Talking to IANS about how it was to work with Nick, King, whose real name is Arpan Chandel said: “Obviously amazing. I have been a fan of him…Even when I was not doing music, I have been a fan of him since then.”
It’s nothing less than magic for the 24-year-old rapper, who wowed everyone with his maiden appearance on the first season of the hip-hop reality show ‘MTV Hustle’.
“So I had manifestation that I would work with him and it happened. It feels like magic.”
Walking down the memory lane on how it all happened with Nick Jonas, he said: “I was touring last season and Jay Mehta was the MD of Warner music India, he’s like a big brother and he called and said Nick Jonas wants to do a track, a global version of ‘Maan Meri Jaan’ and I was like happy and I said lock it.”
“So, when the first scratch came Nick Jonas sent and then I loved it. It happened very smoothly there is not a big back story to it. It’s just when you get good artistes things automatically happen very nicely.”
“Nick is phenomenal artistes. I have been a fan of him since very long and he understand very well.”
‘Maan Meri Jaan’ is from King’s album ‘Champagne Talk’, which was about a love lost because of a misunderstanding. The song was on Billboard India at the No. 1 spot. In March 2023, the global version ‘Maan Meri Jaan (Afterlife)’, which currently has over 6,081,565 views since it dropped in March 10.
“‘Maan Meri Jaan (Afterlife)’ is a global version and ‘Maan Meri Jaan’ was made for the Hindi core audience… It is going really well and it’s going better than what I had expected. My expectations are a hundred so its going above that.”
When asked what was the reason behind the mega success of ‘Maan Meri Jaan’, pat came the reply: “Simplicity.”
Who is King looking forward to work with after Nick Jonas? He said American rapper Jack Harlow.
–IANS<br>dc/kvd
