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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.
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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.
