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AllHipHop caught up with Jensen Kirk to discuss his roots in Los Angeles, favorite artists, the turning point in his music career, how he linked with Big Sean, his new EP Visions and more!

Jensen Kirks newest single and visual, Lost In The Sauce, he spits, cant get lost in the sauce, gotta get paid when I talk. You know everything costs, thats universal law. They gon try to throw you off, but the opposition flaw. I came to get it all, because everything I want costs. Hailing from South Central Los Angeles, Jensen Kirk has been grinding for the past decade, creating his own lane within music and fashion while making sure hes always keeping family at the forefront. When describing himself, he states, I like to say Im my fathers son and my mamas child. Id like to have a family in the future. With the ability to both rap, sing, and write songs, Kirk broke out onto the scene with his smash hit California Girl. which hit mainstream radio in perfect timing. Additionally, he had a big moment with the release of Paper Chaser featuring Big Sean, which was featured on one of Seans mixtapes. Now, Kirk unveils his newest project titled VISIONS, an acronym that stands for value in sight is ones next success. The 10-track project is spearheaded by lead singles Baby Bluek and Lost In The Sauce. AllHipHop: Youre from South Central LA, how was that growing up? Jensen Kirk: Its a gift and a curse. We get opportunities, but at the same time a lot of people think its easier because youre in a big city. Sometimes, its a lot of politicking to get through to what youre trying to get to. Its a lot of gang interference sometimes, when youre growing up in a community and all that. Its also a lot of positives too, as far as community is concerned. That had a big effect on me, my morals. Just giving me morals and having a bigger outlook on what Im trying to do for real, but I love it. I grew up here, I love it. AllHipHop: Biggest influences? Jensen Kirk: I look up to artists like Hov, Kanye, 50 Cent, Drake, people who were able to do it on a big level. The people thats doing it right now would be Kendrick, Cole, and Drake. AllHipHop: At what point did you decide to do music? Jensen Kirk: I got my break in the game when I had a song with Big Sean called Paper Chaser that got to radio, Power 106 and all that. Once we got that on the radio, bam! We here. We got to do tours, thats when I knew that Im here for real. Then Kanye posted it on his blog at the time, thats when it was like okay yeah, were here for real. AllHipHop: Howd Paper Chaser with Big Sean come about? Jensen Kirk: I had an A&R at the time that introduced us, then Sean came to the studio and it was history after that. He heard the song, he said bro I need to put a verse on this. I said lets do it! After that happened, it was boom boom boom. Just easy after that. He put a verse on there, I shot it to mix show radio. Shoutout to DJs that played it for real. AllHipHop: Is Jensen Kirk your real name? Jensen Kirk: Mmhmm. With the name thing: at the time, I had the name J.K, JK, and all these aliases. I thought man, I need to go on and just use my real name. Because the music I was doing at that time was adding up to where I really wanted to see myself going. Once I made that name change, that brought us where we are here today. AllHipHop: New EP Visions out now, how are you feeling? Jensen Kirk: Yeah man, Visions. Its crazy, production from Willie B. He did a lot of stuff with TDE, Kendrick, SchoolBoy Q. Production from Super Miles, he did the Wale, Chris Brown single. Im just blessed to be here. We got two singles that debuted, they both did 50K on YouTube. We got 100K on YouTube and all that, its a beautiful thing. AllHipHop: Whats the acronym for Visions? Jensen Kirk: Visions acronym is value in sight is ones next success. Coming into this project, I was thinking okay, what do I want to change from the last thing I dropped? Coming out the pandemic, doing all that, what do I want to change? Hindsight is 2020, we all got hindsight right? We dont want to go back to the past. Insight is now, foresight is where we see ourselves in the future. I took all of those sights, how can I initiate that into the project? Thats where Visions came up because damn, all these sights is a vision. Its my vision, and I want to put that in the project. AllHipHop: What songs mean the most to you? Jensen Kirk: Baby Bluek, thats the main single we dropped. Then Lost In The Sauce is the follow-up single. Them probably the two right now to draw people to the project, to have people go to Youtube and see all that. But the one that really sticks out to me, Im a be honest, Lost In The Sauce, but I also think Jumpin out tha Roof. A lot of people like that song, so we might shoot a video to that. AllHipHop: What were you going thru recording Lost In The Sauce? Jensen Kirk: I just heard a beat for real. Super Miles is a fire producer so once I heard that beat, it brought out that emotion where yo, cant get lost in the sauce. Gotta get paid when I talk, everything costs. But it also brings back to where I see myself in the future, foresight. I gotta get paid when I talk, everything costs. Thats w Read more