Wynne is back at Genius to discuss her hit “Jaw Morant.” The single is produced by Felix Leone and is off the Genius Distro artist’s most recent project Some Like It Hot. On today’s episode of Verified, find out how the hot track came about.
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00:00 I'm sure Ja Morant has heard the song, but I don't know that he would ever reach out
00:04 'cause it's not the most wholesome flip on his name.
00:07 He might not appreciate it, but Ja, if you see this, it's all love.
00:12 You're a dope player.
00:13 I'm dope at what I do, so it just kinda worked.
00:15 I'm always watching basketball, and as a lyricist, I think that's something rappers do pretty
00:26 commonly is you think of some quirky little thing or some wordplay, you put it in the
00:30 notes app on your phone.
00:31 I probably had like 10,000 notes on my phone.
00:33 But I had just typed out in my phone, "Ja Morant," 'cause I thought that was funny.
00:36 It actually wasn't gonna be the hook.
00:38 It was actually how I started my verse.
00:40 When we played it back, he tied my engineer and was like, "Yo, that's gotta be the hook."
00:43 And I was like, "Really?"
00:44 He was like, "Yeah."
00:45 I was like, "We gotta call it Ja Morant."
00:53 That's my lyrical way of saying I'm good at giving head.
00:57 So I have given a lot of wisdom in my day.
01:00 First, I love that because it's a sneaky little wordplay that I think a lot of people miss
01:11 on their first listen.
01:12 And that was some of my favorite lyricism growing up, whether it was Jay-Z or Lil Wayne,
01:16 early chant stuff, like Lupe.
01:19 I would listen to something a couple years later and catch something I didn't catch.
01:22 So I always loved those kinds of nods like that.
01:25 But why would I let a hoe tell me shit?
01:28 When somebody's trying to say something to me in the comments, I'm like, "You're not in
01:31 the arena.
01:32 You're on the bench or you're in the bleachers."
01:35 Why would I let a hoe tell me shit?
01:49 When you have things and people don't have them, they want them from you, they want favors
01:53 from you.
01:54 Yeah, I just feel like if you're gonna suck up to me, I'll loan you some bobby pins.
01:57 Pin it back.
01:58 My DMs are flooded.
02:07 It's a lot of simps out there.
02:09 So I'm just enjoying the ride.
02:11 It's a good thing to smoke on.
02:12 You gotta be so good.
02:19 You gotta just be heaven sent.
02:21 Somebody's gotta meet you and be like, "Damn, you're really everything I could've wanted."
02:25 That's how you give atheists a reason to believe.
02:27 Not enough people say "kapish."
02:36 I think all the time you flirt with somebody or you respond to a DM and it's like, "I might
02:41 think you're cute, but I'm not trying to link up."
02:44 If I'm just being a tease, if it's not that deep, then it's really not that deep.
02:48 It's like, "Kapish."
02:49 A real one is someone who just keeps it a buck with you.
03:15 I'm a very blunt person.
03:16 I don't do a lot of in-betweens.
03:19 I like to be honest.
03:20 I like to be up front.
03:21 So I like to be with people who are also that way.
03:24 So if you're playing games or you're wasting my time, I can see through that bullshit and
03:29 I'm coming for you.
03:44 I'm always thinking about music.
03:47 I'm always thinking about lyrics I could come up with.
03:50 I'll be in the club putting notes in my phone, thinking of things, seeing some funny shit
03:54 and being like, "I don't want to write a lyric about that later."
03:56 I'm scheming.
03:57 I'm thinking about my next move.
03:58 I'm about my business, so I'm locked in.
04:01 I have done this before and it's kind of egregious.
04:06 Like imagine.
04:07 Imagine.
04:08 Yeah, that's tough.
04:09 He trying to cuff me but you can't possess a demon.
04:12 He's breaking down in front of me like he's on Genius.
04:15 We're having a moment right now.
04:17 This is a moment.
04:18 This is a classic platform.
04:19 Everyone wants to do one of these videos.
04:21 So when you talk about breaking down in front of someone, I think it's a hilarious imagery.
04:26 The people I have around me is a blessing for sure.
04:34 They're very grounding.
04:36 Making sure you have good people around you is super important.
04:38 These moments when you're coming up as an artist, people think it happens overnight,
04:42 but I've been rapping, like I said, since I was nine.
04:44 I've been in the industry since 2016.
04:46 So I'm actively working every day I wake up and I think about my goals and where I want
04:50 to go and I'm working towards those things.
04:52 So when they start coming to fruition, it's like, "Oh shit, I did this."
05:05 I love the wordplay of connecting.
05:07 Basketball references for the hoes.
05:09 Which doesn't always connect because most of my girlfriends don't watch basketball,
05:14 but it's reality TV for the boys.
05:16 That's all basketball is.
05:18 So yeah, to post on Instagram, post up on the block, under the hoop.
05:24 It's like the concept of Drake starts his verse on "Used To" with "When you get to where
05:35 the fuck I'm at, you gotta remind 'em where the fuck you at."
05:37 Don't play with me.
05:38 I've really been here doing this for a long time.
05:39 I'm about my lyrics.
05:40 This is real shit for me.
05:41 So I have to let 'em know.
05:43 Don't call out my name if you don't have it in your phone.
05:45 You can't.
05:46 You scroll on Twitter and it's got highlights everywhere, especially during the season.
05:51 So I'm sure I was scrolling or watching a game or something and it popped up, but my
05:55 favorite player is Damian Lillard, to be clear.