Hemdee: ‘AY speaks to everybody on the street, he has remained the same’

Hemdee Kiwanuka who is known for his contribution to AY’s international success, was in Dar es Salaam, August this year and he spoke about the CHOAMVA 2013 nominee exclusively to Bongo5.

Hemdee Kiwanuka

“He is the real deal,” Hemdee says as he describes AY. You don’t find too many artists like AY and I like that about him’ We have remained friends for a while; I worked with him back in the days when I brought him to Uganda to perform in Uganda for the first time. I saw the dude when I brought him out there and he was mad humble. Since then, he never changes bro. The dude is still the same. Most artists on his level would be walking like they are walking on water. But this dude speaks to everybody on the street man.

That time when me and him were talking, we had a translator because AY was not speaking English at that time but because of his determination, man right now me and him talking like am talking to Kanye, his English is on fire. He has remained the same and because of that, I am continuing to help him to get him where he needs to go and he allows me to do so cause we trust each other. Sometimes we are in the studio and I will tell him change that, do this and he will change it. Other artists on his level will be like ‘Yoo this is what I do man, why are you telling me what to do’.

That dude (AY) has lots of collabo;s with people in America. We just waiting for videos to be done. He is coming to American very soon to record videos. He has one track with Tyga, Lamyia is on there too and then we have another one with Young Joc so we got some fire coming. The reason why we are doing that, is that we are trying to show these Nigerians that East Africa is here! EA stand up. I represent East Africa so we gotta show them what we got.”