Jordan Adetunji stopped by the Genius office to dissect his latest hit “KEHLANI.” The contagious song even got a remix featuring Kehlani herself and recently #1 on the Billboard TikTok Top 50 chart. On today’s episode of Verified, the british rapper goes into detail on how the viral song came about, his type, protecting his love ones and more!
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00:00So I was watching an interview of Kehlani on Impulsive.
00:03I thought, damn, she looks good.
00:04And just the way she was talking,
00:05she had so much confidence in the video.
00:07And I was like, yeah, she really looks great.
00:09Further on into the day, I was recording,
00:12and I was just like, I got to put a line in about that
00:14because I've been wanting to write a song
00:16about someone that's bad.
00:17But that one, it just made perfect sense
00:20and she fit exactly what I was talking about in the song.
00:22I first put it on Instagram, I was like, added her.
00:31I was like, I love you, Kehlani.
00:32And then she liked it.
00:34I was like, that's crazy.
00:35So I put it on TikTok and I just rinsed it on TikTok.
00:37I kept posting it.
00:38I was like, I'm not going to stop
00:39until she does a video of this.
00:41And then she used the sound twice
00:43and like one in front of the proper artsy.
00:45She looks great in both videos.
00:46I was like, yeah, damn, this is fire, this is perfect.
00:48And then she sent me a message.
00:50She FaceTimed me, dropped the verse.
00:53Like, now we have the remix.
01:03She's obviously a boss, but she's also a good person.
01:05Being a good person is like, that's why you look so good
01:08because it's glowing out of you.
01:09You're radiating because you're such a positive person
01:12and you're giving off good karma.
01:13So this is what the good karma is.
01:21Kehlani is exactly how I thought she was, you know?
01:23She's inspiring and she stands for what she believes in.
01:26That's one thing that I love.
01:27Anybody that's like that, you're bad just like Kehlani.
01:42Tyler's bad.
01:43I ain't gonna lie.
01:44She's bad just like Kehlani is, you know what I mean?
01:46She's bad too.
01:46She's great.
01:47She's inspiring.
01:48She can dance too.
01:49So that's what I'm saying.
01:50I need all of them.
01:51All the girls that I mentioned,
01:52they're all real names of people that I do know.
01:54So it's like, I want to start a whole choir.
01:56So, you know what I mean?
01:57I need all of them.
01:58Everyone, let's sing a whole harmony together.
02:00You know what I mean?
02:07So I'm writing a song about a boss.
02:09Anything I'm giving, I'm adding to her.
02:12It's not, oh, I'm giving it to her.
02:13It's just an add on to what she's already got.
02:20I don't let nobody play about anybody I love.
02:23That's just how I roll as a person.
02:25Even if it's the first time me doing it,
02:27I'm gonna risk it all just for that person.
02:35I'm choosy.
02:36You need to be a boss, have your own style,
02:38have your own sense of self.
02:39That's very important to me.
02:40And you need to be bad too.
02:42You need to be very bad.
02:50You know that I'm about it.
02:52Shake that ass.
02:53Shake that ass.
02:55Empoweringly, but shake that ass as best as possible.
03:01The dance, the TikToks, the trend.
03:04I can't even do the dance.
03:06I can't do the dance.