Jordan Ward and Ryan Trey stopped by Genius to break down their song “White Crocs,” which has been streamed over five million times on Spotify to date. The song is produced by Lido and off Jordan’s most recent project FORWARD. On today’s episode of Verified, find out the inspiration behind the hit song.
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00:00 I hate all my lyrics.
00:01 I hate these lyrics.
00:02 I don't know how I'm even sitting here.
00:04 I feel like I should be on a website called Idiot, not Genius, 'cause I don't really
00:08 fuck with my lyrics.
00:09 So, if they sound terrible, I'm sorry.
00:11 The original inspiration behind this song was just how I was living at the moment.
00:21 I was in the studio, locked in, and the Crocs was that perfect marriage of the gold with
00:27 the luxury, with the elegance, you feel me, but I'm chilling, but I'm really flea.
00:31 So I was wearing it a lot, and I had a young lady trying to share some company with me,
00:36 and I just didn't think it was time for me to step out that mode.
00:39 So I just pulled up in the white Crocs, you feel me?
00:42 Or she pulled up and I was in the white Crocs.
00:44 Ray was there.
00:45 All right, I'm lying.
00:46 She didn't pull up.
00:47 But...
00:48 All right.
00:49 Yeah, but hey, the song pulled up though.
00:54 The song is fire.
00:55 No cap.
00:57 Just opened up my phone and it said it needs space.
01:00 So I hop on a 405 and I'm speed racing.
01:03 I just switched on the OGs.
01:05 It alleviate.
01:06 My phone literally needs space.
01:08 Like bro, we've been doing too much.
01:10 Go live life.
01:11 You know what I'm saying?
01:12 If your phone is saying, "I can't even phone no more," you need some space too.
01:16 I'll get French fans with names that they abbreviate.
01:19 And I don't like that.
01:20 You know I like that.
01:21 You got some alphabet ass friends, you know what I'm saying?
01:24 They talking.
01:25 They telling.
01:26 They talking to the CIA.
01:27 You feel me?
01:28 They the IRS.
01:29 They counting my pockets.
01:30 You feel me?
01:31 They checking my texts.
01:32 I don't like that.
01:33 But I like thoughts.
01:34 I'm about to pull up on the field in some white Crocs, baby.
01:37 The white Croc is such a powerful tool of expression because it shows you I'm secured.
01:44 I got everything covered.
01:46 But too many fucks, I give not.
01:48 It's that perfect balance.
01:49 You feel me?
01:49 When it comes to expensive taste for me, it's more so like me making fun of myself.
02:17 You know what I mean?
02:18 I wasn't a place when buying a girl food or getting gas to pull up on her was expensive.
02:24 You know what I mean?
02:25 That's why I even say like, "I know they on the way, bitch."
02:28 Like damn.
02:29 So the trampoline kind of came out of nowhere.
02:41 I don't know why she would be bouncing on a trampoline, but I feel like the bed is somewhat
02:46 of a trampoline, you know what I'm saying?
02:48 And if she bouncing on me, I'm a trampoline because I'm always bounce back.
02:51 You feel me?
02:52 I'm bounce back king, baby.
02:53 Or is that Tony Braxton?
03:12 I don't know.
03:13 It was a situation where yeah, the ass line is a real thing.
03:30 Came back with the plastic surgery, hoping that I'd like it.
03:33 It was botched.
03:34 I didn't like it.
03:35 And I know you're seeing this.
03:36 I didn't like it.
03:37 I'm a Floridian, Floridian.
03:38 I know she from the south.
03:40 Last night happened fast.
03:41 I know you better now.
03:43 Girls from the south are the prettiest girls in the world.
03:45 Shout out Seminole, Miami-Dade, Jacksonville, Orlando.
03:51 Shout out Florida, the whole state.
03:52 Florida got the prettiest women on earth.
03:53 The black Ferrari is my favorite car.
04:07 I always wanted a black Ferrari, like a Spider.
04:10 Right now I got four of them on Grand Theft, but I'm planning to get one in the next coming
04:14 years.
04:15 So when Jordan hit that line, I was like, "Okay, I'm going to play off of that line
04:17 for sure."
04:18 But yeah, I definitely like racing though, even just go-karts and shit like that.
04:22 I'm at a Jordan show in Atlanta.
04:34 Girl comes up to me, man.
04:36 She's talking to me, whatever, boom.
04:37 I don't say anything to her, we're kicking it.
04:39 So then I do another show with Bryson, and I see the same girl in the same city.
04:44 She comes up to me, she's like, "Yo, give me all this game, whatever, whatever."
04:48 And then she's just like, "Yo, where's Jordan?"
04:51 I was like, "Oh, this is crazy."
04:54 And that's when I knew the song.
04:55 I was like, "Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:56 We got to do it for sure."
04:57 So it's like, "Nah, you was trying to give me game.
04:59 You was just talking to my bro."
05:00 I like girls with expensive taste.
05:13 I think it's cool, but I also like girls that are just like, "You know, they don't care
05:17 what you got going on.
05:18 I should be able to pull up in some sweats, some white Crocs, and you still like me for
05:23 who I am personally."
05:24 So that's my favorite part about the song in general.
05:26 It's just that humbleness.
05:28 Like, "Yo, just fuck with me for who I am, not because of what we got going on."
05:32 Seeing Tyler, the creator, mention the song in his interview, that was wild.
05:38 Shout out to Tyler.
05:39 I mean, he paved the way.
05:41 That's literally one of my fucking idols in this shit.
05:44 Like, wouldn't be here doing this shit the way I'm doing it without him as a creative,
05:48 as a black creative, as a musician, as a weirdo.
05:51 You feel me?