Did you have to temper the amount of collaboration eventually? I feel like there was a point not too long ago when everybody felt like they needed your voice to get on the radio or to ensure themselves a hit. Who knows, we might do Free TC 2 or something with more songs with me and him. I'll just take it right off the internet and make a song out of it. When we did “Miracle” or any of the songs that we've dropped, that was from somebody recording him and it got leaked on the internet. When you speak to him are you exchanging music ideas or is it just like catching up on life?Ĭatching up on life, music ideas, same shit. And who knows what God might bless us with. And then once he got out of that and moved into a whole ‘nother prison. Solitary confinement for like two, three months and shit.

I think we did a interview with y'all, if I'm not mistaken, and after that, it got back to the warden, he got super famous and they put him on, what do they call it? The lockdown shit. They moved him to another jail cause he got too famous at the last one. His chest-length dreadlocks are dyed bright green, his fingernails are painted black, and white diamonds twinkle loudly from a bevy of necklaces that rest atop a form-fitting nautical shirt. Confoundingly, his ability to bounce between moods and genres - for example, 2 Chainz’s traphouse love (“Lil Baby”), the pop balladeering of Nick Jonas’ “Bacon,” Wizkid’s groovy afrobeats (“One For Me”), LeCrae’s trunk-rattling gospel (“Blessings”), or the minimal slap of Fifth Harmony’s “Work From Home” - is far less acclaimed than that of, say, a Charli XCX (who Dolla has, of course, also collaborated with).ĭolla doesn’t order any food despite having squeezed a workout in this morning, a daily necessary evil for maintaining the shredded abdomen he flexes regularly on Instagram.

His Beach House 3, one of 2017’s most complete albums (and somehow made even more complete with a new deluxe version) didn’t manage to lift his profile much higher than it already sat. We’ve been discussing his versatility as a feature artist and songwriter and Dolla is nonplussed at any perceived lack of acclaim.

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