Oakzy B on Kips Bouncy Sesh, Makina, rap and what comes next
With Kips Bouncy Sesh landing #5 on both opening SHHC charts, I’ll Try reaching #4 on SoundCloud and a new Benny T collaboration, 6am, now out, Oakzy B talks Calton, Tiny, Makina, rap and the track that once broke into Scotland’s official sales chart.
Kips Bouncy Sesh landed at exactly #5 on both of the first SHHC charts.
On SoundCloud, Oakzy B & Tiny went one better too, with I’ll Try reaching #4.
Since answering these questions, Oakzy has also returned with new music. Benny T x Oakzy B - 6am is now out with an accompanying music video on YouTube.
For Oakzy, though, moving between different sounds is nothing new.
“I’m a Glasgow rapper and MC blending high-energy Scottish rap, Makina and bounce culture,” he says.
“My music is raw, authentic and rooted in the Glasgow scene — built on fast-paced bars, real-life grittiness and high bouncy production made to get a room moving.”
That ability to move between styles is something he takes pride in.
“I can do both. I pride myself on being able to slow it right down on rap beats at 90 BPM and rap up at 180 on Makina beats.”
Kips Bouncy Sesh
Seeing Kips Bouncy Sesh appear at #5 on both SHHC charts brought Oakzy back to a track with a lot of history behind it.
Oakzy and Tiny grew up together in the Calton in Glasgow and had been MCing alongside each other long before the track existed.
“Tiny and I grew up together in the Calton, so linking up on a track was second nature. We’ve both been MCing together for years.”
Kip is another important part of the story.
Oakzy credits him as one of the first people in the Scottish music scene to properly give him a chance as a rapper at a time when, as he remembers it, some people were hesitant because of his Makina background.
“I did my first freestyle with Kip, and by the next morning it had already hit 10k views. We’ve been working together ever since.”
Kips Bouncy Sesh itself came together quickly.
“Kip built the beat right there in front of us, and because me and Tiny have that natural chemistry from MCing for so long, we laid the whole thing down in just one take.”
Rather than approaching it like two separate verses stitched together, Oakzy and Tiny recorded side by side in a way that felt closer to how they were already used to performing.
“We stood side by side like we normally would, but this time with a standing mic instead of passing it back and forth.”
The idea was to make something that reflected the culture around them.
“We just wanted to create a proper anthem for the party culture that reflected what our crowd was living every weekend.”
The track had already travelled far
Kips Bouncy Sesh was originally released in 2018, and the response went further than Oakzy and Tiny expected.
The track reached #44 on the Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart, putting an independent Glasgow release into a national Scottish sales ranking alongside established names.
Oakzy also supplied screenshots from the time showing Kips Bouncy Sesh at #27 on the iTunes Dance chart and #119 on the wider UK iTunes ranking.
“We didn’t even expect it to land on the radar like that,” he says.
For Oakzy, what mattered was seeing an underground Scottish track push its way into spaces normally dominated by much bigger releases.
“Seeing an independent, underground Scottish track chart next to global pop acts proved how strong the scene’s backing really is.”
Eight years later, the track is still moving enough on both YouTube and SoundCloud to land near the top of SHHC’s first weekly charts.
Where Oakzy is now
Kips Bouncy Sesh is an important part of Oakzy’s story, but when asked which of his current charting tracks better represents where he is now, he points to I’ll Try.
“I knew it landed on the SoundCloud charts, but I never realised how far up it actually got.”
“I’ll Try is my most recent release, so I’d say that one represents where I’m at now.”
The track was released in January 2026, but Oakzy does not see his current direction as leaving the faster side of his music behind.
Instead, he describes it as bringing both sides closer together.
“Kips Bouncy Sesh is that legendary underground banger that really put us on the mainstream map. Right now, I’m bridging those two worlds — keeping the raw storytelling while keeping that high-tempo bouncy music that gets crowds moving.”
That feels like the clearest thread through what Oakzy is doing now.
The slower rap records and the faster Makina material are not two different versions of him. They are both part of the same catalogue.
What comes next
Oakzy says there are more live shows coming with Tiny, continuing the back-to-back Makina and bounce sets they have been doing together for years.
He has also been working on the rap and grime side through Red Bull’s League of Lyrics, where he says he has progressed from the quarterfinal into the semifinal while representing with the 644 Studios crew.
He wants to use that momentum to put more grime and rap music out, with further Makina releases planned later in the year.
That next run has already started. Since this interview, Oakzy has released 6am with Benny T, with a new music video now live on YouTube.
Current releases, chart activity and monitored tracks.
For someone whose music has always moved between those worlds, that direction makes sense.
Kips Bouncy Sesh might be the track that carries the history, but Oakzy is not trying to recreate 2018.
He is trying to take both sides of what he does forward at the same time.