 hi guys my name is Liz Jackson and we are at the Alchemist with SPM Buzz ready to give you live updates of the Papa Jones himself. Calligraph Jones is going to be addressing the nation so we don't know what he has in store for us. We have no idea but in relation to his latest project the invisible currency album so we don't know what is he about to release a music video is he about to we don't know but we're gonna keep you guys updated so make sure you stick with us oh geez right here coming we have Jones the man and the hour and mr invisible currency first we're gonna have a little discussion here a little Q&A play some tracks of the album you guys can ask a few questions and then we're gonna keep you moving oh gee we're gonna get the producer up here as well he worked on on the album how does it feel to finally release invisible currency how where are you are emotionally how are you feeling uh even before i respond to that i just want to say thank you so much brother for that proper introduction uh but i feel good i feel great i'm very excited i'm very happy to see the reception that the album is getting and um i mean god is good god is good i'm so happy yeah all right i'll get straight to it um of course uh marty is here with us uh why is it that you know you felt like boom play would have been a good partner to go on this journey with you for this particular project uh because of the relationship that we have if you remember uh the first album testimony 1990 we kind of like did the same thing so i felt that it's only right we we do it again because boom play you know boom play has always been there from the beginning they're always ensuring that um the artists are properly treated and uh you know what they do so of course i feel like because of that so it's only right that we do it together once again yeah i'd really like marco to talk to him is matahoro i'm the md east africa for boom play uh all transmit music and um where do i start our relationship has been a very good one from the first album and now to the second one and uh with the first rising popularity of the hip hop genre on the platform this partnership is inevitable and uh his pen penmanship his zeal his work ethic and also when we first listened to what he was working on i mean this was a natural um partnership um from the start and uh we've been together throughout the journey i think it started last year and uh yeah so far so good so for us to support um his um album it's natural for us because in 2019 i promised the industry that boom play will support with uh investment and this is part of the investment that we're doing we've supported over 10 artists and i mean the og is the og so it was inevitable and um we've seen quite a good um uptake on his music he has over over 17 million total streams on the platform which is quite commendable and he's gaining more the album itself invisible currency just two days in and already have over half a million streams that's quite commendable so let's continue smashing those um fasts those milestones on the platform and i'm looking forward for this album to smash the milestones that we have breaking those barriers and all that so i'm looking forward as well to hear more stories on the invisible currency his journey on the same i've heard them but i can't wait mom be a mama is a special special special truck for me but not to say that there is none but that one is a fast yes so yeah looking forward for you guys also to enjoy the stories behind and as i said before um he's really opened up on this um album and please um the guy is hardcore but on this one he's just shown us that he's human so um yeah enjoy guys and thank you very much for everyone who's attended this um our partners is marith santa and also the media for supporting the this particular event santa santa and calligraphy his team frank i can see you from behind good job vince nice all right um let's talk to vince here uh one of the producers credited um maybe you can speak on your role as a producer and your experience working with calligraph well what can you tell us about him as an artist and his creation process and your collaboration yeah yeah before me say anything big shout out to god second of all big shout out to kanji and the whole team and let me allow you to play a bigger role and the all fans out there want to see the album i feel fitis and i could play a role with your album i'm just gonna bless what palenji and i bless too so i feel i feel complete yeah so my guy maybe you can tell us how um you know your experience making the album and you can describe you know carly's processes of artists from a producer's perspective and this one took the longest time close to one and a half years before so good things the time you know now working with the best so i feel like the album is the baddest i could even say is the baddest out there and the experience you know carly will give attacks this is the baddest out there yeah all righty all righty calligraph this this album has so many talented musicians on it here were you picking out artists based off the songs do you have you know relationships in these artists how do how did these did some of these collaborations come about uh for me it's all about the vibes and we need to have a good relationship because i believe that is the foundation of everything definitely we are doing a song together i don't go for the biggest i don't go for for the ones with the most clout among the most streams i just like working with people who love that when i share the same mindset and i believe that's how all these collaborations came to be joining personally yeah wow even uh maybe you can speak on on the ducks especially because that's even the single lot right now hero shema yeah hero shema how did that relationship come about there there's a there's a song that i did with um with sakodi and that's a wavy wavy yeah we had wavy and wavy was really out there everybody was talking about it and to my surprise there's a time to be engaged acts on on instagram i was like yo what up brother my name is calli graph jones i'm a rapper from kenya and i want to work with you and it was like i seen you out there there's a song you have with sakodi that's one hell of a jam and i don't mind working with you so from there the conversation you can end up and uh you can come and be a little mimi so i told dax give me like a couple of hours i'll have the track ready i'll send it to you and that is exactly what i did i laced my verse lily a kavasi angucini they come to me and they come and be okay now flex and feel free if you want to rap for 25 minutes you go ahead and do it and that's how you remain the track yeah that's amazing and you know i was very intrigued by you taking this as the single uh you know because there's more uh traditional uh formats like you know hook pre hook verse pre hook hook that you have on the album but this one is not stop bars i was wondering why you picked that as the first single to roll out the album because uh on a jewel at this point i'm not trying to prove it uh anything to anybody everybody you guys know that the my capabilities you know what i'm capable of and i don't have to follow the the usual uh procedure my criteria that everybody does i just do things my own way and i felt like i was confident enough to know that if i do it in that manner then the reception is going to be something else and that's why i took that direction yeah i don't follow rules i make my own rules fantastic he doesn't follow rules he makes his own rules all right now we we're about to start playing the music so you can cue the first one uh so before we get into the the first record we played today maybe you could speak to us on the album title invisible currency uh there's my guy here uh who just listened to the title track of the album and he said he felt like you know invisible currency is more you know your personal journey the struggles you've been through and you've been triumphant you know um through those trials and tribulations maybe you could speak on what invisible currency means to you uh it's it is in that direction it is in that direction but uh i came up with the title and i was having a conversation with some of my guys some of my oj's and uh we were talking about uh let me just use a scenario so that you understand exactly what this uh the the title means right now i don't have money on my pockets or in my pockets you probably have one as a core like one as a corner one million i can't understand the currency that i have is invisible i stand close to you today you take a picture with me automatically that picture blows up i'm giving you invisible currency it is currency that is there but it's not visible to the naked eye they come up to the strength of your brand so brand if that makes any sense here yes sir absolutely absolutely i mean seven six and six seven years now not stopped at the top of hip hop that's definitely my currency definitely