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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.
