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Blaqbonez

For me, I wanted to be on a new vibe in terms of production and the hip-hop standard. I went on YouTube, and I was

listening to random beats and stuff. It was recorded two months before the album. At this time, I was at a château in

Cognac (also known as the Château Royal de Cogna, a historic monument on the banks of the Charente River, France)

chilling in the backyard by a lake and I was in a chill place. It was just a really cool day going through beats, and I

just found that beat online. I was like, “Oh my God.” I knew that the beat was banging. It was during one of the

Hennessy activations, so after the stress of the day, I decided to still record that night, and that’s how I made the

song in my bedroom. The way I made the song, it wasn't like I wrote a hook or anything; I just started writing, and at

some point in the process, I wanted the beginning to come back again. I didn’t know that part was going to be the hook;

I was just writing. The beat switch at the end was added later on.

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Blaqbonez always wanted me to make a song that will go super viral. He’s like; “oh, you need to make

a record that will cement your legacy, a song that many Nigerians will know, will listen to”. So

when I was making God's Engineering 2 (previous album), we made ‘Family’. It didn't go as viral as

he wanted it to go. So when I was making God's Engineering 3, he was paying special interest in the

recording process. When I made the song called ‘Read the Signs’ with Terry Apala, Blaq was super

excited. He even helped me contact Terry to be on the record. He was like; “yo, this is the record.

You finally did it your way. You just have to put a budget behind this record, and it's going to go

super viral”. I was like, cool. It's supposed to be the single anyway. But then I told him that I'm

not going to make the album without him doing a verse. I wanted a rap verse. So before I wrapped up

the album, I called him and I was like, yo, I'm wrapping up the album and I need that verse. And he

was like, say less. I think two days later, I just got an email and he had recorded on a YouTube

beat. I listened to the verse and the hook and I was like, Oh, is this how you're feeling? He was

like, yeah, a lot had happened before he recorded the verse. He put down how he felt about what was

happening. I was like, okay, I jumped into the booth and dropped my own verse in like, maybe like

15, 20 minutes. But I held it back because I was still not certain because it was on a YouTube beat.

We sent it to a producer called Jxses. He was able to make a beat that matched what we were already

feeling - which is one of the hardest things to do. We didn't think of it as a single, right? We

just wanted it to be on the project. After I finished the album, I played it for my team and they

were like, yo, it's hard - and this should be the single. They were like, the hook, the chemistry,

everything is just a safer bet. And I spoke to the guys on the distribution side, and they were

like, yeah, they actually think that the song with Blaqbonez is the single. So we picked a date. And

we dropped it. The situation between Blaq and Modu (ODUMODUBLVCK), everything just escalated it. And

yeah, that's how the song came about. We were not in the same studio when we made the record. Blaq

recorded his part, sent it to me. I recorded my part, sent it to him. And people have been saying

that that's one of my best verses yet. That thing that Blaqbonez wanted me to always have, “I want

you to have this to cement your legacy”. I always wanted him to be the person that would give that

to me. I guess he finally did it on this record.

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