KSI and YUNGBLUD chat about different stigmas in the music industry and discuss what it’s like fighting to be taken seriously as artists who built a culture and fanbase from social media in the latest episode of The YUNGBLUD Podcast.
They also tease that they’ve been working together when they share a hilarious story about getting naked in the studio!
KSI says that YUNGBLUD has more energy than he has, and talks about the time they were in the studio when he was taking his shirt off and bouncing around.
“Bruv that was so funny,” says YUNGBLUD, “You were like ‘Dude are you getting naked right now?’, I was like ‘JJ, I don’t fancy you! It’s just a thing that I do!’ When I get excited, it’s just something I do, I just start ripping my clothes off!”
The pair talk about building a fanbase on social media by doing the groundwork and building slowly to create a very hardcore, dedicated amount of people.
Both of them worked hard to get where they are, they discuss starting out – KSI on Youtube and YUNGBLUD on the Disney Channel, they didn’t take no for an answer. KSI says: “I feel like when a lot of people tell you ‘no’ and say ‘you can’t do this, you can’t do that’, I feel like that’s a huge driving point for us man.
“That’s what gives us the boost to go ‘alright fuck you then, I’m going to keep going and I’m gonna prove you all wrong, I can do this’. Throughout the years… working on everything I’m doing, I’m working twice, if not three times harder than my peers.”
Other topics that come up include the definition of punk, the time that KSI and The 1975 were in the race for the UK Number 1 Album and the time YUNGBLUD ‘shut down’ a music executive at The Grammys.
BBC Radio 1’s The YUNGBLUD Podcast is available now on BBC Sounds.
