I was in Wawa one day and they were playing Rihanna’s “Pon Di Replay” and I fell in love with the drum pattern. I called Chum immediately and was like “yo make me something with a drum pattern like this.” A few weeks later this track is what I got.
Around the time I wrote this I was traveling and doing shows as much as possible to forget what I was going through with that girl and I was also out partying as much as I could. There was a stretch when I was in Amsterdam one day then Louisville Kentucky and then Athens, Greece in a 5 day period. I was going hard!
I was staying in Berlin for an extended period of time when I wrote this and it just came to me after a bunch of evenings of partying until 9am and waking up at 3pm and doing it again. I remember being in the studio recording something else with the homey LMNZ and humming it to myself excited to work on the track.
Again I felt some trepidation when I was writing this because I didn’t feel like I “rapping” enough on it. I took solace in how cool it sounded and how true to life it was. I do in fact smile because I’m me and you’re not.
This was the first track I straight up “sang” on. We were mad surprised that it came out as well as it did. We did the take and looked at each other like “Holy shit that doesn’t sound that bad!” So I laid all the singing parts real quick scared that I’d forget how to do it HAHA.
Chum sampled the Beatles on the intro and we joked about hoping to get sued so it’d help with the promo of the album.
I posted it on Myspace and my mom texted me like “Are you ok?” She actually listens to the words I guess.
Party people really love this song.
