“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.

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.