 Now before before we actually took that you know there a break to talk to you guys We had that song that was this performed right here by An international artist he's Nigerian, but best in East Africa He's an Afro pop Afro bit singer songwriter performing and recording artist boys and girls Ladies and gentlemen, let's put our hands together and welcome to Bounce Nation boy My name is Yeah, yeah, so my name is You know that I'm accurate and I don't want to sleep on you So you should don't sleep on me because I'm heading on my way way So high and if you don't want to left behind you should just step on my side I Was actually getting in that in the groove of it. I was just like, you know, you know, you know You make it look so easy though Yeah, it's it's it's talent and you know practice and every day practice you gave me so here talent plus Practice yeah, so you can just have talent. No, it's not you know It's not you know, I know he says it all the time. He says talent is only ten percent. Yeah, it's ten percent You know music is a craft. Yeah, and the craft can be lend you get me So you you see people coming out who are not basically talented or naturally talented But I mean the love music or the love deejaying the love comedy the love acting and They go into it. You just learn the practice more often And I mean if you're if you're in more often it gets used to you Yeah, so talents is just like ten percent you need to work Yeah, and you know your journey music started a long ago. Did you not start right now? Yeah, so how far long ago are we talking when you used to you know, play in charge and sing in charge How far long ago? This this has been since like, you know, I'm still going yet. Yeah, this is when I was much younger and I Start singing in church like this. You know what hard discover my talent Yeah, I was just singing and I heard people telling me wow you sing Is this you you sound like this and it got into me And so just like every other person to go to the church and because it's so easy for you to go to the church And you're accepted and then you learn you get so I go to the church and then I Was part of the quarry stars But basically came behind not like the main course starts. Yeah, so yeah, it started like then and you know I was in school the secondary school I freestyle for my friends my old schoolmate and the love day yeah, and I'm like you I think this is for for me And let me just do it. I mean for the love and for the passion. Yeah, so yeah, I started like that But professionally basically yeah, it all started 2019 Yeah, yeah, so how did you make that transition from singing in charge now being a proper alphabet and after folk singer? Yeah, just like I said earlier. I've had a lot of recommendations while just being in church I've had my pastor telling me you do not want to sing gospel. You're like I'm too talented. No, we start we actually started. Yeah We actually started not basically into gospel I was open to every kind of music at that time if you're a gospel artist and you be like you like my vibe and you want me Yeah, I can relate to it. Yeah, even up to date. It's music generally you get so The transition really happened when I was like you these recommendations are too much for me to just keep behind the door you get I need to come out I need to show people what I got and Before then I've been working here. I have cool songs in the studio, but it's just there and on my phone Just my school my friends me, you know, so I met this girl guys They came on the studio where I do record you get and they be like you I like your vibe And we want to promote you and promote your music So that was when I was like man if people could come to me and sit me down You know and tell me they want to promote my music at that time I mean it's all it's it's the time for me to be more serious, right? You get so yeah, that was how the transition came. I was more professional You know more conscious of you know what I do and how I do them, right? And understand when you are actually setting your city line to play a couple of instruments Yeah, what did you learn then and are you still playing that right now? Yeah, I used to My new you know where I'm going to yeah, okay, um I Growing up here. So that time I was in the church. I used the opportunity to learn this at the keyboard You know, but along the line. I was not so much into it Yeah, but I still have some basic skills on basic knowledge of the keyboard. Yeah, that's just it Right, so I know back then when you were starting you were listening to Truba I feel I feel have you listen have you have you dig like deep into my my Influences so do they still influence your music or like right now since you're making your own music You know since of all that you do because I There was a time to face to Baba was like the main influence you get it has to do the influence in the sense that Like it's personality, you know and the kind of content to put out there to face is a positive human being I've actually met him and when I met him I was an in time Wow, but he was so graceful Yeah, like you know how you're an in time and you have the one people sent around I go and bring him and I was so shy I'm like, oh, I'm not the one interviewing me. He's like, I know but it's okay. It was so cool about it So his lifestyle has been No for me. I can't really say for every other artist that have come after him You know his lifestyle is one thing that encourage everybody to want to like yeah If two faces can be like this, you know, I mean I can do this as well. Yeah, so It started, you know from the two-faced influence, but I hope it's just the music aspect. Yeah, no Just the music aspect yeah to maintain the life and the music to get that yeah, but I can still learn from that part You know, I can still learn from that part So yeah, it's time from two face until now. Yeah, if you listen well to my music You could relate that there's a little bit of influence from two face, right? And yeah fast forward from two face You know the new school but not boy. Yeah, it's it's energy. It's it's tough And it's from the south as well for me like me, you know, I'm from the south as well So here the energy is I can tap into his energy and you know, just do the same almost the same thing Yeah, more better, right and speaking of south that is in Nigeria. So they've been north and in the southern side Yeah, you're from the southern side of Nigeria, but you're best in East Africa. So how did that happen? So specifically Kenya, right? Yeah, so how did you end up here? So I'm this person who like my family to support me My dad my mom my sisters they support me and they be like I actually have a relative out here You get who is married to my sister like you know, I'm like and he's like you I feel you I feel you You know and you can come here and just try to push you get because alphabet as you know Go past just the Nigerian jurisdiction and it has moved all over Africa and it's like you if you come here You can you know pull pull up and yeah, so I Thought of it because the Nigerian market is it's not quite tough for me I can face it but yeah, it's better to find your space than to you know, congest in a place that is you know So I'm like yeah, they're talented, but it's super saturated. Yeah, so I'm like, okay Let me just pull up like pull up from that scene and yeah, let me see what can yeah, you know, go out for me and And I know the transition also moving from different Different ways to another and also still pursuing music. Yeah, not easy So what can you say are some of the challenges you faced along the way and how have you been able to Yeah, I wouldn't I wouldn't say although it is like one of the main financial challenges But I wouldn't say that's like the main because I've got support like or even up to my friends to get me Got support, but the challenges I'm like, you know, I've been facing is the acceptance, you know It's not like it's not Yeah, the asymptote has been you know some maybe 30 40% but hey, we want more than that, you know So yeah, that's like the main challenge. So I'm doing my best That's why I'm here like spread the news talk about myself, you know, I'm doing my best like make sure The the Nairobi or the Kenyan market or the people get to like yeah, know me and accept me fully You know, ask their own that's right. And I know one thing you spoke about this Voa, of course, and you talked about the digital age The way it has affected the music industry. Maybe you can shed some light on that as well You can talk to us about that. Um, I Was opportune to be on that interview and yeah I shared a couple of ideas and which for my own perspective. Yeah, see Music has evolved past analog time the time where you make CDs and, you know, cassette and so these days It's even more better in terms that your your content is safe You get you don't have people who just you know use your content anyhow, you know So that's like the first or the main Impart that you know this digital market has imparted to the life of artists and creatives because in Nigeria There has been you know this struggle of copyright and piracy Yeah, you get so these digital platforms as help, you know to find these challenges You get moving from that part. I mean it's easier for an independent artist You feel you can do music you have the talent, you know Well, it's not easier for you to just record your music and then you know, it's on this platform so easily and people yes So that's the main Benefit for my own part because it has yeah made an influence for me And you know if I want to release a song today I won't like think much or because I know these things are just there for me to assess so easily Yeah, yeah, so it's it's like, you know, it's a welcoming development to the to the industry and to the whole music same globally and Yeah, definitely is going to be great more. Yeah, that's true, right? And I'm on everything I want to talk about is your album. You had not an album really an EP So you had an EP last year. Yeah, God Spell. God Spell is that me? Yeah, tell us everything God Spell, what does that mean? People is like you're gonna be rich. You're gonna be over. Okay. So God Spell is from God Spell Like God Spell itself. Oh God Spell like the music the genre So God Spell Literally means The preaching of good tidings, you know sending good messages, you know, yeah, that's like God Spell for you That's why Christianity is there to motivate you. So I just took that phrase I'm like, oh, let me give my people or let me give these people this feeling of good tidings You know telling them good things to hear that will motivate them because that album was you know, it was During the lockdown the old coronavirus issue 2020 that was when I actually started making songs for that album You get so just because everybody after that time was depressed, you know, some people lost their job And all of that. So I'm like, oh This is the time people need to hear God Spell. You get me to motivate them You get so just God Spell came in. I'm like, okay. Yeah, let's walk to this direction of God Spell So every track on that EP is on that direction of positivity. Yeah, and we love it And then up to that there was Wavy which was actually really cool. I loved it It was such a vibe. Yeah, and now you're back with a new song YOLO and it's performing so well What is the secret behind YOLO that you did not discover before that is working so well? Compared to other songs because actually checked it out and it's performing quite well Yeah, it's performing quite well because yeah, you know, I made it here Let me say that's one of the That should be one of the secret the fact that I made it here, you know in Nairobi, you know It was my first time in Nairobi like in the Kenyan Setting in the studio where it's all all over like Kenyans and we are trying to relate to get and YOLO itself came from the whole idea of YOLO came from my own personal experience, you know I said at that time I was recording YOLO or writing YOLO. I was going through some, you know, psychological and emotional You know trauma and challenges that are to do with my music Yeah Fast forward to the verse two of YOLO. It says so many people have something to say, you know Telling you how to go on your own ways But ironically running from their own you get so I was in that state where people telling me Oh, do you think music is for you? Do you think you can you know Like do this, you know, it's so do you have the money? Do you have the capacity to be up there? You don't why don't you just focus on something else, you know Some like This is the decision is out like it's for me to make if I really want to Face, you know battle the old challenges and yeah, because I believe I'm going to be there You get me so at that time the old experience I just got in the studio. I'm like, you know, let me let me pull out my emotions On a record so people can relate people like creative on that same situation that's going through that same situation like me They can actually oh have the good thoughts. Oh, I think I can really do it Regardless of what everybody else is saying because that's their own you get me. I believe I believe I'm a star. Yeah, and I'm going to shine even more brighter You know, but if you're not seeing it, that's your eyes that is not open enough to see but mine is open Don't close it for me man. Just allow me to see what I'm saying in time you will see Okay, so that's the whole of yolo and I feel because of the message it has That's why it's performing really really really well performing really well And of course it has a local touch to it. So a lot of uh, you know, canyons can actually relate to it We love it. You have to perform to uh, you have to perform it for us one more time Anytime before you go But before we actually let you go, I want to know do you have any upcoming projects and collabs you're excited about? Yes, I'm super super excited about like You know, it's it's so like it's it's so mean to me because It's Nairobi and it's kenya. Trust me. I love the atmosphere out here. I love the the people I love you don't think it's so cold my every time manager and friends come here. They're like First of all, they complain. There's no AC in the room. People don't have AC and then they're like, oh, but then it's actually very cold. Yeah That I can't really deny the first time I was I came I was like, yo, this is so cold But I've been used to it. Yeah, that's Nigeria for you. We are like quick to abduct to any kind of situation So yeah, that's a side. Yeah, um, I love Nairobi and I really want to be in Nairobi. I want to be in kenya Yeah, like I want the people to know me So my team and manager and you know, I've met with I've worked with like director who actually directed the video Treadduce We met together and he's like, oh, this is how it's all to go or how it's supposed to be You know, we make collaborations with the kenya and my people in like the artist. Yeah, we just link up and yeah So I linked up. I would really want to start is not like we cannot start with the main axis But it's better to start small you get me it's better to go on the grass root and then get that walk your way up So I linked up with independent artists like me It's also an indie le vibe and here we came up with a good song Yeah, a great song a great song. It's on the way. It's on the way very very very soon on the way Wow, I don't want to push you too much as soon as it drops. You have to come and launch it Yeah, yeah, we'll definitely more than glad to hear anytime, right? All right, so you have to perform for us But before you go your socials tell the guys that are watching at home your social media and where they can find your music as well And yeah, if you have any shout outs, yeah, so Big shout out to everybody watching me my Nairobi my kenyan people wherever you are It's a boy adequate and you can find me on all socials facebook instagram tiktok twitter At boy underscore adequate and all music platform apple music spotify boom boom play youtube Also boy on adequate. Yeah boy adequate boy adequate everywhere. Yeah, that is for music and his social media as well Go subscribe to his youtube channel. Go listen to his it's actually really good. Like the songs are really good We buy them. That's really nice. Thank you so much. Of course, uh, shout out to you and your team by the way for coming through And for keeping time We appreciate that too much. All right. So for the guys watching at home. The hashtag is bounce nation We're still here and we want you to listen to our guest song. He's called boy adequate. The song is called y'all DJ. Let's go. All right