Denzel Curry brought the heat to Genius to dissect his fiery track, “Hot One.” Known for his unmatched energy, the Florida rapper takes us behind the scenes of this scorching new anthem. The track, from his recent project 'King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2,' features A$AP Ferg and TiaCorine and was first previewed during an On The Radar cypher. On this episode of Verified, Denzel talks about his creative process, crafting his signature spicy wordplay, and pushing himself to reach his full potential.
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00:00You know, people always put me in this underrated, underground, oh he's so underrated,
00:04this, that, and the third. But I'm like, bro, I'm going to get big regardless. It's going to happen.
00:08I just know every time I drop, I'm only getting closer to my goal. To tell you the truth,
00:12I don't even want to be super big, for real. I just like making music, enjoying art, making art,
00:18putting it out to people, and making sure they love it. And you know what I'm saying?
00:21Come to the shows and enjoy themselves. Have a good time. That's all I'm on.
00:30I got a pack from F and Z, right? And I was going through the pack and they had a bunch
00:34of instrumentals in there. When I was going through it, that beat came up and it was made
00:37by them and Skip on the Beat. I wasn't trying to do the da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da that I usually do.
00:42When it came down to that, I was like, okay, I can make money from the comfort of myself.
00:46It just came to me. I just wanted something that people could just hear, quote, and just say,
00:50without overthinking it. I sent it to Ferg probably two or three times, and Ferg finally
00:55heard it and then he was like, oh yeah, I know what to do. That's when he came out with his
00:58verse. He was like, fuck a new chain, I got a new house. Oh, that's your boo thing,
01:02she need a new mouth. I bless the gold panes, that's just my root canal. Every time I get
01:07dressed, I got to move my bow. Shit on niggas. You know what I'm saying? I was like, damn,
01:11he killed it. It made me think like, damn nigga, should I redo my verse? And then when Tia came
01:15around, man, next thing you know, I get a text from Tia. Ha! I did it! Yeah! Right here! Boom!
01:21All the lyrics! Ah! Ah! Ah! And then that's how it happened. The one line that sticks out,
01:27dollar points! You know? She gon' kill me. She is gon' fucking kill me.
01:41When I was making that song, I was sitting down. That's what came to my mind. I could
01:45make money from the comfort of my sofa. That's just sound like some cool ass shit.
01:48So much drive, now I got to get a chauffeur. Everybody's just like,
01:51ugh, these elementary school bars. And it's like, it's not though. I'm saying that I got
01:56so much drive that eventually I will have to get a chauffeur because they're going to drive
02:00me everywhere. Also saying I'm making money to get that chauffeur. You feel me? But I'm also
02:06saying that I got drive because I'm on 5 for Life. Most people ain't on 5 for Life, man.
02:11They ain't dousing gasoline, nigga. They ain't goddamn like the matching, ugh, ah! They ain't
02:16do that. And I actually pulled up with a chauffeur today. So it's not like I'm not living what I wrote.
02:29Me and my boy Kenai Yada, we created this thing called Ultra Ground. And we got a few
02:33members that's on the project that's in Ultra Ground. So you have myself, you have Kenai Yada,
02:38and you have Play That Boy, Zay, that's also part of Ultra Ground. And he's on the song
02:41Hoodlums with A$AP Rocky. And then you have Mad World, who produced Wishlist. We're all part of
02:45this collective that me and Key created. And me and Kenai Yada are former Raider Clan members,
02:50you know? That's why I said, okay, he go by Mr. Don't Fold and I go by Big Ultra. I just felt like
02:55that just sounded like a hard ass name, like Big Ultra. But essentially, that's just me.
03:04The world is in my hands because I took it off your shoulders. Because it's just like,
03:08I got the whole world on my shoulders and I don't know what to do. Meaning they're stressed
03:11about life and what's going on. But me, I'm putting it in my hands to let them know the
03:16world is in my hands and I can do whatever I want. So I feel like everybody should have that
03:20mentality of like, hey yo, the world is in my hands. It's what you do with it is the real thing.
03:25Instead of having it on shoulders, it should be in the palm of your hand.
03:34Honestly, when you balling, everybody has an eye on you, just clocking everything you do,
03:40where you at, where you move, where you live and trying to take what's yours,
03:43you know what I'm saying? So, like Yachty, I gotta keep one in my holster. And that was one
03:47of the most fire songs I heard last year. Like that shit, that shit was crazy. I was like,
03:53like Yachty, gotta keep one in my holster. Strike, and the song is called Strike.
04:07Back when I was young, bro, I had a gun early as hell.
04:10Being from Cary City and being from Florida, you know what I'm saying? I was able to get a gun,
04:13like an AR-15 at 18 from a pawn shop. So that's why I was saying,
04:17ain't shit changed but the number on my front door. I'm still the same person.
04:20I just got a little bit more fame, a little bit more notoriety,
04:23critically acclaimed several times. It doesn't matter. I'm still the same person that I was
04:27then. I just, you know, matured a bit and kind of got my shit together.
04:32Even Lil Flip said it. If you gonna buy a chain, make sure you buy a gun. You see a lot of people
04:43getting robbed for their chain and not having nobody there, getting shot for their chain,
04:47getting killed over rocks and metal. You know what I'm saying? That's why I'm saying like,
04:51yo, this is nothing. Anybody could acquire this. It's how you acquire it is the thing.
04:55I worked hard to be able to look the way I look and do what I do. When you come in a society where
05:00everything's fast paced and you want it now, now, now, now, now, because sometimes you don't
05:05have too many options or you don't think you have too many options, then you go for the latter.
05:10Like, nah, I'm just going to get it right now because I really want it. And it's just like,
05:13you'll mess up your whole life just to acquire something that you could have easily got in the
05:17next few years. It's not going nowhere. Slow money is always the best money. I learned that from Nick.
05:23What the collaboration means, and that goes for, you know, with Key Nyata and
05:27A$AP Ferg and Rocky and myself. Four guys, two from each side, being able to come together and
05:33make something of what could have been back in the day if Rocky and Purp would have never beefed
05:37in the first place, you know? It was more so about the energy that was brought in 2010,
05:4211, and 12 that created this whole wave. If it wasn't for us, there'd be no X, no Ski Mask,
05:48no Suicide Boys, no Cardi's, nothing. There'd be none of that. We were the first. We was the first
05:53to do it. We was all young, so if we were all a little bit more sensible about how to go about
05:58things, then the whole game would be different today.