That shit is big and that shit is powerful. Because most of my focus is on building my brand, my business. We got to continue to support Black businesses, Black-owned businesses. Moving forward, give us our money that we’re owed. I mean, I don't know if this is going to happen, but I saw someone on the internet saying they wanted to give like $500 billion to all the Black people from slave families. How do you hope to see that work continue past this moment? Where do you hope things go from here? You were pretty involved with the Black Lives Matter movement and the protests that took place over the summer. So we were just like, "Fuck him," you know?
Donald Trump was just a known racist and he was just goofy as fuck. So I don't really give a fuck about the new president or the next one, because we still continue to get treated how we get treated in the real world. We’ve been going through some messed up shit, and I feel like we still going to continue to go through that. I just know what we've been going through as Black people in the streets, my peoples and all that.
But if you fast forward to 2020, after they spent hundreds of billions of dollars removing the middle-class from Los Angeles, it's more dangerous and more fucked up here now than it ever has been.”Įarlier this week, GQ hopped on Zoom with YG to hear his take on the Born x Raised linkup, “FDT”’s newfound place in the history books, and what comes next after the dust settles on this election.
#Yg story of my life song crack
“We called the collection ‘Los Angeles At Its Worst,’” explains Born x Raised founder Spanto, “because that’s how people described the city after the ‘92 riots, the Rampart scandal, the whole gang thing, the end of the crack era, all that. The collection fits squarely into YG’s West Coast wheelhouse-think cropped work pants with shoestring belts and silky bandana-print shirts-but also gestures toward a more substantial critique of the city both brands call home. Last month, the 30-year-old hitmaker dropped his politically-charged fifth studio album My Life 4Hunnid-featuring the “FDT” spiritual successor “FTP”-and yesterday, his fashion line 4Hunnid debuted a new collaboration with fellow LA label Born x Raised. Soundtracking the most consequential election in modern American history is yet another feather in the Bompton cap for YG, who’s had as productive a year as just about anybody. I heard “FDT” more times on Saturday than I’ve heard any one song in a single day in my entire life, and you probably did too: the 2016 banger was streamed some 2.5 million times nationwide on November 7, good enough to rocket it to the top of the iTunes charts. Then I heard it again, coming through the wall from my neighbor’s living room, and again and again and again and again and again as I meandered across the borough for hours, soaking in the celebratory mood. “Fuck Donald Trump,” the no-holds-barred protest anthem by Los Angeles rap scion YG and the late, great Nipsey Hussle-blaring from a Ford Explorer outside the window of my Brooklyn apartment. Last Saturday, at exactly 11:26 AM, I got a text from a friend: “CNN CALLED IT FOR BIDEN!” A millisecond later, before my anxiety-ridden brain could even begin to process what I’d just read, I heard “FDT”-A.K.A.
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