KOAD is on a mission to ‘make young brown kids dance and feel embraced’
This is A HOT MINUTE WITH, a quick-fire interview series championing all the rising talent catapulting into fashion, art and music’s fickle stratosphere. From pinch-me moments to bad dates and even worse chat-up lines, think of it as an overindulgent conversation – like the ones you have in sticky club toilets at 4.A.M. Except these guests don’t regret the overshare…
Courtesy of @itskoad
Harry Browse: Do you have a favourite lyric from your new single, Jaunty?
KOAD: “Pullin’ back the foreskin forcin’ brand endorsements reaching for the stars ain’t you brown boy.”
HB: Tell me about your work in three words.
K: Honest, Slutty, Imaginative.
HB: What power does music like yours have nowadays?
K: No one’s ever made music like me, I genuinely believe that. So we’ll see. I believe my honesty and raunchiness will comfort people because I’m simply telling stories from my life and observations I’ve made.
HB: What are your pre-show rituals?
K: Listen to music and dance honestly ahhahahah.
HB: Biggest ‘pinch me’ moment in your career?
K: Making a song with MERLYN WOOD - one of my idols.
HB: Who’s your dream collaborator on a track?
K: Bruce Springsteen, Tyler the Creator, and Kanye West.
HB: Do you believe in aliens?
K: Of course.
HB: How do you switch off?
K: I don’t. I smoke weed, masturbate, and eat food all while rapping and making music.
HB: What do you think your music says about yourself and the world we’re living in?
K: I guess my music shows what the world has done to a young brown kid from the San Fernando Valley. The world forced me because it sucks to escape the world and have fun in the worlds I create in my head. I’m bringing imagination to the mainstream.
HB: What’s your comfort food?
K: My Mom’s Indian food, specifically paneer makhani.
HB: Who’s the last person you messaged?
K: My brother cuz we jus got put on a fucking Spotify.
HB: If you could only save one item of yours from a fire, what would you save?
K: Benjamin Kogo, my koala.
HB: Do you have any fears or phobias?
K: Bees scare me hahahaha, but other than that nah.
HB: What is one thing you would like people to say about you and your music?
K: I would love to hear people say they dance to my songs when they’re alone. And I would love people to say that I’m their favourite rapper and producer of all time.
HB: Most embarrassing memory?
K: I genuinely don’t get embarrassed.
HB: What three things are you grateful for at the moment?
K: My happiness, KOGO, and the fact that I get to do what I love everyday.
HB: What’s one song that changed your life?
K: Dancing in the Dark by Bruce Springsteen.
HB: What effect do you want Jaunty to have on people?
K: To make young brown kids dance and feel embraced as opposed to accepted. Obviously this song is for everyone but if I was a 13-year-old brown kid I would cry tears of joy dancing my ass off to it.