"I especially love Jaros of the group Trompies. I grew up obsessed with trompies," he said. He said he is also a big fan of South African music icon Zola. As for local music, he says that he has deep respect for people like Franco because they write lyrics that have meaning.
"Even though we do not sing the same type of music I admire the way he writes his lyrics because they mean something for everyone who listens to his songs. His lyrics are very conversational," he says.
Pistol says that he released his album after two years of working on it because he was still brewing it.
"I wanted to bring an album that would make me and especially my listeners proud," he says.
The album titled Dlala was born out of Mgaro Sessions by producer Garry Mgaro and mastered at Sinewave Productions by Henry AK.
Sinewave Productions is popular for the works of critically acclaimed artistes like Mista Doe, Stagga, the late Bulldog and others.
In the hit song Koma pistol talks about the uniqueness of his music and urges Batswana to sing along.
"This music belongs to Batswana and that is what the song is about," he says.
As for the title track Dlala, all it says is that people should not skip songs in this album.
"They should listen to all songs in this album and enjoy them all. That is what Dlala is about," he said.
The 29-year-old Pistol broke into the music scene in 1998 as a featured dancer with Francistown group Cryptic Scorpion Crew that graced the music then.
"I danced for CSC from 1998 to 2003 and then people started telling me that I had a talent and could make it in the industry and in 2004 I started my own project," he added.
"I had a lot of encouragement from people who had seen my skills as a dancer and a singer. They realised I had talent before I did," Pistol told Showbiz.
Then Botswana music industry is being dominated by the house-kwasa and hip-hop genres and Pistol is trying to break into Kwaito. Asked how he plans to penetrate such a tight market, he said that he is a performer.
"I'm not competing with that music, I bring something and kwaito already has a large loyal fellowship in Botswana. Before we all used to listen to Kwaito from South Africa," he said.
Pistol rocked Francistown alongside other artistes from all over Botswana at Dzalobana Tour that was organised by YO-HO in December, last year and the BNYC Month of Youth.
"When I get on stage I perform so that people will remember me." He says that they have been promoting the album since December letting the public know that it was about to be released.
The challenges he ran into while trying to release the album are similar to all Batswana youth, who are trying to break into this industry.
"As always finance is a problem. As Batswana we have a problem of not appreciating music. People are not yet ready to invest, they are reluctant to learn that they can benefit by investing in serious artists," he said.
He said that the other problem he ran into was that of recognition.
"When you don't have an album people look down upon you and they don't want to be associated with you. They just don't give you a chance so I took advantage of the stage when I was allowed to let people know that I was here and just as good," he stated.
