Young Stunna On How Amapiano Was Confusing To Him When He First Jumped From Hip Hop. Young Stunna has had one of the most successful transitions in the SA Music industry. His timing and his talent quickly made him an Amapiano superstar and has some forgetting his Hip Hop roots.
The hitmaker recently sat down for an interview on The Dadaboy Podcast where he shared details about his jump from SA Hip Hop, some of his lyrics and where he draws inspiration. Speaking on his introduction to Amapiano as an artist, Young Stunna said, “I loved it, I didn’t even need a lot of practice. Because to me I hear the same thing when I listen to a Hip Hop beat and I listen to a piano beat they actually take some melodies…. You can listen to a piano beat and actually hear they took a sample from an RnB song, make it fast tempo, now it’s a piano. I have to apply the same strategy (as Hip Hop), verse, chorus, verse, chorus… different deliverance or you can come with the Hip Hop deliverance in Piano now because now we breaking rules.“
Young Stunna said he writes his songs because they have to make sense like Hip Hop. He explained how Amapiano confused him in the beginning because he he only knew how to write themed songs.
“When we got here in Piano, I didn’t understand how they made the piano songs because I can’t actually write a simple song. The first line must introduce us to the second one so we could actually know what you talking about. That’s why I’m saying on piano, I didn’t understand when it came to piano cause next thing it’s the club, next thing it’s the struggle on one song… I don’t understand,” he said with a chuckle.
“We dancing to a club struggle song. [I said] let me just make it one. If I’m motivating someone, let me just make it that. If I’m taking it to the club then that. If it’s about me hustling… only that, you gon hear me only talking about the hustle and everything that has to do with the hustle in one song. I introduced that and that was the way from then, people liked it,” he added.
“Adiwele was not the first song, Camagu was the first song. When I wrote it I said I said, ‘Oh it’s an inspirational beat, I love the melodies and this is how I’m going to [do it] because it inspires me to inspire someone. I’m just going to be thankful for being here, I’m just going to make the whole song about me being here’.”
