Krizz Kaliko released his Go album in April. While many are calling it R&B, the Kansas City artist says it transcends genre and could be called pop, too.
In a recent interview with Soren Baker on “Unique Access,” Kaliko explains his purpose for making Go.
“I just wanna always show my versatility,” the Strange Music artist says. “I always want to show this is me flexing, man. I can do anything. I can do an all country album if I wanted to, an all metal album if I really wanted to. So this is me just showing off. I feel blessed to be able to do music.”
He explains how Tech N9ne encouraged him to continue in his creative process.
“He wanted to call it ‘God’s Order,'” Krizz Kaliko says. “He said, man, ‘I feel like you are really meant to be this superstar artist, man, I feel like you’re meant to do this music.'”
Kaliko explains that he was questioning his heart for music for a while, but the Strange Music leader came up with an acronym for the album’t title that reminded him of his purpose.
“I told him I was quitting a long time ago, he’s like, ‘You’re meant to do this. This is God’s order and you can put “God’s Order” and put “GO,”‘” he says. “And I was like, ‘Oh, that’s dope.’ So we left ‘God’s Order’ off of it, just because we didn’t want people to think it was a gospel album. But it was me just taking my music in a different direction, which I try to reinvent myself on every album and I think I did it on this one.”