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Ferg doesn't think rich people have that much ‘sauce.’
To promote his sixth album, Darold, the Harlem rapper was a guest on The Zach Sang Show last week, where he shared that his perspective in music has changed.
"After you make money and you get rich and all of that shit, right, like what really matters after that?" the rapper, formerly known as ASAP Ferg, said around the 26:20-minute mark of the video below.
"Like, it's boring being around mad rich people. Like, that shit is wack, not even going to lie," he continued. "Whatever they advertise and all that, shit is trash."
Ferg continued that there's "no swag, no energy, no sauce" to rich people, particularly those we're fond of, like "most entertainers." "They're sauceless," Ferg opined.
"That's why I feel like a lot of rich people buy art and clothes and shit, because like you can buy into somebody's sauce," he said. "It's like, 'I'm going to get this George Condo because he put his soul on a canvas and I lost mine so like I can hang somebody else's.' ... For real."
Ferg added that some rich people have "done did so much shit for money that you like you kind of lost yourself in it."
"And it's like the best thing you could do is show somebody else's soul. Like, 'Yo, listen to this James Brown record. He's baring his soul in this record.' But where's yours?"
Cohost Dan Zolot asked if it meant the same for rich people in designer clothes, to which Ferg answered "for sure."
"People they just buy. That's what I'm saying, these just the buyers. It's like they're not tapped into self. [...] When you have the sauce, you don't have to buy," he said.
"And buying is like a form of running. You will always be running, like, that is going to get tiring. Why? Because you're going to keep buying and then people going to only keep loving you because of something else," Ferg said.
"'Cause you're chasing that something else and you're wearing that something else and you're going to get tired of that fake love. So it's like, love yourself more and buy less."
Ferg added that he's never felt like he was going to lose his sauce, but when he came close to it, he began to do "some soul-searching."
"Not soul searching as far as like I don't know what my soul is but I had to grow," he said.
And growth is what the rapper delivers on Darold, which hosts guest features from Denzel Curry, Future, Mike WiLL Made-It, Mary J. Blige, and more.
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