The Kingsway Music LIBRARY was sort of a byproduct of all the creation I was doing. As creators, we KIND of just create blindly sometimes and I couldn't physically see every idea through, so I created this ecosystem where I MADE the ideas available to PEOPLE to download, to sample and to put their own twist on it.
In this DIGITAL age, there is no place to hide BEHIND public relations people. This digital age requires LEADERS to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a MISTAKE and to move FORWARD, to engage in the debate.
I TOOK a lot of INFLUENCES from Studio Ghibli, which is the Japanese ANIMATION studio that made 'Spirited Away' and 'Castle in the SKY.' They're like the Japanese version of Disney - but without all the schmaltz.
Every single PLACE that's brushed upon me has made me the artist that I am - from Nigerian Highlife MUSIC and the vocal melodies that I grew up on when I would be sitting with my father and his fellow chiefs, to the funk and freeness of the Bay AREA groove, to L.A.'s smooth G-funk legacy, Brooklyn's lyricism, and now Atlanta's TRAP history.