K16
Welcome to K16 (aka Killer16Bars) world. The saviour of Naija Hip-Hop. Check out tracks from the forthcoming debut album "Wetin Dey" and cop the new single "if you never sabi" available to buy now exclusively at http://www.k16online.com/store
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
Killer16Bars aka K16 aka Mouth Mc is a musical pioneer. Together with O.B. and Capt O.I.A his former Emphasis bandmates, he started the pidgin english rap phenomenon which has taken Naija by storm.
After coming second to Blakky at Lekki Sunsplash, Emphasis were offered a record deal by the now, also defunct, Premier Music headed by Dean Disi. The EP entitled BIG DEAL was released and spurned the nationwide smashes, "cool down no vex", "which one you dey" & "don't surrender"
It was awesome. No one had heard anything like it and it opened the doors to Junior and Pretty and other indigenous urban acts which had been previously overlooked. The story goes on from there, to the artists we have today selling platinum albums.
Emphasis were in the middle of making their debut album, when the group disbanded. This was partly due to Interfering parents who didn't understand and overinflated ego's by industry types and group members. Nuff said.
K16 moved to England and went undercover developing his own individual sound. Having tried a host of producers, he realized that nobody was going to ever totally get it and thanks to Intel with the fast cheaper chip and Korea entering the data storage industry, it was actually possible, affordable even, to set up your own studio.
Around this time, K16 hooked up with Un-seen his business partner in Zerob1productions/ikukurecords and together they set up The Lab. Here they went to work and gradually, the sound began to materialize.
In January this year work began in Earnest on "Wetin Dey" K16's debut album slated for release late summer 2008 to be followed closely by "Paranoid" by Un-Seen and "The songstress" (working title) by A.D.A
"for me, it's not about fame or the money....i just want to give the heads worldwide a taster of what Naija Hip-hop has to offer in it's purest form"
Support the Single "if you never Sabi" by visiting http://www.k16online.com/store
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
Haven't started live gigs at the moment, cause Naija Hip Hop is a hard night to work in London, but seriously working on it...Check out the website for updates on this http://www.k16online.com
Your musical influences
Fela Kuti and King Sunny Ade are my 2 biggest influences for my sound, but i was primarily influenced by Hip Hop as a genre itself...comparably, i'm like what will happen if Kanye West, 2 pac, Bright chimezie and fela Kuti or chilled out in Amsterdam smoking joints and working on a mixtape..lol..or something like that.. I like the new cats on the Naija scene now as well Sound Sultan, Naeto C , rugged man, 9ice, psquare, 2 face idibia all doing there thing
What equipment do you use?
PC + Cubase SX3, VST's all the usual stuff
Anything else?
My album isn't completely done yet, so if your a singer/songwriter/producer and you have something to offer...get at me
