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The since-deleted Instagram post was captioned with a long, deeply personal message to his fans.
Its hard to love people because a lot of them dont have good intentions.
Bagg has calledHard to Lovea mixtape in contrast with a forthcoming album.
This is to my core fans, he says.
Some of my new base are going to say, We want Said Sum; we want Wockesha.
I aint got none of that on here.
But when you release something, I imagine those same people start talking again.
Does that ever kill your enthusiasm to drop new music?Not really; thats motivating.
I wasnt doing nothing I went into a crazy place, a dark place.
Whats the longest break you took without getting in the booth?Probably like a month or two.
It took me a minute to shake back.
I slowly, gradually, got back into it.
Thats what they wouldve wanted me to do, so I had to go hard.
My life had to still go on: Thats the hardest thing we dont want to accept that.
When something happens in your life, you have to still go on, no matter what.
Thats something else you wrote about in that letter.
Your music then and now can get very personal.
Do you ever feel pressure to keep topping yourself in that sense, to get more and more revealing?
That must be draining.I let listeners know certain things.
With the interviews and everything that Im doing now I aint finna make it no habit.
Im really very selective with these things.
I speak on stuff I feel like needs to be spoken on.
So I had to let them know.
Can you feel yourself going from one mode to the other?
Even when Im with my kids, Im getting calls about the business.
The music, my career, it dont matter.
You just gotta figure out how you balance.
You grew up in South Memphis, and you have the family connection to Three 6.
I wanted to get money and hustle like them, which I began to do.
Youve always been unique in that you could be vulnerable on up-tempo songs with these big drums.
You gotta know who you is and where youre going whats your end goal?
Mine is Im trying to cover all bases.
When you play me, I want you to be able to get through anything youre going through.
Dealing with kids, being an entrepreneur.
Boosie and Yo Gotti, stuff like that.
Him and Future, theyre real vulnerable in their music.
You have Future on this record along with a number of other MCs, including Lil Durk and GloRilla.
Youve always been a really prolific collaborator, whether with one-off songs or over a whole tape withBlac Youngsta.
They rap all the way through the beat, and I structure it.
The song will never come out how we initially cut it.
I ensure this is the best way possible that we can structure this song.
I structure it to give a shot to get the best response.
So you gotta be real strategic when youre doing stuff like this.
It all depends how serious you take the craft too, though.
I just had to pop out.
This is what you do.
This is how you feed your kids, your family.
So I had just a pep talk with myself, motivated myself.
I just wanna dedicate everything and put everything into the music.
Im not gonna let it drain me, like how it did within these two years.
Im just gonna keep pushing.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
