So for context, I don't usually make songs with already made beats. How I started making a lot of my records is via melody so I have a melody in my
head and then I might start a rudimentary production and send it to someone that is better at drums for instance because I'm not really good at
drums. So in December, Yinka (Bernie) sent me a pack of four instrumentals and coincidentally, we had been listening to some of the same things at
that period of time. One of that similarity was Zamrock. You know, both of us had been listening to a lot of it as I had recently become acquainted
to Zamarock. I also listened to a lot of rock, psychedelic, African music specifically. So when I heard the pack, one of the instrumentals really
stood out to me, and it wasn't the one for Keep On Loving Me. It was another record that I made, which is a Hausa song. So time passes, and we're in
the new year, and I say, let's go back to this pack that Yinka sent to me. Also because I was kind of down, and I needed something to let go of how
I was feeling. So I went back to the pack and then I listened to all and then immediately I listened to Biko Biko I just started to sing. I got the
first riff “so many fish in the sea, but I still choose you…” My laptop was already in front of me so I connected it and I started singing. I didn't
actually write, I just sang how I was feeling because I was down. And so I went to the chorus and the way the chorus was designed was to slide in
rhythm with the guitars. So I was like, oh, it'd be cool if the melody just like sits with that. So when I started singing, “when you keep on loving
me” I didn't necessarily think it would work, but then it sort of did. The reason I added the Biko Biko was because I still wanted it to feel like
home. You know, I still wanted people to think of it as a Nigerian song because it's influenced by African rock rhythms, but also the guitar sounds
very much Northern. It sounds like it could be influenced by the Sahel region, you know, I'm from the North. I finished the first verse and then I
went back to it another time and I just completed it. It is always important to me for people to feel like it's a Nigerian record, like it's from
Nigeria. That's why it was created the way it was.
