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It’s crazy “DSM” was the first song I recorded after Suzie’s Funeral, which was my first SoundCloud project. I wasn’t really recording. When I
released Suzie’s, I just dropped it on the internet and went back to school. I was schoolin,g and things were kinda hard. It was just me in school,
I didn’t know what to do. I just had little funds from the little work I was doing. I also had to study so I prayed to God and turned off my phone
for two weeks. I just prayed to God for a sign that it was all going to work out. Two weeks later, I turned on my phone, and I was checking my
messages, and I saw one from a verified account. I go to his page and I see that he’s the president of Drake’s label (Oliver El-Khatib). I was like,
“Wow,” and I texted him back. I turned off my phone again because I had to get back to studying, and then, one night, I was gaming because my girl
was with me then. People started reaching out, saying that they are playing my stuff on OVO Radio. They played “Jungle Fever” and “Gangster Fear,”
and that just gave me some insane motivation to start recording again. The first song I recorded properly, coming back in 2017, was “DSM.” We
dropped “Jungle Fever” around late 2016 or early 2017, and I went back to uni. I was like, “Fuck, we’re back here.”
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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.
