 Biyan, kuna hisha uli kuwa and you were just preparing to get on stage and you know there was a woman who came behind you and your wife Chiki, you know, she came into the picture kukusahidea, but kitu nili noti, skonza wuku e kukusahidea, ngaoja? When it happened na nidusahidezi. Biyan, why did I need help? I didn't need help. No, biyan, when the lady came you did not move. Well I don't know how you guys are watching that video. First of all I just want to start by saying that Chiki is my manager. Okay, she's my manager, she's the manager of my music affairs. And for that reason, before I go on stage, I need to be in a frame of mind that is, you know, unbothered and deterred. Ha kufai kuna distractions, apu evo karibu nafatu kuwen na nini deliver meseji ya kukuwa watu wini na fa. So o dem kukuwa po at that time, timing i li kuwa off. Timing, so the activity was right but timing was off. O dem ni fan. What's up everybody, welcome to SPM Buzz. My name is Liz Jackson and today I'm hanging out to the bald man himself, Biyan. I wish nige kuwana mafumba. Hey, what's up man, I'm Baryzenu at SPM Buzz, happy new year, happy new year to the Magi Pia. All love man, this is what I make it. Kufiti? Kabi saa niku pona yo. Niku pona? Niku pona. Saan titu nge takaku, when was the last time you cut your hair? Nyole hangu. Nika me ule Xavier or X-men, I may hangi because of wisdom. Amu shave once in a while. Mataimu wuji shave, mataimu babaongu wana come through. Inli shave jana. And do you feel like it's low maintenance? Extremely low maintenance man, like this is the best hairstyle I've ever had in my life. And trust me but they have had hairstyles, I know you guys don't believe me but. Shek wana dredi. Lafuku kainaji. Mi shek wana feziangu ya high school in Lega Lines Kamao Marion. Uzuri trizo time ahuku wana teacher. Ugo suatu tazipata. Give me that assignment. Akuku wana cameras, akuku wana ma phone, ma digital cam. Opa ma 203, 204. Nili kwa Nasseri 204. Nili kwa Nasseri 204. Achen ni jamal. Nili kwa 204 nili kwa fom 3. What? Oh my God. Hey, Bien. So I want us. Eh, when is Baba 8? So what I want us to talk about in this interview basically is Bien himself. Bien as an artist, Bien focusing on his craft in 2023. What can you say is your main focus? Well, you know, like I haven't put out my album yet. I've been promising the fans my album Manusawa Itoples. Was a long time. And then every time I record the album. I travel, I listen to new sounds, I get new inspiration. I laugh when I end up. Cancel. So this year. Nili kwa nimi takaku release. Lakin ni kenda gana December. Ni kenda gana. Nika record song zingini moto. Nika fanya makulabu zingini. Amazing. I laugh piano in the London. Kesho. For six weeks. Nimeji promise that London will be the end of me record this album. Like when I finish, when I come back from London. I'm coming back with a finished product. So for those of us who are hearing about Chichua for the first time. Could you tell us when you end up in Kiyaku Amun? Are you going south? Well, as easy. This time as Bien. Because like there's a couple producers I met when I was in Ghana. Who are based in London. And I just want to go there and fuse myself with the culture. I've been promising myself this trip for a long time. And I just think it's important that this year I, you know. Spread my wings and fly. Like go out there. See what the world has to give over for me. As well. I'm excited about the trip. And there's no day I've ever put myself to work. And go and come back empty handed. All of my trips in my career. Where I've gone out there looking for a different sound. A different vibe. They've always been successful. In fact, more successful than I think. Ever imagined. Do you feel the alone together in Sautisola has given you the chance to explore Bien himself? Yeah, definitely. You know. Sayi anu kiyangalitu vizuri Bien kama nimsanim new. Me ni new artist. Dokarei ime anza. Na. Imi kwa so rewarding emotionally. Imi kwa rewarding kwangupia mentally. Na in a way that sikuwa ini mawe explore posibili tia mi kupua asolo entity. Na. It's just that time for me to be able to see myself in that light because I think it makes me a better member even of the group once I know myself and all of my, without having any inhibitions, you know. Yeah. Let's talk about London. Are you solely going to record ama kuna place uta kuna perform? A kuna place kuna perform this time. Na na tu kufanya press ku record singoliangu next ina toka on the 17th of April of February. My next single is coming out in the 17th of February and I want to promote it in London because I think right now my horizons are global and I want that to be the place where I start doing the promotion. I'm talking about fresh stats. I've seen you've delisted posts on Instagram. Zime baki sita. Nimetu anisa fishi rada. My Instagram has just been such a trash. Trash can of memes pictures and just moments of my life that I think are important, but I just think it's nice to start afresh right now because this is a new year, it's a new dispensation and this yuokini angalia vizuri ata sipeganitimavideza kina rikomondis juini nimi nimi so chip fights nimi acha and I focus on kareya yami yamziki. I want to do kana. Na ta kaligraf jana na na tu kana but see respond and I focus on mambu mba in a letter So yuokini kusimbolize a new beginning. Let's talk about my baby that may post could you expound on that? So interview not okwen? Interview as soon as today? I can't talk about it but it's easy but my baby is a collaboration between me and a very prolific artist. I'll let you guys guess she's Nigerian and it's a duet and I just can't say who it is so please follow me on socials subscribe to my YouTube channel nimi yamza say 1 million nimi yamza kujenga hengine nini yamza kujenga yangu nimi song nili record last year na nimi li malizi anikiwa gana na omsa ni nia tari maze jai hata na filtriani to a new level I can feel the level Talking about pro atisokuna profile kubua I did interview fire boy last year and he said that there was plans to have a song with you or rather so because he mentioned that the Guinness campaign brought you together plans mefikawapi I don't know the Guinness campaign brought us together fire boy 2 years old we've just never been in the same space together there's some artists who don't want to send files there's some artists who send you a song and then you record and send the song back and all that stuff I don't mind that but I prefer to be in the studio with the artist nami sa ni kama fire boy nami nimi ni meti neza prefatu nikiwa studio na fire boy it's pure flames to make on ICO project because we were sending each other music and it just wasn't right it didn't feel right and I didn't want to put out a collab just to say kwa justice to any of us so inaka maze kila msi ako busy kwa ke so if the stars align we'll make magic let's talk about banaboy kido got an opportunity to meet him what can you say is that one lesson you've picked from banaboy banaboy has no one lesson to teach anyone he's a whole study of just how to carry yourself how to believe in yourself how to put in the work banaboy is hard work banaboy is incredible writing banaboy is family as well when you see how he's managed he's managed by his mom and his sisters and he teaches us the importance of all of those things and originality being ingrained in your africaness na struggling isangama sa niwa Kenya kwa level za culture because we're not culturally rooted in our expression when it shows in our art some people are I'm not saying all of us guys but I'm saying if you're trying to score or to scale international global heights tapping into your culture makes you unique and I feel like banaboy is as authentic as they come he's a unique artist as well I don't know whether you know how big you are but this is a chat of top african songs 100 you had two of them how did that make you I know I've been doing this all my life but for me I never ever made music to be a big artist it's never been okay those things will come but I do music to express myself and in my expression then the accolades will come my songs are gonna be in the top 100 and that's a blessing in itself I'm not downplaying the blessing but it's not why I do the music I'm happy the music is there Biyan let's talk about song writing you have a very strong power of your pen so when Biyan is writing music what do you write experiences things about your friends what inspires you writing when I'm writing music I write about people because most of the times maybe I haven't gone through the situation that I'm singing about but I like to write about people I write about people who are around me I borrow the isms of like pop culture when I came home when I was young when I was in a channel when I was in a culture icon I've said this before so it's always just writing about what I'm grounding and what I'm exposed to and that's why I also think it's important that I travel because the more that I see the world I'm able to show the world like the fans my worldview through my lens and they can understand where I'm coming from and where I'm going but when I'm writing it's important to have a room and say come away because I'm sharpens I am but when I'm singing when I'm singing when I'm singing when I'm singing when I'm singing since covid social media has been very big especially tiktok, instagram do you feel right now it's easier to put your song out there because of social media there are gatekeepers they say that when you are singing kiss always you make the power is in your hands but you have to do the work it's still hard work in fact it's harder than it was before because for you to get yourself in a position where you rise above everyone else it's going to take a lot of hard work but it's not impossible to do so happy when I look at what someone like brandy minor has been able to achieve last year alone I don't think these female artists worked harder than brandy and watching her growth seeing her getting all these shows seeing her getting all these hits based on just her dancing every day on her instagram putting out freestyles just doing the work it's inspiring to watch I mean look at vijana barubaru I've been watching vijana barubaru before they were hits but they're going to go far and this year I'm just hearing their music on rotation everywhere I go so you have to do the work it's not going to do itself and there's no severe complex somebody who's going to come and change your life and discover you and then you blow up even the big major record labels they don't want to start with an artist post it on instagram they want to find somebody who's already working so they amplify your success let's talk about drop out it was a freestyle that you did with your guitar do you feel your career started when you were in apahil in your fortunate enough to find a group of friends who you went the musical way do you feel if that didn't happen your life would have turned out differently being in school has defined my life so much meeting Savara and Chimano in apahil is my entire life so I will never discredit what school can do for you and who you can meet when you're in school because a lot of the life long friends I have are people who I met in high school are people who I met in uni my business partners in Manhattan are people who I met in university a lot of positive things that it's done for my life but when I sing the song my job as a musician is not to sing music that makes you happy it's about singing the reality in reality when I was in school when I was in school when I was in school when I was in school the end justifies the means when I was in school when I was in school when I was in school when I was in school when I was in school when I was in school there's no bad way to make money you do you at the end of the day you're the only one who can bail yourself out of the situation you're in so the song is a tribute to everyone who maybe was made to feel some type of way because they weren't ace students and to make them understand that it's a whole different bulgim when you're out here and for the ones who got ace good on you guys create build and something interesting I didn't know that you went to uni bian me ni menda university ni me summa journalism nesa kujapo espi mbazmi wachise kazi ni watu mnashizana mimi bide nashizana kia mbiki dusku mojanda I studied journalism which uni yen mi ni babin nili kwa usayu nili kwa usayu ma leksha rangu na watuwangu paka leo kina robiko ki shout out profesor oranga shout out watuwangu karibu I studied journalism I knew I was never going to practice because even when I was in school I already had a career I released Lazizi when I was in first year so I actually and music paid for my education so I took education very seriously by them I took education extremely seriously nimeji lipia kampu yote na pesa amziki nili study journalism nili study print lakini skufanya broadcast because history utangazaji nili mimi camera edit ni ni na mi ni mundishim deadly so I studied print oh that's nice so I want to know when you're releasing music do you have a timetable where you say no I'm going to release music every six months or it just happens I think the aim is to be prepared and be consistent sometimes you have a plan and then just things happen it's always nice to have a plan but also it's nice to be fluid and know that your plan might not work all the time or some opportunities may come that are overshadowing your plan so make up with all me pangakutua song kill a month lakini ilesongu metua januari inandakushika moto march sunona so let's not be any agile enough to change planiako but have a plan make a plan work the plan do you feel most of the songs that you write are timeless like this is a song I can relate up until now watcha nabuzaliwa 204 that's always been the goal I did it subconsciously for a long time but now I'm more conscious about it to write music that's timeless because I realize at the end of the day I have to sing these songs when I'm old until I'm old I always have to sing these songs so I have to make music that's timeless and I have to make music that I love so that's it man do you ever have creativity blocks yeah currently I'm going through one so I can go to a writer's block crazy but I can go to mangzati because I travel, I can go to a juice, I can go to London each of it is what I need as a writer's block major and who do you reach out to when you feel like you have an idea but you want to make it more better I just smoke a j I die I die who do I reach out to I have such a beautiful support system around me I hang out with artists all the time and even without me reaching out to them they nourish me like nikienda studio niskeso ngumpia msani already nga kweyo vaibya kuandika nikienda YouTube niskeso ngumpia msani nga yadukweyo vaibya kuandika always so I don't know man a writer's block is only unclogged by you exposing yourself to art and hanging out with artists sometimes I'm on fire and I'm writing four songs a day sometimes I don't even write one line sometimes I just have a mediocre day and I write one bad song so it's just it's about being consistent and for the song did you talk to Stivos that you can use this line I don't know there's no reason okay first of all it's not against the law because Stivo hasn't patented the line in Auma so I just used it and in me using it though I think he benefits as well and I've never met Stivo simple boy but I love him man he's a cool dude I love his antiques everything he's doing online I think Stivo is just chasing the bag and I always say it's hard work being Stivo simple boy it's very hard work so respect the guy so as you said 2023 man Zampia is that the end of the calligraph beef they recommend beef when you're beefing with local artists they're always going to beef with you but you know me in this market I'm international I've always been international and so for that reason Ile maembe may even do rushiwa mawe come here maembe jeiva ita rushiwa mawe na andoruna Eric Omondi for the sake of his relevance because you know Eric is his career is on his deathbed so Eric is always going to talk trash just to try and get attention from different spheres and then calligraph me upcoming artist so as calligraph on the karma razi ma two are lach on to to me mingyo nimi bringju nimi fanya makolabu na yai yai yai but he's ungrateful he's always just going to be talking shit online and when I meet calligraph actually he doesn't have the balls to say that shit to me in my face you know what I'm saying but I just want to thank god that I'm going to London from London I'm going to be going to the states imo kasi ko area mi kariya has elevated me from that space of toxic guys who are consistently talking trash and I'm just grateful for that man I interviewed him last week and he said that his dogs have been instructed when they see you they attack do you feel like your life is in danger I just don't think a dog can instruct other dogs but um no it's not in danger let's not talk about Eric you're giving him too much cloud man this guy you know he needs the cloud because of the content of the dog but I don't know what's going on he doesn't know what's going on he doesn't know what's going on he's just a local artist I don't know what's going on what's going on there was a show and you were just preparing to get on stage and you know there was a woman who came behind you and your wife came into the picture but you didn't notice what was going on when it happened why did I need help when the lady came you did not move well um I don't know how you guys are watching that video first of all I just want to start by saying Chiki is my manager she's my manager she's the manager of my music affairs and for that reason before I go on stage I need to be in a frame of mind that is unbothered and deterred I hope I can have distractions up with wokaribu and if I get a message I want to be in a fair so I want them to be at that time timing is off so the activity was there was right but timing was off I want them to be fun I always check him and say how fans behave so let them be fun is just the timing was off I actually don't think if that Chiki came into action me and Chiki was just there and there was no other there was no activity I meant to be doing going on stage I don't think Chiki would have told her to leave I am not sure if Chiki will come to work I don't know if she will come I am going to strip club with Chiki to not be in a love and see what she will be and to not end at home we are cool like that so Chiki did her job Chiki did her job very well. I want to give you a scenario. Who's your favorite artist? Give me an artist. Not even your favorite, just give me an artist. Otile bra. Otile nanda kupanda stage kuimba. Banda isha handa kupiga paka. Banda ina piga intro. Ademana kuja nanda kutua kia otile. You see time ya kutua kia otile? Otile nanda piga show. So yo ina stage nili kuwa pwevo. Na chiki ali handul vi poa. Na hata mini li handul vi poa ama. Desi ku enjoy sana nili. Nili smile tu li kakalene kwa na oh. Kuna mituwa panyu mangu kesawa nili kasonga mbele. Ehh. So zi muli kwa mataka nifanya nini on time? Abia nuli kasana before suonga. But anyway. Ehh. Muli kwa mataka ni toki immediately. Nipushu o dema wei vigorously. Awa suonga bie. Mituwa twa kubado. When the timing is right. Timing iki wa poa. Read the room. Alright guys. That was Bia. I hope you enjoyed this interview. Make sure you check out his socials. For what plans he has for us in 2023. Thank you so much for making time for us. Thank you so much SBM Bars for having my back always. Big shout out to you guys. And this year I pray that you guys only grow.