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In his eyes, smoking equaled success.
It has really calmed down my anxiety and my paranoia.
Now hes ready to explain his personal limbo and why he believes hes still stuck in it.
I personally chose the title for completely different reasons.
I still feel like a college kid trying to become an adult right now.
It doesnt mean its bad or good, it just …
I still dont know what Im doing, and thats what I really wanted fans to know.
This album is for people to understand Im literally a human.
The break betweenGood for YouandLimbowas three years.
Its kind of like trying to show people that youre here to stay.
Of course, rappers my age and of this generation are putting out projects like every other week.
Some stay, but a lot of them come and go.
And I knew that I want my projects to stay.
I want something that will last with people forever.
I was like,Im tired of working and stressing myself out to make a really serious hip-hop album.
I wanted to just make a bunch of raps and shit for fun.
That was around the time, in 2018, when I got high for the first time.
And here we are in 2020 in the middle of a pandemic, feeling in limbo.
More accolades, more top hits, more whatever… Youre never fully satisfied.
Overall,Limbosounds darker thanGood for Youin an intentional way.Of course.
Im not a big fan of making music that sounds the same at all.
Albums are literal soundtracks.
Its not something thats super-carefree and bright.
Its something that needs to be taken seriously.
With changing styles, do you ever have any pushback from fans?
And I know which fans are those.
They stick beside you no matter what.
I guess you call them stans.
Theyre not true fans.
I mean,808s & Heartbreakhad so much pushback when I was in middle school and saw that come out.
How much it got appreciated a couple of years later completely taught me: Fuck what anyone thinks.
I personally could not live with myself if Im in the studio trying to re-create something.
Why even do it if youre treating your music like youre a robot trying to re-create the same thing?
On the album, theres a Jak Knight skit about the death of Kobe and its impact.
How did it personally affect you?He was a part of every young guys life.
That skit completely explained what his death felt like for me.
It didnt feel real.
It felt like,Oh shit.
His death means were literally getting older.
Were becoming actual adults.
I definitely went and got the number 8 tatted on me the day I found out he died.
Emotions run high on Mama, where you thank her for everything that shes ever done for you.
How has your relationship with her evolved over the course of your career?Really, really good.
You guys butt heads a lot.
You really start to appreciate what that person has done for you, or who they made you into.
My parents are really African, so theyre strict as hell.
And growing up, I really didnt like that about them.
I was really, really, really pissed all the time when they were so strict on me.
But now that Im 26, I really, really appreciate it.
I 100 percent understand that if they werent like that, I wouldnt be the man I am today.
Calling your parents means the world to them, so I hope Mama makes everybody call their moms.
I havent played it for her.
Shes going to love it when she hears it.Yeah.
I cant … You know how weird that would feel to just …
I dont want to make her cry or nothing.
I know shes going to be listening to the album as soon as it comes out.
I just want her to be surprised.
Its like a little gift to her.
Years ago,Young Thugcalled you a young legend.
Thats someone I looked up to, especially coming up as a rapper.
The collaboration got quarterbacked by T-Minus, who is a good, good homie of mine.
And I was like, No way.
But when we played the Thug verse, it was the same topic as my song.
And Thugs people loved the song; they didnt care about their old demos.
And they loved Compensating, so they were with it.
Did theSummer Walkersong come about in a similar way?Me and Summer have been DMing since 2018.
When I first started the project, I just reached out.
I knew I wanted her on the album, but I knew it had to be the right song.
Easy was the one that she really liked; she was like, Okay, lets do this.
Our duet is one of my favorite songs on the album.
Album closer My Reality explores what your life is like after making it to this level.
But no, all jokes aside, I dont really think the dream necessarily changed from what happened.
It was more so believing it was real [that] was harder for me.
And we were just sitting there like, This shit is crazy.
I had like $5 to my name the previous year.
My account was in overdraft.
We were freaking out in the car like, This nigga really got a red Mercedes.
Growing up, we could never afford shit like that; it was just surreal.
It was harder to believe for us, because we kind of came from nothing.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
