Nadia Nakai

“I’ve known Kiernan for years. He was respectful every time I’d meet him. We never had personal issues and obviously, out of the respect for my label boss, I would refrain from socialising too much with him.”

“It just happened the way it happened and I don’t know how to explain it. I feel like it’s something God did. I feel like I don’t have to explain the Cassper element.”

“For the longest time, I’ve never interacted with this person until when I was about to leave Family Tree.”

“There was no spite, I could never spite Cassper. He gave me such a big opportunity to launch my career.”

“I’m not going to disrespect Kaya FM. I’m not going to disrespect the other people who were in the room. I’m not going to disrespect Sammy T either because he is a legend in his own right. But I think in that moment I, you could see I was annoyed. But I was able to get my composure back and think, 'You know what, let me just breathe and explain to him what it is really about'.”

“And that's the reason why I didn't wanna work with female rappers before because I felt like nobody had created anything for themselves to make the collaboration impactful”

“Because I would have never shined as Nadia Nakai.”

“I would have shined as another female rapper. And that's what I didn't want. I want when I'm involved in something, Nadia Nakai has an impact. Not just 'it's a whole bunch of girls together.”

“There's a reason why I did what I did when I didn't do those female remixes, when I didn't jump on those songs, when I was okay that I wasn't on the 'Baddest' remix.”