Genius recently caught up with LOE Shimmy to discuss his hit single “For Me.” Featured on his 'Zombieland 2.6' album and recently remixed with R&B singer Brent Faiyaz. On today’s episode of VERIFIED, the Florida rapper takes us behind the scenes, sharing the story of how he manifested his dream collaboration, his journey to developing his signature sound, recognizing the song was a hit from the start, and the meaning behind his unique name.
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00:00I knew this song was a hit.
00:01Once I made it in the stew, I made it off the head in like 20 minutes.
00:04I just let everything out in there.
00:05I was just expressing myself on there, you feel me?
00:07Once I seen the world think the same thing, they love it too.
00:10That's when I knew.
00:11I'm like, yeah, I just got one.
00:19This is how the remix with Brent Fiers came about.
00:22We met through my partner in Miami.
00:23We hit the stew a couple times, catching the vibe, you know, just chilling, feel what I'm
00:26saying?
00:27Like build a genuine relationship.
00:28I've been one of my favorite artists, I said it in plenty of interviews, like, man, you
00:31feel me?
00:32When they be like, who's your top five artist you want to work with, I always say Brent,
00:35you feel me?
00:36I always told my team, like, man, we're going to get one of them, bro, you feel me?
00:39And so I basically manifested it into existence for real, you feel me?
00:43He hit me up, he like, man, I'm finna go crazy on that for me remix.
00:46Like, man, let's run it, you feel me?
00:47We just stayed in the stew till we felt like it was a hit, and then shot the video next
00:51week.
00:58Creating for me, the lyrics and the melody just came to me at the same time, because
01:07I had the room pitch black, I had the candle burning by the MacBook.
01:10I'm just expressing how I feel, and just going off what I see, you know what I'm saying?
01:20I'm in the game, like, you feel what I'm saying?
01:26I'm balling out, just like MJ, just like Scottie Pippen, you feel me?
01:30Like, it's my time.
01:31G23, you feel me?
01:32They both got the same number on it.
01:34He don't miss, Jordan don't miss, they both rare shooters.
01:39Just because Zombieland fucked up a few times, like, don't mean you just go leave me, you
01:43feel me?
01:49For me, for me, for me, for me, for me, for me, for me, for me, for me, for me, for me.
01:54If she real, I'ma put chrome heart all over her, and I'ma bust your neck with a zombie
02:00pen, you feel me?
02:01So I told him, I just want him gone before my z-day, please, like, that's just me, you
02:05feel what I'm saying?
02:06Making a wish to the man above, like, just to remove all the negativity out my life,
02:11you know what I'm saying?
02:19When I leave the booth, come lay up with Zombieland, you feel what I'm saying?
02:22Come push up on him.
02:23Like, I don't wanna be alone.
02:27I gotta float, like, you feel what I'm saying?
02:30I gotta be floatin' to get in my zone, you feel me?
02:32I'm not okay, you feel me?
02:33I'ma let you take the wheel tonight, uh, we know what we doin' wrong, my girl, it feels
02:38so right, uh, it feels so right, uh, it feels so right.
02:45Your mama tell you, like, don't touch no more cookies in this cookie jar, but, like, it
02:50tastes way better if you know you're not supposed to be eating it than, you feel me, if she
02:55give permission to eat it, like, everything way better when, you feel what I'm saying?
02:59Like, you're not supposed to be doing it.
03:04Touch your soul, right?
03:05Zombieland dive in, like, scuba dive, you feel what I'm saying?
03:09Like, think like the people with the tanks that go deep sea diving, like, Zombieland
03:13is going too deep.
03:21I always knew I was a star because I just always knew I was that one, you feel me?
03:25Even if I wasn't making music, even if I was a doctor, the best doctor, you feel what I'm
03:30saying?
03:31If I was an Uber driver, I'ma be the best Uber driver, like, I'm just that one, regardless.
03:41That's how I walked in with this cup, like, full of cranberry juice, you feel me?
03:45You sip too much, you're gonna start to, like, feel like you on Mars, you feel what I'm saying?
03:49Like, you dreaming, like, shout out Pluto.
03:52Yeah, I definitely got that Codeine Dreamin' influence from Pluto, shout out Pluto.
03:56Pluto got all these other niggas going Codeine crazy, cuz.
04:01That's where I get the name Lil' Shimmy from.
04:03At Louis, I made that when I was probably like in middle school, probably like sixth
04:06grade.
04:07I got it tattered right here.
04:08I got it tattered all over.
04:09And I got that from Pablo Escobar, love for me over everything, loyalty over everything.