Love Me Now? (stylized L oVE me NOw) is packed with features. I just wanted to do something where whatever happened, happened. I didn’t wanna have to worry about which song needed a rap verse or which song needed me to sing on the hook. I would say my best music lives in the mixtapes because those are also the places where the Chixtapes are and where my R&B is and all those different little projects that people have an emotional attachment too.ĭid you strive to do that with this album? I think the best music comes organically. Now I just kind of feel like when you make music, you make music and whatever comes out comes out. When the word album comes around, I kind of feel like ‘Damn, it’s a lot of pressure’–like I gotta make sure that everything is here and all the right pieces of a classic album are in here and I don’t really feel like that no more. My mixtapes have always been all original music, but at the same time, my mixtapes are really dope because I don’t really put too much thought into them. Can you take me back to that original thought process? You said that you treated this one like a mixtape because that’s where you host your best music. This is your second project this year and this one definitely sounds a lot different than Memories Don’t Die, but not in a bad way. “At this point it’s like why not get out there and give people like a taste of what I do, you know?” -Tory Lanez So I say don’t be their puppet or don’t let them make you their puppet because you don’t let people take away your creativity and you can never let people take away your originality. It puts the strings in the hands of the audience and when you allow that to happen, you start changing the things about yourself that were the original qualities and made you unique in the first place. When you first come into the game and you’re in the industry, I feel like there are a lot of opinions and a lot of things that people on the labels and in the comments and blogs say about you that end up taking a hold on you.