March 17, 2025 • 6 mins
Get ready for an inside look at KWN's world! This London-based artist opens up about her come-up, the creative process behind her groundbreaking remix with Kehlani (and who really came up with that ending!), and her thoughts on bringing her sound to the US. Pup and KWN also chat about where she'd relocate if she ever left London. Tune in for the full, unfiltered interview.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, straight from Pakistan to La the Boss in the
zoom right now, Kwan, what's up?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
How you doing that?
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I'm good man, Congratulations on everything. I've never seen one
person make both genres of people mad at the same time. Like,
I know, I know every guy that wants to get
with Kaylanie, and then I know every girl straight or
not is like yo, Kailannie could could turn me.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I think you've made everybody mad with the song.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Congratulations, good react man, Thank you bro. It's been good man,
it's been super super good.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
So yeah, he said, it's a it's such a vibe
mad worse behavior. We're talking about that. If you haven't
heard the song, we've been playing it out here. But
it's such a vibe. It's a great song. Obviously the
original was doing crazy and then you jump you got
Kaylannie on the remix.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
How did that whole connection happen? Did you guys know
each other?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Yeah, it was super organic.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Man, we've known each other for a look a minute,
we've known each other for that Maybe that womanst a
year a s and then once I.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Dropped the song, she was like, oh, you guys do a.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Remix to this, And I was like, whoa do you
want to jump on it? And she was like yeah,
I didn't go, so yeah man, And then yeah man,
obviously just been linking up ever since and just doing
not things.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
So yeah, nice. And then whose idea was it to
end the video that way?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I figure it was everybody's Like my director was that
My director Chris Chance, he's the go and he was
just like, Yo, we gotta doc and that's gonna that's
gonna shake the room.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
And we was like, all right, let's just do that.
It makes sense.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
All right, that's what's man K one is on right now.
Worst behavior we're talking about that. Let's talk about your
Obviously you're you're from the UK, London, and you've probably
you know, gone through all these interviews and stuff like that,
but now you're leaking into the US a little bit more.
You've been dropping records for a while. But talk about
the name real quick. K W N.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
So my last name is Wilson, so slack. That's just
a W and an N. And then my first name
starts with a K.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
And then before back in the day, when I was younger,
it was just K with a number one. But then
I was like it just doesn't really look as cool
as I feel kid does, so yeah, so then I
just changed it. I just kind of mushed all my
initials together and nice.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
It's just works, man.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
But obviously it's been hard for people to understand or
that pronounce it whatever.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
But seeing there or no, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I just got off a meeting literally like ten minutes ago.
They were talking about your song and she's like, yeah,
this girl, you know her kW and she's got the
song out.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I was like, I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Jump in because there's a lot of people, but I
didn't want to.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Put her in her place.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
So I was like, yo, I think it's pronounced k one.
It's good.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
People were talking, right, So that's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Exactly, exactly exactly. That's the most important thing. As long
as they're two. It is so good bad.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I love it. And then you have a little bit
of an accent too.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I know you got the UK going, but I hear
a little patois a little Patoy and you're in your
accent too.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
This is so crazy because nobody's asked me about this year,
but I'm actually not Jamaican. I just grew up in
Caribbean culture. But I'm actually off Nigerian. My dad's Nagerian.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Okay, So there is yeah, that culture in the UK.
I know because there's an my people out there too.
I know there's a lot of Indians and he's out there,
but then I know there's a lot of Caribbeans. So
I heard I heard you talking earlier. I was not
in today, but I heard you on some of your Instagram.
I was like, Yo, my girl might be a little
Jamaican too.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I say to everybody, I'm just faking for real. I'm like,
I'm I'm almost jamaking but not really. But yeah, that's
just the coature that I grew up around. Then it
so it's just I've just I've embedded it into me.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
No, no, I'm with you. I go to Jamaica every year.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I'm going in a couple of days and when I
get out there, it's like, wait, where did this happen?
But even my wife's like, I didn't know you could
talk like them. It's great, man, came on, I'm looking
forward to having you in the studio. I really was
vibing out to one up your song one Up a
while ago, and you know, I was singing, long dancing,
that's got a vibe. If you haven't heard that one,
(03:47):
definitely hear it. And then one day I was listening
to the lyrics on it.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Bro Like. I started listening and.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I was like, Yo, this takes me back to elementary
when that guy like was messing with my girl.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And that's what I started. I started reading they think
about that. I was like, I don't like the song anymore.
Talk about that real quick? Where did that come from?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Do you know what that was?
Speaker 4 (04:08):
More? We kind of we kind of came up with
that concept.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
That wasn't like anything that I feel like everybody goes
through that, but that was just a concept that we
came up with in the studio. It was me a
song where a good dial and one of my producers
called Ale and we just came up with the concept.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
It was super cool. Man, that was quick. We did
that in a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I feel like that one was well, it was very
relevant and very it hit home.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
It hurt the song man.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I mean, as long as you're feeling certain, that's what.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I love it. Man, came on on right now, when's
the when's the US run?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
And hopefully I'm trying to get out there by like April.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
So, yeah, would you think about moving out here? Would
that be one of your goals now or No?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I've been in London for my whole life, so I
feel like I just need a bit of change, a
change of environment, you know, just to like switch it
up a little bit, get me you're working harder and
you know, just yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Got it? And where would you go? What's the spot? La?
New York, Chicago, Miami, Vegas. Where are we going?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
L I like l a man, it's cool.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
LA's cool. Yeah, I like l It's a lot further
from London.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Because see, that's the good thing about the New York
and the Boston side is that my mother in law
they're all from London, so it's a quick jump, you know,
six hour flight this way, or six hour flight to
my house. I'm from LA originally, so it's it's like
half in the middle. So maybe a New York might
be a good spot for you.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
New it's cool too. I like New but it kind
of reminds me of London a bit too much. That's
why I'm like you, I want the sun, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I love it, man, we're gonna get you in the studio,
but we had to get you on real quick. Your
songs on the countdown. We've been blazing it out here. Obviously,
people are definitely buzzing. So thank you for taking the
time and jumping on there. Let's get you to introduce
the record while I got you on, go to introduce
it for everybody.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
On everybody, This is K one and you're locked in
with djup Dow.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Yeah my list song.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
On your.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
I want you to shu shu.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Worse behavior right there. The video is insane.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
She broke the internet K one and then got the
remix on there with Kai Lani on there.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Definitely go check that out.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I appreciate you jumping and taking the time, but we're
gonna get you in the studio soon.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Right, No, thank you man, thank you so much. Absolutely,
I'll be there for sure. I appreciate you, man. I'm
sure I'll see you soon.
Yeah, straight from Pakistan to La the Boss in the
zoom right now, Kwan, what's up?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
How you doing that?
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I'm good man, Congratulations on everything. I've never seen one
person make both genres of people mad at the same time. Like,
I know, I know every guy that wants to get
with Kaylanie, and then I know every girl straight or
not is like yo, Kailannie could could turn me.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I think you've made everybody mad with the song.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Congratulations, good react man, Thank you bro. It's been good man,
it's been super super good.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
So yeah, he said, it's a it's such a vibe
mad worse behavior. We're talking about that. If you haven't
heard the song, we've been playing it out here. But
it's such a vibe. It's a great song. Obviously the
original was doing crazy and then you jump you got
Kaylannie on the remix.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
How did that whole connection happen? Did you guys know
each other?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Yeah, it was super organic.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Man, we've known each other for a look a minute,
we've known each other for that Maybe that womanst a
year a s and then once I.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Dropped the song, she was like, oh, you guys do a.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Remix to this, And I was like, whoa do you
want to jump on it? And she was like yeah,
I didn't go, so yeah man, And then yeah man,
obviously just been linking up ever since and just doing
not things.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
So yeah, nice. And then whose idea was it to
end the video that way?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I figure it was everybody's Like my director was that
My director Chris Chance, he's the go and he was
just like, Yo, we gotta doc and that's gonna that's
gonna shake the room.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
And we was like, all right, let's just do that.
It makes sense.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
All right, that's what's man K one is on right now.
Worst behavior we're talking about that. Let's talk about your
Obviously you're you're from the UK, London, and you've probably
you know, gone through all these interviews and stuff like that,
but now you're leaking into the US a little bit more.
You've been dropping records for a while. But talk about
the name real quick. K W N.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
So my last name is Wilson, so slack. That's just
a W and an N. And then my first name
starts with a K.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
And then before back in the day, when I was younger,
it was just K with a number one. But then
I was like it just doesn't really look as cool
as I feel kid does, so yeah, so then I
just changed it. I just kind of mushed all my
initials together and nice.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
It's just works, man.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
But obviously it's been hard for people to understand or
that pronounce it whatever.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
But seeing there or no, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I just got off a meeting literally like ten minutes ago.
They were talking about your song and she's like, yeah,
this girl, you know her kW and she's got the
song out.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I was like, I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Jump in because there's a lot of people, but I
didn't want to.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Put her in her place.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
So I was like, yo, I think it's pronounced k one.
It's good.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
People were talking, right, So that's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Exactly, exactly exactly. That's the most important thing. As long
as they're two. It is so good bad.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I love it. And then you have a little bit
of an accent too.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I know you got the UK going, but I hear
a little patois a little Patoy and you're in your
accent too.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
This is so crazy because nobody's asked me about this year,
but I'm actually not Jamaican. I just grew up in
Caribbean culture. But I'm actually off Nigerian. My dad's Nagerian.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Okay, So there is yeah, that culture in the UK.
I know because there's an my people out there too.
I know there's a lot of Indians and he's out there,
but then I know there's a lot of Caribbeans. So
I heard I heard you talking earlier. I was not
in today, but I heard you on some of your Instagram.
I was like, Yo, my girl might be a little
Jamaican too.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I say to everybody, I'm just faking for real. I'm like,
I'm I'm almost jamaking but not really. But yeah, that's
just the coature that I grew up around. Then it
so it's just I've just I've embedded it into me.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
No, no, I'm with you. I go to Jamaica every year.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I'm going in a couple of days and when I
get out there, it's like, wait, where did this happen?
But even my wife's like, I didn't know you could
talk like them. It's great, man, came on, I'm looking
forward to having you in the studio. I really was
vibing out to one up your song one Up a
while ago, and you know, I was singing, long dancing,
that's got a vibe. If you haven't heard that one,
(03:47):
definitely hear it. And then one day I was listening
to the lyrics on it.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Bro Like. I started listening and.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I was like, Yo, this takes me back to elementary
when that guy like was messing with my girl.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And that's what I started. I started reading they think
about that. I was like, I don't like the song anymore.
Talk about that real quick? Where did that come from?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Do you know what that was?
Speaker 4 (04:08):
More? We kind of we kind of came up with
that concept.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
That wasn't like anything that I feel like everybody goes
through that, but that was just a concept that we
came up with in the studio. It was me a
song where a good dial and one of my producers
called Ale and we just came up with the concept.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
It was super cool. Man, that was quick. We did
that in a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I feel like that one was well, it was very
relevant and very it hit home.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
It hurt the song man.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I mean, as long as you're feeling certain, that's what.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I love it. Man, came on on right now, when's
the when's the US run?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
And hopefully I'm trying to get out there by like April.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
So, yeah, would you think about moving out here? Would
that be one of your goals now or No?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I've been in London for my whole life, so I
feel like I just need a bit of change, a
change of environment, you know, just to like switch it
up a little bit, get me you're working harder and
you know, just yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Got it? And where would you go? What's the spot? La?
New York, Chicago, Miami, Vegas. Where are we going?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
L I like l a man, it's cool.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
LA's cool. Yeah, I like l It's a lot further
from London.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Because see, that's the good thing about the New York
and the Boston side is that my mother in law
they're all from London, so it's a quick jump, you know,
six hour flight this way, or six hour flight to
my house. I'm from LA originally, so it's it's like
half in the middle. So maybe a New York might
be a good spot for you.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
New it's cool too. I like New but it kind
of reminds me of London a bit too much. That's
why I'm like you, I want the sun, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I love it, man, we're gonna get you in the studio,
but we had to get you on real quick. Your
songs on the countdown. We've been blazing it out here. Obviously,
people are definitely buzzing. So thank you for taking the
time and jumping on there. Let's get you to introduce
the record while I got you on, go to introduce
it for everybody.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
On everybody, This is K one and you're locked in
with djup Dow.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Yeah my list song.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
On your.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
I want you to shu shu.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Worse behavior right there. The video is insane.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
She broke the internet K one and then got the
remix on there with Kai Lani on there.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Definitely go check that out.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I appreciate you jumping and taking the time, but we're
gonna get you in the studio soon.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Right, No, thank you man, thank you so much. Absolutely,
I'll be there for sure. I appreciate you, man. I'm
sure I'll see you soon.
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