Rob49 pulled up to the Genius office to break down his breakout record, “WTHELLY.” The viral track, expected to appear on his upcoming album Let Me Fly, has sparked numerous social media trends and even caught the attention of stars like Justin Bieber and Wiz Khalifa. On today’s episode of Verified, the New Orleans rapper walks us through the day he made the hit, how he underestimated its success, the origin of the now-famous phrase, and more.
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00:00I ain't gonna lie.
00:01Being in the studio or making a song, we knew it was that.
00:03And even when we said we gonna drop it and it's gonna be that, we thinking it's gonna
00:06be that for like, you know what I'm saying?
00:08Like a small group of people.
00:10We never thinking the song gonna get as big as it did to what Justin Bieber and like the
00:14whole world on it.
00:15When I be seeing people now, I be like, damn, like the whole world know it.
00:19It's to the point they only know me for this song.
00:21I like it though, because it shows growth, but at the same time it's like, damn, man.
00:27We can go further for real, nah.
00:30And the day I made this song, I woke up early, because I had to shoot a Cardi B video for
00:40all that money.
00:41Then we went back to the hotel.
00:42I'm like, man, I feel like I'm going to the studio, but I ain't had no sessions.
00:44I had to wind up going to pull up on a Skillabay recession.
00:46So I had one of them like making two songs and then we about to leave out.
00:49I'm like, man, I can push one more out.
00:51I know I can.
00:52I'm telling my partners like, man, give me five minutes.
00:54I swear I'm gonna do it one take.
00:55They came in the booth with me because they really low key rushing me.
00:57So we hurry up and did it, and they just giving me words to say so.
01:00And then we just did it in five minutes for real.
01:02When we was done, we wasn't ready to leave no more.
01:05All of us just kept playing the song back and back.
01:08We like, man, this is crazy.
01:09No way.
01:18You know what's funny?
01:19I got my first presidential Rolex the day I shot with the heli video.
01:23I was capping when I said it, but I spoke it into existence.
01:26And it's so funny that I just went to the jeweler and the one that he like, we got the
01:30new presidential ruler.
01:31I knew I was shooting with the heli the next day.
01:33I'm like, ain't like I'm making a bad decision about buying the Prezi because it's still
01:36going to hold its value.
01:37So I'm like, man, just give me the watch.
01:39Like seven months after I said it.
01:41First of all, who's going to start this by saying, I'm not buying a Prezi for anyone
01:54other than my wife.
01:55That's crazy.
01:56After marriage, then you get a Prezi.
01:57Other than that, no search scheme.
01:59If a girl really fuck with you, she should get whatever she want honestly.
02:02I ain't no trick though.
02:11When I said diamonds on spaghetti, I'm like, man, it sound good.
02:23It feel good.
02:24It don't got to make sense, honestly.
02:26We said yeet yeet and that didn't make no sense, but it felt good.
02:29I don't know no Jackson.
02:30I know Ben Frankie.
02:31What the hell?
02:32God take my pills.
02:33I get too cranky.
02:34What the hell?
02:35In the S5?
02:36In the S80?
02:37What the hell?
02:38Before I blew up and stuff, my uncle Pimp used to have the Benz.
02:42He used to be letting me hold it down in the S580 and I used to be driving it all
02:47around the city like it was my car.
02:48In the S5 and the S80, that's the same shit and I never thought about it until just now.
02:59When I originally had the video planned in my head when I said it and I'm like, man,
03:09Spitty gonna be here with this Chevelle.
03:10That's how we gonna play it out.
03:12It was really a shout out to Currency because I know his card collection crazy and I know
03:16I can see what I want when it come to shit like that because this my real brother.
03:20Whatever he got, I got.
03:24Damn, I was a big fan of wrestling.
03:26I used to always want the belt and stuff.
03:28I never got a chance to get it, but I was a big fan of wrestling.
03:31I used to go to Rell with my mom and my mom brought me to go see Rell.
03:34Rick Flippi popping that shit with the Rolexes with just like, he popped that shit like a rapper.
03:45A shake.
03:46I get the trap shaking.
03:48Like Ken and Kel.
03:50There's two actresses on Good Burger that sell shakes.
03:53You know how when a deadbeat dad calls you like,
03:56I'm coming to get you today son.
03:59And he never make it.
04:01That's what happened to him.
04:03Like a deadbeat.
04:04The opposite ain't make it.
04:06Damn.
04:07What the hell?
04:08What the hell?
04:09What the hell?
04:10What the hell?
04:11What the hellie?
04:12What the hell?
04:13What the hell?
04:14What the hellie?
04:15What the hellie?
04:16What the hellie?
04:17What the hellie?
04:18What the hellie come from like a New Orleans slang.
04:20Like Wazam Baby or something like that.
04:22We say what the hell now?
04:23What the hellie.
04:24I don't know exactly the originator, but I know.
04:27I get it from my partners.
04:28What the hellie?
04:29So nah, I'm not part of it.
04:30I'm like, man, I'm about to make a song called What the Hellie.
04:32What the hellie?
04:33What the hellie?
04:34What the hellie on?
04:35What the hellie Berry?
04:37What the hellie Burton?
04:39What the hellie Brian James?
04:41What the hellie Cyrus?
04:43My friends was in there feeding me names like saying, say what the hellie Cyrus?
04:46Say what the hellie Burton?
04:47The only thing I came up with was what the hellie Brian James.
04:50I know I popped it when I said that though.
04:52I beat them.
04:53I think if I could have recorded again, like the ones I put on that probably.
04:56What the hellie Roller?
04:57What the hellie Yance?
04:58What the hellie Uber?
04:59What the wine W Hellie?
05:01What the hellie with the Zelle?
05:02Like stuff like that.
05:03I think that, like if I would have seen it, that would have been like, man, he is crazy.
05:08What the Bamba?
05:11What the Bamba Client?
05:12That's my favorite.
05:13That's my favorite version that people been making really.
05:15Just cause I be in Jamaica a lot.
05:17Like I'm a little Jamaican.
05:18So yeah, I like that.
05:19A lot.
05:20I won't hit it in Jamaica.
05:21I really should have got Buju Bantan to do that.