Jesse Jagz is an award-winning rapper, singer, producer and songwriter. During an award ceremony in Soweto, South Africa recently, Jesse Jagz, 30, opened up on why he left Chocolate City, his new album Thy Nation Come and what he thinks about marijuana.
Your new album Thy Nation Come has been acclaimed to be too spiritual. Could you explain the direction Jesse Jagz is going?I see myself as one who is more into music and less of a celebrity. I do my music for ordinary people who hustle everyday and not people who have a nice life and enjoy all the luxury of life. For me it is not about the message because I can not really write the things that I really want to write. It is more about the spirit and soul of the song. When you listen to them, there is always something that will make you want to think more and reflect on them.
How has the feedback been?
It has been amazing because I put in a lot of work and having people listen to and appreciate it has been very encouraging.
In your Redemption Song’s video, you are seen puffing out thick smoke from a hand rolled wrap of weed suspected to marijuana. What message are you trying to pass across?
For me, that scene was just a way of pushing people’s perception about some certain things. It was just about making some people feel uncomfortable. People sing a lot about love but can they love as much as an armed robber? Segregation leads us nowhere so the weed was just to offend people’s thinking.I
do not see anything wrong with weed; just the same way I do not see anything wrong with money or women. I just think anything done in excess is bad.
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