Lil Tecca is entering his ‘PLAN A’ era on September 20th, and to help launch it, he dropped “TASTE” and “BAD TIME.” The successful rapper talks about how he gathered inspiration for his ‘PLAN A,’ how he handled reaching success at a young age, linking with Don Toliver & Juice WRLD, listening to his fans when they speak about his music. Keep watching to see all the gems Lil Tecca drops and to see him play a game!
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00:00What's going on guys? This is Beat by Beat. I'm Mike Sapunera here with Billboard.
00:04We have the great Lil Tecca. Tech, talk to the people. How are we feeling?
00:07Feeling good. I'm about to drop Plan A with my guy, Mike.
00:12Hey.
00:12Let's talk about it.
00:13Yeah, we're looking forward to that.
00:15Take us back. When did that world start to take form for you?
00:18I honestly got the name Plan A when I was about to finish Tech, my last album.
00:23Okay.
00:24I didn't really know what I wanted to call the next one.
00:26So, when it was kind of time to decide the name for this album, I had a couple of minds,
00:30a couple of names in my head, but I just remembered I was thinking about Plan A.
00:34Plan A. There's no Plan B.
00:35I was like, go with Plan A.
00:37Where do you do most of your recording? I guess, how is the creative process with that?
00:40For this album, we recorded most of it in Miami. I was just in the studio every day
00:45with Eminem and Taz and all of them. There was a couple of songs that I did in New York
00:49and also at my crib too.
00:50Did you produce a lot of this album?
00:52I didn't produce a lot of it, but definitely my beat selection is
00:56what drives a lot of the production.
00:58Right, right. I saw a clip of Lil Uzi Vert. He was on Aiden Ross' stream,
01:02and he was giving you your flowers as a producer. I guess, how does that feel
01:04being a producer and then also being a recording artist? How do you,
01:07I guess, mesh both of those worlds?
01:09I feel like when I make my beats, I don't really have to
01:13think about anyone hearing them.
01:15Okay.
01:15When I make my music, I kind of make it with intention like, yo, I might drop this.
01:20But when I make a beat, I might make a hundred beats that no one ever gets to hear. So,
01:24whenever I show people my beats, it's kind of interesting because they never heard that side
01:27of me.
01:28Right.
01:28Creatively, but...
01:29So, there's less intention with that. There's more creatively happening.
01:32Yeah. Honestly, I wouldn't say less intention, but less expectation.
01:37Right. I like that. So, it's just more free-flowing for you in that aspect.
01:40Was there another inspiration behind the title for Plan A?
01:42Was there anything else that happened with that?
01:44I think it kind of summarizes where I'm at in my life. Not where I'm at in my life now, but
01:50where I was at in my life when I was probably 14.
01:54Okay.
01:54And I kind of decided that I wanted to rap and just actually only rap.
01:59Right.
02:00So, once I... Because there will be people in class telling me like,
02:03hey bro, you know you got to have a backup plan and shit like that.
02:05Right, right.
02:05And I'm like, not really, bro. Like, I don't really got no backup plan.
02:10Right. I'm all in on this. I guess, what do you hope people learn about you that they didn't know,
02:14I guess, in previous projects?
02:15I just want it to be more of that affirmament. Like, yo, he's dead ass. He's not fucking around.
02:23This is not like a joke thing.
02:25Right.
02:25This is serious. This is my life. This is my life. Without music, I don't have shit.
02:30I want people to understand that. And I want, besides that, besides it being about me,
02:33the whole message is just like, decide what you want to do and do it.
02:37Exactly, yeah.
02:38Even if it switches up. Even if you want to fucking
02:41rap and then you end up deciding that, I really want to make beats.
02:44Right.
02:44Whatever it is, decide something and go with it.
02:47It's so tough to even know. I feel like when you're a teenager, it's so like,
02:50you got to know what you got to do. Obviously, you had that figured out.
02:52But for a lot of people, they don't.
02:54I think when you're a teenager, you have the luxury of having time.
02:58And trying new things.
02:59Yeah, and trying stuff and knowing what you don't like and knowing who you fit in with
03:03and shit like that. I feel like that kind of will guide you to your life path.
03:07Definitely.
03:07You just got to trust it, in a way.
03:08So when you're building these worlds, are you building in a fictional aspect?
03:12Because I heard an interview and you were basically talking about,
03:14like, you asked the interviewer, like, what's your favorite movies?
03:17You're like, oh, probably fiction.
03:19Some of my inspirations do come from, like, my life stories,
03:23things that my friends have gone through.
03:24And some of them just come from under the sun.
03:27Like, I'm just creating from, like, scratch.
03:29Or creating the world for real.
03:31But it all comes from intent, you know?
03:33How do you define success for when you're releasing music?
03:36Are you looking at the charts?
03:37Are you looking at maybe fan reaction?
03:39You know, people driving around, playing it,
03:41maybe going on tour and, you know, connecting with fans.
03:43How do you, I guess, look at that?
03:45The connection between the art is definitely important to me.
03:49Right.
03:49And I do think that's, like, a telling tale of, like, success.
03:52But there's, like, I think success to me is, like, an umbrella term.
03:57Yeah.
03:57And, like, a lot of things fall under it.
03:59I would definitely say people enjoying the music is one of the top ones.
04:02Yeah, it's like a buzzword.
04:03Yeah, right.
04:05I feel like in a generation and in a genre where, like,
04:08everyone's so proud of being the loudest,
04:10you've kind of been able to be this, you know,
04:12this reclusive, silent superstar in that way.
04:15I guess, how have you been able to establish yourself
04:18without having to result to maybe some other antics and things like that?
04:21I think it's because when people see Lil Tecca or hear about Lil Tecca,
04:25it's because of music.
04:27It's not because, like, of anything dumb or...
04:30Right.
04:30I'm just chasing a moment of some shit.
04:32Yeah, right, right, right.
04:33So you kicked off this era with Taste.
04:35I guess walk us through the creative process for that single
04:37and why I like to, you know, that be the one you lead with.
04:40It was just really, like, tasteful.
04:44Not even to be biased to my own music, but it's an objectively good song.
04:50Sonically, it's a good song, even if you don't listen to that type of music.
04:54So I think I wanted to just lay the platform with that
04:56before I got into more niche aspects of my style.
04:59That intro, that's a sample I see.
05:01I remember Kendrick sampled that on Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe, right?
05:03Yeah.
05:03Did that stand out to you at all, I guess, when you first heard the beat or...?
05:06No, it didn't.
05:07I didn't even realize till after...
05:10That that was the sample?
05:10Yeah, I kind of just picked the beat.
05:12All right, and how about, like, the music video?
05:13I guess it kind of is a companion.
05:15You know, I look at the cover art with You With All The Women
05:17and you're just with one girl, singular, in the music video.
05:20I guess what was the inspiration with that
05:22and how much input do you even have on the creative process there?
05:25The cover art to that song was originally the album cover.
05:29Instead of using it for the album, I didn't feel like the cover was about me enough.
05:32I was like, oh, let's just use it for the single so it doesn't go to waste.
05:35And it kind of still felt like it went along with the Leopard theme
05:39that I'm going with stylistically.
05:41Back to the album, I had a few more questions about it.
05:44You linked up with Don Toliver.
05:46I Can't Let Go.
05:47He's the only feature on the project.
05:48Only feature.
05:49How was linking up with him?
05:50Because that's like a cool blending of worlds between, like, your both of your sounds.
05:54The song is really, really fire.
05:56That's probably one of my favorite songs on there, honestly.
05:58But it was a couple songs that I had the option to hop on.
06:01But when I heard that one, I was like, this is the vibe we're looking for.
06:04Oh, OK.
06:05So he had it first and sent it to you or you sent it to him?
06:07Yeah, he already had the song.
06:07Oh, OK.
06:08And you're like, hey, can I get this for the album?
06:10Yeah, basically.
06:11Like, I just hopped on it.
06:12OK, and you guys weren't in the studio.
06:14So it's more just virtually and all that.
06:17Exactly.
06:17When did you originally connect with him?
06:19We saw each other in Rolling Loud, Austria.
06:22That was my first time I ever seen him.
06:23Oh, really?
06:24Out there.
06:24And that was after the song was made.
06:26How was the experience out there?
06:27I've never been out there.
06:28That's got to be kind of crazy.
06:29Austria is a crazy place, bro.
06:32Austria is the only place that I've been that weed is legal.
06:37But when you smoke it, it's almost like you're getting more sober.
06:42Like, you're getting negative high.
06:45And the people will tell you, like, they'll sell you a weed pen and be like, hey, bro,
06:48I be hitting this shit 30 times before I get high.
06:51And I'm like, OK.
06:52So the potency just isn't there.
06:54No, there's no potency.
06:55There's nothing.
06:56It's like cosplay weed.
06:58It's like cosplay.
06:59Yeah, it's cosplay.
07:00Oh, man.
07:01So it's just like a mental thing.
07:02Yeah.
07:02Yo, I'm high.
07:03You're like, no, you're not.
07:04Yeah.
07:05Yeah.
07:05And you didn't know that going in?
07:07I didn't know that.
07:08I didn't even know weed was legal.
07:09I'm thinking weed is illegal.
07:10So when I found out it was legal, I'm like, yeah, let's wait.
07:12Like, let's get high.
07:13We go to the smoke shop.
07:15Bro, tell me, like, hey, listen, like, where are you from?
07:18You from New York.
07:19This is not what you're used to.
07:20Not what we got out here.
07:21So that was my experience.
07:22But the show was lit.
07:23Rolling Loud was lit.
07:24Shout out to Austria.
07:25That's dope.
07:26Definitely cool people.
07:27Love that.
07:27A couple more tracks I want to highlight.
07:293AM, I guess.
07:303AM.
07:31Yeah.
07:31So is that just 3AM you recorded?
07:34You're like, hey, this is going to be the title?
07:36I made it at 3AM.
07:37Oh, OK.
07:37That's why.
07:38But I don't even fucking know, bro.
07:42I was just in the crib, like, recording.
07:44I think I found that beat on YouTube.
07:46Oh, shoot.
07:47OK.
07:48Made the track.
07:49It made the cut.
07:49We made like 400 songs in the whole process.
07:51Dang, made 400.
07:52So what is that process like whittling it down to the teens?
07:56It'd be real easy to hear the standout songs.
07:58OK.
07:59Not all the time.
08:00Because I'd be going back and forth with people.
08:01They'd be telling me, hey, bro, this is the one.
08:02I'm like, nah.
08:03Yeah.
08:04Because I feel like that's got to be tough.
08:05Even like hearing the fans.
08:06I saw one.
08:07I was on the Tekka Reddit.
08:10This record company, Baby Girl.
08:12And they were like, yo, we got to let Tekka know.
08:14We need this song.
08:15Honestly?
08:16Does it exist?
08:16Would it ever land on a project to receive an official release?
08:19Maybe.
08:19The world never knows.
08:21I don't even know.
08:23I don't even know.
08:24But hey, we'll see.
08:26One of the craziest things I saw that I thought was a troll.
08:29I saw the Pennsylvania National Guard used the ransom cover art.
08:33Picture of you on a flyer looking to recruit people.
08:36Is this legit?
08:37What was your thought process?
08:38Have you looked into it?
08:39That shit is real.
08:41You never applied to the National Guard?
08:43Never.
08:44I don't even know what that is.
08:47I seen that shit on Twitter.
08:49I'm like, what is going on right now?
08:51Right.
08:51And the whole thing is that there was this response from some lawyer.
08:56They got in contact with the people that was responsible.
08:58And he was like, sorry, we used the picture by accident.
09:02He used super big words.
09:04Yeah, betrayal.
09:04But basically, that's what he was saying.
09:06We didn't know this was an artist.
09:09But my whole thing is that picture doesn't exist without ransom on it.
09:15Yeah, exactly.
09:16So funny.
09:18I was just like, how does this happen?
09:20I'm like, this is a graphic designer just trolling the National Guard.
09:23I don't know how that happened.
09:24So you never wanted to join?
09:26No.
09:27Hell no.
09:27They don't need me.
09:29They don't need me either.
09:30Hell no.
09:32You've long championed Speaker Knockers and Chief Keith as influences.
09:36What do you see as their legacy and how they impact the sound of hip hop today?
09:40Speaker Knockers is, I'll always say he's one of the best melodic artists to ever do it,
09:46especially when he came out and he was self-producing all his shit.
09:50Especially in that era.
09:52Melodic rap wasn't embraced as much as it is now.
09:56This was like a decade ago.
09:57Yeah, he was at the forefront of what his type of sound was.
10:00The art stands for itself.
10:01It speaks for itself.
10:03Like you were saying about me, that shit didn't need no shock factor for it to go.
10:06It didn't need any-
10:07Special antics around it.
10:09It was just fire music.
10:11So I think that's what was fire about it, for real.
10:12And then as a kid growing up, just seeing the Chicago Drill scene and Sosa popping off,
10:18what did you think about that as someone that grew up out here?
10:21My brother put me on a Chief Keith.
10:24He would always have me download Dat Piff mixtapes from, like,
10:28Juelz Santana mixtape, all the Diplomatic mixtapes and shit,
10:31and put it on his phone for him.
10:32One day, he's showing me Don't Like the video and shit,
10:35and I'm like, 15,000 views.
10:37He's like, hey, bro, this shit about to go.
10:39I'm young as fuck.
10:40I don't even know if I was 10 years old yet.
10:42Whatever the fuck I was.
10:43Yeah, just about in 2012.
10:45Yeah, it was just like, damn, this shit's hard.
10:47Yeah, it's just so different.
10:48Definitely changed, like, music forever with that.
10:50The other single, Bad Times, I also wanted to get into,
10:52if you could just touch on that and how that record came together.
10:55I made that shit out here.
10:59The homies, Noah and Sentence, they flew out to New York.
11:02And that was honestly the only song we made when they flew out out here.
11:05Oh, really?
11:05Only song we made.
11:06What else were you guys doing?
11:08Chatting.
11:10Sometimes we'd be just chatting about nonsense.
11:13The beat was like a no-brainer to me.
11:15When I heard the beat, I was like, OK, let's go.
11:17Yeah.
11:18And then, you know when I like a song or I like a beat?
11:20If I put two verses on a song.
11:22Oh, OK.
11:24I'm going back for that.
11:24Exactly.
11:25So when I put it online and it had like a,
11:29it kind of had like an instant connection.
11:30So I was like, let's go with it.
11:32Yeah, I'll just say the snippet was going up on TikTok.
11:34I guess, how do you react to that?
11:36And how do you use TikTok as a tool for art?
11:38Because it wasn't even as popular as, say, when you came in the game five years ago.
11:41It wasn't existent.
11:43I think they'll tell you what you like and it'll be very, very loud.
11:47Yeah.
11:47And it's not something you should ignore.
11:49OK, so you're definitely taking that opinion seriously.
11:51Like when something's taken off, like we're out of here with this.
11:53This is my craft.
11:55People telling me they like something, I got to put it out.
11:58That's my job in a way.
11:59Right, right.
12:00I don't know.
12:00Some people, I guess, I feel like some artists are like,
12:02hey, I want to do what I want to do creatively.
12:05I mean, you made that song.
12:06So that was what you wanted to do creatively at a point.
12:08True, true.
12:09So if people are responding to it.
12:10Yeah, it's crazy seeing how records do take off.
12:13I remember when Tommy Richmond teased the Million Dollar Baby thing.
12:15I was like, yo, this song is literally everywhere.
12:17Yeah, it's like dropping.
12:19And you're like, OK, this is about to blow up.
12:21It's like shooters is blowing up on TikTok.
12:23You know, you released that years ago.
12:25Like, that's got to be crazy to see.
12:26Like, why is this happening now, you know?
12:28Bro, that shit is confusing.
12:31That type of shit is confusing.
12:32And you know what really confused me is the dance I seen.
12:38Is the dance I seen, bro.
12:39Not just the dance.
12:40It's this one part of the dance where they swing their arm
12:43and they do like this bowling ball shit.
12:45I'm like, what the fuck is the bowling ball?
12:47I don't know if I'm not hit.
12:49I genuinely want to know.
12:50Like, I'm not trying to be a hater.
12:52I just I don't know if I'm not cultured enough for it.
12:55Where did that come from?
12:55Like, what did that move come from?
12:57I've never hit this move.
12:58I've never seen it.
12:59I've never seen it.
13:01And it goes with every song.
13:02Yeah.
13:02Every song.
13:04Like, it could be a fucking rock song.
13:06Niggas hitting the bowling, throwing that shit.
13:09I'm like, but yeah, bro.
13:12Yeah, we've seen a blowout.
13:13The LA Sparks, WNBA team made a TikTok to it.
13:15And a bunch of people are.
13:16I'm like, so this just came up out of nowhere recently.
13:18Yeah, it's really a sports show.
13:20I was kind of just hating on the dance I seen.
13:21Just hating on the dance.
13:22Shout out to all the sports people.
13:24I'm probably not as good as y'all, but.
13:25Another record I wanted to ask you about from last year,
13:28Heaven on Earth with Yak.
13:30I think it went diamond in my headphones.
13:32Appreciate it.
13:34We kept streaming.
13:34How did that come together?
13:36Like, that was a special record to me.
13:37Benny X, he sent me the melody.
13:39I made the beat.
13:40Hopped in the shower.
13:41Wrote the song in the shower.
13:43Waited like three days.
13:44Told my engineer, fly it to New York.
13:46Recorded it in my room.
13:48Made the song.
13:49Sent it to Kodak.
13:50What made him the right, I guess, guest for it?
13:52Because he-
13:53The bounce.
13:53The bounce of the beat.
13:55Because it wasn't like, it wasn't like a very niche song.
13:58Or like a very, like, experimental moment.
14:01So I'm like, let's get someone that can really just compliment
14:03what I got going on already.
14:05Yeah, that's a great record.
14:06I loved it.
14:06Yeah.
14:07When we look back on Ransom,
14:08I guess, what do you remember about that time the most?
14:10You know, that summer.
14:11That's when I originally interviewed you.
14:12And just, you know, being thrust into the spotlight
14:15as a 16-year-old kid, really.
14:16You know, your high schooler life.
14:17Yeah.
14:18Just recklessness, bro.
14:19Just like, jumping deep into the water of like,
14:23this is my life.
14:25And I'm about to go to L.A.
14:26Niggas in class right now.
14:28I'm coming back to class like,
14:28hey, what's up, y'all?
14:32You know, like-
14:33Had a decent weekend.
14:34Yeah, like, just really jump and dive in.
14:37It was very, very lit.
14:38Yeah, it was awesome.
14:39I have this quote for when you made the Hot 100.
14:42You said,
14:43my mom woke me up to a screenshot
14:44that I made the Hot 100 early in the morning,
14:46so I couldn't process it at the time.
14:47I was just really proud of myself.
14:49You can't go past the Billboard charts.
14:50I guess, what do you remember about that?
14:52I don't remember that.
14:54I don't remember that.
14:55I don't remember that at all.
14:57I was probably not able to process it,
14:59honestly, at the time.
15:00Right, because it all happened pretty quickly.
15:02I think when shit just comes like, back to back to back,
15:05you don't really get a chance to like,
15:06actually appreciate what's going on.
15:08Yeah, especially when you're that young.
15:09You're just like,
15:10oh, this is how it's always going to be.
15:11Because you don't know what the fuck is going on at all.
15:14Literally.
15:14There's a beauty in that, though.
15:15I kind of like-
15:16Because I feel like you're so free with it,
15:18that you're like, fully experiencing that.
15:19There's a beauty, but it like,
15:21when you don't know,
15:23it kind of doesn't allow you to really like,
15:26grasp the situation.
15:26And appreciate it.
15:27Exactly.
15:28Yeah, that's true.
15:29That's true with multiple things in life, I feel like.
15:31As far as like, hit records go,
15:32do you think the music landscape has changed
15:34as far as what makes a hit pop off, you know,
15:36these days compared to, I guess, 2019, 2018?
15:39I think there's a lot of added factors.
15:41Yeah.
15:42To what people call a hit song right now.
15:45And I think a hit song doesn't,
15:49I would say, last as long as they-
15:52Yeah, the shelf life on it?
15:53Yeah.
15:53Yeah, I'd agree with that.
15:54I feel like a lot of these songs have like,
15:56a virality or almost like,
15:57a meme-ified aspect to them to like-
15:59Yeah, because songs don't blow up on their own anymore.
16:02They kind of have to blow up with a
16:04association to something else.
16:06Right.
16:06You know?
16:07Right.
16:07So if your song isn't associated to something else that's going on,
16:10it's kind of hard for it to connect.
16:11Yeah, I feel like we've seen a lot of that even recently.
16:13Like, I remember this whole thing with,
16:15I don't know if you've listened to Charli XCX,
16:16this whole thing with Bratz Summer.
16:17You just see this green palette everywhere.
16:20That's very, very important.
16:21I feel like the world that you build around your music
16:23is kind of more important than the music right now.
16:25It's kind of just the soundtrack that you are playing
16:28for the people that want to explore it.
16:30Yeah.
16:30And there's something that, I guess,
16:31it makes it feel more tangible to me, you know,
16:33because we don't have CDs anymore,
16:35obviously, or anything like that.
16:36So when there's something that people,
16:37like you said, can grasp onto,
16:39I think it's only going to make it bigger from there.
16:41Yeah.
16:41But people are definitely consuming it too, for sure.
16:43Yeah.
16:44Did you struggle with, like,
16:44comparing yourself to Ransom creatively?
16:47I guess when you were trying to follow that up at all?
16:49Nah, I was never frustrated with Ransom
16:52because I made Ransom.
16:53Word for word, bar for bar.
16:55Hey, big Draco.
16:57I would never look at something that I made
16:59and let it compete against me.
17:01Okay, I like that.
17:02It kind of just shows me what I could do.
17:03Yep.
17:04Seven times platinum.
17:05What would it mean?
17:05We got to get a diamond plaque up here.
17:07A hundred percent.
17:07Yeah, that's a rarefied error.
17:09A hundred percent.
17:09And like, Taz and the Internet Money Guys,
17:11those were the first producers you actually really met?
17:14Yeah, that was my first time ever
17:15hopping on a beat that wasn't from YouTube.
17:17That's crazy.
17:18Like, when you think about that,
17:19like, that's not normal, right?
17:20It's not normal.
17:20That was insane.
17:21It's not normal.
17:23And you're still tight with those guys,
17:24which is cool, right?
17:24A hundred percent.
17:25I talk to Taz every day.
17:26Every day?
17:27Every day.
17:27When you guys think back to those times,
17:28I guess, what was so special about that era for you guys?
17:31You know what was special?
17:32The day I made Ransom and did it again in the score.
17:35That was my first time ever taking Edibles in the studio.
17:38Oh, she was good.
17:39I had Edibles and I had Starbucks.
17:43Hey.
17:43I had a drink from Starbucks.
17:45What a combo.
17:46No one could tell me shit.
17:47Like, even if Ransom was the most trash song in the world,
17:50I was still going to record it.
17:51Yeah, like, I love this.
17:52No one could tell me shit.
17:53Starbucks, Edibles.
17:54Fueling greatness right there.
17:56That's what was special about that time.
17:57I was just on some reckless kid shit.
18:00How was connecting with Juice to get him on the remix?
18:02What did you make Great Juice for?
18:03That right there was one of the craziest moments ever.
18:08Like, I think we did get leaked,
18:10but there was two versions of the remix.
18:12He did a second verse to it.
18:14Oh, okay.
18:15But I remember when I first met him,
18:16he heard the song.
18:17He was like, hey bro, this flow hard.
18:20And that was my first time ever meeting someone
18:22that I was like, I seen online,
18:24like that was like going crazy at the time
18:26and actually gave me an opinion on my music.
18:30I never heard an opinion on my music
18:31from another artist that was like really going crazy.
18:34It really meant a lot, bro.
18:36All the stuff that he would say to me and shit like that.
18:38And actually seeing him work,
18:40actually seeing it.
18:42Ambassador at work.
18:43Like seeing it in person though.
18:44Like it was crazy, bro.
18:45I guess take me back to that studio session.
18:47How was like, he came in and was like,
18:49yo, I'm going to do both verses to this
18:50and just kind of freestyled it.
18:51Basically, basically.
18:53He did the verse.
18:54He did it in like one take.
18:56Damn, Juice.
18:58But it kind of fried me, bro,
18:59because I didn't really know people
19:00were doing stuff like that at the time.
19:03I was just really used to like writing shit
19:05and then reading it off my phone.
19:07I'm like, let's go to the next line.
19:10Bro, hop in.
19:14I'm like, okay, cool.
19:14You're like, wait, I can't do that.
19:17So that's what inspired me
19:18to start trying shit like that.
19:20So are you freestyling more?
19:21Like on this album as well?
19:23A hundred percent.
19:24So I guess how much percent of the album
19:26would you say is like freestyle?
19:27I wouldn't even say freestyle
19:28because punching is still a form of writing.
19:30Yeah, that's fair.
19:32Maybe 50-50.
19:33What?
19:3350-50 or maybe like 70-30.
19:36What advice would you have
19:37for your younger self
19:39or artists breaking in the game
19:40compared to when you're just,
19:41you know, a wide-eyed 16-year-old
19:43to now, you know, turn 22
19:45and, you know, having all these,
19:46I guess, years of experience under your belt?
19:48If I could talk to my 15-year-old self right now,
19:52I wouldn't tell a nigga no advice.
19:53I would tell a nigga exactly what to do.
19:55Hey, bro, this certain day,
19:56you're going to hear this beat,
19:57pick this beat out,
19:58ghost-write the song for the nigga,
20:00all that shit.
20:00I'll get a nigga the whole script.
20:02Make sure you wouldn't...
20:03Ain't no advice, bro.
20:04If I could talk to myself from back then.
20:06Yeah, that's the blueprint.
20:07I'm telling the whole blueprint.
20:08I love that.
20:09We're going to play an episode
20:10of Billboard's Buzzer Beater.
20:12So Tekka's going to have 60 seconds,
20:14rapid-fire questions,
20:15a little this or that,
20:16and we'll go from there.
20:17Fall or spring, Tekka?
20:18Spring.
20:19Music festival or a stadium concert?
20:21Stadium concert.
20:22Coffee or tea?
20:23Tea.
20:23Do you prefer going out or staying in?
20:25Staying in.
20:26Lyrics first or the melody first?
20:28Melodies.
20:28TV show or movie?
20:29Movie.
20:30Sci-fi or fantasy?
20:31Fantasy.
20:31Old school rap or new school rap?
20:33Old school.
20:33You an early bird or a night owl?
20:35Night owl.
20:36Summer fashion or winter fashion?
20:37Winter fashion.
20:38You more of a sneakerhead or a watch guy?
20:40Watch guy.
20:41Savory or sweet?
20:42Sweet.
20:42Yesterday or tomorrow?
20:44Tomorrow.
20:44Deadpool or Wolverine?
20:45Wolverine.
20:46Eating at a restaurant or takeout?
20:48Eating at a restaurant.
20:48Earbuds or headphones?
20:50Headphones.
20:50Broadway show or karaoke night?
20:52Broadway show.
20:53Xbox or PlayStation?
20:54Xbox.
20:54Hey, Kendrick or Drake?
20:56Drake.
20:57Leather or denim?
20:58Leather.
20:58Rainbow Six Siege or SOCOM?
21:00SOCOM.
21:01Verdansk or Caldera?
21:02Verdansk.
21:03Verdansk.
21:04Let's go Warzone, Matt.
21:05We Love You Tecca one or two?
21:06One.
21:07Hot 97 or Power 105?
21:09Both.
21:09Jets or Giants?
21:10Giants.
21:11Yankees, Mets?
21:12Yankees.
21:13Bacon, egg, and cheese or a chop sheet?
21:14Bacon, egg, and cheese.
21:15That's it.
21:16Tecca just crushed it for us here.
21:17Thank you guys so much for joining us today.
21:19This is Beat by Beat.
21:20I'm Mike Sabanara.
21:21This is Lil Tecca.
21:22I'm with Mike.
21:23Hey.
21:23This is Lil Tecca.
21:24Plan A coming soon.