Allan Kingdom Shares On "All Day" Feature and Working With Kanye West

Many of you might not have heard much of Allan Kingdom until hearing Kanye West‘s “All Day,” other than that he is one of the members of thestand4rd, which also consists of Spooky Black (Corbin), Psymun and Bobby Raps. Complex caught up with the 21-year-old Canadian-born Minnesota native just when he touched down after his week and a half overseas to converse about the “All Day” collaboration, and the direction of his career in the following few months. Read a few excerpts below and for the full convo, head over here.

Ready for the golden question—how did you link up with Kanye West?
Pat, his team and whatnot, it wasn’t even like my music was pushed onto him. [It was all] naturally, through growing, and me putting out projects and Pat being close to him and hearing about me. They had a session, and I just got a phone call to go, and so I went and we were chilling, and I just showed him my music. It was super nerve-racking obviously.

Will you be on Kanye’s album outside of “All Day?”
I actually don’t know. It’s a possibility that I might. I didn’t even know about “All Day” after I left the studio session.

Any fun stories from your time over there?
The first time I heard people chant my name was in a British accent. That’s not how I imagined it, I imagined it before but not like that. It was really weird, and it was outside the hotel. This group of kids were just like “Allan, Allan!” but I never expected the first time hearing it in a British accent. It was weird.

Were you at all annoyed that now, you work with Kanye, and everyone’s hitting you up for interviews, for music, etc.?
At this point, it’s gratifying more than annoying. You even have to earn that, for people to even want to get your ass. I changed my number the day I went to London. It’s like one thing my boy Bobby Raps always says, “Even fake love is real love.”

Has Kanye shown interest in Spooky Black, and the rest of the Stand4d?
Yeah, he likes the music. I don’t know anything else other than that though.