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That one was in Dubai. I was just chilling in the house. I wanted to make a very mainstream pop song because I’m very
deeply rooted in pop music. Like, I love pop music, but the weird type of pop. The type of pop where they just come out
and sing about their life. “Murvlana” is very much in that realm, and then I mixed it a little because Santigold taught
me how to sing like that. It’s a mixture of R&B and indie but at the same time, the whole of Mandy came from a very pure
place. Every song I was making then came from my heart. (At that time) Tay and I hadn’t made a song in three years, so I
knew that I needed to tap in. When I made “Murvlana,” I was just like, “This is Tay” because every song Tay and I have
made is incredible. I sent it to Tay, he sent it back, and history.
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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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I always wanted to make a song that was neo-soul but had an afro bounce to it. It didn’t exist at
that point, so I was like, “I wanted to make one.” In my brain, I just knew that it was possible to
do it. I used to think about it all the time because I love neo-soul. So, I would always think of a
way to do it with gbedu. When I did the chords and put the drum pattern together, I was like, “Yeah,
this is it.” It was exactly how I imagined it. I sent it to Tay after a while. I already had the
song for a bit. Tay and I were exchanging music. We have so many songs we’ve not released. One day,
I just sent him “green light.” I wasn’t sure he’d like it that much, but he sent it back right
after, and I was like, “This is perfect.”
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.
