Bryson Tiller has shared the blunt advice that DJ Khaled once gave him about how to cope with depression, revealing the mogul essentially dismissed his struggles.
The Trapsoul crooner stopped by The Breakfast Club on Wednesday (June 5) and spoke candidly about his battle with mental health.
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He recalled confiding in Khaled about his depression while working on the producer’s 2016 album Major Key, but said the response he received wasn’t what he was looking for.
“If you go listen to the song that I did for Khaled’s Major Key album [‘Ima Be Alright’], I told him before we did it. He was like, ‘Yo, I need a song!’ This is when I’m like super buzzing.
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“I was like, ‘I’ma just be honest with you, Khaled, I’m depressed right now. I got a lot going on: lawsuits, people threatening me back in my hometown, all types of stuff.’
“He was like, ‘Nah, man, just put it in the music.’ Every time I listen to [‘Ima Be Alright’] I cringe so hard because I’m like, ‘Man, this is not who I am.’ He eventually ended up bringing me ‘Wild Thoughts.'”
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He added: “He didn’t really care […] ‘Put it in music’ is not always the best thing. Don’t get me wrong, it works. I hate when I’m going through some shit and then I gotta go be [regular].”
Check out the clip below, which begins at the 14:10 mark.
Part of Bryson Tiller’s mental health journey has been to step away from music entirely.
While promoting his recent self-titled album, he revealed that he plans on pursuing video game design and is even willing to take an internship to hone his skills.
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“This is probably gonna be my last one for a minute,” he said of his aforementioned project in an interview with Complex. “I just wanna take a hiatus ’cause my number one passion is video games. I’ve been designing a game for the past three years.
He added: “I’ve been looking into internships with different companies.”
The R&B star also revealed that he would be prioritizing his family during this next chapter.
“After this album comes out, obviously I’m gonna go out, touch the people, see the world, and tour as much as I can,” he continued.
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“I want to focus on, number one is getting closer to my daughters. My oldest daughter is 10 years old now. I’m tired of telling her I gotta work or I gotta be in the studio and then we can hang out.”
Tiller also shared what is most exciting to him about video games: “The thing about game design, it’s super cool ’cause I can do it from anywhere. I could be next to her while she’s gaming. It’s just what I love to do and it doesn’t feel like work.”
