"People feel the realness of music and if you do something that does not come from you but is just imported from somewhere it will ultimately show," K-Boss explains.No one could fault him then, he was part of a generation that grew at the time when gangster rap from the United States of America was gaining momentum, spreading throughout the world like an airborne disease and lure of trying to be just like them was difficult to parry.Ghetto boy Tupac Shakur rose to become the biggest seller and the iconic figure of the culture and the music. His death in 1996 created an even bigger furore.Growing up listening to some of the pioneers of the sound and staying in the US later as an adolescent, K-Boss's musical senses were infused with nothing but hip hop. "My parents had a hip hop record by one of the pioneers recording bands (Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five) of this music which had a guy called Grand Master Flash and it was fun. It had no explicit content. But when gangster rap rose so many of us just got hooked," K-Boss told Showbiz.But while many of those gang rappers' music with its violent connotations, was greatly influenced by the life of the Ghetto, telling stories of the rough life in the streets of Los Angels, K-Boss chose to tell stories in a manner that would not make hip hop an attraction to even the most reserved and religious communities."It was sometimes in 2003 when I spent two months trying to write some explicit lyrics but it did not feel right. I am not a vulgar person and that was simply not for me. The first record (by the Furious Five) I listened to had a lot of comedy in it.
