PAUSE Meets: Loski

When you were growing up what was your dream career?

I wanted to be a footballer, but that’s everyone’s dream. Sometimes I see the footballers at my age that I used to play with at academies it’s like – I was better than you!

Do you remember the first bars you ever spat?

I feel like I used to play around with my bredrin’s, but the first proper song was probably forest gump where I sat down and wrote.

When you’re making music now do you sit down and write everything?

Now I only write when I’m in the studio, I’ll hear a beat and within five minutes I know yeah I can rock with this.

Songs like Forest Gump, Cool Kid and your feature on Go N Get it I feel like are a different sound to what you were first coming out with.

Yeah, Cool Kid I remember when I made it the managers came in and were like this is hard! I definitely tried something new when I made that. Because I made Forest Gump before, but I didn’t have a lot of that (sound).

Then Go N Get it, I listen to American music more so the Canadian artist I was with was on that vibe already, so it was a chance to do that.

Are there any other genres you want to experiment with?

Yeah that same forest gump vibe. I’ve been doing the cool kid vibe a lot recently, so I’ll carry on with that and drill still.

Just trying to do everything, when you stick with one thing it gets boring.

You have a new mixtape coming out – is there a mix of sounds

Yeah different flows, trying different stuff. It’s hard though because you need to please the hardcore drill fans.

The new fans that I’ve gained they don’t want to know the drill because they don’t listen to that.

Have you got a favourite song from the project?

I don’t know, I haven’t thought of it like that.

When you were growing up what was your dream career?

I wanted to be a footballer, but that’s everyone’s dream. Sometimes I see the footballers at my age that I used to play with at academies it’s like – I was better than you!

Does it change depending on the situation?

Yeah sometimes I’ll hear something and think this is hard and sometimes I will think (something else) sounds sick, but I haven’t thought of a favourite.

Your tour starts on March 18th, what’s your pre-show routine?

I don’t know.

At first, I didn’t know how to be comfortable performing, I was just rushing through songs not introducing them, not even talking then I am gone – crowds are thinking where is he? Now it’s easier.

What is the first piece you remember going out and spending a lot of money on?

I don’t even know, I just went crazy! I was with my bredrin’s just spending a lot on them, it’s nice when you can do that stuff. Obviously, I had bought nice things before but going and spending thousands, its sick.

What are your favourite brands?

Louis Vuitton, Amiri Jeans. It changed at first I was rocking with Valentino, Canada Goose, Louboutin, there’s a lot of stuff I feel like I get bored of, once you buy a certain amount of stuff its dead.

I think Dior is sick – I think everything falls off and comes back and Dior I’m rocking with right now.

With Louis Vuitton is that since Virgil Abloh became the artistic director?

No, with Louis Vuitton it’s expensive, say with Louboutin’s a lot of people can be in it. Louis Vuitton, you can get £2,000 jumpers, you’re not going to see everyone in that.

What is the most rewarding thing about making music?

Good feedback, when I say certain things and people recognise what was said or the meaning to it, or when there’s a person that has been through the same thing.

Obviously, you get the haters and that gets to me but then I realized the comparison between the hate and the love and it’s not even close.

Is it crazy that someone even took the time to hate on you?

Yeah, that’s what I think more – I don’t even know you.

I like when people are chatting and my fans are sticking up for me.