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00:00Hey, what's up y'all? It's your girl Glow Rilla aka Big Glow and this is The Breakdown.
00:18I had already met Grizz like maybe a month or two before that song came about.
00:24And we was like, okay, we got to get something together.
00:27We had, we didn't start on the check. And so that was actually the first song me and Grizz did together.
00:33Actually, I had, you know, Grizz did a lot of put it on the flow beat and I had remixed it.
00:38So, but that wasn't really me working with him.
00:41But Yeah Glow was the first time I actually worked with him.
00:44And so he got another song on my project, this on Everything Gets Fine.
00:48And there's some like, it's like for some reason he from Atlanta, but he know the chemistry of Memphis.
00:53Like I didn't tell him I wanted that beat for Yeah Glow. He just presented it to me.
00:57Like he was like, I know this you who I want on this beat.
01:00And so that's how that came about. Then the other song that we got, he was playing beats for me in the studio.
01:07And I was like, Ooh, like the beat, the song called NMO.
01:12Like it's one of my favorite songs about the project.
01:14And it's just such a Memphis gangster, like groovy type of beat.
01:19And that's what I told him. I said, I want some groovy gangster shit that you just get in your car, hop in and ride and smoke too.
01:25And he did that and that's how this song came about.
01:38The beat was just hard. The beat was hard.
01:41When I first heard it, it was just like automatic go.
01:46I wouldn't know how to describe a Memphis beat, but I'm just going to say with the bass and the drums, like the tempo,
01:51like we got a certain tempo and drum that we use and nobody else get it like how we get it.
01:59You know, when you have such a good beat, the song is just going to come along.
02:03Like, I feel like if you got a good beat, you could damn near say anything on the song and it'd be good.
02:08But if you got a good beat and the lyrics are good too, then that's what makes the hit what it is.
02:15And so, yeah, it was just the chemistry behind the production and me being from Memphis,
02:22that being a Memphis beat, you had a sample from the bangers and the run up get done up.
02:28And so like all that was just, everything was on point.
02:39Um, I just feel like at that time I was overthinking a lot.
02:44Um, yeah. And you know, like I just wanted like, I wanted my highest confidence.
02:51You know what I'm saying? I wanted the most confident at the time and I was just overthinking a lot.
02:55And yeah, yeah, it was most definitely a confidence booster for myself.
03:00And, you know, me just talking to myself and boosting myself up.
03:05I had started on the song one day, you know what I'm saying?
03:09Uh, in the studio, we creating, um, came up with the first half of the song.
03:14I sit on it and then the next day I came back, this and I came with the second verse.
03:18So it was like, I was playing, I was constantly, constantly playing the song over and over and over.
03:23And I'm like, okay, the first, the first one, I was just like regular popping my shit on my tough shit,
03:31but I'm like, okay, this one, I'm going to talk to my shit for, you know, like I said,
03:36I feel like they had me fucked up the last three months before I dropped this song.
03:39And so I'm like, okay, I'm going to talk about how I feel.
03:43And so when, cause a lot of people was like, where glow, really?
03:47Where glow really? Cause I hadn't dropped.
03:49And so that's when, that's where the big low, where you been at, where I'm working hard.
03:53Like I been working, I might ain't been posting none on the internet, but I ain't went nowhere.
03:57I'm still working. And so, um, yeah, then, you know, I was telling the truth.
04:02I got M&Ms in my garage and then like the overthinker part was my favorite part because like I said,
04:07I'm a bad overthinker. I overthink a lot.
04:10And so I made sure I wanted to tell myself, like, don't overthink.
04:15Like that whole verse was exactly how I was feeling,
04:20how people made me feel like the last three months of 2023.
04:24And so I'm like, I'm just going to pop my shit. And like, cause I didn't say nothing.
04:27I wasn't reacting to nothing on the internet. And so I'm like, okay,
04:30I'm just going to, this whole verse is going to be about how I feel.
04:34The motivation I got from when I first blew up, it was okay.
04:39I got to pick a career and you know what I'm saying? And start on it.
04:44You know what I'm saying? And find out a way to make it out.
04:47And right now the similarities is when I made Yeah Glow,
04:51I feel like it was like a reboot or rebranding myself because I had kind of
04:56like got lost in my, in my thoughts.
04:58And so like I'm back in the same mode that I was in when I first was trying to
05:02make it because now I'm a hundred percent grinding and like, I'm like, okay,
05:06now I can't take no breaks. Like I was thinking I needed a break,
05:10but now I'm straight on them breaks. I don't want no more breaks.
05:22I'm always in competition with myself.
05:27Like I never wanted to go in the studio and make a song that ain't better than
05:30the song that I already made. Like, so yeah, I'm, I'm my biggest competitor.
05:34And so like anytime I make a song,
05:36I'm not trying to make a song better than him or them.
05:40I'm trying to make a song better than my last song, you know what I'm saying?
05:43Trying to make something bigger than that.
05:45So it be my own self I'm in competition with. My confidence is good,
05:49but like, I'm always thinking I can do better.
05:51Like, and I feel like that's how you gotta be like,
05:54cause last year when I just felt too much, like I was the shit,
05:57I didn't even know I got comfortable when I did get comfortable.
06:00I didn't think I was getting comfortable, but I sleep did like certain stuff.
06:04I'll be like, I don't really got to do that. You know what I'm saying?
06:07But now I'm just like, it's always something I can do better.
06:11Like, you know what I'm saying? It's, it's always a,
06:15another level for me to go like I'm that bitch for sure, but I can be better.
06:18Um, I'm like obsessed with her and my own music.
06:21Like I'm a big fan of myself.
06:23Like, I don't know if that's a cocky thing or what,
06:27but I'm a big fan of myself.
06:28And so like I listened to my songs too much and sometimes I can listen to them
06:33too much where I don't like them no more. Like, believe it or not.
06:36Um, we yell glow. I was like right before it was finna drop.
06:40I was like, I think I should change the first verse. Like, I don't know.
06:44I think I was too slow on the second verse.
06:45So like I listened to myself too much and I need, really need to get out of it.
06:49But yeah, I'm just such a big fan of myself.
06:51And I always listened to my music a lot. And so like her and yeah, glow,
06:56like I was addicted to it. I couldn't stop listening to it.
06:58And so I start overthinking about it. Like, hold on,
07:01this could be changed and everybody was like, nah, it's good. Leave it alone.
07:04Just stop listening to it. You think it's too hard.
07:06The way I remain humble is like, it can all be gone in a blink of an eye.
07:12Nothing is forever. You know what I'm saying?
07:14So that's where the humbleness come in because you can't be too cocky.
07:19You know, I might be a little cocky, but I'm more humble than I am cocky.
07:23Because like I say, at the end of the day, not the day gotta end.
07:27I'm not finna say that, but at the end of the day, it can all be gone in a blink of an eye.
07:31You could be this person today and tomorrow, everything could go downhill.
07:34And so you just gotta be humble at all times.
07:41So when I said they hate a bitch, but they stole the flow, like they be hating hard,
08:05but they really love me at the same time because they doing what I'm doing.
08:10But they hate, but they don't really hate me. They love me.
08:31So last year, I had always wanted a G-Wagon, a G-Wagon truck.
08:36Got my G-Wagon truck.
08:38God Ahead got me the Maybach for my birthday.
08:41And so, yeah, that's how the Maybach came.
08:44And that's how I got M&Ms in my garage.
08:48So Young, Wealthy, and Ratchet.
08:50That's who me and my girls is, you know what I'm saying?
08:54That's our name. That's what we go by.
08:56Young, Wealthy, Y-W-R.
08:58And we young, we wealthy, we ratchet, you know what I'm saying?
09:01And when I say ratchet, like I ain't even just talking about ratchet ratchet.
09:05Like the ghetto type of ratchet, you feel me?
09:08I just really feel like I'm a product of the hood.
09:13And bitches look at me for motivation because they saw me,
09:17literally, my rise to the top.
09:20Like they watched it with me, step by step.
09:36So when I said Curbin on Curbin, I ain't never, like, nobody told me in the studio that I said it wrong at the time.
09:53Like nobody said it.
09:55And so I'm like, well, maybe because I was in there with some people, my people, and that's how they see it.
10:00They from Memphis.
10:02And so it wasn't until I posted the first snippet on Instagram and people started going crazy,
10:08talking about where the R come from.
10:10But I didn't think I said it wrong.
10:12Like I didn't force it.
10:13I literally just thought that was the word.
10:15And when everybody got to talking about it, I'm like, I didn't know I said it wrong.
10:22Like, I didn't know my accent came through on that word, but they like it.
10:27So it all worked together for the good.
10:33Me and Gotti came up with the treatment for the video.
10:41Most of it.
10:43And when I was talking to him about it, I'm just like, when I do this video, I want to talk to a lot of me's.
10:48I want to be talking to myself.
10:50You know, older versions of me's.
10:52And so we came up with the idea of me when I was working at the fast food, the jail scene.
11:02Some of the scenes I came up with, it was real life.
11:07Like me working in the drive-thru.
11:10And then when I was giving the money to the little girls.
11:13It was just, I wanted that to happen to me when I was younger.
11:16So that came with that.
11:19The jail scene, I never really been to jail for a long time.
11:23I went to jail for one day.
11:25And so that was just something like, I thought that would be a cool scene.
11:29Me talking to myself from a jail cell.
11:31Because I was like, I'd go eat some jail food.
11:35And so we had to incorporate the jail scene.
11:38And then the part where I was washing the car.
11:41I never washed the car.
11:43Worked at washing cars.
11:45I washed my mama's car before.
11:46But it was just like, you know, I said the M&M's in my garage.
11:50And so I had to have another me right there.
11:53So yeah, that's where me washing the car came about.
11:56It's really just me looking back on my older self.
12:00Encouraging myself.
12:17The fact that people look at me as motivation.
12:20I feel like, I feel great.
12:24Sometimes I don't know how to accept it.
12:26But I feel good that I can, in a way, minister to other people with my testimony.
12:32When I first started hearing the mashups, I was excited about it.
12:35Because they were putting on all these iconic, legendary beats.
12:38And they was all sounding good.
12:41I'm like, dang, y'all done put them on about 20 beats.
12:43And all of them sound good.
12:45So the song might just be good.
12:47And the lyrics just good.
12:48The cadence, the flow.
12:50It was just tens all across the board.
12:52The song was for myself.
12:54And how everybody else took it.
12:57And made it for them, too.
12:59They made it ten times better.
13:01So I'm glad everybody else got a chance to, you know, get to.
13:06The song is full of affirmations for myself.
13:09But I'm glad the other people got to be able to make it for them, too.
13:13Oh, well, yeah, I can say I'm proud of everybody that put into the record.
13:20And it's a great song.
13:22It's a hit.
13:23And I'm proud.
13:24You know what I'm saying?
13:25And this song is going to get bigger.
13:28Run up on Big Glo, you won't outbid your SV on the flow.
13:31Big Carvin here like Mayweather.
13:33Toolah come through and blow a hole.
13:34Got millions out that rap shit.
13:36They hate a bitch, but they stole the flow.
13:38Yeah, boy.
13:40They stole the flow.
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