Lil Tecca stopped by the Genius office to break down his latest hit “500lbs,” which has been streamed over 98 million times on Spotify to date! The Taz Taylor, Rio Leyva & 4OUR produced song is off his latest project TEC. On today’s episode of Verified, the New York rapper speaks on how he was born to be blessed but lives with a curse at the same time.
“The biggest blessing that I have is obvioubly my life changing through passion and the biggest curse is my passion is attached to eyes.”
“The biggest blessing that I have is obvioubly my life changing through passion and the biggest curse is my passion is attached to eyes.”
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00:00 I don't think nobody know nobody with 500 pounds.
00:02 If you got 500 pounds, I don't know.
00:05 I don't know.
00:06 I don't know if I trust you.
00:07 That's a lot of stuff, 500 rounds.
00:09 I don't know if I trust you either.
00:10 I was in a studio in LA when I made "500 Pounds."
00:19 Rio played the beat midway in me writing.
00:21 He was like, "Yeah, Taz made this beat too."
00:23 And then I was like, "Okay, shit done got serious."
00:26 I really had to like lock in on that beat
00:28 and write for like 30 minutes and make something
00:30 I really was proud of.
00:31 And then it came out to be something
00:32 I was really proud of.
00:33 I really got that line from my friends
00:43 'cause every time I began to invite it outside
00:45 to like a party or something like that,
00:46 I'm like, "Bro, I'ma be blessed when I'm 35
00:49 and chilling on my yacht,
00:51 just thinking about all the time I sacrificed when I was 20.
00:54 I don't really care to be partying with no one.
00:55 I don't like them anyway."
00:56 ♪ For real, don't know when I stay out of town ♪
00:58 ♪ I get dough when I stay out of town ♪
01:00 ♪ 500 chops, I got 500 rounds ♪
01:01 ♪ 500 plots, I got 500 pounds ♪
01:03 I love going out of the country
01:05 and I love going to see places
01:06 I would have never seen without music,
01:08 but I just love being at home.
01:09 It's like, yeah, I get dough when I stay out of town,
01:11 but I'm really trying to be home right now.
01:14 Anyone can say anything.
01:21 You gotta show me something.
01:22 And even when you show it to me,
01:23 I'm still only gonna believe half what I see.
01:25 You show me that you got 500 pounds,
01:28 only 250 really yours, the other shit's your man's.
01:30 I don't like being on my phone too much,
01:36 but I got me on my phone.
01:38 When I step on Instagram, it's kind of a lot going on,
01:40 especially the world I'm in.
01:41 Anything can happen in 0.5 seconds.
01:43 You go on Twitter, you might be number one trending.
01:45 You won't even know, it's 'cause you wasn't on your phone.
01:46 When I argue about bullshit,
01:51 the only reason I condone it is because I love the person
01:54 that I'm arguing about bullshit with.
01:56 I only interact with people that I really care about
01:58 on a day-to-day basis.
01:59 So if we get into a dumb ass argument,
02:01 it's just a dumb ass argument and we'll get past it.
02:04 Be by yourself.
02:11 You gotta go on a cut, open that one up.
02:13 Can't be around nobody.
02:14 Then you might look over your phone,
02:17 see something they not supposed to see.
02:18 Then you gotta look at niggas sideways,
02:20 like what you doing?
02:21 Don't get your feelings hurt while trying to lurk.
02:23 My bitch wants Chanel, then she'll grab her purse.
02:25 Don't get your feelings hurt trying to lurk,
02:28 scrolling through the 'grams,
02:29 scrolling through old pictures, old comments,
02:31 'cause your feelings are going to get hurt.
02:34 Just 'cause you trying to lurk,
02:35 just 'cause you trying to be nosy,
02:36 you gonna be like, "Damn, heart down here."
02:38 The biggest blessing that I have is obviously
02:49 my life changing through passion.
02:50 And the biggest curse is that
02:52 my passion is attached to eyes.
02:54 There's abundance of amazing people,
02:56 but within the audience,
02:57 there are a lot of wicked people as well.
02:59 So that is the curse.
03:01 You get the eyes, but you can't control who looking.
03:03 It's easy to try to disassociate from your emotions
03:13 when you feel like an alien in your own body,
03:16 when you wake up and you don't feel like at home on earth.
03:18 When I get numb, it ain't good.
03:20 My life is story, it's not a punch in.
03:22 My life a party, it's not a function.
03:23 I never needed no introduction.
03:25 No, I'm a star, I'm still adjusting.
03:27 With my life, I'm trying to write a movie.
03:29 Something that started off through words
03:32 and became tangible.
03:34 I used to watch these videos.
03:35 I'm right here right now.
03:37 And it's not all words,
03:38 but words combined with action equals tangible success,
03:43 tangible result.
03:44 I'm trying to show people that really,
03:45 if you could think it, you could do it.
03:46 And that's what the story is.
03:47 It's free will.
03:48 I could do whatever I want.
03:50 ♪ And I can't go out like that ♪
03:52 ♪ You know that's why I'm clutching ♪
03:54 ♪ And I see it while they overreact ♪
03:56 ♪ But all this shit ain't nothing ♪
03:57 I've been introduced to a lot of shit
03:59 that a lot of people are excited by in their 30s
04:02 when I was a young teen.
04:03 So right now I look at all that shit and I'm like,
04:06 "Bruh, that's boring.
04:07 "I don't wanna go to the club
04:08 "and spend a bunch of money on bottles.
04:10 "That's boring.
04:11 "Let's do some other shit.
04:12 "Let's make some money."
04:13 Are you trying to spend money?
04:14 People be going to the club
04:15 just to put their name on a dumb ass board like,
04:18 "Hey, look guys, I'm here spending all my money
04:20 "looking like a dumb ass."
04:21 Like, bro, you not cool, gang.
04:23 ♪ Told me you gonna send a bread, you on me ♪
04:25 ♪ Talking like you got a option ♪
04:27 ♪ She said it's like you don't know you a star ♪
04:28 ♪ Tell her that I'm still adjusting ♪
04:30 "Tokyo Drift" is like my favorite movie ever.
04:32 "Talking Like You Got a Option."
04:33 I said that because after the race with DK
04:36 and the new guy, he broke bro's car.
04:38 And then he was telling Han like,
04:40 "Yeah, I'm gonna get you your money."
04:41 And bro was like, "You talking like you got a option.
04:42 "You think you got a choice?"
04:44 And I put that in the song.
04:47 I think the fans are just ready for me to do something new.
04:49 I feel like, sonically, what I'm known for,
04:52 I've been there, done that.
04:54 I've done it to the best T.
04:55 So they're ready for me to start trying out
04:57 some new production, new flows, new sauce.