At some point in life I'll have to find peace and I don't want it to be right before I die. I work my ass off when it count so that I can kick it at some point. I just want to be able to retire at some point. You know, where it's like anything that I think about comes true, anything I touch turns to gold. What do you want for the future? I just want to have the Midas touch. ![]() I like to be around people on a one-on-one and a lot of people don't like to do that. I gotta link up with all these people? Let me link, link, link. I'm not really out here… I'm not trying to be a rapper. I just want to work with people who want to work with me. We all kind of split up and so it was just cool to come back and hang out with my family and work on something productive. Like all the younger kids, based off like family politics and random stuff. And that's cool to me because, you know, the way my family works, we all kinda got split up. And my cousin, he's making beats and we made a song we put out on Soundcloud, and that was cool because the song is about how you can't outrun the demons, I guess. He made the beat to the last song that I dropped with Tyshawn Jones, who was Black Noise from Detroit. And then I went into the studio and recorded it on the second try.Īnd who are you working with for this new album? Really just my friends.My friend Romey, he’s good at engineering. So then I was writing shit and I wrote everything pretty quick. I don't know.” He told me to just write about it. It was a real life emotional rollercoaster.Īnd I just kept telling Thebe like, “Bro, I don't even know how to feel right now. So I was tripping and my brain was on some whole other shit. And one of my other friends had passed away. Soon as I started feeling it, I get a text message from one of my very, very early friends. ![]() And so I eat the acid and I'm sitting there and I started tripping like 10 minutes after I ate it. He's like, “Na what's up, I just got some acid, ike what are you doing?” I'm like, “Forreal nigga what? Pull up, pull up.” So he comes and we're chilling and trying to figure out the song. We're chilling, you know, trying to figure out what we're gonna do with the song. We went to the studio because Earl had a beat and it was kind of up tempo. Don't know if you know the story about that, but it's kind of crazy. What’s your history when it comes to making music? My first song I was ever on was with Tyler and was “Trashwang.” And I was like damn, that's crazy. Like, I never sit back just get to be stoked about life.” I gotta go more outfield and do something else. It’s just like, well, I gotta do this, so I gotta move this piece to fit there so it will all work out.” Smith’s mind and style are singularly his, and his strategy of only working with people who want to work with him has clearly been, well, working out. “I really liked that game, I used to play on my Game Boy all the time. How does Smith feel about all this? “It’s like Tetris,” he says slowly and thoughtfully, the way he always speaks. In a recent Instagram post, Hill called Smith’s performance “extraordinary,” and Smith’s already auditioning for future roles. If an album and signature suit weren’t enough, Smith is also being preemptively hailed as the breakout star of Jonah Hill’s forthcoming A24 film Mid ’90s, which Mikey is co-producing and which Smith filmed during a break from the next Supreme video. Along with the custom suit (63 have been produced for the pop-up), Smith designed a black-and-white Adidas sneaker-loafer dubbed the “Nak-apulco,” both of which debut exclusively here. Hanging on a rack behind Smith is the result of his most recent collaboration, done with both Adidas and Brooks Brothers: a textural grey suit with a bright blue lining adorned with Smith’s signature doodle. They’re not trying on just any Brooks Brothers suit. We’re chatting in the grand upstairs of the Brooks Brothers on Rodeo Drive, where he and his friend Mikey Alfred (the mastermind behind the brand Illegal Civilization) are getting fit for suits in advance of a pop-up Smith’s hosting on the 24th where he’ll perform music off his forthcoming debut album. Most likely you know him as a Supreme team skateboarder and model, one of the stars (alongside Sean Pablo and Sage Elsesser) of Supreme’s iconic 2014 skate video, Cherry.Ī few short years later, Smith is breaking out in different ways. You might know Na-Kel Smith from his affiliation with Odd Future-his guest verses on Tyler The Creator’s “Trashwang” or Earl Sweatshirt’s “DNA.” You might know him from his various collaborations with Adidas, with whom he’s released several signature Matchcourt sneakers.
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