'I had literally done this whole record myself, but I always had Too $hort in mind for this one. 'Oh, man, the album comes out December 4. So, you start to feel like you’re growing apart from people back home.' To travel and to work every single day, it’s not like you wake up in the same bed and go to the same job and come home and go to sleep in the same bed every day. 'I had just gotten back from Europe, and during touring and everything, it was hard to maintain personal relationships. You can call Big Sean up and be like, 'Yeah, I have this record I think you’d sound amazing on.' He cut the verse and sent it right back to me, so that was love.' You get to this point where you become peers. The crazy thing about where I’m at right now in my career is that realizing that when I meet people, I can actually reach out to them.

'That track is about the other side of G-Eazy the desire to have it all, to be the biggest thing in the world…. Music, the thing that I fell in love with years and years and years ago, is what is bringing me around the world and it’s the reason I’m here.' But at the end of the day, it is beautiful that I get to do this. You don’t get to go home and take the uniform off-I am the uniform, and it can be kinda hard to escape sometimes. The one thing about this job is, you’re never off the clock. I’m a Gemini and there really are these multiple sides of me, so part of me is enjoying the ride, the other half has a hard time adjusting to this new lifestyle sometimes. It’s like a roller coaster that I’m on right now and no matter what anybody tells you, there’s really nothing that can prepare you for what it’s like or how crazy it gets. This last year and a half to two years of my life have been really crazy. 'This is a really honest, personal record. It’s not like it was given to me or handed out.' It’s like when the album comes out and it does really well, this is by virtue of putting my blood, sweat, and tears into something for over a decade. It’s not like I got lucky and took a shortcut or it just fell out of the sky. is a reminder in general that this is 12 years of hard work, putting every dollar I had back into everything, working my ass off to be here. It’s gotta grab your attention off the bat. 'I feel like it is really important when you’re putting the order all together, the first song has to be really hard, really aggressive.

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