“ texted me back and said, ‘Man, you’re sliding on these records.’ And I threw my phone. I went from 30,000 listeners to getting millions of streams in like days. It’s so surreal. What is it called? ‘Stay With Me… ‘Wait For It’… ‘Wait For Me!’ Yeah, yeah, you’re that guy!” And I’m like, “Yeah, I’m that guy. And then I found out pretty quick that this stuff was going crazy when I had people coming up to me saying, “You’re that guy! You’re the guy that made that song. You had artists like Drake hit me up, his producers, and then you had people that were managing The Weeknd, and I was just like, ‘What’s going on?’ So I went to the mall just to cool it, just take a break from everything and live my life. At this time, TikTok was going crazy with the song, and I had just dropped the video and it did like probably a million views in a week. And this was at the point where I was still deciding on who to sign with, and who to have around me. I remember I went to a mall and that was not a good idea, because I didn’t know how big the effect was. Was there an exact moment when you realized your life wasn’t normal anymore? He’s got the lived-in, heart-wrecked conviction of someone twice his age, and one of the most captivating new voices in Canadian R&B.
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While his predecessor The Weeknd and his many imitators traffic in lawless hedonism, RealestK’s songs are full of raw candour and vulnerability-he yearns for something real amid an increasingly soulless and nihilistic age. Eventually, his pleas climb into a simmering falsetto. He rides a soulful beat with aching sincerity, his voice burning with desire as he begs a paramour to reciprocate his affection. RealestK’s latest single “Love Me” demonstrates why all eyes are on him right now. His IG feed shows him chumming it up with Nav, Bryson Tiller, and Certified Lover Boy collaborator Leon Thomas III. He’s signed a deal with Columbia Records and has been taken under the wing of Wassim “Sal” Slaiby, manager of The Weeknd and CEO of XO Records. But the Lebanon-born, Scarborough-bred artist has been busy making moves in the shadows. He’s “Toronto’s secret,” according to his Instagram bio. Things got really real, really fast.ĭespite his track’s success, RealestK has remained mostly a mystery to the public. It went viral in October, first on TikTok-becoming the go-to soundtrack for everyone’s glow-up videos-and then everywhere else, boasting innumerous streams (83 million on Spotify to date) and co-signs from some of the industry’s biggest players. The song hears RealestK float over a silky, dimly lit R&B groove, imploring a lover to wait for him via a pillow-soft-yet-pained tenor. By the week’s end, the track, “WFM,” debuted at No. He uploaded the video on YouTube from school that same day. “And I said, “But this is my business, though. “She comes by and she’s like, ‘Listen, can’t you be more realistic? You could be spending 10 minutes of your time doing this, or you could spend 10 minutes of your time actually doing this work that I’m giving you, so you could get a good mark and get a good future,’” the 17-year-old Torontonian tells Complex Canada. He recalls sitting in a business class and editing a music video on his computer, which his teacher was having none of. Hopefully, there will be an adequate demo version to really sell us on this beatmaker.Last fall, RealestK was just another distracted high school student. Got to say, that’s a bit of an investment – the plug-in costs as much as some modern DAWs. XLN will release XO on April 9 (Tuesday) at the price of USD/EUR 180. Alas, information is scarce at the moment, which only serves to peak my curiosity. Love me some randomized, chopped up beats anytime! Meanwhile, I’d love to hear some demos and videos of XO in action, but XLN is yet to publish such material on its website. I will give it a spin when I get bored with my regular workflow.
You can add some order in the chaos this way.Īll in all, XO is something refreshing and seemingly easy to get into. This mode is designed for happy accidents, so keep that record button pushed in while you are at it.Ī novel feature is the so called Live Filter Mode that lets XO randomize samples according to a specific criteria – for example, home in on sounds tagged “808”, “trap” or whatever happens to rock yer boat. XO’s facilities include a sequencer, an Accentuator for added dynamics and punch, Groove Templates essential effects like reverb, delay, pitch, filter, distortion, and tone over 8000 factory samples and presets Playground Mode where you toy around with beat and sound variations, patterns and randomization.
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