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Back in January, the Atlanta pop-punk foursome The Paradox topped Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart with “Get the Message,” and in doing so, they became the first all-Black band to reach No. 1 on that tally. They returned in October with the EP Proceed With Caution, which includes the single “I Kinda Like That,” produced by Andrew Goldstein. “I Kinda Like That” also made the Top 10 of the Alternative Airplay chart, continuing The Paradox’s hot streak. All four members—singer and guitarist Eric Dangerfield, bassist Donald Bryant, lead guitarist Christopher “Xelan” Bernard, and drummer Percy “PC3” Crews III—recently pulled up to Genius to explain how toxic relationships inspired the lyrics.

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00:00My advice to anyone that's going through a toxic relationship right now is get out of
00:04there.
00:04Get out of there.
00:05Or if you get...
00:06Unless you kind of like that.
00:08Start a band with your best friends and write a song about it and get on Genius and talk
00:14about it.
00:22I kind of like that as a song, just talking about like, you know, relationships where
00:27it's like, you know, it's toxic, but you're right where you want to be for real.
00:29A little bit of toxicity, you know?
00:31Yeah.
00:31Or it could be a lot of toxicity.
00:33Could be a lot.
00:34But you like it, you know?
00:34But you like it.
00:35Glue's toxic for you, but people still huff that.
00:50That first verse, it was just like, yeah, talking about crazy stories.
00:53I think all of us have gotten a car keyed.
00:56I definitely have some crazy shit happen.
00:58Something worse than car keyed.
01:00I wish it was some car keys.
01:14I also feel like there's some people who just like actually like make up scenarios in their
01:20head because they're crazy.
01:21Then you see that person and it's like, yo, you good?
01:24You good game?
01:47When we write a song, its always the hook first.
01:49I feel like like it's always the easiest that way because the hooks like the most important part
01:53and that's like the part you're getting to so it's like if you can like make that main dish
01:57first you know you cook the steak and the steak's good you know I mean like yeah the mashed potatoes
02:02and the green beans it's easy it's nothing speaking my language a lot of things that are bad for us
02:08also make us feel good you know in a really bad way like you know I just love like candy
02:13yeah
02:13candy like you know fast food yeah like drugs even you know I mean it's like just that little
02:20fast hit of dopamine it's like we know it's not good for us but you know it's like in the
02:26grand
02:26scheme of things it's not but if I just focus on what's right in front of me you know it's
02:31like a
02:31human thing yeah you know what's funny is I remember like when we were writing it I actually
02:49like thought it was like a little goofy and Furlong was the one who sold me on it because I
02:53was like
02:53dude like I kind of like that I kind of like that say it right back say it right back
02:57I was like dude
02:57like what are you doing he's like no dude trust me trust me he was right he was right he
03:02was right
03:02because the crowd because it is cool I just do it you know I kind of like that I kind
03:07of like
03:07yeah that's cool I barely have to sing I was about to say we barely got to sing it now
03:11I got it
03:12let's go they sound better than me so speak say it right back that's the girl though that's the
03:17girl you know I mean because because you know we like it too I didn't say I'm not toxic I
03:21did not say
03:22she's the only one that's toxic you know I mean I'm a little toxic too and we both know it
03:26we're not stupid but we like it it's a never-ending cycle we started on a love then we ended
03:34on a
03:34high note it's the same conversation every chance is the last chance and we take it you know like
03:41people where it's like they're constantly like you know having those like toxic fights and like
03:45breaking up and it's just like yeah bro I can't believe it bro she done smashed my brother my cousin
03:50and all my best friends bro I don't ever want to see her again bro and then next time you
03:55see them
03:55just like together I'm a suburban kid and it's suburban music it's so relatable from heartbreak
04:01to you know like having fun you know summertime shit and it's it's just great we're a bunch of
04:08punks you know and we like to have a good time go crazy on stage and everything but more important
04:14than that we like to send a positive message to like people that look like us you know it's
04:18fucking fire so we both worked at domino's um we were arguing about something I don't I don't
04:27remember and I had my lava cakes I was about to eat them after I ate my pizza but I
04:31just sat there
04:32and she just fucking force-fed me the lava cakes over and over aggressively aggressively yeah I got
04:41I don't remember it she's like yeah you like that you know you love the cakes you know it's crazy
04:45he did
04:45like that bro he still eats a lot of cakes to this day

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