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Cruel Santino
Dubai-core. That one is just a very fun song. You know, there are just some songs you make where it’s just a Santi song.
I made the beat with GMK and he was laughing like, “What kind of fucking song is this.” It was just fun and nice, but it
helped to build the sound of Mandy. Songs like “Dime In The Winter,” “Morocco,” and “Turn Down Mami” are very much
instrumental to getting into the lore of our sound. Also, I don’t always write about myself. I could just make a story.
In the story, I’m a guy with a girl, and we’ve smoked the dealer’s stuff, and he’s going to come and kill us, so we are
thinking of what to do. That’s how dancehall guys used to sing about crazy shit and that’s what I did–and then, there
are anime references, of course.
By:MemoriesFM
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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.
