And I would receive a message from a fan and the person asks why I deleted the song, adding that they are willing to pay for the song because it got them through a difficult time. And I say that because prior to this experience, I would have moments where I would release a song, and delete it afterwards. RB: I think the lesson in this is ‘trust yourself.’ I will be more encouraged to release songs even if I might be feeling a particular way. Will this experience affect your thought process if you have to make a decision about whether you should put out a song or not? GQ: You posted on Instagram you didn’t want to release ‘Bornday’ intro. I hope you will be as authentic as you can possibly be with me.’ In that moment, you are seeing Kwame be bare, and share a part of him that was painful and the song re affirms the idea of ‘in this moment I hope that person that I am being my authentic self with is receiving me with love and respect.’ I think it makes sense that that is what they chose. RB: In the song I go ‘Be still I know you feel it coming in.’ I am talking about coping with love, loss, and emotions but also trying to say ‘if you are going to be in my life. The fact that I wrote that song during a time when I was actually going through some of the worst moments of my life and Michaela (Coel) resonated with the song and then chose it for the scene was pretty powerful and exciting because the song is quite obscure. I was quite surprised and really flattered that that was the one they chose because I didn’t even think it was one of my favourite pieces because it surrounds trauma. It was only on Soundcloud and the version that they sent me when they were trying to refer to the song was a Youtube clip which had about 85 views. When I found out I was completely floored but quite thankful.įunny enough, it was a song that I hadn’t even released on iTunes yet. I May Destroy You is a British black comedy-drama television limited series created, written, co-directed, and executive produced by Michaela Coel for BBC. I was already watching the show because I am a fan. It was only about two weeks prior to the episode airing that I got to know it was actually on ‘I May Destroy You’ and I started freaking out because I had no idea. At the time, I didn’t know what the show was. And I got an email from Ciara Elwis, music supervisor of the show basically saying they wanted to license one of my songs for a show. At the time, I really didn’t know what she needed it for but I was more than happy to collaborate with her in any capacity so I told Lady to pass along my information.
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