One of the things that surprised me when I first moved to Poland
was that hip-hop was largely popular here.
Despite it always have been considered an american art form,
specifically an african-american art form.
So today, I am surprised to be sitting with a man, who's immigrated from the US
to kick off his rap career.
So if you could just tell me a little about your background, who you are, where're you from?
Simply, born in Texas, 26 years old,
had the ambition to be an entertainer from the young age,
and got to take it to New York when I was 18 years old
and that's what I became who you see today.
I'm assuming that it was probably hard for you to imagine
that you'd end up at this phase in your life, living in Poland.
I'm curious, when you were child in Texas what did you know about the country of Poland?
Nothing.
Never heard of Poland.
Nah, I didn't even know if it was a country, I've never heard of it at all.
Do you remember the first time you did hear about Poland?
Yeah, I always remember that.
I was in New York City, working in a hot-dog stand in Times Square.
So I'm working here, and I'm meeting people from all over the world
and then I see this young lady and her friend, she looked different.
But they were speaking the language that I was unfamiliar with.
And I'm a musician, so I'm hearing languages, I'm like, I can pick that up.
I made eye contact and asked "Where are you from?"
She said Poland.
I was like "what?"
Did you look in Poland after the girl?
Not, I didn't, I looked into her.
She interested me, not the country, to be honest.
But the thing was being around her and her friend, listening to the language
I did become interested and the fact that it ended up being planted in my consciousness,
and I was actually aware of this country now,
so I begun to see and hear the words, and the language
and see it in movies in my home culture in America
and I started to pick up like "Okay, Poland".
What transpired that ended up with you coming over here?
A dream.
I'd say, a dream.
The scariest thing was coming over here
and knowing that somebody who I care about is also in Poland.
That was scary.
But logically, as a young artist, I'm thinking "Yo, that's the perfect staep, I'm fearless,
why not go to Poland if it's so close to Europe?"
you know, and then there's Eastern Europe, like did you ever hear about hip-hop in Ukraine?
I didn't know this.
I don't know.
But shit, I'm thinking "Why not?
Maybe I can go to Ukraine, maybe I can go to Russia,
and do some music and then hey, Asia is not so far!"
The first place I landed in Europe was Copenhagen.
And then Copenhagen to Warsaw.
But your final destination was Warsaw.
Was Warsaw.
You've never been to Poland.
Never.
You didn't speak the language.
Not at all.
You didn't have friends waiting for you here.
No.
All you knew is that you saw two girls at a hot-dog stand in Times Square.
Yeah, one of them invited me.
That's it.
What became of the girl who invited you?
That's the love of my life right now.
That's somebody I really care about.
You've gotta realise that I'm the type of person who doesn't trust people.
I don't really deal with many people.
I'm very keen to vibration and spirituality in a way
of what you try to hide I see. I trusted her.
And then I worked on trusting her more and more from being such a closed person
and now I can be vulnerable with this type of person and I can trust her.
That's obviously some type of love, you know.
I can't describe it in another words.
Actually it wasn't even a fact that she was polish.
It was the fact that she was her.
It was her.
There you go brother, that's exactly what it was.
What was your first impression off the airplane?
Really?
Mmmmm.
The signs were the first thing that they had me like nervous.
Because it's like "Yo, you gotta think Blu" in New York I'm seeing signs in English,
Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, like I'm seeing it in different languages,
but now you're in a country that only speaks their language.
And you don't know nothing about it, and nothing about language,
so reading the signs was like "Whaat?"
What would you say polish people's first impression of you was like?
Jesus Christ!
O sh…!
But forgive me what I'm saying, but when they saw me, somebody for the first was like...
"Whhaaaat?".
Kids loving.
That's diferent. They're curios.
This is like "oh, he's an alien!
Yaaaay!".
I mean the thing is, dude, you're a character even for the Times Square.
Like I'm looking at you, what the…
You're like a mix of a pirate and bohemian hippie…
Now you've got six more to go.
Yeah, you right.
They are either enjoying that I was diferent, curious,
or shocked, but I've had a few people who were fearful.
And fear is usually expressed in anger.
Racial remarks?
Yea, I had a few.
I actually had them last year.
Me and my lady went to just go eat, go back home,
and it's literally in the same block that I live.
Two gentlemen were doing just fine before we walked by.
And then, we walked by and "Oh pierdoły!"
They started singing some songs and it's like I turn around,
really quitely, because I told my lady…
Because she understands the language, I don't,
so I kinda get the handicap of ignoring a lot easier.
She know what they're saying.
I said "look, you can't say what you want to say to anybody."
Imagine my heart was pumping because I wanted to punch the kid in a face for just being rude.
It's like me and my lady, bro.
Like, where's your respect, did your parents not teach you to respect other people?
And if they didn't I feel sorry for you because you're not really going grow
anyone else in the world except here, in this little place that you…
"Oh, what man."
"Don't do that again".
" Okay, okay, go home."
No, you go home.
What do you mean go home?
In a context of going home I knew what they were meaning,
because they might not speak English, but it wasn't go home to Kabaty where I stay,
it was go home.
So you came to Poland for love, you've discovered a culture that you're seemed to admire and
you would like to contribute entertainment, music, art to this place.
I'm curious, your art form is hip-hop music.
What do you think of polish hip-hop?
It's growing.
Like I said, a lot of…
And it's funny for me, because if we're speaking about hip-hop in this segment,
hip-hop to them it's just a cookie cut.
Because listening to the style and seeing how they dress we did that, ten years ago.
Like I grow up on this, we created it, naturally.
They just liked it, enjoyed it, and used it their way.
But the beautiful thing is now it's starting to change in a way where
they're creating their own style, look, sound.
Like they have their own artists, characters,
like some of the cast that I've met in Młode Wilki
I wouldn't probably see in an american market, but yo, he's polish,
he's doing hip-hop,
he's spitting rhymes, and might sound similar to ours, but that's all hip-hop community.
But he's got his own swag.
And that's different.
You asked me if you should be prepared for any questions, but it's not a question.
I was really curious about your freestyle ability.
Oh, really?
I can dig it.
Right now?
When, tomorrow, I've got the cameras going now.
Alright, I'm going to give the topic, you've gotta…
We're friend, I can fuck with you a little bit.
Again, I'm gonna give you a topic, I want you to go for it, okay?
We'll start off easy.
Alright, easy, easy.
Warsaw.
Warsaw Poland…
So is this way that I go, towards Piaseczno, I mean, I'm leaving Warsaw,
it might not be fun, but tonight I'm with a nice shorty and right, she be a damn.
She telling me "niebieski, czekaj" you may wanna wait. I mean see
I don't hate on you cause you from another place,
but now we're in Warsaw and my face
is changing up when I'm looking at the place itself.
I ask for pierogi, you - kebab, depends on my job, when I'm hungry, głowny, głowny?
Głodny!
Give me one more.
This one's for Kult America viewers, we're gonna go easy, softball,
rap about polish girls.
I think he's gonna pass.
I'm not gonna pass, like, what kind of artist is that say "No, I won't do that".
Oh I thought maybe your girlfriend's little possessive and gonna be upset.
She's my girlfriend, bro, she's my królowa.
My królowa z Kroczowa, I thought I told ya,
nie dobrze, jest my drzewo,
I thought that you know, I don't wanna really holla at the polish girls right now,
cause I'm cool and I know somehow that I might have two who move like cow.
I mean don't know beef.
I mean, you're lookin good, real fine, when you're walking down the street ah.
When I found about the polish ladies, they're sometimes stronger than a man
and that's shady, but i don't want to say none to disrespect my homie.
We gonna sid down, drink and eat some pierogi.
I mean I see 'em at Sketch NITE or Ritual, or any other club man it's like a ritual, cause
she just wanna have fun with her friends, they jump on me cause "he's czarny"
and it's cool, but it's high I mean.
I'm just saying what I'm saying in my brain what I'm saying, what I'm saying
it'd be a stan, I mean.
I'm insane.
That was good, that was good.
Tell me what's up with your Polish?
What's your name?
Name..
I am Blu.
Niebieski, right?
How old are you?
Dwanaście?
No dwanaście is twelve.
Wait, go home, man.
Twenty.
Twenty six.
Twenty six.
Where are you from?
That I've never heard.
Where are you from?
What is your country?
Nah, I don't know.
Okay, I just asked what country are you from.
Really?
One more time, tho.
I see your friend is pretty good at polish.
I can speak Russian, because i was in Ukraine and I was kind of..
He looks like he speaks Russian.
I agree with that.
Alright, if you had a message for the people of Poland,
now that you're among them, what
would that message be?
See the gold in your country.
Because there's magic here and it needs to be tapped into it.
And the only people who can tap into that are the polish people.
Tap into your own inner self, and be open,
not too open, of course, but be open to whatevs the world has to offer,
because it helps you become a better country.
We also think that people should tap into the Kult America channel
by tapping the subscribe button, so then you can see more people like Blu,
maybe you will see him again, also,
without being too brutal please write your comments in a comment section
what do you think about having him in polish society,
do you welcome him, do you shun him, what are your opinions.
But be careful what you say because I like this guy.
And I want him to stick around.
I don't know how to do that fucking bullshit.
We did it, it was enough bro, what else we're supposed to do, like...
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