I was just hyped, and needed to record it ASAP. I was “catching the holy ghost,” which is what I like to say. I wrote the song in my room and I was antsy. I didn’t think it was like “the one,” but I was hyper about the song. When you heard the “Try Me” instrumental, did you immediately think, like, “this is the one?” I met him back in April, and we recorded and now he’s a part of IGBM. Because I was in a hole with my music, I was down and I didn’t have beats and was like, “Man, what am I gonna do?” So he was always hitting me up, sending me beats and I had no choice but to write him.

It’s about helping others.ĭDS used to send packs of beats months ago, and was the only producer consistently sending me stuff. We’ve been doing this, and we don’t mind helping out the next person get to where they need to be. A lot of people think it’s about getting money, but it’s not bragging or boasting or anything. What’s the deal with your crew, IGBM? That stands for “I’ve Been Gettin Money,” that’s me, SAYITAINTTONE, Oba Rowland, DJ Limelightz, DDS, my manager Tears of Joy. We have a lot of people here who are on the rise. My people look at it different, I don’t know why we haven’t excelled. I mean Detroit has a lot of talent, it’s unbelievable. What’s the scene like in Detroit these days? I left school to do my music, tell my story. The story was real, everything in that song was real, and then I did my mixtape. I wasn’t focused enough, so I left school.

I wanted to work on my music more so than school, so it wasn’t really helping me get to where I needed to be. I went there for three semesters, and it didn’t really work out. I went to college after high school in 2010, I went to Saginaw State University, it’s like an hour and a half away from Detroit. You made a video, “ College”, about your college experience. But I just put out my first mixtape in 2012, called Just Do It. That’s why I do music, always writing a lot, stayed to myself a lot.ĩ or 10, just writing. And I was the type of kid that stayed to myself, I didn’t go out a lot or get involved in a lot of the bad stuff I could have gotten into. I was raised in the projects, on the east side. You see a lot of crazy things at a young age.

What kind of environment did you find yourself in growing up in Detroit?ĭeJ Loaf: In Detroit it was crazy man.

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