“I wasn’t presentable.” Rapper King opened up about his journey of overcoming his insecurities to becoming a rockstar.
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00:00🎵My love, you've made me go crazy🎵
00:18You're in Cannes, how are you feeling?
00:21This experience, if I tell you the truth,
00:24I just, you know how sometimes you dream of something in a glimpse?
00:29And you don't know that it will happen.
00:31So it's exactly like that.
00:32And now, when I know that I have to represent something here,
00:36I have to represent Indian music,
00:38so I have to be that person, right?
00:40And yeah, I'm here.
00:41People believe that a rockstar's life is very glamourous and wild.
00:46Is this true?
00:47Do you think, I mean, would you like to say something about this?
00:50Like, what else is there in this?
00:52Sleepless nights, which you don't get to see,
00:55and that restlessness, when you're just busy,
01:00you don't know what day it is, what date it is.
01:02Like, I sit on an album,
01:03so when do those days go away in a month?
01:05How many nights do they go away in that?
01:07I think, no one sees these things.
01:09For me, my work is more of a priority.
01:11I do those things first.
01:12And when they're done, then I do parties and stuff.
01:15Growing up, you said you had an inferiority complex,
01:18insecurities.
01:21Tell us about your journey from there to becoming a successful rockstar.
01:24So, basically, I feel like when you're in a time frame,
01:28in a time frame,
01:31you're in a set of mindset people,
01:32then you have to judge them in a particular way.
01:34For example, my skin colour.
01:36Okay, I'm very proud right now.
01:38But then, since childhood,
01:40there's a little bit of neglect,
01:43I used to feel like I couldn't say anything, basically.
01:47I couldn't keep my words.
01:48Because I wasn't presentable.
01:50Because I used to feel that my skin colour,
01:52was a little bit like this.
01:53And I couldn't show that either, by the time.
01:54I used to be like that.
01:56I started playing football.
01:57Started standing like this.
01:59So, my body posture was fine, I had confidence.
02:01Then I started music.
02:03And as I kept on making music,
02:05my confidence kept on boosting every day.
02:08It's like the way I talk, right?
02:09I'm here, I'm talking the way I talk in Delhi.
02:12I'm not pretending to be someone else.
02:14It's just me.
02:15Either love me or hate me.
02:16What do you think about autotune in songs?
02:19I'd like to say something about autotune.
02:21It's an effect.
02:23People have a very wrong perception.
02:26There are many songs that are used in autotune,
02:28in which autotune is used as an effect.
02:29It's highlighted.
02:30Like T-Pain.
02:31T-Pain himself is a very good singer, right?
02:33And he, like,
02:35on the masses, he introduced that,
02:36this is how you do it, right?
02:38We remember T-Pain doing this with autotune.
02:41Which was a style, right?
02:43People should understand that this is the style, if it's too much.
02:45If it sounds good, it's a good song.
02:48You might say that autotune has been used.
02:50It's a good song.
02:51You like it, you listen to it this way.
02:53Rest, I'll tell you one more thing,
02:54that there are many singers,
02:56where autotune is used only for the edging of vocals.
03:00Compression is used, to make it tight.
03:03Make it in the box.
03:05So, to give that edginess,
03:07autotune is used.
03:08If it's used less, it makes the song beautiful.
03:11Vocals are beautiful.
03:11If it's used more, it's an effect.
03:13It's a style.
03:14And if you listen to hip-hop, I think you need to...
03:17Like, people should do that.
03:19Give them space.
03:20Give space to the artists.
03:21Because hip-hop is all about experimenting.
03:23Is there anything that you couldn't afford before,
03:26but once you were successful, you thought,
03:28now I can take it.
03:30What is it?
03:31Limited amount of McAloo Tikkis and KFC.
03:34I'm a big foodie.
03:36And when it happened, I left it.