Joey Badass

I'm obviously familiar with your pen and your work, but you definitely outperformed my expectations.

Word up.

I knew what you were capable of, but I was just thinking like...

This nigga Joey getting TV money.

You know what?

I'll tell y'all something, right?

Like, initially, that was my approach.

Like, when Day and Ray first started, like, jabbing and shit like that, you know, when I was doing Sorry Not Sorry, The Part of Me, and shit like that, I'm like, in my head, I'm like, I mean, I'm not about to engage for real.

You know what I'm saying?

Because I'm like, I didn't see the wind for me.

But then I started getting hip to the fact that

People, like, you know, what I learned over time is, like, every five years is a bunch of new hip-hop fans.

Oh, yeah.

That come into the picture, get on that Twitter, get on the internet, have a bunch of opinions, think pieces, podcasts, all of that shit.

So, in that moment... You said what?

Y'all ain't catching a stray.

I actually took it as a compliment.

Finally, people were actually talking about rap music for a fucking change.

You know what I'm saying?

So pretty much what I realized, I'm like, oh, you know what?