2 Chainz takes the utmost pride in his creativity; he just hopes the lyrics on his upcoming B.O.A.T.S. II: Me Time don't land him in hot water.
Deuce sat down with MTV News' Sway Calloway on Tuesday to talk about everything from his pal Kanye West to his new album — even touching on the recent rash of rappers apologizing for their song lyrics. It was something he considered when recording "Feds Watching," the first single from his forthcoming sophomore album.
On it, Chainz says that he'll "put that rocket on that mother----in' prosecutor." The song has been out since June and is climbing up the Billboard song chart. So far, no one has publicly expressed a problem with the lyric, but it was enough to make producer Pharrell Williams think twice.
"It actually was brought up. Pharrell brought it up, and then the label brought it up," 2 Chainz told Sway. "Anything dealing with harming someone like that — an official — they not goin' for it. It's almost a cuss word; you almost can't say it, because this is a government official."
There's another lyric on B.O.A.T.S. II that has Chainz worried: "I said, 'I blew myself up like a Unabomber,' " he explained, revealing a song lyric on an unspecified song.
Chainz says the lyric isn't intended to praise Ted Kaczynski — the infamous "Unabomber," who was responsible for over a dozen public bombings and three deaths — but rather to give the rapper himself a pat on the back for pulling himself up by his own bootstraps. "My creative side ...
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