Denzel Curry returned to Genius to break down his track, "BLACK FLAG FREESTYLE," featuring Texas rapper That Mexican OT. The song is a standout from Denzel’s latest album, 'King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2.' On today’s episode of Verified, the Florida rapper delves into the story behind the collaboration, his aversion to being broke, why he’s not to be underestimated, and more!
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00:00I'm allergic to being broke, man.
00:01I used to be broke, man.
00:02Every time I even think about being broke, I sneeze.
00:05I thought about it just right there.
00:13I went to the studio.
00:14We was in Australia at the time.
00:16It was me, my boy Oliver, my boy Kashawn.
00:18He's a Muay Thai fighter.
00:19I was wearing black that whole time.
00:21Every time I did a show over in Australia, I was just wearing straight black.
00:24Nothing else, just black.
00:25I had a black flag and I literally put it on the microphone.
00:29That Mexican OT got involved when I followed him on Instagram and he followed me right
00:33back and then I told him about the song and then he was like, oh, send it through, baby.
00:37Not only did he send me the song back, he sent me the song, the acapella, the lyrics
00:43that he wrote down, and he had a video of him spitting the shit.
00:46We were both fans of each other's verses, so he knew my verse word for word, bar for
00:52bar, and I knew his word for word, bar for bar.
01:00I was like, this nigga went nuts.
01:04This one I knew, me and him were damn near super alike because it's a movie that I like
01:09called Avengement, and it's with Scott Adkins, and not a lot of people seen that movie.
01:14I be telling people about that movie, and me and him was on the phone and he was talking
01:17about movies and the shit that we like, and he was like, hey, bro, you got to watch this
01:20movie called Avengement.
01:21I was like, wait, with Scott Adkins?
01:23And they in the pub?
01:24And he was like, yeah.
01:25I was like, bro, I love that movie.
01:26What?
01:27No.
01:29No, I know what that movie went for.
01:30He was like, no way.
01:31Who was he?
01:32I was like, the fat guy.
01:33He was like, nah.
01:39I use spin in two contexts, you know what I'm saying?
01:42I like to spend money, but also relating to spin as in the wheel, you know what I'm saying,
01:48on The Price is Right.
01:49Bob Barker, Happy Gilmore, beating up Adam Sandler.
01:52I want the whole thing.
01:54I can't put it into a triple entendre because I never shot nobody, nigga.
01:58I got guns, but I never shot a nigga.
02:12Everybody was like, that's a sus line.
02:14How you know what a golden shower smell like?
02:15And I'm like, nigga, everybody got to pee.
02:18Dumbass.
02:19If you ain't drinking enough water,
02:20your shit comes out smelling like Oren Redenbacher.
02:23Like, you know what I'm saying?
02:25Shit goes crazy, you know?
02:26Or, yeah, I like my weed louder.
02:28Bitches badder than niggas realer.
02:30I don't play about my family,
02:31about my business, about my squirreler.
02:33I'm doing everything in my power to make sure, like,
02:36I don't fuck up, because if I fuck up,
02:39my business fuck up.
02:40If my business fuck up, my money fuck up.
02:42I don't play about my family,
02:43about my business, about my squirreler.
02:44You gotta be about your shit.
02:47All this could be taken away from us,
02:49you know what I'm saying?
02:49In the blink of an eye, if God says so,
02:51to humble you or teach you a lesson.
02:53If God even see you abusing whatever is happening,
02:56he'll take it from you in a heartbeat.
03:09I'm from Miami, and we get nothing but, like,
03:12Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Venezuelans,
03:15and there's, like, fewer Mexicans down there.
03:17But if you speak Spanish or whatever,
03:19they assume you're Mexican, you know?
03:21They don't think about Guatemala or El Salvador.
03:24Instantly, Mexico.
03:25And it's also a little Easter egg
03:28that Mexican O.T.'s on the track.
03:36I don't know how to speak Creole, bruh.
03:38I said a little bit of words like banana and stuff,
03:40but that, banana is what you eat, you feel me?
03:41Peze, like, I forgot what the fuck that mean.
03:44And then, Juet, oh, I know what that mean.
03:46You gotta ask somebody else about that, though.
03:47I speak more Spanish than I ever did speak Creole.
03:50I mean, they need to teach that in school, too.
03:53You get hatin' comments here and there, right?
03:55So, people were like, man, turn this shit off.
03:57This shit making me deaf.
03:58It was like, man, he always yelling and shit,
03:59making me deaf.
04:00That's why I used the term.
04:01I was like, okay, if my music made you deaf,
04:03well, bitch, my jewelry made you blind.
04:05Now you're Helen Keller.
04:13They was used to me doing...
04:19Yeah, I could do that, but I had to get my point across.
04:21I had to get my point across by saying it in a way
04:24where I could break it down and understand.
04:26Yeah, I dumbed down my flow,
04:28but when you come to the show
04:29and know the words, word for word, I made my point.
04:41I am not a emo rapper, so don't put me in that box.
04:43I'm a rapper.
04:44I'm a artist.
04:45I like what I like.
04:46I am who I am, and I'm gonna do what I do,
04:48but the moment you try me,
04:50you gonna figure out I'm not somebody you should try,
04:53period.
05:03Cock or two, cockatoo.
05:04I learned what a cockatoo was when I was in Australia
05:06because that's native to their land.
05:08Out here, when you call a bitch a bird, she's a what?
05:10She a hoe, right?
05:11They even had a play on words with that
05:13in the Kanye West video on Runaway,
05:15when it was like, oh, she's a bird.
05:17Did you realize she's a bird?
05:19Yes, I realized that.
05:20Cockatoo, bird.
05:21Cockatoo, dick.
05:23Could be in a firm, nigga.
05:24Look at what I earned, nigga.
05:26So when I say could be in a firm,
05:27I'm talking about the group that Nas, AZ,
05:30Foxy Brown, Nature, and Cormega was in,
05:33because I'm saying I'm just as raw lyrically.
05:35Lil Wayne, which is the greatest of all time,
05:38even he said,
05:39the only down south nigga that could've been in a firm,
05:41the Commissioner Wu-Tang nigga.
05:43I can tell you that, I kick it like I'm Liu Kang nigga.
05:45Got that Sub-Zero phone, what you want me on?
05:47Make you get over here like Scorpion.
05:49That's also a nod to him.
05:51Affirmative Action is my favorite firm song.
05:53Probably the only firm song I know.
05:55I'ma keep it P, only thing missing is a perm, nigga.
05:58Hey, I ain't gonna lie,
06:00I wanted to rock a perm wig
06:02when I was like trying to make this shit.
06:04I would've been like,
06:05hey, DJ, man.
06:07Hey, DJ, man.
06:09You know what I'm saying?
06:09You ever seen Hustle and Flow?
06:11Skinning, man.
06:11Tell me this not my tape in the toilet, man.
06:13It's harder out here for Denzel.
06:17Tell you bitch ass niggas go to hell.
06:20And I never had to work retail
06:23because I'm making lyrics that's detailed.
06:25Niggas, you hear me?
06:28Hey yo, it's harder out here for Denzel.
06:31You see my lyrics just like the holy grail.
06:34Bitch, I'm making hella paper fuck the mail.