Lonely
When I recorded this track, I finally felt the album was coming together. I went to the studio and Santos was cooking up, and he played this shit and I lost my mind. I went home thinking about Nelly because I had an argument with some nigga about how Nelly was one of the most dominant rappers ever (I still think he was). “If you a bad bitch, then get your eagle on/If you mad rich, nigga go take your ego off” was me throwing a shot. Fuck that guy. In any case, I wanted a song that encapsulated my version of the black experience and allowed me to be ignorant/conscious at the same time.
I listen to a lot of Curtis Mayfield. At the time I was making this album, I was listening to his album Curtis. I always wanted to touch on the black experience, but didn’t necessarily always have a way of doing it. This time around, I knew what I wanted to do. I wanted to make a song where it wasn’t preaching, but more so venting. I feel like, sometimes, you gotta put some cheese on your broccoli to make the kids eat it, you know? To get people to listen to me talk about the black experience, you gotta throw some ignorance in there so that people can relate.
