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Back with another installment for Clipse Week, the duo breaks down their song “Ace Trumpets.” Produced once again by longtime friend and collaborator Pharrell, the track is packed with sharp bars and their signature flair. On today’s episode of Verified, the brothers walk us through the record, the synergy they share with Pharrell, the importance of standing on principle, drawing inspiration from each other’s bars, and more!

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00:00I feel like what separates me from the rest is taste.

00:03Taste and principles.

00:04I don't gel well with a lot of artists.

00:06Artistically, we're just not all in the same place at the same time and in the same mind

00:10state at the same time.

00:11I want things to be exactly what I want them to be right now.

00:14And what they should be.

00:15What's funny is me sitting back and just seeing him out in the world.

00:20Like he said, he doesn't gel well.

00:22I'm seeing with my own eyes him not gelling with people.

00:27I see it.

00:28It's, we always stand on principle.

00:31I'm just glad to be back beside him.

00:40Ace Trumpets, every song usually starts with the beat.

00:43The track just kind of spoke to us and it spoke to us in a very arrogant, aggressive manner.

00:50The track basically set the tone.

00:51When working with Pharrell, he loves for you to find a pocket.

00:55He thinks that makes the song, he calls it sticky.

00:57Once we found a pocket, it was like, oh, that's it.

01:00It's the energy behind the track that really lets you know where you want to go with it,

01:04where you want to take it, how you want to take it.

01:06That first bar will tell you exactly how you want to feel from the top to the middle to

01:11the end and never go beneath it.

01:13It's just a metaphor for women in my world.

01:24The track is hard, but it's sophisticated.

01:26I came up with the first word, ballerinas.

01:29I was like, man, ballerinas doing pirouettes.

01:31And I was like, as soon as I said that, I was like, Wu-Tang level language for no reason

01:37at all.

01:38You know?

01:38But it just makes you feel like the urgency of it.

01:42And then you just start building from there.

01:44I just feel like we were building a world of luxury, nightlife, the nighttime scene in

01:54Miami Vice.

01:55You know what I'm saying?

01:56It's easy.

01:57Competitively, man, these rappers are my sons.

02:12You know, I'm the father.

02:13The sins of the father reach Lil' Meech.

02:26She couldn't please me.

02:28White glove service with the brick.

02:29I am Luigi.

02:31Sold ecstasy and disappeared.

02:32I am Houdini.

02:33The Houdini line's a double entendre.

02:35Wait a minute.

02:36I wasn't going to say nothing, but I just caught that.

02:40I just caught the ecstasy Houdini.

02:43Yeah.

02:43The actual group Houdini and, you know, of course, the magician.

02:46Sold ecstasy and disappeared.

02:48I am Houdini.

02:49Ecstasy was one of the members of Houdini, so on and so forth.

02:52Who's that going to resonate with?

02:53Who's going to get it?

02:54But the bar is so fresh to me that it's like, man, you just got to sacrifice for the greater

02:58good.

02:59Like, fuck it.

03:00I don't care who gets it.

03:01The three people who may get it, that's going to be enough because they're going to come

03:05to the show and they're going to be like, so that's the deal.

03:07That's the better.

03:08Who did it?

03:19I was in the studio.

03:20I'm with P. I got this beat.

03:23And I'm thinking to myself like, damn, y'all interviewing about me.

03:27And y'all got all these things to say about me, whether it be on Twitter or whatever it

03:31was.

03:32I'm making this shit.

03:33I'm making heat.

03:34And I know you waiting.

03:35I know you're waiting on him to give you something, throw you something, hand you something.

03:43You know, I know you waiting and I know it was never coming.

03:50I knew it was never coming.

03:52I hope you got your squeegees.

03:55I hope you can clean my fucking windshield.

03:59That's what you're going to do.

04:01Make you.

04:02I flew Air France to get to Paris.

04:11We recorded the whole album in Paris.

04:14And it's called Wi-Fi.

04:16You know, when you connect to the Wi-Fi, it's Wi-Fi.

04:18The mentality of the bar was simply just, what the hell was happening?

04:22Kind of pinching yourself like, dog, I am in the headquarters for Louis Vuitton.

04:28And I am actually recording shit like this.

04:31The Bee Gees line, that's just connecting words and making shit.

04:35This, right here, this is real life.

04:54When you hear an MC rap, you know whether or not he is of it, or if you know if he's

05:01just formulating.

05:02It's an image that I don't believe that they were ever halfway into.

05:07We don't start counting bread, or if you ain't got over half a meal, then that's what we call

05:12focaccia.

05:13Focaccia bread.

05:14When you can pull meanings from words and turn them into slang, that's the fun part.

05:21That's the artistic part, but that's also the fun part of hip hop to me.

05:32I'm going to play at the Oscars, persona non grata, mi casa su casa, drugs killed my teen

05:37spirit.

05:38Welcome to Nirvana.

05:39Never leaving home without my peace, like I'm Mahatma, Mahatma Gandhi, you know.

05:43Always promoting peace, talking about peace.

05:47Never leaving home without my peace.

05:48Never leaving home without my protection.

05:51Teen spirit and Nirvana, the innocence loss.

05:55I seen a fiend, just bought some work, and I also seen her kids telling her momma, I'm

06:00hungry.

06:01You know what I'm saying?

06:02That was a real scenario, and I don't think, it hasn't even left me to this day.

06:07We called dope, of course, white girl, and then Lady Gaga, and selling it, and being able

06:18to afford certain luxuries that come from that, you know what I'm saying, and the house

06:22of Gucci, of course.

06:24When it hit me, it was just crazy, and I just knew I had all the perfect pieces, and I couldn't

06:28wait to put them down.

06:29I was mad.

06:30I was mad.

06:31Don't movie entendre me at the end of the verse.

06:36I was mad.

06:38Sometimes you sit back and be like, man, I wish I had that bar.

06:42That always happens.

06:43I mean, vice versa.

06:46That was one.

06:47Yeah.

07:00Of course, at one point, it was my brother and myself making music together.

07:04I took one of the longest hiatuses.

07:06He's kept the whole game going, and he's kept it creditable.

07:11Like, I'm not just coming back to rap.

07:13If he messes it up, I'm not trying to force back the clips and try to reminisce in the

07:17past and make something happen.

07:19But it was the level that he has kept it is something that I definitely enjoy being a part

07:26of.

07:28The clips and Pharrell working together, when we work together, we find like a childish

07:331996 type of energy.

07:36You know, even earlier than that, because this was our childhood, and this is how we used to

07:40like work before.

07:42Like, just no holds barred, there's no wrong opinion, the thoughts flowing everywhere.

07:48And I feel like when we get in the studio today, we have that same energy.

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