Foggieraw stopped by Genius to discuss his hit song “Psalm 62.”
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00:00 I represent God, I represent cool, I represent rebellion.
00:05 That being yourself, that's what I represent.
00:07 So for me, the Alicia Keys record,
00:17 it was one of my most favorite songs as a kid.
00:21 I'd just be like, "Damn, this song has crack in it.
00:25 "It's so good."
00:26 So I always knew somewhere in my life,
00:28 I'ma try to jump on that beat,
00:29 but I never knew when.
00:30 She got involved 'cause I wanted to clear the song.
00:33 So we asked her.
00:34 I was so, I had never been starstruck in my life,
00:36 like for anybody, but I was so starstruck.
00:39 She just like, "You know what?
00:40 "I've never cleared no sample for anybody,
00:42 "but I'ma clear it for you."
00:43 And I just felt like this is special.
00:45 So I was like, "Damn, special."
00:48 Could we go back to being friends after we had dated?
00:52 Would our relationship be sacred if I seen you naked?
00:55 You can't just say we brother and sister.
00:56 How would we explain it?
00:58 Brothers and sisters don't relate the way that we related.
01:00 I mean, ooh, we talk about LeBron highlights,
01:03 your mom's fried rice.
01:05 What?
01:06 I got stuck at that bar.
01:07 I was like, "Damn, LeBron highlights?
01:09 "What rhymes with LeBron highlights?"
01:11 I was just thinking something.
01:12 I was like, "Your mom's fried rice?
01:13 "Eff it."
01:14 Like, that's what I'm going with.
01:16 Run on sentences, the House of Representatives.
01:19 What repentance is?
01:21 What?
01:21 Just hoopla, you know?
01:22 Like when you in that weird state
01:24 of trying to be friends with somebody
01:26 you was kind of intimate with, it's just like,
01:29 yeah, so how about them cowboys?
01:32 You know what I'm saying?
01:33 You just start talking about random stuff.
01:34 Could we have a conversation about Psalm 62?
01:37 "Who sucked up on your booty and pwned your titties too.
01:41 "You giving me your body in 60 different views."
01:44 It's not what God meant when he said,
01:46 "Give me all of you."
01:48 I like Psalm 62, just the message it has
01:51 as far as just being alone,
01:53 but you're always with God at the same time.
01:56 But then, I was like, "I'm gonna take it there too."
02:00 'Cause I know if I was having a conversation with God,
02:02 I personally don't feel like he would be,
02:04 "You can't say that."
02:05 So I was like, "Let me say it."
02:07 And I said it.
02:08 Titties too.
02:09 My mom hates that, sorry mom.
02:14 "I know that God is a gracious God, forgiving,
02:17 "but what if your new man is jealous and patient and isn't?
02:20 "Would you look him in the eye and lie,
02:22 "keep secrets hidden?
02:23 "Would you pretend we was high and bi when we was hitting?"
02:27 Yeah, I definitely been in situations
02:28 when we was high and bi, but really?
02:33 Yeah.
02:34 So, you know, it's always so awkward 'cause it's just like,
02:37 and it's like, nobody knows, but we know.
02:42 You know what I'm saying?
02:42 "What if you find out your alibi had pieces missing?
02:45 "What if you drop out of my side and get the trippin'?
02:48 "Then I'll grab on my four five and..."
02:50 Damn.
02:52 Now you don't got him and you don't got me.
02:56 Damn.
02:57 The four five coming out and violence
02:59 because in the Bible, they got all the best stories.
03:03 There's always love in the story
03:05 and there's always violence in the stories.
03:07 Love, it's like the deepest emotion we all feel.
03:10 So I feel like, damn, are we ready to take a dig?
03:13 What?
03:37 If we end up breaking up?
03:38 Like you gotta date somebody better than me,
03:39 more lit 'cause it's like, what are you doing?
03:41 Now you're disrespecting me.
03:42 At least date somebody cooler than me, which is hard to do.
03:46 Well, damn bitch, it is.
04:01 Fuck.
04:02 Yeah, I'm a rapper and I got gold teeth.
04:05 I'm supposed to go hard, but I'm jealous.
04:08 And that's how I wanted to do it.
04:11 See me and you weren't no exclusive thing committed.
04:13 We said we see other people, but bitch, you did it.
04:16 You wasn't supposed to go do it, but damn bitch, you did.
04:20 Fuck.
04:21 You feel like we have a unspoken thing,
04:25 but it's like, it's never a thing if you didn't speak it.
04:28 So it's like, you're always kind of bitter
04:30 if they do something against it.
04:31 It's like, they didn't have to honor it
04:34 'cause it wasn't spoken.
04:34 So, you know, that's a real emotion.
04:37 I feel like we all be feeling, so yeah.
04:38 Had to touch on that.
04:39 Sometimes, like even the word bitch, it's just a vibe.
04:49 It doesn't mean I think you're a bitch.
04:51 It's just like the vibes.
04:53 But just want you to know that that's not how I view you
04:57 or other women for that matter.
04:59 So I actually don't know anyone's mother
05:03 who has actually prepared me fried rice,
05:05 but I just had to go with that.
05:06 I'm sticking with it.
05:07 It rhymes good.