But then if I really don’t like doing something, I will fail at it. I feel like my work ethic and my ability to focus comes from my tennis background. TM: It’s really interesting because I often think about this. What do you attribute to the success you experience with the different projects that you undertake? Something else I wanted to mention was that prior to music, you played tennis and you could have gone pro, which is pretty insane. It’s such a beautiful thing to go back to your childhood, I think that really grounds you and it’s almost effortless and simple. There are all these voices in your ear and that can be kind of overwhelming. When I dropped my debut album, I was like, ‘Wait, I don’t even know where I’m gonna go next because I’ve been following a sound.’ That’s when I decided to start delving into more soulful sounds, and it could be Dance music but it had to have the feeling of realness that I was brought up on.ĪM: I feel like that’s something I struggle with as well. Before Tkay is trying to figure out what’s happening and keep the label people happy and chasing a hit. I group my career into two parts and the first is before Tkay. It made me realise the world is so much bigger when I step outside my parents’ house. I started discovering Kendrick Lamar, Denzel Curry, Rico Nasty and Azealia Banks. When Dance started to fuse with Hip-Hop, that’s when I found music more interesting. ![]() ![]() But I think that’s what made me become who I am I was on the internet, on MySpace, Tumblr and SoundCloud. I’m still an outlier, I don’t sound like anyone there. Australia is so suburban and there’s nothing going on there, so I wouldn’t say that the music scene in Australia really shaped how I sound. I think that has added to my musical influence because I’m always seeking solace and happiness. They would play more uptempo South African music with guitar focus a lot of music from Zimbabwe is happy and it’s about overcoming adversity. I was going to their shows every weekend. TM: My dad and my uncle have been in so many bands. ![]() Have those music scenes influenced your sound? It’s cool having three different females on the track to give their perspective.ĪM: So you were born in Zimbabwe and then grew up in various parts of Australia. Having Lolo Zouaï on the track solidifies it in a way that I wouldn’ have been able to achieve on my own. I felt like it was the perfect song to have you on as well. It all started to come full circle when my DJ, Sherwyn, that I tour with said he was working with you and that was how we actually met.ĪM: And now it has come full circle because we have a song together! I’m honoured to be a part of this album. So I knew early Amber, before you came back with “What It Is”. TM: I’ve been a fan of yours for probably 10 years. music scene led her to a “holy grail” list of collaborators on the new project.ĪM: So I’m gonna start with my first question and that is, do you remember how we both first met? ![]() With new album Sweet Justice hurtling towards release, the artist sits down with Sweet Justice collaborator and fellow songstress, Amber Mark, to detail the process behind her latest project, and how infiltrating the L.A. But, after spending some involuntary time in Berlin courtesy of a lost passport or two and some self-healing, she is back and this time she has one thing on the brain: karma. After the release of her “Last Year Was Weird” EP trilogy between 20, Maidza took a well-deserved break from releasing fully-formed projects. Five decades on, Hip-Hop maintains the global fire it incited from ‘90s New York City, releasing Tkay Maidza from its embers and into the spotlight.Īdopting an experimental approach to the Alt Hip-Hop genre, the Zimbabwean-Australian artist is celebrated for pulling references from the icons of the cultural movement and blasting them into her own, visually captivating, universe. In case you haven’t heard, the Hip-Hop genre has hit the big 50-a milestone underscored by legends such as Missy Elliot, Lauryn Hill and Foxy Brown, to name a few.
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