Sleepy Hallow is at Genius to discuss his new song “A N X I E T Y,” that features Doechii. The song is produced by Great John and off Sleepy’s most recent project Boy Meets World. On today’s episode of Verified, find out the inspiration behind the song.
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00:00 It's not just going in there and making music.
00:01 That shit is like therapy.
00:02 Not just for me, but for the people who listen to my music.
00:04 I was at one of my shows and I just seen somebody holding like, it was like they phone, but
00:08 they put a note on it.
00:09 And it was like, "Yo, you helped me mentally."
00:11 That shit crazy.
00:12 It's okay to not be okay, you feel me?
00:14 I heard the original Doce sampling the song and I'm like, "This shit fire."
00:25 And she talking about anxiety and like, I go through that.
00:27 I know people that go through that in life.
00:30 My fan base, they tell me like, "Yo, you helped me with anxiety.
00:32 You helped me with this."
00:33 So I felt like I had to do that.
00:34 You going through a lot and you feel like you just can't get away from the bullshit.
00:47 Like the demons is winning.
00:48 It's over.
00:49 Almost like you about to give up.
00:51 It's like that give up feeling.
00:52 I just tell myself like, "It's okay to not be okay as long as the goal is to like, get
00:57 out that stage, get out that box, get out that space."
00:59 That's how I fight with my demons.
01:00 I'm more focused when I'm sober.
01:10 I've been chilling.
01:11 I've been doing all the shit I do without being a certain type of "Ah, can't buy love.
01:16 It don't come with a coupon and they'll never catch it like a nigga with no arms."
01:19 I don't mean literally buying love.
01:20 I mean like, it's no easy way out.
01:23 You just gotta own it.
01:24 Ain't no answers.
01:25 I had anxiety when I was younger too, but you think you got so much going on when you
01:36 a kid, you just doing mad shit.
01:38 This, that, you doing whatever you like, whatever.
01:40 When you get older, you realize, "Oh, I did certain shit."
01:43 Damn, I used to be feeling alone for what?
01:47 It was probably depressed.
01:48 Probably anxiety when you was younger.
01:50 You didn't really notice that shit because you a kid.
01:52 I could be in the studio 24 hours.
02:13 I work on one, if I don't like how that one song is coming out, but I like the song, I'm
02:17 just going to keep trying to do it.
02:18 I'll do 100 takes if I had to.
02:20 Go to sleep, wake up, do it over.
02:22 Just to finish that one song, just so it's to my liking.
02:25 Perfect.
02:26 I do that precisely.
02:27 Whatever you doing, it don't matter what you doing.
02:28 It's like you just stuck in a box.
02:36 You going, going, but you keep ending up at the same place.
02:38 That's how I felt when I first came home and I was in the studio all the time.
02:41 I made my songs and I'm like, "I don't like this shit."
02:44 Last line is like, "I'm stuck."
02:46 But the reason I'm stuck is because I'm trying to be great.
02:49 You feel me?
02:50 That's really what it is.
02:51 I'm trying not to fail to a me.
02:52 I feel like the world's sleeping on me because my fans make me feel like that.
02:59 They be like, "Nah, they sleeping on you.
03:01 Ah, that's that.
03:02 Yo, you supposed to be here.
03:03 You supposed to be."
03:04 It's like, "Yo, the time come."
03:12 I heard a Wu-Tang Clan song, "Old Dirty Bastard."
03:15 He said, "Jaku Stoke could never get this flow."
03:17 I just looked up the name and I seen who he was and I'm like, "Nah, I gotta make a ball
03:21 with his name in it."
03:22 I really don't like to talk about the way I feel, but through the music, it's like I
03:32 don't even do it on purpose.
03:33 It just happened the way I write the music.
03:35 You must be drunk if you think I won't drill 'em.
03:36 Praying but they know you sinning.
03:38 And you gotta lose a lot before the winning and most of the time I be stuck in my mind.
03:41 Big mistakes and don't really rewind, but fuck it, we get over shit over time.
03:45 It's like I had mad different opportunities.
03:47 Some ain't work out how it's supposed to.
03:48 It's like, "What I'ma do?
03:49 I'm just gonna cry over spilled milk or shit like that?"
03:51 Nah.
03:52 You just gotta keep pushing.
04:02 If they doing shit to sabotage your situation, just make sure you get back.
04:06 And I don't literally mean getting them back, doing something to them.
04:08 Getting back by elevating all the way, even though they trying to sabotage your shit.
04:11 You just going up.
04:13 Some people take they losses and they move like it's the end of the world.
04:18 Sometimes a loss ain't really a loss.