After the huge success of his debut, and six hits making the Top 15 in his country UK, rapper Tinie Tempah remains assured that his new album “Disc-Overy” will be hit again on the new side of the Atlantic.
"The world is just a lot more of a smaller place 'cause of the Internet and everything," Tempah, who released "Disc-Overy" on May 17 in the U.S. after its British release in October, talks to Billboard.com. "People know what they want. They know what they're into. They know what they want to hear, and it doesn't matter where it's from or who made it. For me over here, everything is still so new and so fresh. The singles have to do the talking for people to understand who I am as an artist and what I'm all about, to compel them to go out and buy the album. 'Written in the Stars' is doing so good; I couldn't have asked for a better start."
The first single of “Disc-Overy”, “Written in the Stars” topped the UK charts landing at No. 12 on the Hot 100. Followed by “Till I’m Gone” featuring Wiz Khalifa, who claims he is “returning the favor” for the Tempah’s UK remix of “Black and Yellow.”
"Because my music is as close to real-time as possible, and since so much has happened since ('Disc-Overy') came out in the U.K., I thought it as only right," Tempah, who was born Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu, Jr. in London, explains. "I'm going through a pretty interesting time in my life. I've just made that transition from being a teenager to becoming an adult... and at the same time just signed a record deal and I'm all over the world. I've met so many more people, done so many more shows, visited so many more countries and some amazing cities, so I thought people kind of need to know about that and hear a bit more of that in my music."
While the fans of Tempah in North America have seen him supporting Usher at the Los Angeles’ Staples Center in June and Chicago’s Lollapalooza in August, they will have to be patient a little longer to see him live. He is booked this summer playing in Europe, but plans “a little intimate tour in September hopefully, in some of my favorite cities and states" which includeSeattle, Portland, Miami, Chicago, Atlanta, New York and Los Angeles. He is also thinking of launching a fashion line self dubbed as the “Disturbing London”
"It's as far away from the whole hip-hop mogul stereotype as possible," Tempa says. "I like to express myself with what I wear, and I always find I have to go to loads of different brands to achieve a specific look. So I thought, 'Wouldn't it be cool if I created a lifestyle clothing brand that created everything I want out of a brand.' It's currently a work in progress."
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