Season 2 of the Interval Presents podcast Rap Radar kicks off Thursday with visitor Tyler, The Creator.
In a preview snippet shared completely with Billboard, the Name Me If You Get Misplaced rapper chopped it up with co-hosts Elliott Wilson and Brian ‘B.Dot’ Miller, doubling down on his previously professed love for NBA YoungBoy. “He’s such a sweetheart,” Tyler begins, earlier than switching gears and sharing that the “WUSYANAME” collaborators went out for ice cream and classic automotive buying.
Whereas previously, Tyler hadn’t divulged how the collaboration truly got here to be, he shares the transient however candy backstory with Wilson and Miller.
Throughout the sit down, Tyler explains that he despatched YoungBoy the preliminary music thought and acquired a verse again inside sooner or later. “Once I made [‘WUSYANAME’], I simply knew I needed that Louisiana drawl, tone, accent over that loop,” he recounts. “I requested him like, ‘Yo, I sort of acquired this concept. Need to do that?’ Not solely did he ship for me and sounded nice, he requested me ‘Is that this OK? Is it good?’”
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Tyler was impressed with YoungBoy’s focus, sharing that many rappers “simply punch in and might’t even keep on f—ing matter of a music. He not solely stayed on matter, he simply sounded so nice.”
The Name Me If You Get Misplaced collaboration took many followers off-guard, contemplating their vastly totally different sounds and pictures, one thing Tyler stated he discovered humorous. “With my musical data and the way a lot I adore it, it’s not that surprising,” he says. “However at floor degree, I suppose individuals wouldn’t anticipate somebody like me to even need to affiliate with a YoungBoy. However I like that s–t. He’s a sweetheart, man.”
“WUSYANAME” debuted at No. 14 on the Billboard Scorching 100, marking the very best charting minimize from the album. It additionally grew to become a high 10 document on the Scorching R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, peaking at No. 6.
Watch the Rap Radar clip under.
