“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.