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Cruel Santino, Seki
I feel like I am a rapper, so if I don’t rap, my project isn’t complete. “Diamonds” just has one thing that makes it a
personal song of mine. I just needed to have it so that niggas know. Also, “Diamonds” is with “Where You Been,” it’s two
in one. I was in Lagos at my aunt’s house, and I just walked down the road and smoked and came back. The “Diamonds” beat
was just playing, and I just sang. There’s a thing I do when I record where I try to catch the beat. So, I might be
gaming, but I’ll hear the beat, then I’ll run. It’s just a stupid thing, I don’t know why I do it. It’s just like what’s
going to come out of your head at that spot. So, as I did that, the lyrics just came out. I just sang that part and kept
it. I didn’t hear it again until two days later, and I was just like, “This p is mad o,” and I did “Diamonds.” “Where
You Been” was with Seki, who’s my good friend. He’s from The Philippines. He did the first part of “Where You Been” and
then, I just sang on it. He didn’t know what to do with the song, and I said that I was going to make it the second half
of “Diamonds.” He did his part in Dubai, and I did my part in Lagos in 2018.
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“alté cruise” was just what it was. I had just started going out and becoming more social thanks to
Boj. He was always saying the word so much around me, and I had this alt SoundCloud account called
fridaycruise where I’d just drop music very spontaneously. So I just put the two names together. For
me, “alté cruise” is just a manifestation of a more social version of myself. I was going out,
hanging out with friends. When I made the song, we were all in the studio, and Santi did his verse
last. We were having fun and goofing around. I feel blessed to have this song because I love music
so much, and a lot of this stuff we were making was more than music. It was a lot of sacrifice for
the community and friends. It was built on knowing that people loved us and what we were doing. We
were really making it for them, and we wanted the people to feel it. So, it’s nice to see that it
spread that far.
By:Wale
Nasty C was in Lagos, and we met up. That was actually fun because we would go around Lagos at
night, and I was with Santi and one of my homies, Genio. So, we met up with Nasty C, and we made
that song. It was a very interesting one because at that time, South African-Nigerian link-ups were
very popular, but there wasn’t anything really happening in the underground like that. Working with
Nasty C and having Santi on it was very important.
