Short Interview with MKM

Google မွာရွာရင္းနဲ႕ ျမန္မာတိုင္းမ္ အဂၤလိပ္လိုမွာ ပါဖူးတဲ့ အင္တာဗ်ဴးအတိုေလးကို ေတြ႕မိလို႕ ဒီမွာ ေ၀မွ်တာပါ။ ျမန္မာလိုကိုေတာ့ မရွာေတြ႕ပါဘူး။ ဘယ္ႏွစ္၊ ဘယ္လက ဗ်ဴးထားတာလဲေတာ့ မသိပါဘူး။ စားသံုးၾကည့္ အေခြထြက္တဲ့အခ်ိန္ေလာက္ကနဲ႕တူတယ္။

When did you start learning to rap?
Since 1988. I love rap music so it just happened.
What kind of music do you listen mostly?
I have been listening to different styles of rapping; various beats. If I have to give an example, well, like MC Hammer, ‘real’ hip-hop, R&B music.
What is your opinion on the rapping style of other Myanmar singers?
As far as I am concerned, rapping style comes from the one’s heart, you have got to create the mood. I don’t know whose rapping style is good or bad, but what I think is: rapping style should be different from one singer to the other. I think every singer needs to have their own style. But I can say every hip-hopper who can create a different rhyme is attracting more listeners here in Myanmar.
What sort of mood do you want to create when you write lyric for songs?
What I believe is our work involves listening to what people feel about their social life and what their social problems are. And we have to compose songs with these issues in mind and convey our impressions back to the people. When I was young I used to live in an imaginary world but I am dealing nowadays with the real facts of the life.
How do you try to convey a particular message across through your songs?
Whenever I create a song, I put myself in my audiences’ shoes and try to give a simple message through my song. I use both my brain and computer to make my songs extraordinary. In my lyrics I also pay attention on how the composer could give a better overall effect for my listeners.
Which one of your songs do you appreciate most?
I don’t think my audience will ever be completely satisfied with my songs, but I like among my songs Nat thame ponepyin (Fairytale of a young princess), Thitsa shi kyay (Let’s be loyal), Min-atwet (For you) and a song from my latest album Sa thon kyi (Enjoy your food).
How would you define the word ‘music’?
The word has different meanings. Everyone will define it based on their own perspective. For me as I am in the business of creating music, and I work using computer music languages, so for me it is very difficult the to define the word.
With which composers would you like to work?
I would prefer to work with experienced musicians, who can share knowledge apart from that I think age or other factors are not so important for working together.
I understand you have been creating different kinds of rap like R&B rap Pop rap and heavy rap, among those which music you like most?
There is no specific music I can say that I like most but if you ask me the question which form of music I aspire to most I would say Myo Kyawt Mying style. I like music which can give my audience the most energy.
What sort of difficulties did you face in the earlier part of your career in creating rap music?
I was criticised for my first song Kyun daw makaung-bu (I am bad); some said it was melodically weak. But I always have confidence in my work, so I did not care about that too much.
Can we say that you are a pioneer of rap music in Myanmar?
I wouldn’t use such words.
I understand you studied music in Singapore?
Yes, I achieved a Music Producer Level certification at the Singapore Audio Engineering Institute.
Which venue you prefer to perform in?
If you ask me for outdoor performance, I would choose the Mya Yeik Nyo Royal Hotel because it has fewer stage lights. Indoors; Pioneer Club.
Who are your fans?
I think most of them are teenagers or people about my age.
Future plans?
I would like to do advanced work on multimedia music creation. I don’t want to elaborate, though, until it is substantiated.

source : Myanmar Times