
When that doesn't happen then it's a huge letdown. So it's like you don't set your bar too high like, 'Oh, I want to be the biggest band in the world.' But so my expectations are set that high. Dude, the happiest I was is when I was broke and poor growing up. Phife and J Dilla share a long history: The late Detroit beat wizard produced A Tribe Called Quest’s final two albums Beats, Rhymes and Life and The Love Movement as part of the Ummah. And it's just when that's the case, I'd rather quit than be around people I don't like. He added, "So there's so many things, but we're far closer now than ever, we're friends now more than ever, so we're lucky that we have it.
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"There's been times that all of us wanted to quit," he said, going on to share his own past experience. Over the years, Hollywood Undead has been through a lot of changes and evolutions, some that could have broken them, Decker says, but today they've emerged on the other side of adversity as more than just bandmates. Only Hollywood Undead can speak to the motivation behind the songs on Hotel Kalifornia, but it feels fair to surmise that brash and fuming sincerity is a theme. However, each song seems to convey a message of self-reflection, observation, and indignation at the widespread disparity, at betrayal, at greed, etc. It should be noted that not every track on Hotel Kalifornia is blatantly inspired by the social inequalities that Decker and the band are frustrated with.

And then f-ing gas is $7, and it's overcrowded. Commenting on his new perception of his hometown, Decker said, "Every time I go to LA I'm like, 'Why the f- did I leave?' The weather's so nice. "I feel like it's on the verge of some kind of collapse or some s-." These days, Decker is living in Oklahoma, which is wildly different from where he grew up. It's a very, very weird place," Decker said. "You have gentrification and you have chaos. All this fueled tracks like "Chaos," "Wild in These Streets," and Hotel Kalifornia's 12 other fist-pounding tracks.
