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There are a few things Lil Tjay can't live without. From his jewelry collection and a can of Sprite to a Bic lighter and Louis Vuitton sunglasses, here are the Trench Kid's essentials.Lil Tjay's album 222 is out now: https://liltjay.lnk.to/222Lil Tjay is currently on tour- his tour dates can be found here: https://www.liltjaymusic.com/Director: Jeremy ClowneyDirector of Photography: Brad WickhamEditor: Graham MooneyCelebrity Talent: Lil TjayCreative Producer: Jean-Luc LukunkuAssociate Producer: Chris SechlerLine Producer: Jen SantosProduction Manager: James PipitoneProduction Coordinator: Jamal ColvinTalent Booker: Mica Medoff; Meredith JudkinsCamera Operator: Jack BelisleAudio: Tyson DaiProduction Assistant: Christian RamirezAssociate Director of Post Production: Jarrod BrunerPost Production Supervisor: Rachael KnightPost Production Coordinator: Ian BryantSupervising Editor: Rob LombardiAssistant Editor: Courtney Karwal
Transcript
00:00 Yo, what's going on?
00:00 It's your boy Lil TJ,
00:02 and these are 10 things I can't live without.
00:05 [hip hop music]
00:07 My jewels.
00:15 Of course, jewelry don't make a guy,
00:17 you know what I'm saying?
00:18 But I definitely do feel like
00:19 I got a different energy on me
00:22 when I got my chains on.
00:24 I feel like it just, it feel good.
00:26 I like the glow it give me,
00:27 you know what I'm saying?
00:28 Like how it light up the room.
00:30 You know?
00:31 It feel good, so.
00:33 I definitely always got my jewels on.
00:35 I was starting up like Trench Kid
00:37 and making it a LOC and putting it together.
00:40 I made my design.
00:41 This is actually the logo.
00:42 Got a Richard Mille watch.
00:44 I don't have it on right now,
00:45 but I got this watch too.
00:47 He got it too.
00:48 The eyes glow in the dark.
00:49 [hip hop music]
00:51 My next essential item is Sprite.
00:58 Sprite go a long way for me.
00:59 Sprite my favorite soda.
01:01 Like sometimes I be having mood swings.
01:04 I be cheating on my Sprite sometimes,
01:05 getting something else,
01:06 but this shit been with me since it came.
01:09 So it's one of my favorite sodas.
01:12 Ain't gonna lie.
01:14 I'm the type of person,
01:14 I go into the exotic pop store
01:16 and just go crazy.
01:17 Just grab wild shit that,
01:19 you feel me, nobody never seen before.
01:21 But my grandma just be posting that
01:23 for snacks and shit too.
01:25 Like I be adventurous.
01:26 But I like Fanta though.
01:27 Fanta probably come next.
01:29 - Any particular meal you drink several?
01:31 - Valor with a burger, fries,
01:32 some pizza,
01:34 sturdy.
01:36 Hey, this shit Valor with mostly everything.
01:38 [hip hop music]
01:41 All right, one of the main things I need
01:47 to live my day to day life is my phone.
01:49 I bust all my moves with the phone.
01:50 It just help me stay organized,
01:52 know what I gotta do.
01:53 Probably the most important thing.
01:55 I have to water damn near my knee.
01:57 My day to day apps is really Instagram.
01:59 For real, for Instagram.
02:01 And I might play like a little phone game.
02:03 I got this game called Killer Bean.
02:04 It's like a little shooting game.
02:06 Shit fire.
02:07 I probably am addicted to my phone.
02:09 Sometimes I don't even watch movies and TV
02:11 'cause I can't get into it.
02:12 'Cause I always get back distracted
02:14 with my phone on some facts.
02:15 I be listening to all type of shit.
02:16 I be listening to like,
02:17 damn near drill shit.
02:19 Sometimes I be having my R&B moods.
02:21 I even hop in like pop country sometimes.
02:24 I'm fucking with SZA right now.
02:26 I like Snooze.
02:27 I know Ed Sheeran.
02:28 He got that heat.
02:29 You feel me?
02:30 For people like me.
02:31 For real, for real, like new generation.
02:33 Like Polo one of my favorite artists.
02:35 I be listening to like a lot of Polo.
02:37 [upbeat music]
02:40 My next essential is a good pair of feet.
02:46 You know, this go without saying.
02:47 When you got like me, I'm just saying,
02:49 can't be out here looking, I ain't take away.
02:52 My shoe of choice today is these ones.
02:54 You know what I'm saying?
02:55 Red and black.
02:56 It's the Chicago ones.
02:58 Yeah, good pair of feet.
02:59 That's definitely, you know what I'm saying?
03:01 That's definitely an essential.
03:02 I wouldn't consider myself a sneaker head,
03:05 but like, because I feel like the background
03:09 and like the education behind what comes with this shit,
03:13 I don't got it.
03:14 You know what I'm saying?
03:15 But I definitely love me a good pair of feet.
03:18 Air Force ones for sure is mandatory.
03:20 That's like, that's what I should have had right now
03:21 with me, you know what I'm saying?
03:22 I could have had those with me right now.
03:24 365 in a year, like no exaggeration.
03:27 I'm buying 85 pair ups.
03:29 [upbeat music]
03:31 It's one of the most important essentials.
03:36 Some condoms.
03:37 I ain't gonna lie, I ain't really a fiend for like that.
03:40 You feel me?
03:41 I'm more of a subtle guy.
03:42 I'm saying, when it's that time,
03:44 I'ma use these right here.
03:46 Safety first.
03:47 [upbeat music]
03:51 [beep]
03:53 My next essential is a lighter.
03:56 Preferably Bic.
03:58 I feel like it's the most reliable.
03:59 They go the best against the wind
04:01 and they kind of look the drippiest.
04:03 It's like you kind of, you got the other ones,
04:05 you just like, it's like,
04:07 this is the designer of the lighter.
04:09 You might get used to this for a couple of things.
04:10 You know what I'm saying?
04:11 One of my favorite things to use this for,
04:13 for when it's that time of the day, you know what I'm saying?
04:16 I like backwards.
04:17 I had like a four year run to just backwards.
04:20 For some reason, I just left Jamaica,
04:23 that's probably the reason.
04:24 And I was smoking like a lot of papers
04:27 and I've been back for like less than 24
04:29 and I ain't adjust back to my woods yet,
04:32 but yeah, I'm a backwards type of guy.
04:34 [upbeat music]
04:37 My next essential is a pair of shades.
04:43 Sometimes you might be a little too like,
04:46 you know, out of it, you know what I'm saying?
04:48 Eyes look a little relaxed, throw these on, you know what I'm saying?
04:52 Good chill, sit back, read the room.
04:53 Don't let it read you, you feel me?
04:56 It'd be easy on them.
04:57 Yeah, I lose a lot of sunglasses for sure.
05:00 I be buying sunglasses to go on my outfit occasionally.
05:03 I damn near like to match my sunglasses
05:05 with the brand I'm wearing most of the time.
05:08 LV, yeah, LV for sure.
05:10 I probably got the most LV glasses out of any brand.
05:13 I think the sunglasses wave really just came about,
05:15 but it's heavy right now.
05:16 But I've been wearing glasses for like about like
05:19 seven, eight months, like more.
05:22 And yeah, I'm kicking up on them.
05:23 [upbeat music]
05:26 My next essential is a hat.
05:32 Bucket hats is my swag.
05:33 I ain't gonna lie, something cool about bucket hats,
05:35 I feel like they just not oversaturated.
05:37 It's probably why I like them like that.
05:39 But in this case, we got two flavors.
05:41 Not even particular to these, but just hats,
05:44 you know, in general.
05:45 'Cause you know what they're helpful?
05:47 Got a little bad head day, you know what I'm saying?
05:50 Throw this on, you sturdy.
05:53 I'm saying it's just like the glasses.
05:54 I'm gonna accessory.
05:55 I had a Louis V bucket hat the other day, pain.
05:58 I had the strings with the,
06:01 you gotta put the picture that go ding.
06:03 Feel me, got the strings and I had like
06:04 two little Louis V songs, pain.
06:07 Yeah, you know what's crazy?
06:07 I got a song I say in New York,
06:09 but I hate wearing bull cap.
06:10 Normally, I'm saying my bucket hat
06:12 is my essential bad head day.
06:14 Say a little suss right now.
06:15 Do the little, you know what I'm saying?
06:17 - How would you describe your style though?
06:19 - They just gonna have to humble me.
06:20 I think I got the best drip in the world.
06:22 I ain't even trying to say right now.
06:23 I'm chilling a little bit, but feel me?
06:26 I ain't gonna lie.
06:28 Go to brand right now, Louis V, Louis V.
06:30 [upbeat music]
06:32 My next essential is some Jamaican food.
06:39 Right now, we ain't got no Jamaican food.
06:41 That's why I got this menu right here.
06:43 Oxtail rice and peas, you know what I'm saying?
06:45 Curry goat, beef patty.
06:48 I like all this shit.
06:49 Drinking shit is wild.
06:51 That shit fire.
06:52 I don't like the shit when they be having the fake shit.
06:55 They trying to copy the culture.
06:56 They don't know what they doing.
06:57 I like the legit shit.
06:58 [upbeat music]
07:00 The next essential is my wallet.
07:06 My wallet holds everything down.
07:08 You know what I'm saying?
07:09 I need my wallet to have my card to pay the bills, my ID.
07:12 Sometimes I leave my wallet,
07:13 I left my security on my wallet.
07:15 Sometimes if it's like,
07:17 'cause it might be too much shit in there,
07:18 it might fuck up my outfit, just look too funny on me.
07:20 Might pass it off real quick.
07:23 I like to carry cash sometimes.
07:26 Sometimes I blow cash too fast when I got it.
07:28 I gotta keep throwing that shit out
07:30 or tell somebody pay me cash,
07:33 'cause cash be flying, feel me?
07:35 But I always got that card.
07:36 I don't even be going too crazy
07:38 on the flavors with the wallets.
07:39 I could like go a little crazy, yeah.
07:42 But I didn't even be thinking about that shit too much.
07:44 But I always, you know what I'm saying, got that wallet.
07:47 I ain't gonna show y'all what's in here for,
07:49 you know what I'm saying, other purposes, but you know.
07:52 That's a wrap.
07:53 It's your boy Lil Tjay, man.
07:54 Shout out to GQ, thanks for having me.
07:57 [upbeat music]