After helping hip-hop megastar Kanye West debut new song “All Day” last week, Allan Kingdom is making headlines around the world. Few rappers get the chance to collaborate with hip-hop’s self-proclaimed savior, so this support from West means a lot—and as we learned on Tuesday, Kingdom didn’t just help Kanye in the song’s live performance butappears on the studio version of the track, too.
All of this is leading many to question, who is Allan Kingdom? Although many in The Current’s audience are familiar with Kingdom’s work, all this national attention is piquing new interest.
Complex, a web magazine and national hip-hop news source, focuses on Kingdom in a new video report; he’s a 21-year-old artist, born Allan Kyariga, who’s lived in St. Paul since the age of nine. The son of a South African father and a Tanzanian mother, he grew up listening to African music before discovering artists like André 3000, Pharrell, and Kid Cudi. Now, he’s a graceful, inventive rapper who’s releasing both solo material and collaborations with others.
Kingdom’s music often has a hazy, floating feel, with spacious soundscapes punctuated by ambient percussion; his style evokes a sense of vulnerability that sometimes underscores, sometimes contrasts with his lyrics. When Kingdom started making music, he told David Campbell when he visited The Current’s studios last fall, he “couldn’t find a producer that fit exactly what [he] wanted to do,” so he started designing beats for himself. Since then, he’s spent a lot of time in his bedroom, writing and perfecting songs on his computer.
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Allan with his Tanzanian mom Lau Kyariga in Minnesota. Lau owns the famous Arise Beauty Supply store at Msasani Kwa Mwalimu in Dar es salaam and the mega hit hair product Ebenezer that is sold world wide
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Allan is met with his mom Lau Kyariga at the airport in Minnesota returing from London where he went to perfome at the BRIT Awards with Kanye West
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| Allan in the studio |
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