My lowest point throughout this journey was when I was about to go to prison I sat down with my son. You may have a female in your life right now but there’s still that one that you always think of, and when something happens, good or bad they’re the first person you wanna call and tell.”īoth pre-fame and and at the height of his success Lyfe went through some extreme highs and lows, but according to him his rock bottom was a tough conversation he had with his son before going to prison. “One of my favorites is a joint I have that’s called ‘Tell Me.’ The song is just about, you know how you go through shit with a female and it didn’t work out? You don’t miss the part that didn’t work out, but you still miss them, and sometimes you get some good news and you just wanna call them and do all the familiar shit but you find that you’re not able to do that anymore. My goal is never to get a bunch of features my goal is just to get the dopest connections and produce the dopest outcomes, so I guess that’s just what came naturally this time.”Īmong the songs on his swan song LP, there was one in particular that the veteran crooner says came from an extra personal place and felt like something that everyday people could relate to. “I do have more features than I normally would. “I got some younger sounding beats on some of the tracks but lyrically it’s consistent with everything that I’ve done,”said Lyfe. On 777 Lyfe did find inspiration from a youthful sound, but as far as the lyrics fans can expect the same openness that helped him get on in the first place. I think I’m built for it so that’s just what it is.” I don’t really want people in my business like that. “Through the highs and lows of my career it’s just been me. I’m just that kinda dude that I’ll just go handle it myself and just be like ‘wait right here I’ll be right back,” said Lyfe. Like, if I had to have a major operation wouldn’t nobody know. “I wouldn’t even tell my mother if something was wrong. “We didn’t ever have no insurance growing up, so me being able to do that was special.”ĭespite the vulnerability displayed in his music, Lyfe has always aimed to be self-sufficient even when times are hard. That might sound like something small but for me it was huge cause I just feel like if anything ever happened to them I’ll be able to take care of them,” Lyfe noted.
My highest point in my career was when I could afford to get insurance for my kids. All the accolades and stuff that other people do stuff for that’s not what I’m in it for. Over the course of his career, Lyfe has received equal parts acclaim and criticism for the press that he’s been a part of, but as he tells it, outside voices, good or bad have never factored into his motivation. They draw me pictures, they bring them to my studio. I get interrupted by them like a thousand times a day, but I find that from that interruption sometimes comes something great that I wouldn’t have had if I just kept working straight through.
They impact my life because I have to listen to them from their standpoint. “Creatively I do get ideas from them as well. Now that I have kids it forces me to stop and think about what I’m doing realizing that I have two little ones that depend on me,” Lyfe told theJasmineBRAND in an exclusive conversation. I used to let my emotions get the best of me. “Before when I didn’t have kids I was kind of hotheaded. Today, with his kids playing an integral role in his day-to-day, the 41-year-old singer has once again proclaimed his retirement but this time he’s doing it in a place of peace thanks to primary job as daddy. Lyfe, still finding catharsis in the notes, released two more albums, Lucid (2013) and Tree Of Lyfe (2015).
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