Nasaan pulled up to Genius to discuss his hit song “GOATED.” Determined to forge his own path rather than ride the coattails of his late father, Proof of D12, the up-and-coming rapper is making his own waves in the music industry. The song features fellow Detroit native Royce Da 5'9 and is off Nasaan’s debut album 'ERROR 404.' The 2nd generation rapper also secured a partnership with ESPN and the NBA, resulting in a four-month licensing deal for the companies to use the song. On today’s episode of Verified, the multi-hyphenate artist dissects his song, why its corny to be a rappers kid, where he draws inspiration from and more!
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00:00So my dad was big proof from D12.
00:02I know my dad is looking down at me like, bro, super proud, smiling, happy.
00:07I'm fully confident in the idea that I won't let him down.
00:10He wrote out the red carpet.
00:11All I had to do was just lay it up.
00:13I feel like right now I'm like 360, windmill, backflip, dunking that bitch.
00:24For the intro, I wanted DJ Drama on it originally, but then I started looking at the project
00:29in a whole and I was just like, I feel like it needs to represent my Atlanta roots and
00:32my Detroit roots.
00:33So I was like, yo Royce, can you talk on the intro instead?
00:37He sent it back to me and the nigga was rapping on it.
00:40So I was like, okay, a win is a win.
00:42You know what I'm saying?
00:43He went crazy.
00:44So shout out Royce.
00:59To remind myself I'm God, it was more so of me saying there's God within me versus
01:05I am the actual higher being deity.
01:08Obviously there's one above, but God is really within us.
01:10I believe that.
01:23Bro, R.I.P. Akira, man.
01:25That's terrible.
01:26But Dragon Ball Z is my everything.
01:28Give me Dragon Ball Z, whatever.
01:29I could trade you a million dollars for a Dragon Ball Z toy and I feel like it'll be
01:33justified.
01:34I love Dragon Ball Z that much.
01:41For the Roku line, I write like that because thug, bro.
01:45He'll find the most interesting way to say what he's trying to say without saying it.
01:50I don't got AIDS, but I swear to God I'ma bleed.
01:54Him saying he's a blood in the fucking weirdest way ever.
01:58Like, what?
02:17I think being a rapper kid is just corny.
02:20For a long time I would try to hide the two things.
02:24Whatever with the corny shit.
02:25That's some little kid shit.
02:26It's more about just black community and just standing together by me just being super independent,
02:32which is cool.
02:33But being like, yo, nah, fuck that, man.
02:36I got to get it myself, man.
02:37I don't want nobody to notice my dad.
02:39I think that that's cornier.
02:41And there is exceptions to that, like rapper kids being corny.
02:45I love Coral Ray.
02:46She's super fire.
02:54Them.
02:55They not important.
02:56Got it.
02:57Me.
02:58I'm the one goaded.
02:59Got it.
03:00Me.
03:01I'm the one goaded.
03:02Got it.
03:03Me.
03:04I'm the one goaded.
03:05Got it.
03:06Me.
03:07I'm the one goaded.
03:08I got it.
03:09Goaded to me is like chosen.
03:10It's destined.
03:11That's why I got this tattoo across my face that says destined.
03:12The chosen one.
03:13I can't explain it.
03:14It's an aura.
03:15You just got to have it.
03:25Kendrick is my all time favorite rapper.
03:28So bringing back the guideline, Kendrick finds ways to repeat things and insert them back
03:35in the songs in particular ass pockets.
03:38So that was just my way of just doing that.
03:41I'm like super big rap nerd, rap fan.
03:55You see this face.
03:59You see this fucking face.
04:14She get nasty, bro.
04:15You play with me, I can make it nasty.
04:17My girlfriend who's watching, she understands what I mean.
04:21Don't kill me.
04:23And I love you.