Billboard caught up with IDK and talked about getting MF DOOM on a trap beat, how JaVale McGee ended up on the production credits for “PradadaBang” featuring Young Thug, and more.
.” How has your confidence grown betweenMy confidence has grown a lot. It’s grown with my success. I make music, first and foremost. Second of all, this album is for Black people, and the people I see back home that have trouble struggling with vulnerability. And knowing what it is to be in these households we live in. We live in a place where the Black person in America is fighting to survive, while the white person is fighting to have a better life.
I want to affect everyone's lives, but my main concern is the people who need it the most. So, when a critic who isn’t cut from that cloth or who doesn't understand has anything to say about my music, that’s anything other than “this is amazing,” I just don’t care. You said you were in therapy. That’s something we used to run from and think was a scary and embarrassing thing. Now we’re here and we can do the work. It’s up to us to inspire the people coming up and the people we raised to be better people. We have the information and resources to do that.
I think I got blessed with an influence, even if I’m not the biggest artist numbers-wise, my influence surpasses a lot of people who have a lot more streams than me because even those people are looking up to me and asking me for advice and trying to work with me. At the end of “Hey Auntie,” when you reverse the bridge, you say, “If you really take the time to think about it, God and love is pretty much the same thing.” After just describing how your aunt violated you, and all of the love you were never given from your family, how are you still so firm in your belief in love and, therefore, God?
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