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Coconut water and confidence with Kranium, Masego and Alicai Harley

Three artists with Jamaican roots discuss working quickly in airports, how they use the sounds of what came before, and what it’s like working with the industry’s biggest names.

Kranium is a singer and songwriter who blends dancehall and reggae. Born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, and raised in Jamaica, Queens, New York, he’s worked with the likes of Ty Dolla $ign, Burna Boy, Mahalia and Ed Sheeran. He chats to Masego and Alicai Harley about working quickly in airports, what their best choruses are, how they use the sounds of what came before, and what it’s like working with the industry’s biggest names.

Answering those questions is Masego, a multi-instrumentalist, singer, and rapper based in LA. The video of him recording and live-looping his hit single Tadow with producer FKJ has been viewed over 240 million times. They're joined by an artist blowing up in London right now, Alicai Harley. She’s a singer, songwriter, and rapper known for her freestyles, whose sound fuses elements of dancehall, R&B, pop and UK grime.

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32 minutes

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Alicai Harley (Credit: Sarah Louise Bennett/Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ), Kranium (Credit: Sarah Jeynes/Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ) and Masego (Credit: Benjamin Askinas)

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  • Sat 5 Dec 2020 12:06GMT
  • Sun 6 Dec 2020 20:06GMT

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