She came into the room, and I really respect her energy as a hustler, because she just heard the beat and she just started singing her shit like, ‘This is what I hear on it.’ And I'm like, ‘Oh yeah, go drop that.’” I had producers everywhere, and all the artists from the label was in and out the studio, in every room recording. I was doing a CMG recording camp during BET weekend and I had the whole studio locked down, five different rooms. I met her years before on a promo run, but I always thought she was dope. “ is part of the Interscope family, but I had already knew about her. It's no palm trees in Memphis, only the ones we imported there.” Because with all my success-I’ve been traveling the world, I got homes in different cities-I think my music been speaking from a general place of ‘the world.’ The title represents who I am, where I come from, and the ‘palm trees’ part comes from all the success that I'm living today. “I went back to Memphis on a lot of this music, meaning the subject matter was about Memphis.
it’s Beverly Hills or it's the nicest part of Miami, or if it's Tribeca in New York or something, it’s saying that your success puts you in certain areas, but your mentality still have you moving a certain way.” “This is one of those narratives that represents a North Memphis kid-with a certain mentality-that is now super successful. My mind is on becoming a billionaire and building a legacy.” Below, Yo Gotti talks us through some of the tracks on CM10: Free Game that show us exactly where his mind is. I'm not trying to be the biggest street n***a in the world. Bro, I don't care nothing ’bout that shit. “And he don't know that I'm trying to figure out how to be the next Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos. “I may be out in the club and a guy walks up to me putting emphasis on how real he is or how street he is or what he doing in whatever city it is,” Gotti explains.
Memphis (and Gotti’s hopes for its residents) is the unifying thread here, the MC impressing upon his followers not just how far he's come as one of their own, but also how far he has to go. I didn't try to make one record that I thought would play on the radio, that I thought would be a 'Rake It Up' or a 'Down in the DM.' It was all about the message and saying the things that I want to say and just rapping.” “I didn't try to make a hit record on this album.
“You always want a hit record,” Gotti tells Apple Music. Sure, there are the constants of trunk-rattling production, appearances from the rapidly ascending stars Gotti has had a hand in launching (Moneybagg Yo, 42 Dugg, EST Gee), and enough cash talk to short-circuit an ATM machine, but when the MC was putting together the body of work that became Free Game, his main focus was inspiring the flock.
CM10: Free Game isn’t your typical Yo Gotti record.
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