 and now that you're in Kenya I want to put you on the spot have you listened to the Kenyan sound who are your favorite Kenyan artists oh yeah I've listened to a couple of a couple of the sound I'm not good with the names cause you know but I really like Saudi so we were supposed to work sometimes from years ago but like time and you know work and all that but I really love Saudi so that music is amazing. Another one the second one? I think it's your Saudi so for now to be honest like those are my favorite groups right now yeah. Alright so make sure you tag Saudi Soul on this comment section so that they see right? We're gonna make it happen for you. Tell them it's time to work now. What's up everybody welcome to SPM Buzz my name is Liz Jackson and today we have an international star right here on SPM Buzz and I'll let him introduce himself. What's up what's up everybody this is Philz. What's good people my name is Philz all the way from Lagos Nigeria representing we're live in Kenya just you know having fun and catching vibes. Welcome to Kenya we say Assante. Assante. Is this your first time in Kenya? No I've been I've been in Kenya a few years ago but yeah it's good to be back. Welcome to Kenya I hope you've tried some food some Kenyan food. No not yet so I just came in today so yeah yeah I'm looking forward to trying Kenyan food for sure. Okay make sure you try Uggali I'll tell your manager. Uggali what's that? Uggali is made from wheat flour. Also like use your hands like also I can okay. Welcome to Kenya we would want to know where did Philip or Philz start? Man Philz started from church from like music started from church you know had the background of you know teaching myself the keys and the drums in church and you know taking the choir on as well and teaching the choir and being a choir for like beer years and yeah that's where it started it all started from and then fast forward to when I was 16 I made my first heat track with Olamide called first of all and from there it was just back-to-back bangers and back-to-back hits. Now that you've mentioned Olamide when did you first meet him? We met in Kodetunes under Aydika Basa there's a studio called Kodetunes in Lagos and a record label called Kodetunes as well so I was an intern for Aydika Basa and Olamide was one of the promising acts that you know Aydika Basa was looking at signing so he was always in the studio and I was always in the studio and you know would always you know link up after everybody's done in the studio and work and just vibe and that's how we yeah. We knew you to be a very good producer right and what made you choose producing and not singing or rapping you know people say as long as you can talk you can sing. I actually chose singing the reason why I started producing was so I could make beats to the songs I was singing actually but the production sort of you know took off first and I got recognized for my beats so you know I focused on that for a while but now we are here so yeah. We had a list of top 100 songs and majority of them were Nigerian. What do you think Nigeria is doing different? I think it's just where the light is at at this moment I think it's because I believe it's all one black music I don't think there's and there's a Nigerian sound that oh there is a Nigerian sound and there is a Kenyan sound and there's like sounds from other parts of Africa but I think it's all one big spirit and one big culture just expressing itself in different sonics that's how I see it but yeah like yeah Afrobeat is what Afrobeat is right now and it's been a long time coming now it's just time to shed light to the rest of Africa and the rest of the world. And you earlier mentioned that you started from church and you know how did your parents take in you producing what is supportive? Not at first but when the checks started rolling in. Every yeah man yeah I love my parents man forever yeah I just understood that you know they just wanted what their definition of bests was for me and that was in my definition and I had to make them understand that yeah but it was a it was a pretty rough you know tug-of-war but yeah yeah. You produced majority of Olamide songs in the album I forgot the name. How was that for you? It was it was beautiful man because I'm sorry yeah man because because then I think I was 19 or 18 when I made the album and yeah it was just it was just amazing to have that opportunity to be able to craft a full project like I've always wanted to do that and I'm sure Olamide for like trusting me with his sound and his craft and his career and yeah like yeah like it was it was amazing like because me when I when I make music I like to be very involved and I like to you know I just you know like artists that understand my involvement and understand how intrusive I can be with the creative process and just you be very involved so yeah yeah man. And you started off when you were very young what is that one thing that has kept you grounded throughout the year? I never stopped learning that's one like down to five minutes ago I was still learning something and also understand that in my little bubble I might be a hero but in the grand scheme of things I'm really insignificant so that's that gives me very grounded and just makes me like live life basically yeah. And in Nigeria how how is the music scene like are you supported by the government like how how is the whole environment? That's a very big question like you have to be more specific we're talking about the government man shout out to the government man they can't do better but shout out to them still. Yeah man like well we're just running our thing man like the music scene is very self-sufficient it's very self-driven it's very passion driven it's very hustle driven and story driven and yeah man like it's separate from the government man like I'm not gonna lie about that but yeah we're doing our thing and we're killing now let's talk about the song I call it Buju how was that it literally blew up could you take us through the process of making it what was going on where the idea yes finesse yeah I was in the studio man with Michael the producer and we're just vibing and like you know I said put down the melodies left seats for like a while actually and then came back to it after after a few days I put the lyrics and yeah like our finesse just came into my mind and I just you know made sense it just came together it was like a walk of art it just came together in my head and in my mind and you know I just dropped it and fun fact I posted the video the same day I recorded the song so immediately I finished the song I just picked up my phone and posted the video and that just happened like February a few months ago and yeah the rest is history all right and I would want to know how long does it take you to make up it or just like work on a full song it depends though it really depends like I've made songs in 40 minutes I've made songs in two hours I've made songs in five weeks I've made songs in two days first of all for example we made it in under one hour like 40 minutes yeah yeah like it depends on the flow and the vibe and the music yeah let's go to the international scene yeah which is that one artist that you would really really want to produce a song for them produce a song for yeah as a long list of them I mean you could take three yeah I'll say Drake Kanye West who is the third person artist and now that you're in Kenya I want to put you on the spot have you listened to the Kenyan sound who are your favorite Kenyan artists oh yeah I've listened to a couple of a couple of the sound I'm not good with the names because you know but I really like I love myself so we were supposed to work some time some years ago but like time and you know work and all that but I really thought so that music is amazing another one the second one I think it's your soul for now to be honest like that's those are my favorite groups right now all right so make sure you tag so this all on this comment section so that they see right we're gonna make it happen for you tell them it's time to work it's time to work and now that we've talked about the international scene I would want to know would you want to try out other genres of music like I'm a piano and make beats for them or you are just into Afro beat oh no I mean to music period like Afro beat is a sound but that's both is a spirit as well like I carry the spirit of Afro beat around forever and that like transcends into other general music like even over the years growing up as a producer I've made different genres you know from R&B to hip-hop to to I'm a piano to jazz to funk to 80s synthwave because I'm very you know expressive with my son I don't like boxes so yeah so yeah I'm a piano yeah I made a couple of my piano tracks I made hi but they could only go down the video I was what last year yeah that's a smash still yeah I have a song with costa teach coming up soon yeah I've been working on a couple a couple and I've been invent inventing a couple of genres as well that you guys are gonna hear yeah it's crazy all right interesting you've won a couple of awards right which is that one award that shocked you the most none oh wow so you expected it no I didn't that's why it doesn't shock me but I'm not shout out to all the you know I watch shows out there yeah shout out to all the watch shows out there shout out for the recognition but like I'm not doing it for the awards you get me like I'm doing it for me it's my story I'm telling yeah that's why like I'm grateful for them but you know I'm not shocked by them yeah okay I think that answered my next question which was how significant are those awards to you oh yeah I'm really grateful for them like it just shows that you're doing something right it doesn't it doesn't put anybody down in any way or it doesn't mean that the other person that did not win the award is not doing something right but I'm just grateful for them yeah that's that's what it is and have you worked with other producers just try and share ideas outside Nigeria outside Nigeria yeah I have actually worked a couple of producers in South Africa in Ghana in London in America yeah yeah like I always love collaborating and just just making things work it's all about the music for me like whatever make the music the music yeah I would want you to talk to someone out there who is watching you and they want to be an artist or they want to be a producer what would you tell them that's a very very fast wide answer just encourage someone I would say everything outside us no matter what happens inside so go inside that's what I would say whatever that means to anybody take it just go inside go inside yourself learn about yourself know yourself everything outside will sort itself out and I have people thought of having a masterclass or teaching people how to produce you know I want to enroll yeah I have actually but time time you're busy man I've I've been on the road for six months now it's crazy time yeah but one of these days you know when I have enough time I have all the resources I want to have for for that yeah I would start because I really want to do it all right thank you so much for talking to us so I think we're expecting a collab with Saudi Soul yeah I'm gonna keep shouting yeah talk to them you're not up to them all right thank you so much we do appreciate all as Santa he got it guys he got it please do please do all right guys that was feels make sure you follow him on his socials check his work and subscribe to SBM buzz