The Wonderkid: KSI

HOLDING THE BELT FOR EVERY CHALLENGE HE SETS HIMSELF, KSI ZONES IN ON HIS LATEST ENDEAVOUR STRIKING OFF CHALLENGERS IN EVERY BATTLE HE FACES

Your new single ‘Patience’ has some crazy features, Yungblud and Polo G, tell me about it.

It’s mad man! This song took a month and a bit to do, we went back and forth trying to perfect it, making it one of the best songs ever. Mally the producer just absolutely obliterated the song and made it insane, made it a classic for me personally. Obviously YB did his ting, Polo G smashed the ting as well and I did my thing as well. I’m excited for people to hear this. Obviously the song’s kinda related to all of us, when it comes to the whole lockdown and the whole pandemic, us having the need to have patience throughout this crazy year. The end is near so I feel like it’s a little salute to that.

Speaking of patience, you had an insanely busy life until the start of the pandemic, how did you learn to have patience when it all stopped?

If anything, if I’m being honest I’ve been busier than ever [laughs]. More busy than I was before lockdown, which is insane to think of but digitally it’s gone through the roof. That’s what everyone needs, wants, no one has any way of getting entertainment besides that. So Netflix, Amazon Prime, even Amazon in general, the sales have gone up. With YouTube, as well, views have gone up, engagement has gone up, everything has gone up so it kinda warranted me to produce more content. Even with the music, to produce more music ’cause I’ve been charting left right and centre. It’s at a point when people just want more, more, more so I’m just giving them more, more, more. I’ve just been busy, especially with the press as well, doing lots of press. Yeah it’s been crazy, it’s

been a crazy year for me man and I didn’t expect it. I just thought this was gonna be a year of relaxation, I guess just waiting, but it’s been the complete opposite. I guess people have just seen me more and I’ve become more of a household name because of this whole pandemic, which is crazy.

It’s only been a year since the release of ‘Dissimulation’, your debut album so your fans must appreciate that you’re already back in the studio.

Yeah I felt, with this next album that I’m releasing this year, I had a lot more time to really figure out what I wanted: really hone in my skills, work on things that I wanted to improve on from my last album and improve the rapping, improve the wordplay, improve the singing, improve the beat selection. I wanted to level up everything, I feel with this album I’ve definitely done that and it’s definitely gonna blow people away.