Top Dawg

All negatives around me yeah they gotta go
 Relationships I lost while I been in album mode
 All for a purpose dawg and the greater good
 Been to the top how bout I make it there and stay for good
 The longest I ever worked on a piece of music
 Goosebumps every single time we speak releasing music
 I never shunned away from it cause what it mean to me
 I did it with the fam too, yeah I got the team with me
 Moving forward cause we know just what the past bring us
 My sister my manager, they said it was bad business
 But I'm here, ready to dodge the obstacles
 And when it come to music dawg, you never need to follow rules
 I had Arone engineer you know my vocals clean
 Just the belief in me, made me write hopeful things
 Dre my brother since kids now he my A&R
 Making songs better while I just display the bars
 Knew I had Cha$e, ain't no ReelSeason
 They told me hip hop was dead guess what I'm still breathing
 What up Kenobe what up Joka what up PD Visions
 Aye through a camera lens aye you help em see the visions
 The things I put to the side to make this album work
 We made it happen, and we didn't care how it worked
 Momma been fighting brain tumors since the age of 8
 Cant wait to buy both of y'all a house in a major place
 In a major city, that's my validation
 Checks and balances I gotta fix my calibration
 Shed tears when I put the pen to the pad
 Rapping my lights out like this is all that I have
 Cuz it is, who be giving all I give
 I be listening to other rappin like aye boy y'all mid
 I got way too much dependent and it's all on my success
 Can't wait to post up with the team so we say that we blessed, uh
 The L's that I took in this position
 That's the reason that I got this disposition
 Riding down 595 just for some clarity
 Putting my life on the line hoping for some rarity
 See the vision execute I know some counting on me
 The county counting on me pressures I got mounted on me
 And if I change tell me where I steered off
 Cause they could write your name in history then get it smeared off uh
 Be humble through your circumstances and your trials too
 Tried to knock me off my pivot know they tried to
 Know I said Broward but I rep the whole tri county
 Always keep some real ones dawg and they gon die by me
 You gotta make it different with a greater purpose
 Make sure you never lose your focus and you stay focused
 Aye you gotta make it different with a greater purpose
 Make sure you never lose your focus and you stay focused, uh
 Go through what?
 The whole making of 2 Sides
 Let me put this closer
 Oh... uh ReelOSSM 210
 You know what I mean
 Broward Nigga
 Whore
 Broward Whore lets get it
 Naw it all started with "Pillow Talk"
 Pillow Talk was 2017
 Cause I remember, he dropped my Jordan Year
 And I remember I was running through the tape
 I was playing Need for Speed on my PS2 bro
 I was chilling cooling
 And "Gentlemen" came on
 The beat Gentlemen came on
 And I was like Oooh
 And I was freestyling to it I was like "Where ya mind at uh"
 And I'm playing the game I'm like
 I texted this nigga "Sooooo anybody got the beat?"
 He said "Bruh It's all you."
 I dropped $25 over there
 Say less I bought the beat
 Bruh the next day I hand it back to him, "Pillow Talk"
 Boom that was it
 He was like "Nigga"
 Right
 And that was the first part
 So I'm listening to it more, I'm like "Yo I got an idea for the second half"
 So I'm like alright I messed around with it a little bit
 I took the sample that he had and then I flipped it
 And then I just added a beat pattern over it and then I put an 808 on that shit
 And I just let it ride
 And I was like "Bruh I got a second half for Pillow Talk, period"
 Right
 I sent it to him cause I did, I recorded my vocals over it
 And I was like let me know what you think
 I sent it to him he was like "Bruh I gotta drop a bar or two"
 I said "Say less"
 I extended it, sent it to him
 Boom there was "Pillow Talk"
 So it was just going to be a single
 When we started bumping it more and more
 I was like "Yo bro we should do a project where we got literally half and half"
 Yeah this is end of 2017
 This is end of 2017 going into 2018
 The beginning of 2018 I was like "Bruh I don't wanna do no project"
 Geee
 He was like "Naw let's just keep cooking up singles"
 I was alright "Say less"
 And then it started resonating with me more
 I was like "Naw man like I'm telling you"
 So I sent him a version where I put them two together
 I put the A side and the B side together
 I was like "Bruh like listen to it tell me what you think"
 He was like "Yeah"
 He was like "Yeah"
 I'm like Bruh like we should do a project where we got literally got 2 Sides
 This is three months ago
 Literally
 We were cooking up that whole year
 Literally
 Like outside of all the other shit that we was cooking up
 Like I was still, I still brought that shit up
 We right there at Regional we was talking about it
 I was like Bruh we should do it
 I was like I'm going to push you production wise like you need to do this shit
 He was like Alright say less
 And then next thing I know, three months prior to
 The tape being finished
 When we finished it, and prior to that like we was talking about I was like
 Bruh like when this shit is finished when gon come back
 When gon listen to this shit and it's gonna be like cohesive as fuck
 This that and the third
 And Matter of fact it was, it was, what was it? It was "Time Tickin" and "Two Thirds" and It was "Westside" and "Eastside"
 That was the last two tracks that came together
 Because we had
 We wrote "Fallin" and "Trippin" like April last year
 Yeah but we never recorded it
 We was chilling out there
 Cause he had the beats and he was playing em
 And I freestyled over it and we was writing sumn
 He wrote some, I wrote some
 But we never recorded it
 But we had it
 And I was like fuck it nigga like, let's do it
 And we named it and that was that
 Cause it was orginally for ummm Keso
 WAASI and Keso right
 And then that became a thing
 And then we had Time Tickin and Two Thirds
 And then you created Time Tickin
 Yeah yeah yeah
 Time Tickin was over there
 I just played it over there just like bruh just do it
 And then he sent it
 And then I was like Alright say less
 And then we had the whole concept together
 And I was like alright bruh this how it should go
 And then next thing I know I asked him alright how should we put it in order
 And bruh Reela is the GOAT when it comes to arrangement
 When it comes to like organizing shit
 And putting that shit in order
 Start with this, do this, do this
 He said it he was like "Bruh"
 Pillow Talk this, this, this, this, this that's how it's gon go
 I was like Had A Long Day don't sound like it's finished
 Right
 He was naw
 So I said Alright say less
 He sent me one beat
 And I was like I can't lie bruh, this ain't it. Like go back. Go back to the drawing board
 I told him that, I told him that straight up
 I was like alright say less
 The next day he hit me
 Boom
 I was like this the one, this the one, this the one
 I wrote to that shit I recorded it I sent it back to him
 He was like yeah bruh that's it
 I put it together and I was like Alright
 I was in a Target when this nigga texted me
 He was like yeah man I wanna do 2 Sides about Miramar
 Like the Westside and the Eastside and put two and two together
 And I told him I was like I been on this beat block for a minute but let me produce it
 If you got the lyrics say less
 That same night, I went, I cooked up the beats I sent it to him
 Boom
 And then it all came together
 And it was like
 I had wrote that at Regional
 And then recorded it the same day
 He wrote Eastside right there at Regional
 Like we was there
 That was when the girl had came up to us like she was coolin with us
 Yeahhh
 And you gave her the lighter, yeah yeah
 Cause she was chilling she was like Oh so you guys do music
 Yo you know it's sumn light, sumn light, sumn light
 But she was coolin
 Yeah man take this pressure ass wristband
 Yeah yeah
 And we passed out the wristbands and that was it
 And then he finished writing his verse
 We posted up in my whip
 I played the beat
 He did his verse
 He was like
 Better hold on, I know I be cooking up with all the slow songs
 All the old dates that the kid blowed off, right?
 So we did that
 And I was like that's it
 We recorded it
 We recorded it, shit was that
 I mixed it down, 2 Sides, that was it
 So that shit started from 2017
 Yooo
 Because Pillow Talk was just going to be a single
 And we had it as part 1 and part 2
 So like part 1 we was gon drop here and then part 2 was gon be something else
 And I was like naw bruh like we should make a whole project on this shit
 Like have literally you know the brightness and darkness come to one
 Because you have your style, I have my style
 Bruh that shit...