The New Toronto 3 is an especially stark release, propelled by the tumultuous emotions of a relationship gone wrong and the hunger of an underdog. You're like, ‘Should I really spend this 10,000 on this feature or should I put this back into what I'm doing that's wrong?’ You don't even got to be selling dope. I be doing this shit where I go in the studio and I just make records on Live. At the same time, I always told myself and told my parents—or my dad [who was a missionary preacher] at least, because my mom died when I was 11—I feel like God called me to be in dark areas and to camouflage with them until I'm able to show them this is the light. It was really what I was going through when I was selling, when I was homeless, and in positions before the deal and all that stuff. I want to, at least with some of my music, start adding more conscious stuff that has to do with my relationship with God.”. Then there’s his mixtapes, which tend to be more free-form, honing in on his various sonic identities and magnifying them. I think I made [them] in the same session, actually. What's crazy about that line is I actually took that line from Drake purposefully because I remember it was one of the hardest things I ever heard him say. They came up with the name—we made a tally on the names, we picked the beat out together. Whilst he … “I just wanted to make sure I gave [the fans] what they wanted and what they could expect, because I'm about to go back to a lot of the classic sounds that I had and I'm about to start putting out real music again,” he says. That's why it was super special to me, because I was like, this record right here was one of those records that was definitely supposed to be a part of this.”The Coldest Playboy“The girl I was talking to had just finished saying something to me along the lines of ‘I'm going to just start fucking other n*ggas.’ I remember she tried to argue with me that morning, and I was like, ‘You know what? That's why I call it ‘Dope Boy’s Diary,’ because it sounds like something a dope boy would've been writing in his journal if a dope boy ever had a journal. The New Toronto is the third installment in Tory’s Play Picasso -fuelled series where he focuses on his more street-inspired gritty raps and melodies. At that point, I was like, ‘Let's just make it fun, because I'm going to be in the club and I'm going to want to wild out to this.’”10 F*CKS“Mansa is a kid I signed. That beat was made in the times of the original New Torontos and then we brought it back and started freaking it. I had rented a good car, good house, going pretty good, a bunch of groceries in the fridge. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. I'm a very down-to-earth person, but at the same time, I came into this relationship with money. I was feeling good, and I just said, ‘N*ggas just going stupid right now.’ I made the song in the house—I'm in a big-ass massive bedroom, and I'm just recording this shit. I just had to get off my chest what I had to get off of my chest.”Back in Business“‘Back in Business’ is actually old. “I definitely was going through a breakup,” he says. See all 2 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. Additional taxes may apply. When Papi Yerr came in with that beat for ‘Broke in a Minute’—Papi Yerr is the dude who did ‘[Jerry] Sprunger’ and the [version of] ‘Take You Down’ that I did with Chris [Brown]—I was like, ‘I might as well just put it on this,’ and it just ended up sounding hard.’”P.A.I.N“I was on my way to the airport, and n*ggas was trying to rush me out the crib to get to the airport. I also felt like I was going through a lot of issues with friends, family, and just certain people that didn't seem genuine. Pricey …