A Boogie’s Only Competition Is Himself

Me and Roddy could do a tape in two or three days. It’s too easy for us to make melodies… Everybody that I would do a project with, we would finish in a week, literally. We could lock in for five days, just how me and [Young] Thugga used to lock in; we used to make five songs a day, At one point, 19 songs in a week. 

How did you and Kodak Black reconnect for “Water”? Only the hardcore fans know that your 2017 hit “Drowning” was originally called “Water,” so this is like full circle. 

Yea, this is like part 2. Kodak and I want a diamond record under our belt right now. So when it comes to “Water,” it’s going to make “Drowning” go diamond at the same time. We’re going to do the video together this time, and bring both of our fan bases together. I was telling everybody, “This got to be the main one right here. We got to push this shit right here,” so we are going to go hard for this song.

I thought I was going to hear buzzing British rapper Central Cee on this project, specifically on “Bounce Back.”

That’s crazy—that was supposed to be the one, too. Me and Central Cee definitely have got to link up and get a track in, and do a video. I don’t care if it’s on the album or not, me and Central Cee got to get one in. We were in the talks already, but he was in Australia on tour at the time.

Do you take credit for being the first rapper to name drop Mike Amiri in a song?

I feel like it’s four names that can [share claim to] being the first to rap about Mike Amiri’s: Future, Julez Santana, Meek Mill, and me. We were the first artists to wear Mike Amiri denim in the beginning. I don’t know who wore it first [specifically], all I know is that I didn’t see anybody wear it before I wore it.

So why did you stop wearing Balmain jeans?

Because they ripped on me too much. Every time I was performing, they ripped on me, So I’m like “Nah, I need new jeans, bro, because we got to stretch more.” That’s when Amiri’s came along perfectly for me.

When you released Artist 2.0 you noticeably switched from piano-influenced beats to guitar sounds. What made you do that, considering how much your fans love your piano-driven songs?

I did it on purpose, I’m not going to lie. I like making people miss me for some reason, I’m selfish as shit. I switched over the whole instrument when I was thinking about making an album because I was like, “I’m tired of pianos. We’re going to do guitar for this theme right there.” I was [originally] going to do that on every album going forward, switch up the theme with [a new instrument], but I didn’t want to overdo one thing. But on Me vs. Myself, when the fans hear the piano vibe now, you know it’s going to put a smile on their faces.