00:00How are you feeling tonight? You're nominated tonight, Best Afrobeats with Usher.
00:05Yeah, it feels good to be here, no pun intended.
00:08It's a beautiful thing for the culture, it's a beautiful thing for the world,
00:11and I'm just grateful for everything.
00:14How would you describe this era of music that you're putting out there in the world right now?
00:18Healing. That's how I would describe it. I feel like Afrobeats is here to heal the world,
00:22and to connect the world some more, and to just put positive energy back into everybody's lives.
00:28So we're here to stay for sure.
00:29Collaborating with someone like Usher, what's it like being in the studio with him and collaborating with him?
00:34Man, Usher, that's my big bro, that's a legend.
00:37He's one of the biggest names in music, period.
00:39And it's such an honor to be able to produce and write and just create magic with him and just work.
00:44It's a dream come true for sure.
00:46Is there another nominee, fellow nominee tonight that you would love to collaborate with in the future?
00:51I'd love to make music with Ira Starr, actually.
00:55And Thames as well.
00:57Well, this is 40 years of the VMAs.
01:00Is there a most iconic performance that you remember?
01:03Or, because the theme is videos, right? Music videos.
01:06Is there a favorite music video, the first one that you were kind of really wowed by?
01:11My first, it would be Jesus Walks by Kanye West.
01:15That video's crazy, yeah.
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