‘Tell a Lie,’ by Parisian rapper MIKANO, is a contemporary poetry about honesty and human connections. It bears witness to our own bad behaviour. Sometimes we feel forced to move and talk wrongly, and other times we deceive our loved ones because we are unable to confront the unpleasant but indisputable reality. It’s a piece on how everyone ends up lying. In a variety of methods, shapes, and objectives. But, in the end, we can love and trust one another. It’s natural to feel stressed by one’s own blunders. It is human to be unable to forgive. It’s okay to be apologetic. It’s all part of being exposed.
The music video, directed by Ferina and produced by Incendie, depicts MIKANO’s motivation behind ‘Tell a Lie’ via three moving moments.
The ‘Tell a Lie’ music video follows the release of MIKANO’s new EP, AKWA II. It’s a raw and aggressive album. It’s a lovely and moving jumble of disorganised emotions. The EP is more intimate and deeper than MIKANO’s previous work, moving the listener from one extreme to the other – from a song tinged with sweetness, vulnerability, and fantasy to something inflated with roughness and overly confident energy, depicting the complexities of our personal growth and relationships. AKWA is named after one of Douala’s Cameroonian districts, Akwa, where MIKANO grew up.
