ONE ON ONE WITH C2K

Three years ago, c2k and kagwe Mungai dropped the hit song Kidero grass. Recently, they did it again when they released another enormous hit titled “don’t take too long.” We have a chat with him on this detailed interview.

Briefly tell us about yourself

Well c2k was born and raised in Mombasa and lived there for twenty-two years of his life. The environment Mombasa has taught me to take life slow, am born creative. In my career history, I used to work at coca cola as a marketing brand manager. I have always loved music production, videos and everything like that. I like travelling, building up the industry building up the people taking time to invest in people.

When did your passion for music begin?

Well my passion for music started when I was twelve years old in Mombasa. It all began in my cousin home studio. I used to visit him a lot when we were kids, one day he bought a keyboard and started making beats, since then that is when the interest popped up though I always listened to music since I was nine. When I found the opportunity to record that is when my passion for music began. It began when I was very young so I have been doing this for a while now.

Were your parents against it ?Did they support you?

Well my dad did not like the idea of becoming a musician because of the lifestyle it is purpoted to entail (involving drugs, alcohol the late night), he was not for that lifestyle. Mum loved my music, she knew I was talented and that I had something but at the same time her main concern was my lyrics, she always asked that; are you sure you can say that? Are you sure you can mention that person’s name? She was a little bit paranoid though at the back of the mind she couldn’t say no coz they knew pretty well that I had a talent and they could not stop it but they had the concerns.

You recently released a hit song featuring Kagwe Mungai (Don’t Take Too Long), can you tell us about it?

Don’t take too long was special because one thing about Kagwe and me is that we have great chemistry when we come to the studio, we understand each other, we know how to get a point across. I reemember when he composed the song, he simply came to the studio and I got along with him and proposed of something different for the next song.

What is the major challenge you faced when working on that song?

For me the major challenge was opening up, being real, and talking about what had actually transpired. For me that was the challenge because I have never done it before. It was a challenge and at the same time, it was exciting I actually put the truth in the track.

Should we expect more of that type of juicy songs or what is your plan?

Hahaha! Am just gonna say expect a lot from C2K. There gonna be a lot of music coming out a lot of features, a lot of productions so yea I guess you could see that more songs are gonna take too long coming soon but at the moment is just about building content. Yea I would say so.

Apart from being a musician what else do you do?

Well, I also do artist management where I try to build up and raise artist who are potential to get out there and also help manage a studio tsunami studios so that is what I do on the musical side, but besides that I am an entrepreneur I got some business that I do to keep myself busy . I will not disclose too much but yea it is all about the business you know.

What is your biggest plan this year?

My biggest plan is to release content with consistency because I have been quite for two years three years. I haven’t done much music my biggest plan is to get back that consistent level of music coming out just coming out and just having a momentum just building a momentum to build my career and besides that am working on a project coming together. Besides all that is just giving content, building a brand, and just showing people that Kenyan music can be international. We can do better.

If you had one message to you ex, what would it be?

(laughs) You can leave nobody gonna stop you (laughs), yeah go do you thing if you want to am always blessed all the year.

Share with us the best advice you’ve ever received?

The best advice I have ever received is don’t compete with anybody, stay in your lane do your thing. If you do music for the right reason and you know you want to make an impact to make a difference then go at your own pace, go at your own level go at your own sound. The only competition you have is with the man in the mirror so either do not make an ego contest or am a bigger man than you can contest. Let us not make it a competition lets work together.

Final words?

My producer is Kenyatta, shout out Kanyeria. The studio we work at is tsunami studios, magic tempo is the label and just wanna shout out the people that helped me put this art together. And finally again, shout out to Kanyeria he is amazing he is a genius shout out my producer.