I wouldn’t do much for money man
Aminé ain’t Juwanna Man
Now they all, women makin’ calls
Like, ‘Aminé, do you got that paper? Let me hold it’
Mama need a whip and my daddy need a crib
Got a phone, lil nigga, why the fuck I need a Rollie?
Black pepper chicken and chow mein, my favorite
Sayin’ you ain’t racist really sound racist.

Dreads like Bob Marley
Hardly ever call these hoes, I’m too gnarly
Look like George Foreman
Couldn’t afford Jordans
Talk to informant
Never, I’m important
Maybe I might die.

Every day I’m counting up my paper
Petty niggas hate, the ones in public with the vapors
Leave ’em in the dust and then we tell ’em see you later
Only people that truly know me is my mama and my maker
Shawty, you like my freeform dreads
I love it when she give a nigga freeform head
It’s the banana boy, favorite color you know
Yellow is the new black, and I’m Mr. Caputo.

Everybody wanna be a star
Everybody want a nice car
Everybody wanna live great, have a good damn time, never trip with the law
The popo up in P.O.
Dirtier than B.O.
Bullies from the past act like I’m they fucking hero.

Mama called
She said, “Don’t worry ’bout me baby, get your problems solved”
I told her, “Ask me for whatever, whenever you want
I just went double platinum”
Mama say my health is more important than my album
I’m not loud, I’m Ethiopian rowdy
Send my parents to Maui, now they skin look like a brownie
Yo-Yo see me grind, Dimitrius say he proud
My niggas lift me up, whenever I’m ’bout to drown.

Walking on the pavement I chipped my pride and my teeth on
The girl I grew up with lives a couple houses down
The 8 Bus run the same, dogs howl when the train
Comes like my ex girl and next girl
Used to rock the S curl
Wanted me a Nextel but my momma copped a Razr
That’s why I couldn’t blame her.

Naked like a nudist
Fruity Loops and Stanley Kubrick
Peanut butter jelly
Cousin bumping Makaveli
Sipping Stellas with my fellas
Bumping nothing but Fela Kuti
Groupies say they wanna do me
Truly, that feel like a blessing
But finding one to love is getting harder every second.

Vultures at the altar tell the pastor to watch his back
My girl said she wanted change and then she got a quarterback
Well, damn, I ain’t no football player
But I hit it harder than a football player
The girl of my dreams just became a girl
And well, we can talk about that later.

All up in my face with the oochie wally wally
Sounding like girls at a party on the molly
I ain’t tryna link or build
Bubble space, bubble space, still, nigga, chill
Oh, you got a chain? Sick
Oh, you got some fame? Sick
Got a new Rolex and you knew he had to flex
‘Cause the hoes gon’ check.

Now I’m 23
Loving and learning from all the lovers that I see
Nissan beige, but the body burgundy
Love my car same way I used to love Key
Friends need a Uber, sis need tuition
Fans want the music, but they want a politician
Pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure
Shut the fuck up, I don’t need the extras.

British girl, got a show in London
Won’t you come around? Put you on the list, it’s nothin’
Say you gotta work ’cause you’re studyin’ for Masters
Yeah, these women fine but only on the camera
They deceivin’, super thievin’
They fitness come and go like when they weave in.

Head up in the clouds
My feet to the ground
I hate all your friends
But y’all splittin’ rent
So every night I’m over
I try to find some closure
But you open your jaws
And then I’m goin’ raw.

’Cause we gon’ be up all night, fuck a decaf
You say I’m a tall thug, guess I’m a G-raffe
If ya want safe-sex, baby use the knee pads
Freaky with the sticky icky
Baby give me kitty kitty.

I was down, yeah, now I’m better
Stuntin’ with my dogs like my first name Cruella
Black girls love me ’cause a nigga got some feta
And white girls love me like my first name Coachella.

Don’t wanna talk it out, can we fuck it out?

Now pass me the lighter
Old flame callin’ so she wanna light the fire
Now I’m super tired
When we get together, room sound like a choir
Yeah, I’m a true lifer
Pussy make me happy and it make me inspired
Forget to read on my Bible
Only God know why I go through these cycles.

Let’s get gory, like a Tarantino movie.

Bad thang,
fine as hell,
thick as fuck
Oh my god,
that’s my baby.

You deserve a long vacation, a standing ovation.

Paranoia on my mind got me gone sometimes (I can’t sleep).

People be so phony; that’s why I be on my lonely.

If you feel worthless, you should probably go and tell a friend, yeah.

Stuck in limbo for how long? Please tell me where I belong.

I wanna know, is this real or fake? Do I have a chance, or am I pavin’ ways?

Just checking up on someone with a, ‘Hey, how are you doing?’ usually means the most to someone. I try my best to regularly check

I want to make music that people can feel and relate to.

I believe that everyone has a purpose and a reason for being here.

I want to use my platform to make a positive impact in the world.

I believe that love and positivity can conquer hate and negativity.

I want to make music that makes people feel good.

I want to make music that people can escape to.

I think it’s important to have fun and not take yourself too seriously.

I think it’s important to stay grounded and not let success go to your head.

I believe that anything is possible if you work hard enough.

I think it’s important to be true to yourself and not compromise who you are.

I want to be a positive role model for young people.

I’m always trying to push the envelope and take risks.

I think it’s important to talk about things that people might not want to talk about.

I try to be a voice for people who feel like they don’t have one.

I think everyone should be able to love who they want to love, no matter what.

I think it’s important for people to be themselves and embrace who they are.

I need a Spice Girl, zig-a-zig-ah, fuck up my whole world.

I don’t feel like I’m ever done learning, and that’s the beauty of life.

Someone talking about the country and the people who live in it that way when this country is made up of immigrants, I don’t get how that can even resonate with people.

Great scenes might be great, but I love your bloopers and perfects for the urgent. Baby, I want forever.

I had people that didn’t even congratulate me for the success of ‘Caroline’ saying, ‘Thank you for doing that.’

If I saw people that looked like me, I’d be a little more comfortable saying what I was saying.

You can never make America great again. All you ever did was make this country hate again.

I want positivity, I want storytelling, I want to be clever.

I’ma show you exactly what you like. You look corny.

When who I truly am as a person shines.

I wanted to reverse stereotypes.

The crowd is suburban, man.

I loved growing up in Portland because I’m not from L.A. or New York or Chicago or some cool city… It was a very regular suburban life.

I know that when it comes to your friends, especially in the music industry, we work so much and do so much that we don’t even really keep track of our days, or keep track of our health, or keep track of our mental health. Sometimes we just go astray.

That’s just me as an artist. I say what needs to be said.

I just like wearing what I like and I can’t tone it down.

‘F.U.B.U.’ is one of my favorite songs ever. It just like touches me – I almost like cry when I heard that song.

I don’t really think much of any songs I put out like I know… I think they’re good, that’s why I’m putting them out. But like I don’t ever try to expect anything, so even with ‘Caroline’ or ‘Red Mercedes,’ I just put them out and hope for the best and people kind of gravitate towards them and I guess that’s pretty cool and that’s a blessing.

‘Addressing politics in my music’ is such a phrase, a sentence on paper, that I hate. That’s not really me because at the end of the day, I wasn’t a political science major and I wasn’t educated in that sense so I hate when people talk about things they don’t know anything about.

My parents are immigrants to this country. They came to this country for a better opportunity just like everyone else.

I think I have the same hair as him. If a movie comes about, I have to be Static Shock.

As an artist in this day and age with social media, you feel more like an object than you do a human.

Solange is just dope. I’m a huge fan.

I hate conforming to what people expect me to do.

I felt like an outsider in middle school. Horrible.

I don’t really care how people see me in my natural state, in a comfortable state.

Caroline’ represents the handful of women I’ve met in my life that I would put genuine effort in.

If you don’t believe in yourself, I don’t think people will believe in you.

Being depressed in black culture is not a thing. I just decided not to tell nobody, not even my friends.

When Prince and James Brown were doing live sessions… recording a band is not easy. It’s all delicate, important stuff you want to make sure you’re doing the right way.

It’s a dog-eat-dog world when it comes to music and how people perceive it.

Def Jam commented on one of my Instagram photos once, and all my friends me hit me up, like ‘Yoooooo, you signed to Def Jam?’

I didn’t want to release a song like ‘Spice Girl’ right after ‘Caroline’ because I didn’t want another ‘hit’ kind of song.

I don’t know Prince’s music like the back of my hand, but I was always a fan of him as an artist – just the way he was a person who did not care about what people thought and did his own thing and I thought that was so cool.

I really like Shake Shack burgers… I like In-N-Out a lot, but Shake Shack is just divine.

Trump as the president doesn’t make sense to me.

What keeps me going or keeps me wanting to do more music is just knowing that I can provide for my family.

I think it’s important to surround yourself with positive people who uplift you.

I believe that music has the power to bring people together.

I want to create a legacy that people will remember me by.

I want to make music that people can dance to, but also feel something.

I want to make music that has a message behind it.

I’m trying to spread positivity through my music.

I want to inspire people to be themselves and not be afraid to express themselves.

I try to make music that sounds like me, that sounds like my experiences.

I’m not afraid to be different, and I think that’s what sets me apart.

I was just a huge fan of music, so that’s how I learned how to rap.

My music is colorful. The intention for it is to be good for whoever’s listening to it, and my style is good for me.

I’m a big believer in everything meant to be. If it didn’t work out then, it’s fine.