EKALI Interview- speaking his mind online, drake, musician parents, touring in bands

Hi it's Lauren Engel of Sidewalk Talk :) EKALI grew up in Vancouver to musician parents. Since then EKALI has a writing credit on Drake's record, was a Red Bull Music Academy Tokyo 2014 alumni and had songs out with Denzel Curry, Medasin, ZHU, Elohim, Opia and much more.
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[@Proximity]

YES

[@HooverBeast]

sup fellow blake

[@gokhanavann]

Lovechild of RL Grime and Flume.

[@sofiag5571]

YES

[@unclejack168]

Ahahahhaha that's accurate as hell

[@popeyemedia]

SIDEWALK TALK is the future!!!

[@Nawtystep]

Ekali likes Burial. SO much yes!

[@ronit.]

Yess, been waiting for this for soo long!

[@edinamgbeho3274]

yessss thank you.. been waiting for this one... Lauren the GOAT

[@UPLAYTHATGAME]

i've been for this forEVEEEER! Thank youuu.

[@chargersrock247]

YESSS. Thank you Sidewalk Talk!

[@NeonKue]

Should’ve added the signature Ekali shakers in the beginning as an introduction lol

[@brendanwaterman5121]

FINALLY, THANK YOU LAUREN

[@owenkosik1766]

so Canadian, guy apologizes for being more specific to the question "so you were born in Canada?" "I was born in Vancouver Canada, sorry yeah"

[@Bevo619]

Burial is honestly the best sound I have ever heard and it makes me so happy that others, especially producers like Ekali acknowledge him

[@matthewliou2063]

love this guy seriously

[@kai_onlineaaa]

killing it!

[@ReflexEight]

Ekali's EDC set was one of the best I've heard.

[@oddishu]

Saw him at Hard summer this year, was looking really forward to it from the bootleg videos I saw from him at other festivals, but I was so tired at Hard that I couldn’t even enjoy it. Hope to see him again soon!

[@djlynamfitness]

Ksar Oner you need to see him! He had the BEST set at hard. Ekali > any other trap artist (including RL grime)

[@rachelkim5776]

oh my god when did this come out. yay i love ekali

[@stillinmusic]

You got Ekali!!! Yeah!!

[@joeboxerrr]

this is the happiest day of my life

[@cancer4free155]

love these interviews, you should get sullivan king on here

[@joshcloete1177]

FINALLLY

[@matthewliou2063]

"I have an EP coming" *Faints on the floor*

[@AlexVeach]

Great!

[@jasonbay4551]

so good

[@ALYXIIR]

what a chill guy. I love when artists that I look up to have awesome personalities too!

[@HybridxReality]

I saw a little clip of this interview on another video and had to find it because I knew right away it was Palm Springs, lol. I'm from the valley, so I guess this was during the festival?

[@computer_love]

can't believe he has only been producing for 4 years...

[@rijilk8437]

He just made music all the time, that's why he got so good.

[@nkd3047]

measure it in songs not time. if you make +1000 songs you will be good

[@joeboxerrr]

also, the place you're walking around in this video is pretty it's cool

[@SidewalkTalks]

ya! we did this in palm springs in between the two coachellas :P

[@aledesma6000]

coachella :0

[@joeboxerrr]

ahh.. the Ekali coachella trap house ahahah

[@Darkerthanblack247]

FINALLY Dadkali!

[@AndreySavin]

I swear if Ekali had black hair and no facial hair he'd look like Mickey from Shameless

[@TheBlashMusic]

This dude's backstory is ridiculously similar to Skrillex'

[@mariemanson4593]

Well I hope Owsla works out for you. I like ekali’s sound right now and don’t want him to do house music that’s not good. I will continue to like him as an artist. I see why he chose Owsla is understandable. He is too good to be forgotten and turned into some puppet for the EDM genre. I look forward to seeing what comes next from this guy. :) I recently just saw him perform at a nightclub in the city I live in and it was great!

[@Jay-407]

Noooooooo wayyyyyyy.

[@richchigga9289]

NEXT . Malaa 😂😂😂

[@pillzaxx]

Hey can u try bringing kompany

[@oscargarcia2011]

BRO crazy my first cd I bought was take of your pants and jacket . I remember being like 8 telling a target employee if they had that album and he looked concerned till i said it was spelt like "jacket"

[@rachelkim5776]

he's so handsome ~ his "downward" soft crinkly eyes ^-^

[@kyantewilson9340]

Yookie pleeeease

[@ConfusedCanadian403]

Yesssss, Ekali also uses the term butthurt. That's epic haha

[@_Nosferatu_]

get YOOKIE on

[@creezhan]

If u got an interview with Zhu, I would shit my pants out of happiness

[@Daniel-yb9to]

Can we please get anna lunoe on an interview!

[@SidewalkTalks]

Ya I've been trying to!!

[@polished___]

do medasin next

[@rachelkim5776]

she already did medasin ! look it up

[@MrFrak0207]

Would be interesting what he has to say about the 'beef' with David aka ghastly

[@nathanshaw7270]

It was really hard to stay quiet through all that, because the truth wasn't really being told. They hadn't been dating for months and I didn't know David well. (Met once.) It affected my family in a really bad way & I had to kind of tend to that & mend some senseless damage it caused. For a month, I was receiving some of the most awful messages from him & some of my fans (some real bad stuff) and that caused some severe depression in my life.. I got through it with the help of my peers. He's apologized to me, I've accepted it because I realize people do and say some really dumb & hurtful shit when they're emotional (myself included.) Saw him at EDC last weekend and we had a hug.

[@MrFrak0207]

Yeah and exactly that was the problem, people just weren't able to really pick their side or talk about it since the whole story was never revealed. This just led me tending more on Davids side since I know him longer but I was never in the position to say 'yeah David's right on this issue'... no one could tell what actually happened with all details. But I'm really glad you both worked it out more or less.

[@MrFrak0207]

Arjun Sharma omg🖤🖤

[@mariemanson4593]

Is that really ekali? Or is it some fan page?

[@MrFrak0207]

Rose Marg yes haha it's ekali himself

[@jakeguagliardo8672]

started in a band with his mom whata guy

[@Hameemmusic]

where is this pretty place ?

[@SidewalkTalks]

palm springs!!

[@tigerv117]

Aw fuck. I looked too much into his name. In Japanese, his name can mean rage and also ekali is similar to the English word alkali which means base which could in turn mean bass.

[@KodyKaneshiroW]

/r/trap FAM WE MADE IT

[@zeez804]

there's something about HALO that changed us all

[@UPLAYTHATGAME]

oh no Ekali gonna send his mom into that volcano. nooo

[@RAVENS807]

Zeds dead

[@4lare615]

oh hell no..