Why I No Longer Care About Getting My Flowers From This Industry - Kcee

Nigerian musician Kcee is one artiste who has been in this music game for a very long time. The singer's rise to fame began really in 2002 after he won the Star Quest talent show. Since then, he has gone on to make hit records in his career including Limpopo, Pull Over, Cultural Praise, Mummy Moo, and more. Still, despite the amount of time Kcee has dedicated into his musical career, it still feels as though he hasn't been given his flowers for his contributions to the music industry.

During a new interview with The New Telegraph, Kcee opens up about relevance, getting his flowers, cheating, and awards in the music industry. Here is everything Kcee had to say on the issue.

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During his interview, Kcee was asked "A lot of people think you went into gospel music to gain relevance, how true is that?". He responded:

That’s not true. I’m versatile and I have flair for every genre of music. I’ve done dance hall. I started with dancehall from Ajegunle. I have done Reggae songs. Anybody that doesn’t know me will not know this history about me. You think I went there to be relevant, but I didn’t even know it would be this big. Not every artiste will take the risk of doing that cultural local sound where I’m coming from. A lot of people didn’t want me to release it but I so much believed in it and I did it and it worked.

"With so much happening in the industry, do you think you have actually got your crown in last 24 years in the game?"

The truth is that if you keep waiting for the industry to give you flowers you will die there. The truth is that people can’t quantify what you do and sometimes they just appreciate those that they love and believe in, even in the Grammys. They are so many people that didn’t get awards and it didn’t stop their songs from blowing up on the billboards. With due respect and love, I don’t care about flowers; I just prefer rewards to awards. I have never done anything in my life asides from music, I am raising my family with my music, doing all my investments with music and that is more than flower. The biggest flower I need is a reward from God and He’s been doing it and I’m still consistent. For instance, so many of my colleagues who got so much awards, 10 years after, they are no longer relevant in the industry.

"Are you saying the industry has some kind of cheating in it?"

It’s not just the industry, life is like that. People identify with people they want to identify with, they appreciate people that they want to appreciate, the flowers are just to appreciate people and they don’t check the statistics. The number of people that vibe to my ‘ Cultural Praise’ are more than the people online; if you want to judge the song, don’t just check online, go to the grassroots, how do you want to count those people and quantify them.

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