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Roiii Explains Why He Integrates UK Influence In His Music

Roiii Explains Why He Integrates UK Influence In His Music. Skhanda World rapper Roiii has opened up about the intriguing fusion of UK influences in his music, shedding light on the inspiration behind his unique sound.

Roiii Explains Why He Integrates UK Influence In His Music

The rapper, well known for infusing the drill sound in his popular song Lavida Loca, explained to Kid X on The Hanger Podcast what inspired him to tap into the UK sound and offer it to his South African audience. “Your music has a lot of UK influence, I think the song (Lavida Loca) that has gone out there and played on the radio. Where does that come from and what draws you into the UK vibe?” Kid X asked.

In response, Roiii said that he was trying to push SA hip-hop to do something that have not been done before since the rap culture was adopted from the USA. “The first thing is me taking the UK drill and made it our own, was the most South African thing we’ve ever seen in my opinion,” Roiii said.

“Hip-hop is not something that came from SA, it’s something that we took and made our own from America. What I was trying to do with that is doing the same thing again. Remember when I dropped that drill song it was at a time when hip-hop didn’t have a voice of our own.

Rightfully so, so we needed to think better and think smarter and be more creative and push ourselves in spaces and styles that we’ve never done before and that’s what I was trying to do with the UK drill,” Roiii added.

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