![]() They try to box me in, I got my own angles, yeah Girls these days, they just don't know how to keep a nigga Runnin' up the numbers like Ayesha's nigga You got plans to do it, boy we did it already Please, please tell me why you always hatin' Your kids and broad, they straight, you shouldn't care at all Heard you talkin' 'bout I'm real, I'm fraud Have her suck dick, lick the head and all I'm a 4 Hunnid nigga, I don't care at all I'm just, I'm just proud of my accomplishments ![]() You should know 'cause in every song I said this shit “It’s mad cool figuring out their vibe.” It’s why your favorite producers are lining up to send him beats.Gears I shift, make sure they feel the drift “I love locking in with producers that really have their own sound,” Phil says. It took him almost a year to be able to get familiar with the hushed style, eventually finding a way to lean into the quirks of the music, like he always does. In other hands, the atmospheric production might be music for Scandinavian teenagers to be depressed to-but Phil, even at his most meditative, brings a bounce to it. ![]() On the tape, his Swedish producers’ instrumentals range from ambient and eerie (“I’m Not Them”) to what sounds like the sun peeking through the clouds after a thunderstorm (“Victory Music”), their spareness making Phil’s words hit even harder than usual. The latest result of that focus is Victory Music, which sends you even deeper into Phil’s mind. “It was all I had during that time,” he says. Phil wanted to get a job, but COVID made those hard to come by, so he just put all his focus into rap. At first they stayed at Airbnbs, before eventually landing an apartment. He drove all the way to the West Coast alongside New York rapper 1600J with no real plan in mind for his new L.A. ![]() He spent the three months before the cross-country trek saving up a couple of thousand dollars by working a job at a gas station, hardly spending a cent of his paychecks on anything but bus rides. In 2020, weeks before the pandemic caused nationwide shutdowns, Phil made the move from Connecticut to Los Angeles. ![]()
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