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SPOTLIGHT / INNER CHILD

Dominic Fike, Tay-K

HOW TO QUIT SMOKING, 2026, English

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I hear a voice in the vent, through which a poison was sent
As she was fixing my teeth, I see the back of my head
See how the homeless are bent from the fent'
Sometimes I feel like a bug, motion detect
Not all the boys in the hood grow up to be men
Some grow up to be insect and drain the blood out my neck
Oh, oh-oh
Oh, oh-oh
Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
Look through the cameras, the kids
Dragged into the mist
I tried to grab 'em, my grip
Slipping through my mitts
Whatever happens, up next
I will do my best, best
Yo, Tay, you thеre?
Yeah, I'm chill, I'm right herе
Yo, what's up, G, how you doing?
What's the word, bro, how you doing? Man, I'm doing straight, I'm great
Good, good to hear, man
You know, we're just out here in Texas
John's been telling me y'all were working on something that sounds really special
Yeah, hell yeah, bro, we been locked in, bruh, I just, um (Shit)
I hope you locked in out there too, you know what I'm sayin'
Staying inspired, bro, you know what I'm sayin' stay free, stay tapped in with your inner child, bro (Yessir)
I love everything you doing, bro, that shit hard, bro
Man, I appreciate that, it means a lot, brother, thank you
You know, we're making an album right now and it's the last day of the album (Uh-huh)
And we just wanted people like getting shit off their chest
Okay, bet, so you don't have no type of specific lane? Any like, even if it's a wide range (Yeah), like, you don't got–
Well, you know I'm quitting, right, I'm tryna quit smoking
That's like kinda the thing about this album, so
And spiritually it's been like a journey, obviously 'cause you kind of realize you need something
Like, it's kind of the last thing I'm cutting out as an addiction
And it's like, I'm at this point where I realize, like, "Damn, I kinda need something"
Like I'm a human, I'm an animal, like I'm a–
I need, like, a vice, like I'm, you know? And
We been moving throughout the world, I just had a son
We been touring a lot, I'm feeling disconnected from my home, um
And I'm growing up at the same time
And so it's just, I don't know, being thirty, the culmination of all these things, being thirty, like
I don't know where you're at with life right now
But I'd be curious to hear it, whatever, you know, just any sentiment that comes to the mind I think
If you just wanna spit whatever's on your heart (Okay)
And if nothing comes too, that's alright too
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, understood, bro, that's a bet, that's kind of what I needed right there, that's good
Yo, what's good, Dominic, bro? It's Tay-K reporting live from the belly of the beast, you feel me?
I thought about what we talked about earlier and I just wanted to kind of like, feel you, bro
No matter what, what I would say is just stay connected to, like, your inner child, bro
Like, when I be going through all these dark times I be going through, you know I'm saying? Like I try to hold on to that youthful connection in life
Everything's a learning experience, everything is wonderful, everything is amazing, like, I try to see the beauty in every experience
I ain't gon' lie, bro, my mom went through a lot, bro, I ain't gon' lie, like
What I love about her is that, like, what everybody kinda love about her
'Cause you know like every– like every– all my inner circle, they all know what my mama went through
But like, bro, she still got like the glow to just light up the whole entire room
Like, being done goin' through all that crazy-ass shit
Time after time, drug addiction, abuse, everything and she still like held on to her glow, bro
I love my mom to death
Trying to explain that I love you
The best way I can
The best way I can
Trying to explain that I love you
The best way I can
The best way I can
Trying to explain that I love you
The best way I can
The best way I can