I was on tour with Kaliber after they released their second EP in 2014. They were living the lives of superstars. It was all about the parties, the drugs, and the ladies.
Meanwhile, they all began flirting with dreams of solo careers so they would no longer have to split their earnings. DB King, Face It, and Mr. Mo felt that Livid had already gone solo because he was collaborating more and more with me on the side. They could also see that people were starting to recognize my music while I was touring with them. There were major financial problems in the group because the money was being spent on wild nights out, expensive taxi rides, girls, and whatnot. Livid was unaware of all of these issues, and that was one of the reasons he started thinking more about himself and less about Kaliber. As I saw it, he felt betrayed and cheated by his own groupmates.
Things got so wild that it eventually went wrong one night in the studio, where they regularly held parties. They were all so fucked up on drugs that someone forgot to put out a cigarette, and the whole building caught on fire. Everyone managed to escape except for Steven, who was from my hometown and with whom I had started the music dream with Ameena, Street Corner Poets, and DB King back in 2007. Steven died that night, and so did Kaliber shortly afterward.
The jealousy, greed, and debauchery had overshadowed their love of music and creating something cool. They had had all of Denmark behind them and were Denmark’s music media darlings at the time. They were simultaneously ahead of their time because they had used the sound of the 1990s to create something new. Unfortunately, they squandered it all away in one fell swoop.
One day in 2015, I heard that Mr. Mo wanted to get out of the song we made for my mother, after I had paid all the expenses, because he was afraid to be seen in a music video with me. Mr. Mo had sung the hook while I did the verses. That song was the most important one to me, so I couldn’t let it happen because the video had already been shot. After explaining the importance of the song, Mr. Mo relented and allowed it to be released, but the damage had been done. That was the last night I saw Kaliber as a group