Armani White opens up about performing with Billie Eilish, his biggest hip-hop influences, and more!
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00:00 Yo, that's fire.
00:02 Yo.
00:03 [LAUGHTER]
00:04 This is great.
00:07 This is great.
00:09 Yeah, I love this pillow.
00:11 This pillow love me too.
00:12 [MUSIC - BILLY EILISH, "FIRE"]
00:13 [CHEERING]
00:16 [MUSIC - BILLY EILISH, "FIRE"]
00:19 It was so loud on that Billy Eilish day.
00:21 It was fire, though.
00:22 I was jumping around and all.
00:23 I messed up my little signature spin move.
00:24 But it was dope, though.
00:26 It was dope.
00:27 And you know, like, yeah.
00:29 I got so many thoughts at once that it was like--
00:32 I was telling Nicole and tour managers,
00:34 I was like, I'm not going to really understand
00:36 what's about to happen until after it happens.
00:39 So we ran out there.
00:40 I did it.
00:40 I still get chills watching the video.
00:42 Like, yeah, that me, that lit me, that lit me
00:44 on that stage right there.
00:46 [MUSIC - BILLY EILISH, "FIRE"]
00:47 (SINGING) Black top, pink t-shirt.
00:49 Black top, pink t-shirt.
00:52 I had told Billy, I was like, yo,
00:53 we're going to be at the same festival.
00:54 We should play Uno together.
00:55 And she was like, yo, or, crazy idea,
00:59 you should come out on my set.
01:00 I'm like, yeah.
01:01 You know what I mean?
01:02 So yeah, it literally just happened like that.
01:04 Same day.
01:05 Like, it was like, you know, it wasn't like a pre-planned
01:07 thing.
01:07 We just did it on the fly.
01:08 I grew up listening to a lot of Eminem.
01:10 He was just like the anti-whatever rap
01:13 said you was supposed to be.
01:15 (SINGING) 'Cause I'm Slim Shady.
01:16 Yes, I'm the real Shady.
01:17 All you other Slim Shadys are just imitating.
01:19 So won't the real Slim Shady please stand up?
01:21 Missy Elliott the same.
01:22 Busta Rhymes the same.
01:23 Ludacris the same.
01:24 Even when I grew up, it was like the Tyler, the Creators,
01:26 B.O.B.'s, the Childish Gambino's, just all of the things
01:30 that did not make sense to whatever the definition of hip
01:33 hop was at the time.
01:34 That's what I always gravitated towards.
01:37 (RAPPING) 50 seconds 'til I double down,
01:39 then I double down.
01:40 2023 and I'm the only nigga coming up.
01:42 Upcoming artists I'm inspired by?
01:45 Armani White, Armani Blanco, Big Blanco, Big Baby Blanco.
01:52 Man, there's a lot.
01:54 There's a lot of them.
01:56 I can't-- every day I wake up, I see something
01:59 that one of them four do, and I'm just like, wow.
02:03 I got a lot of-- I got big shoes to fill.
02:06 (whooshing)