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Q. Thank you for the chance to inter­view you. Could you explain why and how did you choose your artist name Akir?

I grew up with great admi­ra­tion for graf­fiti. So around high school I decided to find my own tag. At the same time I was find­ing my iden­tity as an emcee. The acronym (AlwaysKeep­ItReal) came later prompted by a good friend of mine.

Q. Was there any spe­cial event or moment that make you decide to become a rapper?

It all started when the record skipped. South­paw and I had a radio show with some friends and one day the turntable was not work­ing. He started beat box­ing, I started rhyming. The rest is history

Q. Within the hip hop move­ment recently the word con­scious gets used a lot. What is your take on the word within the con­text of hip hop and would you class your­self as a con­scious rapper?

I am glad that out of the other sub-hip hop gen­res there some­thing overtly pos­i­tive how­ever, I am not really into labels. I would hope we are all conscious.

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