and then we just took off. They on the U-Haul bed, stolen U-Haul bed. I mean, it was, it was like an adventure. And so I got older and I'm tellin' people the story. They like, what the fuck? I'm like, oh, shit, that ain't normal. It was like, it was normal to me until I got damn stored, like, tellin' people the story. That was like that, that's actually like crazy. I didn't know that my momma and them already had a shelter, or in mind that they wanted to go to the shelter. You stay in the shelter for a certain amount of time and they help you get an apartment. You know what I'm sayin'? All they help you get a house, depending on how many kids you got. We comin' to Sacramento, we pull up to the front of the shelter. We all climb out the van, you know what I'm sayin'? They like, okay, I ain't had no clothes. Damn, my sister's shirt on. You know what I'm sayin'? They had no shoes on, so they like, all right, take them to the back, get them some clothes. We'll do it, we'll go to show y'all. We all gon' be sleepin', we'll do it, we'll do it. Like, it was like, I ain't gon' lie, it was like a real movie. But I was happy as hell though. I was like, I'm in California. I ain't give a fuck who I been to. So they had big ass flat screen TVs on the wall. That was my first time seein' a flat screen. My mom, me up. We had lunch one day, and they rappin' this, they makin' a beat on the table, they rappin' on it. So I'm like, man, I'm finna spit some shit out of rope. Cause I had shit that went with the beat that bro was makin'. Man, I'll rap that shit bro. Everybody, I'm talkin' about like, by the time I was done rappin', it was a whole crowd around me like, it was like, oh my God, man. That's what I knew I had somethin' though. I'm like, oh yeah, I can do this. That was the moment, raped out. I knew. I changed my name and everything after that. My name is Paris. Gonna make everybody call me Peezy. Man, by the end of the school year, the teacher was callin' me Peezy and everything. As he can't remember, he can't tell it though. He pissed dirt at probation, he been touchin' cocaine. I put my trust in my n****, they ain't gon' tell him no. I put my trust in my dawg, they ain't gon' tell him no name. Hey, I can't chase no ho, I'm tired. Said I'd do anything for you, guess I lied. I know I can't do nothin' without my eyes. I fucked around the side of the room, damn, runnin' slide. Lyrically, I was rappin' about the same shit I rappin' about. No, I was rappin' about Scruggle, tryin' to find a way out, tryin' to find a way to get some money. And then people out here, they be like, damn, you really with this? Like, I'm able to be so vulnerable in my music cause I don't do nothin' private that I'm scared to talk about in public. Everything that I went through when I was little, I had to look at it like it was normal to get through it. Like, oh, this is just life. I'm gettin' better and better, man. So I'm droppin' music, helping people through problems. Good energy, good vibes. That's me, for real, for real. I wouldn't have got through the shit I got through in life if my mind wasn't strong. Like, I call it psyching myself out. I look at the jazz half full. Even with the depths at an early age, like, I had to psych myself out and tell myself, like, that's just like a baby been born. Like, okay, every time somebody die, a baby's born. Like, death is a part of life. I put it on for the people who not scared to get out of these cities. I put it on for the people who not scared to get outside of the box. We is in West Hollywood, and I just ate some good-ass barbecue. My mama ain't gonna believe it. My mama not gonna believe it. Every time I go back, I see somebody who's just like me, man, I see myself in them, you feel me? But they didn't get the chance to leave. They mama like probably won't get the idea to just up and pick up and leave, risk everything. Man, I ain't gonna lie. If you went through something like what I went through or something, the message I get to you is, make sure your mind is strong as possible.