24kGoldn is back at Genius to discuss his latest hit “Good Intentions,” which has been streamed over one million times on Spotify to date! Not one to ever stray away from rapping about his personal life 24kGoldn really shows his vulnerability in his new song discussing how he strayed off course for awhile and getting back to his old.
“As you go through the business and you get more and more success it’s easy to fall into these traps of forgetting why you do what you do.”
“As you go through the business and you get more and more success it’s easy to fall into these traps of forgetting why you do what you do.”
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00:00 When I first started making music, that was the most pure form of me.
00:05 But as you go through the business and you get more and more success, it's easy to fall
00:10 into these traps of forgetting why you do what you do.
00:14 This song is truly about knowing that I started off with good intentions, knowing that I fucked
00:19 it up a little bit in the past, but also knowing that I'm back on track now and there's only
00:24 more greatness to come.
00:25 [Music]
00:32 The process of making it was as honest as it sounds on the record when you listen to it.
00:36 This is everything that I've been thinking for the last two years.
00:39 It just like came out.
00:43 This just how it is.
00:45 No more what it was.
00:46 Wake up, take a shower, then I roll myself a blunt.
00:49 If I'm being honest, I've been going through a rut.
00:52 Victim of my selfishness is finally catching up.
00:55 Heavy way to start a song, right?
00:57 I think a lot of people always like to act like everything is fine, especially artists.
01:01 We always want to be fine and everything is okay.
01:04 Keep a smile on your face.
01:05 But I think there's a great strength in vulnerability.
01:09 Money over love, bitches doing drugs.
01:12 When you getting famous, they're going to shower you with love.
01:15 Copy, paste, and compliments don't mean a single one.
01:18 I'm addicted to attention, anything to catch a buzz.
01:21 People are always telling you the same things like, "Oh, you're him.
01:24 You got it.
01:25 You sold this many records.
01:26 You're lit."
01:27 It starts feeling hollow.
01:28 It feels like y'all just copy and pasted this from somebody else.
01:31 People say, "You the GOAT.
01:32 You told that to seven other people today.
01:34 How can we all be the greatest of all time?"
01:36 Roses in the grass, hoes up on the bus.
01:39 I had good intentions 'til I started slipping up.
01:42 Love took over love, now look at where we ended up.
01:45 With the only one that really know me, blocking me for months.
01:48 In that state of being of selfishness and losing my good intentions,
01:53 I feel like I pushed away a lot of the people that cared about me the most.
01:56 Women, family, friends.
01:59 It's no fun when you're successful but alone, you know?
02:03 Or the only people that are there are there for the wrong reasons.
02:06 It's weird losing friends.
02:20 With relationships, there's attractiveness and all these other things that play into it.
02:23 But with a friendship, it's like, I see you as a human being and I fuck with you.
02:27 So when you lose a friend, it's like them saying,
02:30 "I see you as a human being and I don't fuck with you anymore."
02:34 It's funny that we're having this conversation today because my dad called me yesterday.
02:49 He was like, "Your mom loves a new song."
02:51 She said it was all about her and I'm like, "Well, partially."
02:55 You know, but I'm glad you like your mom.
02:59 Bottles on the floor, models in the tub.
03:01 Rumor's still a mess, been too depressed to clean it up.
03:04 Plaques on every wall but they from 2021.
03:07 Take a picture, smoke a swish, a reminisce on how it was.
03:10 I like that line because it starts off thinking like,
03:13 "Oh, here he goes. He's bragging. Okay, we get it."
03:16 But then it switches and it lowers the veil a little bit and it's like me being vulnerable.
03:21 I know what's going on. I know where I've been.
03:24 But I also know where I could go.
03:26 And that's why I feel comfortable saying something like that is because I know that I can be honest
03:31 and I can admit that like, "Yo, we was lit in 2021."
03:36 But don't count me out yet.
03:38 I've been great in the past and I'm going to be great in the future.
03:41 We got to end it on an optimistic note.
03:55 What good is a song that just talks about how bad your life is?
03:58 I don't know. For some people, sure, go ahead, go crazy.
04:01 If you feel that, you feel that.
04:03 But that's not me and anybody that listens to my music,
04:06 I don't want them to listen to a song and feel hopeless at the end.
04:10 And I wanted to make everybody else that listens to this song
04:13 feel like they got the power to change their own lives too.
04:15 You won't go there, we can go there. Take a look in my mind, take a glance at me.
04:22 You won't go there, we can go there. Take a shot in the dark, take a chance on me.
04:29 If there's no love, then there's no love, then there's no love.
04:35 But the crystal balls that deck these halls keep showing up.
04:41 I took the time, I did the work, I'm showing up.
04:47 So take a chance, baby, take a chance, take a chance on us.
04:53 I wanted to make people feel like they were taken off and flying
04:56 when they listened to that part and the sun was shining on their face of,
05:00 "Oh shit, all this stuff in the beginning is true."
05:04 But that was the past and the outro is the future of what can happen
05:10 and what will happen.
05:13 Almost every lyric that you hear in there was the original thing that I said
05:18 on that first take.
05:20 I cut this song on my balcony at 2am.
05:23 The energy you hear in that song is from a real specific moment.
05:26 It's cool to be able to capture that in music.