It’s both a word of caution and callous detachment, his gruff baritone croons on love songs and bounces over thumping 808s and ‘90s sample flips of OutKast’s “Jazzy Belle.” The word “Heartless” is inked on ‘Bagg’s upper forehead and the image of a broken heart sits underneath the arc of his left eye.
But on another scale, it’s hard to love people when they come with bad intentions.” I’ve got trust issues, I’ve been through a lot, experienced a lot of ups and downs. “It’s a Heartless edition, one of my first mixtape series,” he continues. This is what I’ve been going through in the last two years. “This project, ‘Hard to Love, is more vulnerable. Still grieving the death of Nuski, a friend and Bread Gang Entertainment signee, Moneybagg explains the cathartic nature of his new mixtape. Since his last full-length project, “A Gangster’s Pain,” Moneybagg has stayed relatively quiet.
It lets you know how serious I am about this.” “I don’t know if anybody’s ever told Wayne this,” he chuckles, “but he had actually done a verse before that one, and I was like, ‘Go back in for me.’ He did it and it came back how we heard it - super hard. He went from sleeping on floors covered with folded sheets and pillows to having the conviction to tell Lil Wayne that his verse on Moneybagg’s “Wockesha” remix needed to be re-recorded. “I thought that was the starter-kit of rap, to be honest,” he shrugs. Eleven years on, ‘Bagg still has that strong work ethic, inspired by 50 Cent’s partnership with Vitaminwater and its $100 million acquisition, and Birdman and Slim Williams’ Cash Money empire.
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