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.
