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Dave East Isn't a Fan of His Track With Lil Uzi Vert
Dave East Isn't a Fan of His Track With Lil Uzi Vert
“I’m not the biggest fan of the song, just because that ain’t me.”
By Jack StanleyDec 27, 2017
After releasing “Don’t Try Me” with Lil Uzi Vert back in November, New York rapper Dave East has now revealed that he doesn’t actually like the collaboration. Speaking to Canadian e-tailer SSENSE, East explains, “I’m not the biggest fan of the song, just because that ain’t me,” going on to say that — despite the rest of his fellow 2016 XXL Freshman Class alumni being “hot as shyt” — “making music together is a stretch, and my real fans know that.”
Elsewhere in the interview, East discusses everything from his promising basketball career (he played in the AAU with Kevin Durant) to hearing that Nas was a fan. You can read some key quotes from the interview below.
On his basketball career:
“90% of my team went to the NBA, or at least Division I basketball. I thought I was going to the NBA. I thought I was going to be shooting guard for the Raptors or something. But I was playing at Towson and I got in trouble. It was the first time I got in trouble for real — I got caught with a gun and locked up in Baltimore City. So when I got out of that, I lost my scholarship. I went to University of Richmond my first year, but that didn’t work out. I didn’t want to have to deal with people judging and shyt, you know? That’s not like a normal thing on college campuses from an athlete. With rap, they love you for that more. But even now, I got to watch. NYPD can’t wait to watch me with something, so I got to move real strategically.”
On Nas’ endorsement:
“When Nas’s brother Jungle told me that his brother was playing my shyt, I was like, ‘Jungle is just talking shyt.’ But then he went on Angie Martinez’s show and shouted me out. After that, shyt has never been the same. It was the cosign of all cosigns.”
On his lyrics:
“I’ve got so many stories! I want to tell stories about my upbringing, because I feel like a lot of people blame their family for the way they life be. But that’s life. Everybody ain’t blessed with cribs like the Huxtables. I had crackhead uncles, I had aunts that would rob me and shyt. I ain’t spoke about none of that because they’re still alive, and I’ve got to deal with how that’s going to affect them. That’s my family. shyt, I still gotta see them at cookouts! It’s a fine line, but I feel like these are stories that need to be told, because I know there’s another kid somewhere that’s going through the same shyt and not understanding why my family has to be like this. You can still get rich. You can still be that different person in your family, regardless if your family is dysfunctional or whatever. There’s a lot of drama I ain’t even spoke on, you know what I’m saying?”
You can read the full interview over on the SSENSE site. Elsewhere, in other music news, read Chance The Rapper’s thoughts on independent success.
HERE IS THE FULL QUOTE: https://www.ssense.com/en-us/editorial/music/paranoid-new-york-with-rapper-dave-east
Amongst the challenges East has his eye on is the relationship between his lyrically heavy work and the increasingly mumble-inflected output of mainstream rap. He can’t help but roll his eyes when mentioning his compatriots in the XXL Freshman Class, which included Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Yachty, and 21 Savage. “They hot. They hot as shyt. But us making music together is a stretch, and my real fans know that. I just did a track with Uzi, but I’m not the biggest fan of the song, just because that ain’t me. We all could get super high, get an Air BnB, listen to Metro Boomin, or one of these beats that’s killing the club, but that don’t really take too much. For an artist like me that’s lyrical, that likes to write and do research on the dudes before me, I just really want to talk some shyt and have you listen while the others are turning up. Future ain’t popping 40 pills a day and drinking all that. But he’s saying it – ‘I’m on my 15th molly’—and the people that are going to go try that shyt are going to end up in a fukking coma somewhere. I feel like when I grew up music was aimed toward the hustlers, the dude that was selling the drug, not the user. Now it’s more the junkie. This is the clientele side! Before you wanted to be that dude who had it and was getting his money. Now it’s the fiends ruling it!”
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