On Me

From Concept to Realization: the making of a song

The video for “On Me” featuring Manga Saint Hilare and Strict Face is out now on GRM Daily. It was important to me to have the video hosted there because the song is a classic UK grime homage and their channel is the go-to place for new British rap music of all kinds. It’s really exciting to have been influenced by all these artists from the UK over the years and then have my track sitting side by side with them today. Getting Manga on the song was another important part of building that transatlantic connection, shout out to Freeza Chin for making the introduction.

Freeza mixed and mastered my last record from 2018 and I saw last year that he worked on Manga’s most recent album Make It Out Alive. I listened to that record and heard so many stylistic parallels between the two of us. I was already familiar with Manga’s work as a member of Roll Deep, particularly on the blistering song “F’Off.” I randomly came across Australian producer Strict Face’s album New Racer a few years ago and sent him a DM and we bounced some ideas back and forth.

After the paywall, read on to learn how UK grime and Clearview AI surveillance influenced the making of this song.