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Belly Gang Kushington pulled up to Genius to discuss his hit song “Rent Due.” The rapper broke down his lyrics, his songwriting process, redirecting his focus toward more positive things, comparisons to other rappers, and more!

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00:00This beat crazy cause I ain't even know that was a Jay-Z flip.
00:04You know what I'm saying?
00:04So they told me, like, it's a Jay-Z sample.
00:07I'm like, that crazy.
00:08But then when I heard the Jay-Z song back, I'm like, oh, you don't tripload.
00:10I knew this song.
00:11When I heard the beat, I just felt like, I just want to go in on that beat.
00:15I really wasn't even thinking, like, this is a Jay-Z flip.
00:18And that crazy cause I do a lot of flips.
00:26I ain't gonna lie.
00:27I usually write a lot of my music, riding in the car, driving by myself or on a plane
00:31or in the shower.
00:32That's really where the ideas come from.
00:34But I just went in the studio and just rapped what I felt, for real.
00:38And at the end, it's just rapping like the Rent Dole.
00:41So we just named it Rent Dole.
00:57I really just sat down at the computer and was like, I'm just saying what I feel.
01:02I don't give a fuck by letting this beat start.
01:04Like, I ain't really want to listen to no intro or no beat for real.
01:07So I don't give a fuck by letting this beat start.
01:09I'm like, where around with beat start?
01:10I just remember somebody had said some crazy shit about my son.
01:13My little boy, my son, he autistic.
01:15When he got diagnosed, I was just like, nah, I gotta get focused.
01:19I kept going to jail, getting locked up, paying bonds.
01:22I'm like, last time I got locked up, I was like, it's my last time.
01:25Like, I gotta get out, get focused, put this money behind something else.
01:27So that's what I did.
01:41I'ma sit down and talk about my real life.
01:44Like, now that I'm moving up, everybody want pictures, we can't take all the pictures.
01:47So my buddies just get the charging for them.
01:49Crack cook, I'm a street guard.
01:51Like, in my old life, 20 black trucks everywhere we go.
01:58Obviously, like, I be dealing with some bad bitches.
02:01Girls just be so bad, it's just like, everything, she ass.
02:05Take it.
02:06You know what I'm saying?
02:14Look how hard I am.
02:16Look how hard I go, it's straight to the point.
02:18I'm supposed to be one of the ones.
02:20And I am.
02:20I'm running a circle around these little niggas.
02:22I'm jumping on hurdles around these little niggas.
02:57I don't know if it cause I rock Dickies and used to be in the street or what, but like
03:02I don't sound like Jeezy, I don't look like Jeezy, like I'm not trying to sound like
03:06Jeezy.
03:07I don't know, I guess it's the aura or dope, but from the South, I don't know.
03:11Crazy to be like not even known to being compared to Jeezy and then to being now like I got
03:17my own name.
03:20Nigga, them boys came from a whole lot of scamming, a lot of drug dealing.
03:23Nigga, I'm did it when it come to P's, but I don't know how to drug with me.
03:27Nigga, I'm getting it when it come to keys, I don't know how to plug send it.
03:30Smell like soap and Febreze with a whole lot of Dove in it, with a whole lot of drugs in
03:34it, with a little extra shud in it.
03:36Nigga, I wrote this shit in the jail cell with a whole lot of bugs in it.
03:39I had came home last time I was locked.
03:42I had wrote so much like I came home with like a notepad with a whole bunch of rhymes in
03:47it
03:48than I had converted them over to like Santa on the boys' memo.
03:51Nigga, them Chinese bass ain't nothing, they come right over the Pacific.
03:54Feb tapped my phone, I used to change my voice like this, like hold up a minute.
03:58Nigga, I touched down, got a yada, I had a whole lot of guns in it.
04:01Nigga, I touched down, got a cup, I poured a whole lot of mud in it.
04:04I hit the club, my entourage, it got a whole lot of thugs in it.
04:07Gangsta rap, my fan base got a whole lot of crooks and bloods in it.
04:10It feel good to like be going to all these shows and then I look back and it just like
04:15these some thugs niggas who came up with me.
04:18These niggas right here supporting me like, you know what I'm saying?
04:21Like I'm playing a sport or something, then like we go do these shows, it's like every
04:24trap we close, every city we go to.
04:27Like you can tell like all the crooks and crooners and trapped niggas in here like, for sure.
04:31I do not rock no monster night, my chain got glist and flood in it.
04:35I don't even know that much like that, I just know it ain't a diamond, you know what
04:38I'm saying?
04:38Like very much more cheaper than diamonds, you know what I'm saying?
04:41When I ain't had the money, I just didn't rock it, you know what I'm saying?
04:43That shit getting in the way for us niggas who spend hundreds of thousands on this shit,
04:47you know what I'm saying?
04:48Niggas going up spending 10,000 on a kit, that shit, these girls thinking that shit the
04:53same thing, you know what I'm saying?
04:54That's why you gotta go to a name brand, get your jewelry, you know what I'm saying?
04:58Like wifey.
05:08When I was like a kid, I wanted to be a rapper.
05:10As I started growing up, I obviously chose the streets, but then as I got older, I'm
05:14like, it really my dream, it's what I wanted to do, you know what I'm saying?
05:18Can't nobody rap like me, so why not?
05:26I don't even read comments.
05:28I think people get lost and not realize like this is a device and it's an app on a device
05:34and then it's comments from people you don't know.
05:37I think people get lost and forget that.
05:39You know you can put this down and go in the real world.
05:41I think a lot of people who type negative shit in comments be people that don't have a voice
05:46in real life, I got to go home and just, you know what I'm saying, type on the internet.
05:50So I don't even read them.
05:51I don't even pay attention to them.
06:05It was kind of like the same thing for in the beginning, toward the end.
06:09I don't even give a fuck about letting it cut off.
06:11I'm going to keep going.
06:12I think sometimes in art, especially music, we get to thinking like, it got to be structured
06:17like this the whole time.
06:19You really just do what you want to do.
06:20It was kind of like just a feeling of like, I'm doing what I want to do with this beat
06:23and this song.
06:29I mean, I just think no F01, just a classic, dope, but feel simple, go with everything.
06:36About 20 pairs a week, I just changed them on the way in here.
06:42Trying to explain to an alien who Bellagame Kush is and what type of music do he do when
06:46he in his own lane, play Rent Door.
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