I freestyled this one, but usually I just write lines all over my notebook and have to kinda jump around and freestyle to put them together. But “Candy” was just I was just doing all that live.

The day I did this record Trippie came to my house party and was like “man those chords always hit me.” Every time we tried to record Trippipe’s verse a party would just happen and nothing would happen—no work would get done.

Another time he came and recorded the first line, “My bitch tastes like candy, yeah play with death like I’m Billy and Mandy, yeah”

As soon as he said that , the door opens and hella people came out he’s like “Oh man I wanna do this record right. Can we do this another time when there’s not a party going on?”

It was something about that record man. It was so dark that’s what’s so weird—there was always a party following that record. Even when I was recording it. So weird, but that week was just crazy. I would go to his house and play video games. He had just came to my festival, performed there in the woods. He had the devil horn hair, dude he’s fucked.

Machine Gun Kelly explained to Cleveland that the label asked “what the fuck is wrong” with him following the video release:

They were absolutely serious. They were like, “Why do you look like you’re dying? And why are kids smoking cigarettes and hitting joints in the video?” Hey. My art is my art.