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Chinese American rapper Khantrast scored a major streaming hit with “She Bugging (Watchu Gonna Do),” a song that flips hip-hop tropes on their head. Stopping by Genius, Khantrast revealed that he came up with the idea for “She Bugging” after listening to Kanye West’s “Gold Digger” and deciding it would be funny to reverse the gender and play a guy looking for a sugar mama.

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00:00If you could find that old school money, that Hamptons money, you got some shit that nobody's
00:05tapped into.
00:06I'll start speaking that old money too.
00:08You feel me?
00:08I'll start having that, ha, ha, ha, ha, you know that, ha, ha, ha, that's the type of
00:14shit I need to get into.
00:22I was listening to Gold Digger by Kanye West, and I thought it would be funny if I kind
00:27of did a twist on it from the male perspective.
00:31If the guy was the Gold Digger and he was looking for a sugar mama.
00:34The beat was kind of already trending on TikTok before.
00:37I personally resonated a lot with it, because I loved how smooth it was.
00:42You listening to the song, you expecting some calm shit, and then I'm talking about like,
00:46yeah, shorty, give me some money.
00:48I'm trying to finesse you right now.
01:07When I thought of the whole Gold Digger concept, but flipped, I was like, I was trying to think
01:12of something that could catch people's attention.
01:14I thought it'd be funny to add the yellow fever part in that intro, because it's kind
01:19of like that added layer of like, you know, you got your own little thing going on.
01:23You got your own little type, and I'm trying to get some bread.
01:27So, you feel me?
01:28We can make this like a great transaction between us.
01:31You scratch my back, I scratch your back.
01:33It is what it is.
01:51Hold up.
01:52At first, you in there, you know, you thinking shit is going great.
01:56Everything's cool.
01:57You got a dope connection, right?
01:59And then, you know, like I'm seeing like, oh shit, okay, like you got your shit together.
02:04Like you got your shit together way more than I have my shit together.
02:08I'm looking at you like you grown.
02:10I guess I'm the investment.
02:11We might not be looking at each other the same way, but it's the same end result.
02:33All I got to say is when I get that Zelle notification, you feel me, like whatever you want to
02:41do with me.
02:41As soon as that ding pop in my phone, oh yeah, bro, like you want me to rub your feet?
02:46You want me to start swimming?
02:48We good.
02:49We doing whatever.
02:50I got to, whatever you need me to do, I'ma do it.
02:52You feel me?
02:54She got me bugging, she got me bugging, bugging, bugging, bug, bugging, baby, you bugging, bugging, bugging, bugging, bugging, bugging,
03:11bugging.
03:12For me, when somebody is bugging, like they're like doing a lot, right?
03:16But it can be good and bad.
03:18Let's say if my man's, if my friend, he's being too loud or he's like scaring the hoes or some
03:23shit, I'm like, yo, bro, you bugging.
03:25Let's say my man's just out of nowhere, he became a millionaire.
03:29I'm like, yo, bro, you're bugging out right now, like yo, you going crazy.
03:33So in my case, I'm like, M, you giving me all this bread, like shorty, you bugging, you feel me?
03:38Like you bugging out right now.
03:39In my head, I just thought that I'd be a firehook.
03:48All my, mm, yes, please, up to the front, ladies, if you got, got a little money, I'm trying to,
03:54uh, ladies, if you got, got a little money, I'm trying to, uh, they the ones who get the money.
04:00I'm talking about like the, my accountants out there, the lawyers out there, the doctors out there, we're like, they
04:07the nerds, you know, they, they the geeks.
04:09And I'm like, hold on, that's where the bag's at.
04:27My favorite portion of She Bugging is the second verse.
04:31That's kind of like my own little shout out to Scenario with Busta Rhymes.
04:36Like I wanted to kind of do my own rendition of that, plus it's New York, you feel me, big
04:41busta, like I had to show love and I feel like a lot of people didn't get that or like,
04:46you know, it didn't put the two and two together.
04:48I feel like it was kind of like my own little kept secret.
04:53The initial video I did with it, it was a clip of me, like my head kind of pointing sideways.
04:59And then one of my boys, who's a dancer, he did his rendition of the trend and that took off
05:05crazy.
05:06Sierra, the Jabbawockeez did it.
05:08A bunch of K-pop dancers were doing it too.
05:11Maybe game recognized game, you feel me?

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