Up and coming R&B singer YK Osiris talks about his new single "Time Goes By," why he wanted to perform the song live, when the music video is coming out, his first EP, his upcoming collabs with DeJ Loaf and Tyga, his upcoming singles "Woozy" and "Soul Ties," gets real about where his relationship status is, how he feels about being an independent artist now and more!
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00:00 Well everyone, he's not a rapper.
00:01 No, I'm not a rapper.
00:02 I wish I can rap though.
00:03 Can you rap?
00:04 You know, if you ever need a feature.
00:06 What's up, it's your boy YK Osiris and you're watching Billboard News.
00:10 Hey everyone, it's your girl Katrice J here with Billboard News and we got YK Osiris in
00:27 the building.
00:28 How are you?
00:29 I'm good, how you doing?
00:30 I'm good.
00:31 I'm blessed that you're here.
00:32 I'm blessed that I'm here.
00:33 You have some exciting news for us.
00:51 Something coming soon.
00:52 What do you have to share?
00:53 Um, EP coming out.
00:55 I'm very excited.
00:56 What is there to come?
00:57 What's the title of the EP?
00:59 So I got a couple features on there.
01:01 The name, still trying to...
01:03 Untitled.
01:04 Yeah, I'm trying to really piece it together but I know for sure it's coming soon.
01:08 That's so exciting.
01:09 So I want to talk about the evolution of your sound and your music.
01:14 What is this new you?
01:15 It's elevated.
01:16 I feel new.
01:17 I feel great.
01:18 I feel like I'm back in the music space, in the studio every day, making crazy music.
01:24 I just put out time go by.
01:26 I'm just loving this space that I'm in right now.
01:28 Loving myself, loving my art, surrounding myself around the right people.
01:32 I'm loving it.
01:33 That's very exciting.
01:40 And you know, Time Goes By has been getting great reception.
01:43 And you dropped it during Grammy week, which is the busiest week in music.
01:47 So how do you feel like the reception's been versus other past singles you've dropped for this one?
01:52 They love Time Goes By.
01:54 I just feel like it's a great record to vibe to at night, while you're driving, while you're in the car just chilling.
02:03 I just feel like it's a great sound.
02:04 This is coming from Rocky Osiris.
02:05 It's a great sound.
02:06 I have the interlude coming in and I'm singing my heart out.
02:09 It's just a great vibe just listening to it.
02:12 I'm proud of myself for that.
02:14 Yeah, you should be.
02:15 I'm very proud.
02:16 You also dropped a live performance.
02:18 If you come back in my life, would you come back in my life?
02:25 Why a live performance versus a typical music video?
02:29 I feel like I haven't really shown my acapella voice more.
02:34 I want to start doing that more, just showing how my voice is naturally.
02:39 That's why I really wanted to show that.
02:41 It was a great performance.
02:42 And people loved it.
02:43 They didn't really hear my voice in a long time in that space.
02:47 So I just feel like that was a great move, what I did.
02:50 I feel like the music video is coming soon.
02:54 But that particular video performance was great and it was live.
02:59 So I loved it.
03:00 So when is the music video coming?
03:02 Because you said soon.
03:03 How soon?
03:04 It's coming.
03:05 I'm still trying to...
03:06 I've got a little edit to do, but I'm still coming.
03:07 It's coming though.
03:08 I'm excited.
03:09 You also have some other singles coming.
03:11 Woozie is coming.
03:12 Woozie.
03:13 And "Soul Ties."
03:14 "Soul Ties."
03:15 Tell me about Woozie.
03:16 Woozie, great record.
03:17 I love that record a lot.
03:18 My team love that record.
03:20 It's just a vulnerable record by the one man deck.
03:23 Trying to get her back, knowing my faults, knowing my wrongs.
03:26 And telling her that I do better.
03:28 That please forgive me, please take me back.
03:31 So that's what that record is about.
03:32 It's just being Woozie.
03:33 Yeah.
03:34 And "Soul Ties" in that same category.
03:36 Bad soul ties, I know you know of that.
03:41 Having bad soul ties, having that bad chemistry, but you're still dealing with that person.
03:46 So all that is very cohesive with each other.
03:50 Can you give us a hint of who may or may not be on there?
03:54 I have Dej Loaf.
03:56 I have a song with her.
03:57 I have a song with Tyga.
03:59 I have a song with a couple people in spite.
04:02 I'm very excited for Dej Loaf and me.
04:04 That's a great record.
04:05 It's called "Teezy."
04:06 It's a great record.
04:07 I ain't gonna lie.
04:08 It's a great record.
04:09 I'm pretty excited to drop that.
04:10 Yeah, I'm excited for that too.
04:11 I love Dej Loaf.
04:12 And it's sung with me and Tyga hard too.
04:14 That song is hard.
04:15 "Dirty Distractions" is crazy too.
04:16 What's the vibe?
04:17 Is it like party?
04:18 Is it summer vibe?
04:19 Party vibe.
04:20 Party.
04:21 It's not a record that is going to stick for me.
04:22 It's like a record like, "Wow, this is a great record," for sure.
04:25 Okay.
04:26 Another Billboard Hot 100.
04:28 Yeah, for sure.
04:29 Yeah, for sure.
04:30 What is music inspo?
04:32 What's been inspiring you lately?
04:33 I'm gonna keep it a buck with you.
04:35 Relationships.
04:36 Ooh.
04:37 Yeah, relationships been a big deal for me.
04:40 Just that relationship makes me want to get in the studio and say how I feel.
04:45 I've been very vulnerable lately in the studio.
04:48 And I really don't be like that.
04:50 But the past months, I've been very vulnerable in the studio.
04:54 Like, "Please take me back, Mo.
04:56 Please, this is bad.
04:58 This is toxic.
04:59 Let's get this together."
05:01 So everything I'm saying in the music that you're gonna hear is real life.
05:05 So this is real R&B.
05:07 This is real R&B, yeah.
05:08 So are you in a relationship?
05:10 No, no, I'm not in a relationship.
05:12 You're just going through the feels.
05:13 Yeah, I'm going through the feels.
05:14 Gotcha.
05:15 I will give you the world, baby girl.
05:18 You just gotta be worth it.
05:20 "Worth It" peaked within the top 50 on the Hot 100.
05:24 And you're only 25.
05:26 And not a lot of people get that feature.
05:28 So how does that feel to have even been that high on the charts?
05:32 To be honest, at that moment of my life, I didn't really like real shit.
05:37 Like, I ain't gonna lie.
05:38 I really didn't like it.
05:39 Like, okay, that's fire.
05:41 But time was going by so fast, it just came by like, "Dang, that's crazy."
05:45 But on Billboard, that's fire.
05:47 Like, on Billboard, everybody don't get on Billboard.
05:50 So if you get on Billboard, that's a big thing.
05:53 But being so young, being young, you don't really like, "I'm really on Billboard?"
05:58 So it's been hard, like, really shit.
06:02 But it was a great moment at that time.
06:05 100%.
06:06 I mean, I remember everyone-- wasn't it like a TikTok thing, too?
06:09 Like, everyone was singing it.
06:11 Yeah, everybody was singing that.
06:13 You're gonna have more, so I'm excited.
06:15 Yeah, can't wait, too.
06:16 I want to get into the origin of your name, YK Osiris, because it gives me rapper vibes.
06:21 But you're not a rapper by any means at all.
06:23 So what's the origin of your name?
06:25 YK Osiris, so it's Young King Osiris.
06:28 The Young King came from my teacher, and I just ran with it.
06:32 YK do sound like a rapper name, but it's crazy.
06:36 But it say Young King, so I'm like--
06:38 Some people say, "You know Osiris."
06:41 But it's like, it's YK Osiris, Young King.
06:44 But it's really just-- I just ran with that name from my teacher.
06:46 And shout out to him.
06:47 He's the one that called me YK Osiris.
06:49 Why did you shorten it to YK from Young King?
06:52 Because it's easier, like YK Osiris, Young King Osiris, like YK.
06:58 So when I go on stage, I'm like, "YK, YK."
07:00 So it was just easy for the fans.
07:03 You're from Jacksonville, Florida, but you also were raised in Canada,
07:07 but you also lived in L.A.
07:09 So you've kind of been an old--
07:12 Yeah, I'm from Jacksonville, Florida.
07:14 I was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida.
07:17 Canada, my people live out there, too, so I go in and out.
07:19 And L.A., like, work.
07:21 I came out here for work.
07:23 I do want to ask you, you've had your run-ins with people in the music industry.
07:27 How has that kind of affected your mental health moving forward
07:30 and kind of even in this new space with relationships and music?
07:33 How has that in the past affected you?
07:36 Man, learning experience.
07:38 I just feel like it's growing as a man.
07:41 It's growing and elevating.
07:43 Every year is different.
07:45 And I just feel like I have grown so much in this understanding life,
07:48 understanding people, understanding yourself,
07:51 and understanding that life--just understanding life.
07:54 I feel like going through trials and tribulations in life
07:58 always helps your mind to elevate
08:01 and knowing who you are as a person
08:03 the more you go through trials and tribulations.
08:05 So, you know, I love it for me, and I love it.
08:07 I just love it.
08:09 I love being in that era of learning new things,
08:12 going through things, trying new things,
08:14 and just elevating as a man.
08:16 If you had to give advice to another man
08:19 or someone that's in music trying to figure it out,
08:21 what's some advice you would give them?
08:23 The advice I'd give them is, first of all, believe in yourself.
08:28 Second of all, don't overthink.
08:31 That was my biggest problem, overthinking things
08:34 and not thinking everything have to be perfect, you know,
08:38 'cause what's not perfect to you might be perfect to somebody else.
08:42 So that's a great thing I say to my folks out there.
08:46 And just like I say, just believe in yourself
08:48 and have great people around you that genuinely love you
08:51 and love your art.
08:53 Speaking of believing in yourself, you are independent now.
08:57 - Yes. - You're your own boss now.
08:59 So what is that--how does that feel?
09:01 It feels great. It's kind of like--you know, like, you get in--
09:04 it's kind of like a little, like, hesitant,
09:07 but it's just like, you get the feel of it,
09:09 and you understand, like, this is how you can do it now.
09:11 This is how you do it now? Okay, cool.
09:13 It's more like--you can feel it now,
09:16 but I just feel like I'm just now getting in it,
09:19 so it's like now I understand the work you have to put in.
09:22 You got to put in a lot of work because this is groundwork now,
09:25 and it's more like, man, like, you got to know how much--
09:29 the work you put in, you really have to cherish your work now.
09:32 Like, I feel like if you really don't have a lot of ownership in something,
09:36 you love to do it, but you don't really cherish it
09:39 the way you should cherish it, so now I'm like, bro, like,
09:42 every little thing you got to go 110% about
09:45 because you know anything that mess up, it goes back on you.
09:48 Yep. Yep. Yeah.
09:50 Is there anything that you're looking forward to besides the new album dropping--
09:54 or EP dropping, I should say--is there a tour?
09:57 Is there movies, a clothing line?
10:01 I'm manifesting this, too. Yeah, I love that. I love that.
10:04 'Cause I do want to go on tour, and I'm going on tour this year,
10:06 so we'll keep it in--put it in the air.
10:08 I have merch dropping.
10:10 My first time dropping my own merch independently,
10:13 so I got that dropping, my merch dropping, and that's about to go crazy.
10:16 I do want to do movies. That's great that you said that.
10:19 So I am going to do movies. We'll put it in the air.
10:22 So when I do get in the mood, I'm going--I'm going to look back and be like,
10:25 "She helped me manifest that."
10:27 So yeah, movies are great, so I'm looking forward to that this year.
10:30 All of that's happening this year. All of it's happening.
10:32 Yeah, I had a few opportunities in the movies, too. I ain't going to lie.
10:35 It was just like probably didn't make sense at that time.
10:38 You know how life goes.
10:40 Totally. Wrong place, wrong time, but when it's for you, it'll be the way.
10:43 Yeah, it'll be for me, yeah, for sure.
10:45 Well, thank you so much. I appreciate you so much, too.
10:47 YKLSARS, everyone.
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