

I have to do a better job balancing that with my mom, my dad, everybody, my whole family, period," he said with a burdened inflection. " gave me a sweet spot for life in general. "I'm just thinking about my daughter, just not being able to see my daughter all the time and the places I am are not the places for her so I can't just take her everywhere with me. That takes something out of me. "The only thing about your job being what you love to do is the quality time that you can't spend during the time you are working," he said before breaking from his train of thought and leaning back in silent introspection. Lollapalooza 2018 at Grant Park on Augin Chicago, Illinois. I want people to relate to me in multiple ways and be versatile in my music," he said.ĬHICAGO, IL - AUGUST 02: Julius Dubose aka A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie poses for a photo during. "I want people to really recognize that this is what I am naturally good at, I'm really good at making music and describing your feelings vicariously through my experiences, through my past and my future.

In his hotel room at The Dominick in Soho, in the same city as his native Highbridge, but worlds away, especially when you can't ride the subway, he talked about his hopes for the album's reception. I'm like everybody knows who I am and I don't know who the f**k they are, that s**t can be weird for me at the end of the day."

"People never really understood either, I started going out with my friends and there would be people coming up to me like 'Yo, are you A Boogie?' I realized that wasn't safe at the same time because, in the beginning, I was still in the streets. I can't even use public transportation anymore, so I kind of stopped going places and started going straight to the studio, going home and telling people I can't go anywhere anymore," he said in an interview with Forbes. "One day, walking through the Bronx streets, I just realized that people were stopping me, taking pictures and noticing me from across the street.
