Big Hit And Hit-Boy stopped by Genius to discuss their song “A$VP Chauncey.” The Grammy winner producer is not only featured on the song off his father’s debut album The Truth Is In My Eyes, but he also produced it. On today’s episode of Verified, the father-son duo talk about their legacy, making up for lost time and getting to the money ASAP.
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00:00 What I love most is it's authentic, man.
00:02 He ain't never gonna be nobody with a big hit.
00:04 Like, you can't mistake him for nobody else.
00:06 The thing I love most about my son, man,
00:08 is the versatility, the humbleness,
00:12 you know what I'm saying, and just the determination.
00:14 (upbeat music)
00:17 Soon as he touched down, first day he got out of prison,
00:23 seven months ago, he came straight to the stool
00:26 and the energy was just like,
00:27 we about to make up for the nine years we just lost.
00:30 And we ain't slowed down and stopped.
00:31 Yeah, we ain't even,
00:32 I feel like we scratching the surface.
00:34 Like Big Hit always say, this particular record,
00:36 Big Hit just got idea on the ideas.
00:39 So like I played the beat, he did the song.
00:41 I was like, I gotta hop on this.
00:43 (singing in foreign language)
00:48 (singing in foreign language)
00:52 You know, Pops was locked up,
00:59 but he the one who had hit me and was like,
01:02 man, you gotta name your son Chauncey,
01:04 so we call him C3.
01:05 It just made me look at things in a broader perspective.
01:08 Like, man, we really got a legacy.
01:09 (whooshing)
01:11 (singing in foreign language)
01:15 (singing in foreign language)
01:19 I need my issue.
01:22 You say when you feel like you're entitled to something,
01:25 that you know you got something coming.
01:27 You ain't trying to hear shit else,
01:28 my nigga, break it off.
01:29 I need my issue.
01:30 (whooshing)
01:32 (singing in foreign language)
01:44 I manifest a whole lot in my music.
01:46 It's a bit of paranoia involved with that,
01:49 'cause I've been dealing with it my whole life.
01:51 I just put that in there just to like, you know, stamp it.
01:53 Like, man, we really finna stay on it this time
01:55 and really build what we been meaning to build for 30 years.
01:58 I already knew in my heart that I was finna stay home.
02:01 I wanted to prove to him like, this is it.
02:03 I spend a nigga figure A for the figures.
02:06 Lay low at the spot, count it up 'til I get blisters.
02:09 I think I'm Jay-Z Wentworth.
02:10 You signin' on Twitter.
02:12 I'm signing documents in Beverly Hills
02:14 for my builders running ASAP.
02:15 I just think of Jay-Z Wentworth
02:17 like the man with all the cash.
02:19 Jay-Z Wentworth, I need my cash now.
02:21 It play into the ASAP concept.
02:23 Money now, period.
02:24 (whooshing)
02:26 Jay-Z Wentworth, I need my chili ASAP.
02:29 Get mistaken for a Mac, they like blood got the sack.
02:32 First glance, beat it, stands like bloody bellied hard.
02:35 I know he fresh off the yard, I can tell he a dog.
02:38 Literally, I done got mistaken for a Mac.
02:40 I done had some girls, you know, ask me to, you know,
02:43 do a cha-cha on the pimpin' and all that.
02:45 And I tell 'em like, baby, that's too slow for me.
02:48 I ain't, I can't sit and do this, right?
02:51 I can't be pimpin', you know what I'm sayin'?
02:52 I know it's disrespect to the pimps, my nigga,
02:55 but, yeah, I can't be chasing 'em down.
02:58 And I can tell she a whore, and I can tell blood a fraud.
03:01 Me and Hit goin' hard, livin' like rock stars.
03:04 Stressed bikes, candy cars, surf club, livin' large.
03:08 I might wiggle to the fight, take a flight back to mall.
03:11 Every day, I feel like we livin' like rock stars.
03:13 It's just, I'm riding, and my life is right back.
03:16 I'm pickin' up the fat blunt.
03:18 I'm right back to the music.
03:19 I'm right back to the interviews.
03:21 I'm right back to the bitches.
03:23 I'm right back to the flashy cha-cha.
03:25 I'm back to the niggas hatin'.
03:27 Some niggas congratulatin'.
03:28 We full speed ahead, we in real time right now.
03:31 We really catchin' the wave, we ridin' the wave.
03:34 I might wiggle through the light,
03:36 'cause niggas funny like Marco.
03:38 I can't let 'em do me like Kane,
03:39 'cause in this Maybach, hard to follow.
03:41 Crackin' hood stars and superstars.
03:43 I have my way.
03:44 I'm with a bad one, and her favorite fruit is apple pay.
03:47 Run it ASAP.
03:48 Yeah, I mean, it's 2024 now,
03:50 so not a lot of girls is looking forward to flowers.
03:52 They want that apple pay, man.
03:54 Like, so that just is what it is.
03:56 I don't even really use apple pay like that.
03:58 I just said it.
03:59 Yeah, I mean, Yams was somebody that tapped in around 2014.
04:04 Like, I mean, I obviously knew him through doing
04:06 Rocky first single, which was "Goldie" back in the day,
04:09 and other joints on his first album.
04:11 But he just showed respect, showed love,
04:13 was like, "Man, big hit, I need a big hit album."