Prince Harvey recorded an entire album on the display computers at a Brooklyn, New York Apple Store, The Daily Beast reports.
The project is entitled PHATASS, which stands for Prince Harvey At The Apple Store: SoHo.
The 25-year-old had to restart his project multiple times after his computer crashed and his hard drive died. Another time, he was rushing off to a date and left the hard drive plugged in. When he returned, everything was gone.
“That’s when I realized I need to step everything up to, like, maximum intensity—as far as motivation and desire [to complete the album] goes,” Harvey says.
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The rapper befriended two workers at the Apple Store who bent the rules to help him. He would save the files on a jump drive or hide them in the trash bin where they were safe from the daily memory wipe.
Harvey was also evicted from his apartment during this time and made the store his second home.
“I don’t think I’m poor,” Harvey says. “Poor is a mentality. I mean, I can be broke—no money in my pocket—but I’ve never been poor. I’ve been rich my whole life.”
PHATASS is slated to drop July 26.
