Speaker 1: Real, real celebrity joined the Breakfast Morning everybody is DJ
Speaker 1: Envy Angela Show. I mean the guy we are the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club special guests in the building all the way
Speaker 1: from Nigeria. Prince Bang Bang Bang, how far? What's up?
Speaker 1: My brother? I'm good man. Now America may not know
Speaker 1: who this guy is. What Nigeria does? You wanted the
Speaker 1: biggest artist in Nigeria by Gods grace, By God's grace,
Speaker 1: if you had to compare it to somebody here in
Speaker 1: the States who I hate. I hate to do that.
Speaker 1: I hate to come up with those scenarios, but I
Speaker 1: would say, um, I would say, um, the ice Prince
Speaker 1: of the world. Man, it's hard for me to put
Speaker 1: myself with somebody out here. When I when I when
Speaker 1: I met be High Rock Nation, he said, you're like, uh, Drake,
Speaker 1: That's what he always says. But but shout out, shout
Speaker 1: out to be High. That's my big dog that's been
Speaker 1: holding me down our here. You know, that's what he
Speaker 1: always says. What um a very healthy relationship? Is it
Speaker 1: like a management thing? Are you talk? Um? We in talks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we we have a serious conversations at the moment and
Speaker 1: be High on your instagramme. Yes, yes, yes, I mean
Speaker 1: a pot hole man was a moment in my life.
Speaker 1: That was the first time I mean meeting such an
Speaker 1: idol somebody now in New York here at the Rock
Speaker 1: Nation office and I saw, I mean too that day,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, and Behi. It brought me
Speaker 1: to the office, introduced me to Jay, told him who
Speaker 1: I was. He said, Hi. It was a decent, very decent,
Speaker 1: high conversation. And you know what I mean, he said
Speaker 1: to me, I'm a great man. Like That's something I
Speaker 1: will never forget, you know. Quite interesting. No, why do
Speaker 1: you think American music has embraced so much in Nigeria
Speaker 1: but Nigeria all over the world. You guys are bullies
Speaker 1: and stuff the bullies because really we don't embrace a
Speaker 1: lot of music from other places, not just Nigeria. Yeah, true,
Speaker 1: Why is that? And how do you break through? Um?
Speaker 1: I think, Um, I guess it's just what it is.
Speaker 1: America is is world power, right, like the President of America.
Speaker 1: It's like the president of the world. So the hardest
Speaker 1: hard to the most popular chef in America will probably
Speaker 1: be the most popular chef in the world. Right. Um,
Speaker 1: But I feel like this America is still starting to,
Speaker 1: you know, open up to other genres of music. I
Speaker 1: see where you gain music is popping our hair and
Speaker 1: that's dope. I see some I mean some of the
Speaker 1: UK artists are popping out here too, and that's dope.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Africa's need to get that ear too,
Speaker 1: you know, to translate. Like I said when I went
Speaker 1: oversees the DJ, when I know you've been in South
Speaker 1: Africa a few times, yeah, and it's like you you,
Speaker 1: I mean, you could play American music, but you better
Speaker 1: have yeah, oh no, yeah, definitely when you come down
Speaker 1: stones in my laptop, you know what I mean, Hell yeah,
Speaker 1: because you gotta play it because if not, you'll be
Speaker 1: rocking for a little bit. But then when it's time,
Speaker 1: yeah music, So it translates a little bit, especially with
Speaker 1: the DJ's no doubt and is trying to do some
Speaker 1: Nigerian influenced music. Now. Yeah, you guys are friends. It's
Speaker 1: really exciting. I mean I've I've I've done a record
Speaker 1: with him before. I speak to him once in a while.
Speaker 1: Has a big dog too that holds us down. Our
Speaker 1: head has been rappling from love for a long time now.
Speaker 1: He from Nigeria. Yeah, how what does the music seem
Speaker 1: like in Nigeria though, Like for you, did you feel
Speaker 1: like you had to leave and go other places in
Speaker 1: order to get No, I didn't. I've never had to leave.
Speaker 1: I still live in Nigeria. I just traveled a lot.
Speaker 1: I'm just you know what I mean, out there a
Speaker 1: law because Nigeria music has gone to a point where
Speaker 1: it's really really blown out. There's a huge market. All
Speaker 1: these are starting to make a lot of money, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. From from from the business. There's
Speaker 1: a lot more bigger shows. That's corporates coming getting involved,
Speaker 1: the telecom companies again involved and stuff like that. So
Speaker 1: the market is getting bigger every day. When you first started,
Speaker 1: it was when I first started. Well, I came in
Speaker 1: two thousand and ten. I'm part of this set, that
Speaker 1: the new school set that came in when the industry
Speaker 1: was already you know what I mean, enjoying those new
Speaker 1: school benefits exactly. But before that, I was in a group. Yes,
Speaker 1: I started in a group called ecomos Quad and ecored.
Speaker 1: Ecomog is like the military, the West African military forced
Speaker 1: the body, the military body that you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Guys West Africa pretty much called ECAMOG and when we
Speaker 1: when I started out on the group was three or
Speaker 1: of us, and all our dads where uniform man. My
Speaker 1: dad was a cop, the other guy's dad was was
Speaker 1: was a military man, a soldier, and the other guy
Speaker 1: his dad was an efforts man. So we just wanted
Speaker 1: to put those names together like that. It seems like
Speaker 1: you guys really support each other in Nigeria, like I
Speaker 1: see what this kid will pick you up? Yeah? Is
Speaker 1: it really all love? Hell? Yeah, it's all love man,
Speaker 1: like we we we we love to see each other successful,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? So when if if it
Speaker 1: makes me throws a tweet at the debut, Oh, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? The whole line JOI succede at
Speaker 1: the body explain to people what what Nigeria looks like,
Speaker 1: because I had the pleasure to go to South Africa
Speaker 1: and it's totally different than I thought. It's actually when
Speaker 1: I go there, it feels like it's it's like I
Speaker 1: would say, like an La Maryland DC. Yeah, the perception
Speaker 1: of Africa is real like yeah, But because I was
Speaker 1: talking a copy about this, the images they've shown us
Speaker 1: to Africa, all these years or the kids with flies
Speaker 1: on their face. Unfortunately, yeah, unfortunately. I mean Africa is
Speaker 1: really really beautiful. It's really really beautiful. If you haven't
Speaker 1: been there, you you can only be as ignorant as
Speaker 1: you know what I mean anybody else who hasn't been there.
Speaker 1: But like you said, South Africa is it's crazily nice.
Speaker 1: That's probably one of my favorite places in the world,
Speaker 1: right next to Nigeria and Ninegeria is beautiful. It's hard.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we don't you know, it doesn't get too
Speaker 1: cold like that and we love it. You know what
Speaker 1: means you don't wear no minx out there? What's that? No? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: we don't really do that. It's hard. Oh yeah, but
Speaker 1: in my city where I'm from and Josty gets really
Speaker 1: really cold, so you can throw on the fur there
Speaker 1: and you'd be cool. Still. How do you feel about
Speaker 1: the white rhinos white rhinos? I don't feel nothing about
Speaker 1: You need to about the white rhino. That there's one
Speaker 1: male white rhino when that's white rhino. I just had
Speaker 1: to play safe with an asset because I've seen that.
Speaker 1: I didn't see that the white rhino did walk. There's
Speaker 1: a white rhino. I guess in Nigeria. That is Nigeriageria,
Speaker 1: no I Africa. The white rhino was the only male
Speaker 1: white rhino left and then secured the twenty four hours,
Speaker 1: seven days a week to make sure nobody kills it.
Speaker 1: That sounds like Asia is the last white Ruhno, buff right,
Speaker 1: we should cut it up and eat it up. Man,
Speaker 1: what is a mining city? I read that you grew
Speaker 1: up in a mining city. Yes, um, in my city,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of like mineral materials under the ground,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like teen time to lights
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. I guess extracted and exported as well.
Speaker 1: So I got from a rich city. Man, Jos, Nigeria,
Speaker 1: they were you were rich growing up. No, I wasn't rich.
Speaker 1: I wasn't born poor. I wasn't born rich. It's in Kenya,
Speaker 1: the white ronos in Kenya. Kenya, Kenya, y'all to google that,
Speaker 1: shout us, shout out to Kya. Okay, yeah, yeah, kind of.
Speaker 1: I mean, Kenya is another beautiful place with a lot
Speaker 1: of you know, I mean, animal reserves and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm gonna be too surprising. But up you
Speaker 1: were fine at first until your father passed away. Yeah,
Speaker 1: things got a little broth for you. Well, yeah, the
Speaker 1: story of life. I mean, my dad when he was alive,
Speaker 1: I used to go to school and like sories and
Speaker 1: stuff like that because he had a he held a
Speaker 1: big position with the police force. But I'm gonna ask
Speaker 1: you what he did because like I read the same
Speaker 1: thing he said, your life was rosy when he was Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, my life was rosy when Pulse was alive.
Speaker 1: But you know what I mean, when he passed away,
Speaker 1: a lot was on my mom. And you know, typical
Speaker 1: I'll take typical African story, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: She went through her struggles and we just we just
Speaker 1: went you know what I mean, from a tend to
Speaker 1: like maybe at seven. Now, what's all right? Listen, what's
Speaker 1: the typical African story? Because here in the States, if
Speaker 1: something like that was to happen, a lot of guys
Speaker 1: would turn to the streets, probably started hustling and make it.
Speaker 1: What did you have to do? I mean we have
Speaker 1: those instances as well back home as well. People get
Speaker 1: on the streets and start doing all the stuff that
Speaker 1: might be legal, you know what I mean, or illegal
Speaker 1: for me, Na, it's not what all big up on that. No,
Speaker 1: that's not really a part of our thing like that.
Speaker 1: But what I just focused on my music when I
Speaker 1: couldn't I couldn't afford tuition at some point, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I just became a studio rat and
Speaker 1: I started living in the studio, you know. So listen,
Speaker 1: you know how they got d boys and trap stars here?
Speaker 1: What do they have in Africa? We have like we
Speaker 1: have guys, We have dudes. Man would't really you know,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't really do those clicks and what they say
Speaker 1: don't sound dope. They don't say we I mean, you
Speaker 1: can you can find that. You can find some good stuff.
Speaker 1: Figure out what the street life is. I made the
Speaker 1: street life. I mean, it's not all about drugs. We
Speaker 1: love to party. Our people love to party. We love
Speaker 1: to go to the beach, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: would love to. House music is a big influence there. House, yes,
Speaker 1: and South Africa and the South, the southern part of Africa.
Speaker 1: Your house music is quite big. But where the era
Speaker 1: where I'm from, Nigeria, West Africa, we're big up on
Speaker 1: afric b a lot, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 1: we've been able to cross that over to the UK.
Speaker 1: We artists like the Bond you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: whist Kid in the United States too. Yeah, and we
Speaker 1: just got a stage of south By Southwest. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was the reason why, Kid. It was amazing. It was
Speaker 1: amazing this year, you know what I mean. They had
Speaker 1: all this from gone off from Nigeria, from South Africa
Speaker 1: and we mashed it up, y'all, we missed it up crazy.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to the street talk now, because y'all
Speaker 1: be having to walk like the having to walk around
Speaker 1: with security detail. Who's the security for um? For yourself?
Speaker 1: Security for yourself? I'm saying, who they're protecting you from?
Speaker 1: Just I mean sometimes when you and back home, when
Speaker 1: people stop you on the street as a celebrity, it's
Speaker 1: not necessarily because they want to get a picture. It
Speaker 1: might be they want to rob, not rob you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's it's not robbed. They just want
Speaker 1: a piece of you, you know what I mean, either
Speaker 1: money freely or snap back or T shirt or whatever.
Speaker 1: They want to take something from you. It's not robber.
Speaker 1: He's love actually, and they want that. But sometimes you
Speaker 1: don't want to give that, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: You don't want to walking around the mall taking off
Speaker 1: his T shirts to give somebody. You mean they want
Speaker 1: literally yeah, literally like literally though they would want to
Speaker 1: take something from you. Could be anything. It could be
Speaker 1: because they could walk up to you like bout your watch.
Speaker 1: I'll fall out, I'll fall out. And you know when
Speaker 1: the streets is asking you for stuff like that, you
Speaker 1: gotta nah, you can't give, you can't. We how we
Speaker 1: we have a spirit of love back home, so you
Speaker 1: know we spread that to you don't have that spirit here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, give up. The craziest thing. I took
Speaker 1: my sneakers like that. That's how pup on ones like
Speaker 1: on stage because yeah, yeah no, but they don't. They
Speaker 1: don't do it like they're mom. Being you is love
Speaker 1: like they come, They come up to you so much
Speaker 1: love and with so much joy in your faces. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying. How
Speaker 1: did your parents react when you told me you wanted
Speaker 1: to be a rapper? Um? My dad had passed away
Speaker 1: when I started making rap music. I knew he probably
Speaker 1: wouldn't have accepted allowed me to do that. For my
Speaker 1: mom's verse support from day one. I remember she paid
Speaker 1: for my first to do session ever. Wow. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: she's always been a part of you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: me getting in the studio and me working with artists.
Speaker 1: And I'm glad she saw my first song came out,
Speaker 1: my first single, one came out and blew up. She
Speaker 1: sought our whole process of me becoming up who I
Speaker 1: am today? Record only cool future. In Brimo, it means hard,
Speaker 1: it means Trump to death. My friend my Penis is
Speaker 1: oh cool. I just looked around. I want to tell
Speaker 1: you guys, you guys have actually fun. You guys are
Speaker 1: fun for the fun. We watch you guys from all
Speaker 1: the way back. My friend Nickie from Nigeria, I had
Speaker 1: texted her and told you she was coming and she
Speaker 1: said that was her favorite song from Yeah. She used
Speaker 1: to be our intern. Oh niu ka ni shout out.
Speaker 1: Who do you listen to in the States that you enjoy?
Speaker 1: I listened to everybody, man, And right now I'm a
Speaker 1: big fan of Drake. I'm a big fan of Sean
Speaker 1: right now with the new album to just put out,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, I'm on that crazy and
Speaker 1: micmill as well. I'm a big fan of mcmill here.
Speaker 1: I mean, I had an opportunity. He brought me out
Speaker 1: here last year for a Summington Philly. I rocked to
Speaker 1: him for a little bit, very very amazing guy. I
Speaker 1: became a very very big fat you know what I mean. Um,
Speaker 1: I got introduced to Mick by some of my good
Speaker 1: friends out had mutual friends that we got. I know,
Speaker 1: a guy called Nigel off the you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: They're called the leaders of the New afrol. They got
Speaker 1: to click and make Um. Nigel knows meek, Nigel knows me. Yeah, Nigel,
Speaker 1: listen to building. Actually I am sid Nigel. You know
Speaker 1: a lot of Nigel's. Yeah, No, this is the real
Speaker 1: solid Nigel. You know what I mean? Now, what would
Speaker 1: your parents have wanted you to because you said your
Speaker 1: father would never prove to you be My dad would
Speaker 1: have probably wanted me to be like a doctor or
Speaker 1: some stuff, you know what I mean. That's the normal stuff,
Speaker 1: yea an engineer, just those basic stuff. I SA. Recently
Speaker 1: we're in the studio with Rascoe. Yes, yes, I did
Speaker 1: a record with Rosco and ATL. He invited me to
Speaker 1: the studio when I was out there like two nights
Speaker 1: ago and we rocked it out through this amazingly. But
Speaker 1: he's amazingly talented. I don't follow hot I don't. I
Speaker 1: just follow I follow music. I follow arts. Yeah yeah, Now,
Speaker 1: who is the most exciting person that you've met? Somebody
Speaker 1: that inspired you and happened you were like, wow, I
Speaker 1: can't believe am Maya Bagger? I needed to google that name? Yeah,
Speaker 1: am I a bigger? That's my mentor and my guy
Speaker 1: am I Boga? No, am I Boga? Yeah, here's my mentor.
Speaker 1: He was the first one that gets signed out of
Speaker 1: you guys. He yeah, he's the first person that I
Speaker 1: got signed from my Click. And he brought us up,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. He literally taught me how
Speaker 1: to rap, how to make music with us from my
Speaker 1: juror to his brother too is another amazing artist, Jesse Jags.
Speaker 1: You know, they pretty much taught me how to put
Speaker 1: it together. So you were the youngest one, yes, I
Speaker 1: was the lad in the Click. You're a little nervous, like, man,
Speaker 1: come on, make sure you don't leave me behind. Not necessarily.
Speaker 1: I just always wanted to just learn from them and
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, grow from that. And that's
Speaker 1: what it's been so far. I'm seeing more and more
Speaker 1: artists come to South Africa in Nigeria. Now does that
Speaker 1: mean more? Because I mean as a kid, I'm sure
Speaker 1: it was it. It was far and few. Um. I
Speaker 1: think everybody right now has been to Nigeria. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean the flight to cheap but
Speaker 1: everybody's been to that jail. And I know, I know
Speaker 1: a few artists from our head Nigeria almost every December,
Speaker 1: almost every you know what I mean now and then,
Speaker 1: and I was exciting. We love to have American musicians
Speaker 1: out there too, you know. Now people always you know nowadays,
Speaker 1: if you've never been in Nigeria, you're ignorant. Niegia. The
Speaker 1: first thing you think, it's Boca Haran. Unfortunately, what is that? Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: I mean it's a it's a terrorist group that where this, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: They were disturbing the peace. Well, I mean it's a
Speaker 1: little bit calm right now, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Just got a new precedent. We just elected a new president.
Speaker 1: Congratulations to my country and my new president, Mohammed Buhari.
Speaker 1: General Mohammad Bhari. Yeah, he used to be a general.
Speaker 1: And anyway he is a general because they say once
Speaker 1: so general always general. Right, Yeah, so he's the new
Speaker 1: president and we'll just pray that that that stuff goes
Speaker 1: away completely. And what if a rap group came out
Speaker 1: from Nigeria called Boh they don't go blue, the no
Speaker 1: go blue. That's piage in English. I did to put
Speaker 1: you on some Nigeria. You know. I'm yeah, man, we
Speaker 1: got blue, their new goo blue that they're not gonna blow. Oh,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna blow. I'm saying. Yeah. We have this
Speaker 1: thing called pigeon English. It is like our own PATOI
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's the Esperanto from Nigeria
Speaker 1: and we just break down in English. It's called broken English.
Speaker 1: You don't haven't talking dirt yet, just only cool cool, cool, yeah, cool,
Speaker 1: p We get you to spens some balls before you
Speaker 1: get a boat into Um, I don't mind, let's go.
Speaker 1: I'll be interesting. Let me take you to some Africa
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, bo, y'all have to pay attention
Speaker 1: because I'm a mixed English and pigeons listening boy, May
Speaker 1: I think that mine getting busy with me? Women snapped
Speaker 1: back to back. It's been a long time. Maybe in
Speaker 1: schooling couts how to wrap up being about my bullets
Speaker 1: getting loaded out the cot to rocks. Yeah we'll drop
Speaker 1: the hardest hit and yeah I'll do a back to back, Yeah,
Speaker 1: dropping a bookie and a VIP after that. But what
Speaker 1: you're gonna do me in my lot like O MG,
Speaker 1: this boy then my talk a lot. I think that's
Speaker 1: crazy because the smoking packs back to pack, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a little American radio. They're gonna be looking, They're
Speaker 1: gonna be ready to say you whack, you gotta bring it.
Speaker 1: Let's do it again. Thing that smoking but with burning facts.
Speaker 1: Back to pack wrappers Cacol and me Adam Afred of
Speaker 1: Matt to Daki, you asking that who the bomber? Who
Speaker 1: the Aftermat? You can react to that and get a
Speaker 1: siege or heart attack. I'm tired of this boat and
Speaker 1: all the crap. I adn't trying to prove a point
Speaker 1: that I commute the raps. If I control a NAP
Speaker 1: to put your ass into an order, nap, I put
Speaker 1: your ass to sleep and show your girl that I
Speaker 1: was all of that. Okay, okay, okay, you're vaccine should
Speaker 1: be you knew this se series on the sweat scenes
Speaker 1: mind then my sleep mind come will flats flexing and
Speaker 1: then the power sitting I'll be crossing my next Slimmy's
Speaker 1: goons on the left, goons on the right, goons in
Speaker 1: the club, goons everywhere. Brother, mind go girls on me, Phone,
Speaker 1: girls on me, home, girls on me? Wasch up make up? Bard? Mind?
Speaker 1: I La Lou. You're too cool like my name? Ice
Speaker 1: friends Bro. I didn't ice friends Bro. You're too cool
Speaker 1: for school much. That competition, Um, that was the song
Speaker 1: I want to competition? Yeah, that was in two thousand
Speaker 1: and nine. I want to I want to Hennessey Audi
Speaker 1: Street Competition and that jail You want to be award
Speaker 1: as well? Yes, in two thou twelve. What me and
Speaker 1: more to you making it in the America or Nigeria.
Speaker 1: Just just making in the world, man, just being heard
Speaker 1: in the world, like you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 1: I wanted the world to listen to my music and
Speaker 1: understand where the melodies or the stories are coming from.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be packed, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: boxed as you know what I mean being in one box.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I'm I'm an artist from Nigeria.
Speaker 1: I represent Nigeria, I represent Jowson Legolfs. But I'm a
Speaker 1: world musician. I make world music. Who are some people
Speaker 1: that you would have call your dream collaborators if you
Speaker 1: could do some songs with people? Oh, man, I would
Speaker 1: say jay Z. You know what I mean, that's the
Speaker 1: that's the biggest fish of course, man. I mean, Nigel
Speaker 1: knows the bosses, he knows what to do. But we
Speaker 1: appreciate you joining us and we want to come over there.
Speaker 1: You want to invite us out there, definitely being from Africa.
Speaker 1: You know when you see how police officers gunned down
Speaker 1: young black men here, what do you think? And all
Speaker 1: you concerned because you are a young black male. Yes,
Speaker 1: I feel like we at that point in the world
Speaker 1: where we don't need to even be speaking about stuff
Speaker 1: like that no more. It's twenty fifteen. I feel like
Speaker 1: the world is advancing to better stuff too, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Like we've gone passed up years ago,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And it's sad to hear
Speaker 1: stories like that. I I mean, I would like to
Speaker 1: advice against it. And now we live it's warm pretty
Speaker 1: much all right. Yeah, when we come to Nigeria, Man,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put your in Nigeria as soon as I can.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, You show you gotta invite
Speaker 1: this out. Definitely, definitely. Me and my man are talking already,
Speaker 1: and you know what I mean. Nigeria is asking me
Speaker 1: questions about you. I like you to come on side
Speaker 1: by yourself when you get there myself, come answer the
Speaker 1: questions by yourself. Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. I no. See,
Speaker 1: you need to keep up with my accents. You're walking
Speaker 1: around the turity. I'm definitely I'm trying to Im trying
Speaker 1: to balance the accents. So you know what I'm You
Speaker 1: know what I mean. You hear me completely. Make sure
Speaker 1: I don't give nobody from bok of Haram Donkey of
Speaker 1: the day. No, never, not never never. It's the breakfast club,
Speaker 1: it's the ice prints. I know. Blessed