{"id":624736,"date":"2024-06-18T18:31:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T15:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/its-feeling-like-a-skaiwater-summer\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T18:31:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T15:31:43","slug":"its-feeling-like-a-skaiwater-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/its-feeling-like-a-skaiwater-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"#It\u2019s feeling like a skaiwater summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f1a57e2ce3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f1a57e2ce3\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/its-feeling-like-a-skaiwater-summer\/#The_Nottingham_rapper_and_producer_refracts_their_omnivorous_music_taste_into_a_singular_vision_on_their_new_album_gigi\" >The Nottingham rapper and producer refracts their omnivorous music taste into a singular vision on their new album #gigi.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Nottingham_rapper_and_producer_refracts_their_omnivorous_music_taste_into_a_singular_vision_on_their_new_album_gigi\"><\/span>The Nottingham rapper and producer refracts their omnivorous music taste into a singular vision on their new album <i>#gigi<\/i>.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262205\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/s1_ns6hjm\/skaiwater-photo-via-publicist.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/s1_ns6hjm\/skaiwater-photo-via-publicist.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/s1_ns6hjm\/skaiwater-photo-via-publicist.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/s1_ns6hjm\/skaiwater-photo-via-publicist.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/s1_ns6hjm\/skaiwater-photo-via-publicist.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/s1_ns6hjm\/skaiwater-photo-via-publicist.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/s1_ns6hjm\/skaiwater-photo-via-publicist.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/s1_ns6hjm\/skaiwater-photo-via-publicist.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/s1_ns6hjm\/skaiwater-photo-via-publicist.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/s1_ns6hjm\/skaiwater-photo-via-publicist.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/s1_ns6hjm\/skaiwater-photo-via-publicist.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"It\u2019s feeling like a skaiwater summer\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      skaiwater. Photo via publicist.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262203\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <i>skaiwater is nonbinary and uses he, she, and they pronouns; this interview uses the singular they for consistency.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262204\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            skaiwater \u201chates asking for help,\u201d they admit halfway through our call, but that might be because the L.A.-based, Nottingham-born artist knows how to do it all. \u201cI\u2019ve been in the engineer chair, the producer chair, and the artist chair,\u201d skaiwater explains. \u201cI\u2019ve been the cameraman, I\u2019ve been the audio person, I\u2019ve edited the video, I\u2019ve edited the audio, I\u2019ve mastered other people\u2019s shit, so I think it\u2019s helped me understand how to communicate what I need from anybody I\u2019m working with.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>            You could chalk this self-sufficient streak up to their star sign (they\u2019re a Virgo; \u201cI have Libra in my shit though\u201d) or birth order (skai is the oldest of four siblings) or upbringing (their family moved around Britain \u201cevery two or three years on average\u201d). But it\u2019s perhaps best understood as the natural result of an auteur\u2019s tunnel vision, honed through years of producing, recording, and mixing music, first for their dad and brother, then for themself.<\/p>\n<p>            skaiwater\u2019s self-knowledge only boosts their carefully curated collaborations. Take their deceptively poppy March single \u201clight!,\u201d produced by 9lives and featuring Lil Nas X. \u201cI was kind of in my <i>Pink Friday<\/i>, YMCMB phase,\u201d skai says. \u201cBut the process [of working with another producer] was pretty straightforward.\u201d 9lives agrees, calling the recording session \u201csuper chill and natural\u201d over text. \u201cI love how skai is always open to trying something new and never scared to experiment with her sound,\u201d the underground producer says. \u201cThat\u2019s gonna take her far.\u201d <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262206\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fLRSElP1OCI\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fLRSElP1OCI<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('262206');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262224\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262207\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Their new album <i>#gigi<\/i> pushes skaiwater\u2019s music, a blend of hip-hop, pop punk, and dance scenes from London to Chicago, to intense new heights. There\u2019s the Bonnie-and-Clyde Jersey club thumper \u201cbox\u201d and the throbbing melodrama of \u201cchoke;\u201d the baile funk-indebted \u201crichest girl alive\u201d could go decibel-for-decibel with some of Rio de Janeiro\u2019s toughest tracks (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/clb_sounds\/status\/1656761064850092037\">some, not all<\/a>), while \u201cplay\u201d sort of sounds like if the Jackson Five were in the studio nonstop listening to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/daily.redbullmusicacademy.com\/2018\/06\/loop-history-triggerman\">New Orleans bounce keystone \u201cDrag Rap.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>            Once your ears adjust to the overdriven bass and occasionally nightcored Auto-Tune, you might begin to tease out various emotional threads in skaiwater\u2019s music, though their Playboi Carti-derived flows and love of distortion can make deciphering their lyrics less-than-straightforward. Still, that open-hearted energy is there from track one: <i>I need, your love, today \/ Give me, the strength, to stay\u2026<\/i> \u201cMy writing is a little more fleshed out,\u201d skaiwater says of their growth from <i>rave<\/i> to <i>#gigi<\/i>. \u201cI have become a little more vulnerable, not that it wasn\u2019t there before.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262208\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fOlig9mBIdk\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fOlig9mBIdk<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('262208');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262209\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Eschewing hyperdetailed confessionals, skaiwater\u2019s vulnerability is instead conveyed through huge melodies and impressionist vignettes \u2014 when they tell me the first albums in their digital collection were <i>808s &amp; Heartbreak<\/i> and the 2008 self-titled album by Bad Boy R&amp;B group Day26, it just makes sense. And while the lovelorn pulse of \u201cprincess\u201d and \u201cwna torture me tn?\u201d could lead you to the conclusion that skaiwater has \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/skaiwater\/status\/1798626867605573640\">been used<\/a>,\u201d reducing their maverick tendencies to mere loneliness might be missing the point. Whether gently chiding a lover for demanding too much on \u201crun\u201d or failing to escape their own romantic obsession after an Oedipal autoenucleation on \u201cbleach,\u201d skaiwater\u2019s strain of solitude seems less rooted in alienation and more a product of deep self-awareness, of knowing who you are and what you won\u2019t stand for. When your standards are high, not everyone can meet them.<\/p>\n<p>            The FADER hopped on a video call with skaiwater 10 days before the release of <i>#gigi<\/i> to talk about their start making music, coming out as nonbinary, and how their songs reflect where they\u2019re at in their life right now.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262210\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>The FADER: I know that you first started making music when you were 16 or so. What did that early music you were making sound like? And what spurred you to get into making music of your own?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>skaiwater:<\/b> My dad had told me to start making music because we were freestyling in the car one day and he was like, \u201cyou should make music,\u201d and I was like \u201cOkay, I&#8217;ll go and get a mic.\u201d I was already recording my brother&#8217;s shit and I was already making beats and shit, so I just needed the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roval \u2014my dad used to rap, so I needed the approval from him to do that, you know I&#8217;m saying?<\/p>\n<p>            My first song was on my own beat, but then I started making <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>-type beats so it\u2019d be whatever I was feeling. [When I was] 17, I was listening to a lot of underground rap [and] also going through my [phases]: Paramore, Beabadoobie, XXXTentacion, Clairo, Alex G. I think that\u2019s where a lot of this genre came from, I was looking at bedroom pop shit, indie shit, pop punk stuff \u2014 but also I was listening to a lot of Travis [Scott] and Uzi and [Playboi] Carti and [Lil] Durk. That\u2019s where my musical journey started, back when I was 17 years old.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>We\u2019re in a moment where the traditional career runway for an artist has shifted and shortened. I\u2019m curious what that experience has been like for you, jumping from making music on SoundCloud for a core base of fans to getting some viral buzz and all of a sudden receiving a ton of scrutiny on your music.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Mentally, it\u2019s not like, <i>there<\/i> yet I don\u2019t think. I mean, obviously it\u2019s there, because I\u2019ve been in the shit for years and I\u2019ve been doing it, but I\u2019ve always looked at it as a hobby that turned into a job instead of like a professional job. The past six months I\u2019ve been trying to look at it differently. So I\u2019m definitely still trying to learn \u2014I feel like I\u2019m nowhere near the professional I could be yet.<\/p>\n<p>            I feel like I&#8217;m still making the adjustment from like, it being from my bedroom to\u2026 [pauses] It\u2019s just hard to explain, bruv. I just said to somebody that I always took it serious, but my environment around me never took it serious. So I\u2019m still getting over that hurdle I think. But I\u2019m glad that where I\u2019m at now, people still get what I\u2019m trying to go for as an artist.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>When you go in the studio, what\u2019s going through your head in terms of \u201chere\u2019s how I want to make this sound?\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            There\u2019s always some shit going on in our life, so I try to reflect what has gone on today in my human experience. The sound can differ depending on what it was that happened. Like, if I feel I\u2019m trying to get some shit off my chest, the melody I pick to start the song may be different than a day when I don\u2019t have a care in the world. But for the most part, I just try and find where the melody is and build off of there.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Would you say that when you\u2019re making beats and songs, you\u2019re starting with the melody and then working in the drums and lyrics? And are you starting with the melody on the vocal side or the beat side, or does it vary?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            On the vocal side. Well \u2014 I start with all the melody, and then the drums. I shouldn\u2019t have given the sauce away, but fuck it.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262211\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UklIpa4ABB0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UklIpa4ABB0<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('262211');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262225\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262212\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>Especially on the album when you\u2019re on the same track with Karrahboo or Lil Nas X, who approach stuff from more of a rap perspective than a singer perspective. They\u2019re a lot more engaged with the drum patterns than your vocals are, so it\u2019s cool to hear you explain that.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Yeah, that makes sense. Personally I&#8217;ve always resonated [with] melody before writing. And I\u2019ll get very in my head about shit, so I always focus on melody and pocket first. But I\u2019ve also been drumming and programming drums from a very young age. So I never worry about that part either.<\/p>\n<p>            But it does make sense that sometimes an artist\u2019s verse \u2026 I wouldn\u2019t say compliment, but it\u2019s more in line with the rhythm of the drums, cuz I probably recorded it without [laughs]. I\u2019ve honestly noticed that kind of thing with my timing, or even when it comes to mixing and my pocket, I try to appreciate all those things about my music, cuz I do it for myself first.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>That\u2019s really interesting to me because even with musicians who make guitar music etcetera, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s necessarily common to write the whole song essentially a cappella through and then go back in and figure out X, Y, or Z.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I heard that\u2019s what Michael Jackson used to do though! He used to sing every part of a song, he\u2019d sing his part and the instruments and the fills and the drums and stuff. So I do think &#8212; I don\u2019t know bruv, if we\u2019re artists and we\u2019re gonna work on our craft, we should be able to make a song [laughs]. We should be able to make a song without any help. Well, maybe not <i>should<\/i>, but I think it\u2019s definitely something I\u2019ve always wanted to do, have the ability to make a song without having to ask &#8212; I hate asking for help in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>, I\u2019ve realized that, so that\u2019s probably why it was definitely a goal of mine from young to be able to do that when I started. Anybody can do it, but I think a lot of people are just scared to try.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>When you look back at the music you were making a few years ago versus what you\u2019re doing now on <i>Gigi<\/i>, where do you feel you\u2019ve grown the most as an artist?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I have become a little bit more vulnerable with my writing. Not to say I wasn\u2019t before, but I think there was definitely a level that I had when I was younger that I was kind of ignoring. I\u2019ve definitely gotten better at producing different kinds of music, I\u2019ve been producing more consistently.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>It sounds like most of the recording process happened after you moved to L.A. last year. What is this album reflecting about your life right now?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Damn. A lot of shit bro, to be honest. Being away from family, long-distance shit, being away from friends. Or learning about my identity out here. But like I said, I do try to reflect my everyday, so I\u2019m assuming some of those songs speak to that. In the moment I\u2019m not really thinking too deep about what I\u2019m trying to communicate, but I do listen back to [my own music] and be like, \u201cOh it\u2019s exactly this.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262213\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GoERYHF0wrA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GoERYHF0wrA<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('262213');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262214\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>When you talk about understanding more about your own identity over the past year, I\u2019m curious about what the environment for trans and nonbinary people is like in the U.K. versus L.A.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I wouldn\u2019t know! Growing up in the 2000s, it was no community or like voice for shit like that. I didn\u2019t even really understand the actual verbiage [and] identity part until I was an adult. It took me leaving home and educating myself, meeting new types of people. That was really the first time understanding it for me. There wasn\u2019t anything to educate me back home, or didn\u2019t feel like there was \u2014 maybe I missed it. But it wasn\u2019t much of a community. I think the closest I had was like my aunties and my mother had gay friends or trans friends, but for a young black person socialized as a male there is definitely, it\u2019s hard to come by naturally.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Where did the album title <i>#gigi<\/i> come from?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            When I started the project, I wanted to call it Gaia. I was trying to make a project about the goddess of earth and the balance between masculine energy and feminine energy, but then it kind of shortened down to <i>#gigi<\/i> once it became more of a personal persona.<\/p>\n<p>            The persona\u2019s more a name than anything, I feel it just represents where I\u2019m at now as an artist compared to a year ago. I didn\u2019t really think of the name being too deep; it\u2019s kind of just a self-titled for this era of my shit.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262226\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Vivian Medithi<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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