Busy Signal, alias The Turf President and Bedroom Bully, jetted into Nairobi on Wednesday night ahead of his performance at the Free Up Peace concert at the KICC.

“Kenya is always beautiful and welcoming, and I love the smiles,” Busy Signal said yesterday at a press conference.

He is trying to “catch on” with his prowess in Kiswahili because his preacher is Kenyan and he preaches in Kiswahili and it is translated to English.

Asked why former US President Bill Clinton is among the great black icons mentioned in his Free Up song, Busy said,

“Throughout my time I lived in Jamaica before I migrated to America with my mum and brothers - my dad was already there. At the time, Bill Clinton was president. Him standing up for the black people gave us an opportunity to be there as a family from Jamaica, I consider that as being black.”

He added, “It is beyond what you see, what you look at. I look at people with X-ray vision, not their outward appearance.”

Busy told the press that his work ethic is the secret to his success, saying he would spend up to two weeks marooned in the studio, recording songs.

“I have had girlfriends who could not take it anymore. They say, ‘You are always in the studio’. She just left. And I was in the studio singing, ‘Hallo baby can you come over?’ This is real stuff, so people feel this things we keep it 100 per cent real. Always know what your focus and priorities are. This focus gets you to lose a lot of people along the way, and that kind of focus is what has gotten me to where I am today.”

And yes the he was welcomed like the dancehall king he is....Yes, just like the turf president he is.

Here is how he was received: