Then, just as my wife and I are about to leave, somebody just comes up to me, like, “Yo, just want to tell you we love Fuck, That's Delicious. I was like, “Whatever.” It was cool, but I was looking for one specific person that I didn't see. And, you know, I was backstage with everybody and Al Pacino gave me a big hug.
Recently, though – and I don’t know how to throw this out there – I was in a movie called The Irishman. The first time you were star struck… Back in the day I saw Cam'ron in a sneaker store in Soho called Transit and I didn’t know what to do with myself. Pistachios, water and baby wipes, that’s it. When you're on tour and you have a certain rider with literally three items on it and they are not provided, it's mind-boggling. If the moon isn't right, it's not going down. I'm just like, “Yo, you know what? It's not in the stars” and I'll just go home. I'm the type of diva where it doesn't matter if something's going wrong. I'll give you an example… On a plane, if somehow my seat is incorrect, I'll just walk off the plane, even if there's a show I have to go to. If a little task isn't done in the way I need, it's just mind-boggling to me.
Why was I listening to Maxi Priest at eight years old? This is why I am who I am. We were at another mall called Green Acres Mall in South Jamaica, by Long Island, and she got my “Rump Shaker” by Wreckx-N-Effect. The very first one I remember owning, though, was bought for me by my mother. It didn't matter what it was, I'd go through the single section and just get whatever was on for 99 cents. There was a store in Queens Centre Mall where I always used to get my tapes. It's brand-new, the radio works, the seats are soft, four-wheel drive to get us through that rugged terrain in New York and it's got turbo! I drive a Jeep Grand Cherokee every day – that's how I roll. Well, I have another fancy car but I don't drive it. It's tattooed on my left arm and I have it to this day. So the first thing I actually purchased with any type of rap money was a BMW 535 wagon. I don't need all the fancy trinkets hanging off of my neck. Listen, I'm the type of person where I like to hold on to the bread, I like to make sure that there is generational money. The first time you blew your paycheque frivolously… Then we went on to doing around 60,000 people. They were there drinking at the bar, they didn't give a crap what was going on onstage.
There were only two people in the live audience: two random middle-aged people. The very first time it was at some bar in Brooklyn on an off night in 2009 – it was one of my friend’s showcases.
The first time you played in front of a live audience… And I know these dudes, they're not just trying to hand compliments out, you know? So that gave me a little bit of confidence and I started building it on my own, thinking ,“Yeah, I can do it. I didn't realise it myself: a couple friends of mine put the battery in my back. The first time you realised you were actually any good at rapping… It releases what we seek in life, so this release was just another amazing feeling and then music just took over my life. It served as some sort of therapeutic situation, as all art does in that it is a release. I’d always loved music up to that point and was like a jukebox, but I hadn’t created my own until then. I become addicted to things and music became my new vice, my new muse, when I was around 26.
I was doing it as a hobby and then it just became an obsession, like most things in my life, because I'm an obsessive person. GQ: The first time you realised you wanted to be a musician…Īction Bronson: I don't know if it ever dawned on me that it was what I wanted to do, it just kind of took over.