Luh Tyler is back back at Genius to discuss his hit “Brand New Blues,” which has been streamed over a million times on Spotify to date. The single is produced by Pat Swish & Kountry Jay. On today’s episode of Verified, find out how the young MC comes up with the titles for his song and the motivation behind the hot track.
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00:00 I come up with a line, say it, punch in, then I just think like what's the hardest line
00:04 I just said, I made that title.
00:06 I just made that brand new blues.
00:07 Well it inspired brand new blues.
00:16 Late night in the studio, just cooking up some beats with Country J.
00:19 I'm up there playing some shit.
00:20 I just hopped on that beat, snapped it.
00:29 I be in the studio every day, we got some new shit coming.
00:32 Y'all boys just gotta chill.
00:33 But when I drop, y'all gotta make sure y'all run it up.
00:35 Can't be dropping for no reason.
00:37 I just learned it.
00:43 One time I was just in the studio and I just sat down and played the beat and I was just
00:47 thinking the shit in my head.
00:48 And I'm like how niggas be writing.
00:50 You'll think of a line and write it down.
00:53 I just think of a line and I just say it.
00:55 And I be like keep that one.
00:56 Then I think of another line, say it with that one.
00:58 And I be like keep that one till you play it.
00:59 Then you got two lines.
01:00 That's how I just punch in.
01:02 People be saying when I jump on people's features, they be saying I snap harder on their features
01:11 than my own solo song.
01:13 I snap harder than the artist on the feature or whatever.
01:16 That's what they don't be understanding.
01:22 They don't be understanding niggas be so big.
01:24 They think a nigga done just blew up and I ain't gonna answer no more.
01:28 I done blew up.
01:29 I can't answer the phone.
01:30 Nah man, niggas be busy.
01:31 Can't talk all the time.
01:32 Be answering the phone.
01:33 But when I see you, I see you.
01:35 I ain't even gonna lie.
01:42 I did not know.
01:43 I did not know.
01:45 I'm just rapping and shit.
01:46 I was really just making shit for fun.
01:48 Just seeing how it sound.
01:49 I knew it when I made this song.
01:52 When I made this song, I knew it.
01:53 But at the beginning when I first started rapping, I ain't gonna lie.
01:55 I did not know.
01:57 I be chasing after loot.
01:58 Yeah, I be running to it.
01:59 I just woke up to some Brandon Blues.
02:00 I'm in here thumbing through it.
02:02 Woke up and I put that shit on, bitch.
02:03 I'm flyer than a bird.
02:04 I just throw on whatever I think.
02:05 I think it look good.
02:08 Sometimes it depend on what it is.
02:09 The extra, extra rap shit.
02:11 Niggas be having on fat ass boots and big ass pants and shit.
02:16 It look right sometimes.
02:17 It depend on what it is.
02:18 I just had some big boots on, but they gotta be the right ones.
02:21 I done did a couple features with a couple of randoms.
02:30 But be talking about that cash, ain't even come money ready for the future.
02:34 I don't know.
02:35 You on the song, you rapping, I got this.
02:37 The money coming in, all that.
02:39 You ain't got my money.
02:40 Before I made Brandon Blue, I had just jumped on a DDG.
02:51 I'm geeking Remix.
02:52 I'm geeking that was already in my head.
02:54 Me and DDG snapped out.
02:55 Y'all gotta go listen to that.
02:57 Man I think it's time to hit the store.
02:58 I'm trying to put in work.
02:59 Got money coming in from different angles.
03:01 Bitch I feel like Kurt.
03:02 Ski.
03:03 It's a whole bunch of angles the money could be coming in from.
03:06 Brand, sponsorship.
03:07 They dropping that bag.
03:08 I ain't gonna lie.
03:09 Movie plays me like your shit getting played on a movie or a song or something.
03:13 I just got on the Fast and Furious shit.
03:15 The music of course.
03:16 Do your own shit.
03:17 Invest in it, man.
03:18 Buy some shit, land, whatever.
03:21 They get too like, "I don't know."
03:22 That's why I don't be doing it.
03:23 Nigga be spending too much money.
03:25 Four round go broke.
03:26 Trying to get the best, most exotic car.
03:29 Come out straight Louis Vuitton fit.
03:31 Big ass B&B ain't in your shit for real.
03:33 You just trying to make it look like you living for real.
03:36 Big ass mansion, you ain't living that.
03:39 You gotta spend all that money on that shit.
03:41 Get you a regular hotel.
03:42 Some regular shit.
03:43 Nike Tech.
03:44 You're gonna snap.