Joey Badass

I always had an affinity for rap and poetry and shit like that.

So that just kind of made me feel like... He made me feel like I was closer to the dream because...

I looked at him like me.

Yeah.

You know what I'm saying?

But it wasn't necessarily like a sound thing.

Okay.

And it's funny that you say that because a lot of people in this game currently today, you know what I'm saying, come up to me and they say that.

And it's like, they sound, there's nothing like my shit.

Yeah, yeah.

But they be like, yo, when I first saw your shit, like, boom, boom, you inspired me.

And I realize it's the same thing for them.

They just saw it in me.

Them seeing like a young...

black dude making it out the motherfucking nowhere yeah that's inspirational that's like oh i could do it too right that's what it communicates you know what i'm saying so it's like you know people sometimes they're inspired in a way to where they just see themselves in you yeah and it's not necessarily like a sonic thing a music musical thing it's just more of a uh aspirational thing yeah i can make it yeah exactly and even that how i was rapping like

Forget the song because it was very much a JD sound and not so much like what ended up being 1999.

But shit was fire.

I guarantee if I have not listened to Beware of the Dog in probably 20 years, but that's so embedded in my brain.

If you played a Beware of the Dog song, I could probably rap along.

Take Your Home Still Slap.