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.
