Westside Gunn stopped by the Genius office to discuss his latest hit “KITCHEN LIGHTS,” which has been streamed over two million times on Spotify to date. The DJ Benoit produced track features Stove God Cooks and is off Westside Gunn’s latest project And Then You Pray For Me.
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00:00 I want to be remembered as the illest curator of all time.
00:03 It don't matter about me being the illest MC of all time.
00:06 You know how they had the NBA Top 50?
00:08 I'd be on that.
00:09 You know what I'm saying?
00:10 We grew up during that crack era, man.
00:20 We really had to go through that, you know what I'm saying?
00:23 And really see that.
00:24 It's one of those moments where it was like, "Okay, the rest of that album, we have a fun,
00:29 we turning up, but I need to kind of also let y'all in a little bit, get a little more
00:34 personal."
00:35 Shout out to OG Connie.
00:50 Shout out my mom.
00:51 You know, she a survivor, man.
00:53 She a OG.
00:54 Having a kid at 16, 17, you got to think, by the time she 21, 22, I'm already five.
01:00 I'm already going to school.
01:02 I'm already got an identity.
01:04 You know what I'm saying?
01:05 So I'm seeing everything vividly.
01:08 Everything from the domestic violence to just everything, I seen it firsthand.
01:12 That was Eastside Buffalo.
01:14 Like, everybody mom did crack.
01:16 You know what I'm saying?
01:17 So it's not like my mom is just the only one.
01:20 You know what I'm saying?
01:21 Shit.
01:22 It's not like everybody mom I thought was on crack, because everybody mom I did know
01:26 was on crack.
01:27 Like literally.
01:28 Of course you got to wear boots to the showers.
01:44 You got to.
01:45 If I had to wear some Timbs to the showers, they going to be, you know, chrome heart.
01:49 You know what I mean?
01:50 The Muster Virgil forces, man, it's just like, that was the homie, man.
01:55 That was bro.
01:56 He did a lot for me in my career, man, in a short amount of time.
01:59 And I don't always like saying I'm the best top three, but I was top three people in prison.
02:04 That was fly, man.
02:05 That's my shit.
02:06 Got sour totem.
02:07 If you sniff powder, don't sell powder.
02:10 Louis V patchwork.
02:11 Bout 50 for the shirt.
02:12 Bout 50 for the pants.
02:13 Made the Pyrex dance.
02:14 Lord, gas stove romance.
02:15 Left out the Waldorf.
02:16 Gave a hundred to the door.
02:17 Man, come they got some Vans.
02:18 That's actually my favorite line.
02:19 The Louis V patchwork, man, the outfit cost a hundred thousand.
02:20 For real.
02:21 Just for the outfit.
02:22 You know, my salesperson hit me up like, "Yo, you want this joint?"
02:23 And I love the outfit.
02:24 I'm like, "Yo, I'm going to get this joint."
02:25 I'm like, "Yo, I'm going to get this joint."
02:26 I'm like, "Yo, I'm going to get this joint."
02:27 I'm like, "Yo, I'm going to get this joint."
02:50 The Dolce robe match the stove.
02:53 The Dolce stove match the refrigerator.
02:56 It's super fly, God.
02:57 Let me re-innovate it.
02:58 Air hose on the tech.
02:59 Don't get humiliated.
03:00 It's just super fly.
03:01 That's what I mean.
03:02 Super fly, God.
03:03 It's like, those are the type of things I do that's just ignorant.
03:07 Like, spend 50,000 for a refrigerator.
03:10 10,000 for a stove is ignorant, but it don't get no flyer than that.
03:15 And I always used to think about when Eclipse had that stove on the cover.
03:19 I always said, "You know what?
03:21 I'm going to buy this stove and I'm going to make my own cover.
03:23 And we'll update it and just pay homage to them, but do it with my Dolce stove."
03:28 I'm like today, the Mona Lisa, man.
03:37 Virgil Desaint piece, you know what I mean?
03:39 Johnny Dang.
03:40 For so many years, man, I probably had more chains on my neck than anybody, man.
03:44 You see the bracelet.
03:46 Biggest bracelet in the game.
03:48 You know what I'm saying?
03:49 Been for years, too.
03:50 It's a lot of people that's trying to get them down, but you know who the originator
03:54 of this is, man.
03:55 And we might got to check y'all weight, too, man.
03:58 It look big, but pause.
04:00 Is it though?
04:01 You feel me?
04:02 Is it?
04:03 It's a homicide you get hit with this.
04:05 But yeah, man.
04:08 You know, Richard Mille.
04:10 You know.
04:11 This is light.
04:12 This and this and this is light, man.
04:15 You know.
04:16 You know how it go, man.
04:17 About a million still, though.
04:24 Still a million.
04:25 You don't even look like a million.
04:26 You already know.