  Xbox                                                                                                             кажд                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Krsna  Indigenous   ​​​ ​you have been raised from a Christian background  ​​​ ​you know, learning the musical ​​​ ​your musical journey to the early days ​​​ ​of course you have been a Christian   ​​​ ​was it pressure now  ​​​ ​your parents raising you  ​​​ ​they wanted you to live in a spiritual way  ​​​ ​as expected to see you singing ​​​ ​you know gospel ​​​ ​Well, they just  ​​​ ​they allowed me into my thing  ​​​ ​and I appreciate them for that ​​​ ​they just made sure that they touch me the importance in the church and I tried to add it to my life so it was easy unlike me I know fishing is... not too日21 compression so I preliminary so this was my task but I have to keep praying then God to interaction so first If music being played, your beats being played. Well, for me, the old beats playing thing, I always had this thing for a long time but I didn't feel satisfied. I didn't feel there yet because the result is when you can see the result in your body. It's a different thing when you're just working and you're saying, you're telling you, hey, I did that song, bad, bad, bad, and all you can say is yes. So I don't want to use that as the answer to the question if I would have gone back to when I did my first hit song. But I feel it's when I say I dropped my music. When I dropped KPK, I started enjoying the fact that yes, this is what I want. Yes, dropping my own music. Your own music? How is it so far? It's amazing. It's beautiful. It's beautiful. It gave me the chance to explore more artists, connect with more artists. When you do a song with an artist, an artist will work with you. Work with different producers and have to start thinking of which song is the best song to drop. But for me, I move in a different way. I come with you, do something I find. Do the connection, do the collaboration. Just try to make a solid song. I love the process now. It's just what I look forward to. Like what's the next song, what's the next thing. I love it. How is your writing process? Writing process, first of all, I help artists with writing. I don't really sing, I don't move the beats and hide them. I just try to be that guy that is just there. When I hear something I like, I make sure I'm telling you, hey, keep on moving. And it works that way. Because sometimes artists are so creative that they don't even know what's the right one to pick. How do you identify now this is the right song, maybe? How do you plan, how do you try to, for example, you have like 20 songs, how do you manage to convince yourself now this one will come first? Well, depends on different factors. The market at that point, what you want to prove to people at that point, just your level of music at that point personally. And one that's profitable still. Because, for example, imagine you're in the time of a piano and you're trying to drop, you know that if you drop a piano, it's easier to sell out. Because you can say it's a piano song, you can do it, there's nothing in your head. We had to sell it on a piano. It would be easier to sell it on a piano song now than blues. So if I had a very slow, sweet song that's so inspirational that's touching my soul, I would say no, let's not do this for December, let's do this for New Year. So like enter and see a fresh air. So the timing matters, the season matters and what you're trying to look forward to. Okay. Talking about Amma Piano is one of the leading African sounds in Africa. We know we have the Afro beat, we have the Amma Piano, we have the rest coming up after Amma Piano. Amma Piano right now, it's taking over Nigerian market. I don't know if that's true. Yeah, you know the thing is this is not about the South African and Nigerian sound right from time before it was one kind of Amma Piano, it was just a South African sound like, there's this energy from, I'm talking about the time of Uro, you can call it Uro Amma Piano now. But then we'll be hearing those what you could, like it's a theme. So there's this love we'll have for South African house music, it connects with our club music a lot. So that's why our artists have always been collaborating with them, Riz K., David Do, they've always been on our collaboration thing. But you see when Amma Piano came in here, trust Nigerians man, Nigerians always like to be creative. They like to push it, anything that is it. You know they're not, they don't... Just to ride on it. Yeah, they ride on anything that is it. And truth is when we got into the Amma Piano, we changed it to our own style. You can't even call as Amma Piano at this point. You need to be honest to ourselves, like if you are calling it Amma Piano, they won't even try it at all. Yes, but it's still a hit song, it's just a hit song. Because when you compare the quality of the Amma Piano, and what we are teaching at us Nigerians, it's not related at all. We just want to get the principles, the main things and just... So what's the new name? Amma Piano. We used to call it Amma Piano, but now it's Amma Piano. Amma Piano. I like that. Amma Piano, man. I like that. Why is it that big stars, big Nigerian artists, every Nigerian artist, they are jamming to Amma Piano. Why is it sound Amma Piano? You can't deny it now. I want you to feel it. When you hear it, don't you move. Amma Piano, Piano is a big vibe with the girls. Don't you know? I know. You tell me. It's a big vibe, yeah. It's a big vibe because and the way we Nigerians do it, English to it, adding the storyline to it, adding the vibes to it, it just makes it different. When you hear Amma Piano from it's all kind of side, you're just enjoying the beat, enjoying the chand. When Nigerians now change it again. We're not starting a new story. Automatic, you know, like full song. I know. So that is what makes us... But yeah, I can't deny that we are getting so much inspiration. If we hear that new thing tomorrow, we'll go and learn from it. Music is an universal language. So if you keep saying it's my own, it's my own. You'll be so on one lane that you don't know you're not improving. You're talking about a Grammy Award moment, you know, a lifetime experience, a lifetime moment that changed your career. Helped you reach another level in terms of now people to work with you, associate with you because I know very well you've managed to work with the greatest in Nigeria. I don't know. I don't know. For me, it's great, but the way it's great is great, it's great, it's great, it's great. If you have the Grammy and you are sitting in your house, you will just have it in your home and you will not do all those so-called things you are saying, the recognition, the king won't come. It won't come. It's just a play. Just something you just put. If you don't put the extra effort of saying Hey, Amiru, How was the feeling, what was the moment, how was the environment for Nigerian artists? You know the things, in tennis it felt some type of, I must be honest, because it was world music before. It was a world category before and it has been a world category, it was really hard to tap into that. And Charlotte Bonnaboy took in so much effort to understand that. And Charlotte and Kijos have always been there. But Grammy understanding that, okay, yes. These guys, yes, there's something here, you created a different category. So I've just felt like putting so much Nigerian artists there. I've just felt, and given that song, the song is a dope song, I can't lie. That's it, you can't deny it's a dope song. But still we just felt some type of way. Who do you think deserved to win the Grammy? The funny thing is, I don't even know what they're thinking, where were they thinking and not what I'm thinking. But I felt like a lot of people deserved it, but that was shocking. That was very shocking. A lot of people deserved that, but that was shocking. Not because it was not what it is, but due to the time when you compare it with different things. It just felt like, whoa, this is a big song, but whoa. What is that? All the things you're doing. And I guess, I don't know, just cool, because at the end we said that's how we have been eating and playing. One, one. So, Grammy Awards is coming to, there are plans, Grammy Awards to come to Africa. Will this be an opportunity for more people? What's that? Really? Yeah. Will this be an opportunity for the Africans? And Grammy is coming to Africa? Yeah. Man, I don't understand, how? There are plans. Do you mean like Grammy Africa or going to do the next award in Africa, in an African country? Yeah, yeah. Grammy Africa is coming to Africa. Man, like I said before, awards don't satisfy nothing, man. They'll just keep doing this to make you feel like they're putting some effort to feel like they've done something for themselves. Keep working, man. Keep working out, you're doing it, man. Can you buy success? You can't buy success, you work for it, it comes, you know. You can't buy it. You can't buy success. That's why I said, even if you can't buy the award, you're going to hang it there, it doesn't change nothing. The next day you need to keep working. Of course. That's what I'm saying. Of course. Of course, that's true. I want you to make me understand this. What is it so special about Kenya that most of Nigerian, greatest Nigerian artists have passed through Nairobi, either for performance, either for collaboration? I don't know what is in special here. I really don't know too, because when you ask the question, it makes it... Okay, but the thing is, this is Africa, you know, and we cannot deny the fact that there are other people, other countries. There's East Africa, there's West Africa, there's South Africa. I want to talk about East Africa. You can't go without mentioning Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, but Kenya is doing a lot. What makes Kenya unique from other... Kenya is a great country. It's growing, it's developing itself. It's something to applaud, you know. It just has an environment that I feel that it can really help creatives. I don't know if the Kenyans don't see it that way, but that's how we see it. The environment is a very walkable environment. What brings you to Kenya then? Man, to connect with the fans here, you know, to spread out the message that I'm Rexy, you know. Just come here and promote myself. Talk. I'm here to talk to them everywhere, saying, yo, and I feel like that's what Kenyan artists should do too. Do you have Kenyan artists who work with you? Yeah, so far. Fena. Yeah, I still have more sessions I'm putting up with. Trying to put work with Kali Gravjons. The names are hard. What do you think about the state of Kenyan music? Be honest. To be honest, I feel like it's too more localized. If we appreciate the localized ones more still, the ones that are trying to be international and not getting it right yet. So you need to be yet to understand what you are enjoying it. And that's the thing. Our music is not like that. We should not be like that. We should be able to be there, hear it and understand how it is. So I don't feel like there are so many creative talents here. But there is no sound, no movement. We don't have our own sound? You have too many sounds. But no movement. Like when you say Afro beats. Afro beats are not the only sound we have in Nigeria. We have to do. We have Fuji. We have high life. We have warro. We have different vibes. But when we are trying to say, what's making you say Nigerian music and why is Nigerian music? Because there is one particular sound that we are all pushing together. So even if an R&B artist, even if Bonaboi drops five more albums, it's still going to be sure it has one or two relatable Afro beats that we can relate to it. So I feel if Kenyak artists could intentionally understand what they like, what we would like, that's where my piano is, what they like and they find into what we would like, it would be a beautiful thing. Yeah, because I was listening to so many Kenyak songs last night and there was some particular bounces that I heard. I'm like, what bounces is this? There's one, Jan Shiski has one like that. It has almost 70 million views on YouTube. It's one of these big songs. Almost a long time ago. If you said it, what's that song? See that bounce? I heard some other bounces like that. I'm like, okay, this is something I cannot relate to this in Nigeria but it's a big bounce here. So imagine if everybody's consciously promoting that kind of bounce. Okay, you're doing your thing but you're just making sure that with time unconsciously, we are coming to say what sounds is that? I put everybody over the head on the platform for the first time. What sound is that? Take us to that point. You're talking about, you know, being an international artist, what is your understanding of the world? International artist. International, like, has it been acceptable outside your home? Outside? Yeah, outside your home. How can someone make it an international platform into the international stages? I can't, I'm not good. It happened different with some of your own artists. Sometimes it might just be that unconscious song that you didn't expect that takes you international. So it happened different ways but sometimes there's a conscious effort you can also put and that's still connecting with the, like take for example, before Afro beats was accepted ways are accepted right now. You would see African artists try to even do hip-hop because that's what they think is international. Then what is acceptable right now? So right now, if Afro beat is accepted and it's really accepted right now, if you're not trying to be on that wave, you're not trying to be international. Because that's what has been accepted. Hip-hop has already been accepted. International. That's from the sound point of view. So there's a sound point of view where you have to be careful of the sound when you're saying international. I cannot be doing my kind of street. From where I come from I'm a street guy. I'm a street pop guy. I cannot be doing some kind of street beat and be expecting international. I have to add extra sauce. What's extra sauce now? Then there's collaboration. Collaboration comes where you can like put people that have that recognition and boost the market. And I feel that's one big thing Whiskey also helped with Apagodabra. So that's what's also there. And also your lifestyle. Some people are just so big that it's not about your songs, about them. That's also an international way to be international. When you're moving like them, when you're moving, when you're dripping like them, you're talking like them, you're connecting like them. Some artists don't even have an international. He's both international because they're connecting there. They're making that. So they're different ways. But those efforts have to be consciously taken. You know, I believe in collaboration because for an artist to work with a certain artist, there's really both sides. But there's a debate on going right now in Nairobi and Kenya about we don't have within East Africa we don't have an international artist. So people are, you know, one of the... In Kenya or Tanzania? East Africa. Tanzania is East Africa, right? Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Congo. I think for example I'm telling you now when I talked about, when I talked about international, I want... that one, what is that one international? But he's international, but after retreatings I said he's more of the... he's a personality that makes him international. So how he's working for that one? What about musically? No. He's trying to put in the effort. And you can tell how he's always trying to sound Nigerian. But internationally is known because of his fame, his lifestyle. You can see someone like who's diamond because I had to love him so much. That's why I said he influenced him. Because we don't have Kenyans, we don't have international heat. It means Kenyans we've not performed in the international stages, the O2 arena, Madison Square. You know, South Solar show us too, show us too, yeah. South Solar born Grammys with Bonaparte. So people are trying to understand who really is an international artist. Do I need to have, you know do I need to have the money? You have to have the money. You have to have, you have to just plug in. Like for example um everything is plugged when the generation where anything you want to do promotion wise is not hidden just have to have the money to do it. You will see Nigerian artists drop a song today and they are paying somewhere Madison Square or somewhere paying for the screens so that's five minutes just to get that picture. It's the intention. If you want it, South Solar has how you move. So what should we learn as Kenyan artists, what should we learn? See, do you know that we Nigerians there's one thing that that's really trending now in Nigeria is Stringfarm. I heard it was Stringfarm before. No. Really? Stringfarm is wow Stringfarm is like we pay people pay not me. They pay for automated streams robots playing your songs. Yeah but that's how much it's not because they don't know what's wrong but that's how much intense or intense they put into having their results. You know, we pay for Stringfarms in East Africa Do you want to study effort? Like going to Nigeria and you're paying to post for us to post or something is number one also in Kenya. And I doubt if in Kenya is actually number one. So that's that intention now move. Unless money is not there but if money is there actually it's not smutting. It's not smutting but the result is not smutting too. So why wouldn't you? It's not easy like that. I know. Just to ask you this will you rather work hard, you know, make sure that things are there the management is making sure that your music is distributed well other than having it in a short way you know, you do some kiki, we call it kiki a showbiz you know, you create a scandal you become big just for it to work for you. I won't say the short is not making sense. But most artists want to do that if I was just starting if I was just starting if I was just starting I would probably go the short because why is it stressing longer talent is there to continue it so I won't downplay anybody's success. That's the thing because it works for different people in different ways but as long as you have the ability to sustain it that's the main thing What plans do you have this year? This plan. This year. Too many plans man. I'm trying to do more events more shows dropping the projects to this year I'm putting out my first artist you know, I'm just You're signing up? It's Nigeria. See I'm just open to greatness so anything I call my way I'm going out for it That's why I'm out right now basically For your fans maybe to connect with you Are you having shows? Yeah, Kenya we have a show Friday, Big Vice Party you know Trying to connect with the fans like I said So yeah, Big Vice Party Tell me about your socials My socials, Rex upon the beat Twitter, YouTube Instagram X everywhere As we wind up, allow me to ask you this question Who has the best Jollof Rice? It's all about Jollof Dabi Nigeria has the best Jollof Rice Are you sure? You know it's Nigerian Jollof Rice How do you know it's Nigerian Jollof Rice? It's just Jollof It's just Jollof Rice It's just Jollof Rice Again, Jollof Rice is nice I don't care about that Meet all the old social mix I don't know what it means to mix all that It's a feeling If you taste it, you know it's Nigerian Jollof Rice Brother, if you taste it You understand If not, that's not what I'm trying to tell you I don't want you to say you have If you're saying you're interested in Kenya It's not Nigerian Jollof Rice But we have Nigeria's cooking fast No, it's different It's hard to explain It's hard to explain, just like I don't know It's easy to make boys It's different Because I like Ghanaian Jollof Rice That's really what I've tasted I've not tasted Senegalese I heard it's really dope Let me not talk too much We're so far from you Niger Niger Thank you so much for having time with us We're so glad to your fans You can tell them something Love you guys Thanks for always supporting Keep sharing the music Love, love, love Till next time My good name is Seba My DOP is Rahman Pixel Till next time, God bless