The Sensational Entertainer, William Last KRM
In this world there are those born with a silver spoon, with the lime light upon them from day one and then there are those that work hard to earn their spots, for some it may even take years to gain them. Well, that has not been the case with our very own multitalented and internationally renounced Comedian and Musician, William Last KRM. He may have not been born to the spotlight but he was made for it. While it takes many years to get to work for, for him it only took a few vines and today he is the talk of local talent.
Born Bofelo William Molebatsi, the comedian/musician has three other siblings and one is a soccer player for the biggest local football team, Township Rollers. The soccer player, Thalefo Molebatsi is one of the people that the musician looks up to. WillIam Last KRM, of course shot to fame as the well-known Motsetserepa, we all enjoyed to watch as he made us laugh our lungs out, but the entertainer, which he likes to refer himself to, was more into music even before doing comedy. Although we never really at first knew of it when we all came to know about him, he did start off as a musician. He has been doing comedy since 2017, but as for music he did it and had the love for it from as far as his school days. He says that when he was in standard 3 he would write songs even for people to sing to
When talking about how he came to take up comedy, he said that it was never for fame and to make some living out of it. The singer also said that it was more of a passing time hobby as he barely had nothing to do having been unable to perform well at his BGCSE. Although he never really thought to see himself where he is today passing time with vines, he actually has a background with acting as he did it back at school during his school time. He even got to have awards for being a good actor as well. Fast forward as destiny would have it doing comedy although it never was intended to make him an earning and he realised that it was something that could actually get him putting food on the table. He went on to say that at times things just happen unexpectedly, that God sometimes leads us to where we never imaged and is part of the journey. From the moment he started it all he did was to come up with some money especially when he did stand-up comedy. Eventually he was also making money from making advert vines as well.
Being a musician has always been part of him, the love goes way back to those school days but taking it serious and becoming an artist, that came to light only in 2018. In 2018 he released his first project, the Bofelo E.P. He says that however the project never really went on to do well as he would have expected it to as not many people knew about it apart from the song with Mpho Sebina. But of course that did not make him stop or demoralize him, rather he kept working on music. Come 2020, his time had finally arrived to shine. He released an album titled AMARA that finally not only caught the local attention but also the international attention as well. The album was a way for him to share with people about his reality, behind the comics, the laughs from comedy, he wanted to communicate his pain and have us understand that he too like everyone was human and has as much problems as anyone else. He has gone to also become top of the list for the sort after collaborations. He even got to be featured by the likes of big names like South Africa’s Boity on her O18 Finest remix and a local best upcoming group Ubuntu Band
Motsetserepa recently released another single, Aah that reminds one of the Aah that was released back in the day by kwaito legend Mapetla. The song is more like a remake rap version of the Mapetla song. When asked about it being a tribute to Mapetla, he said it was a little intended to that, but it was mostly a way of just bringing back the song’s vibe in the rapped kind of way. He said that it was also just to have that “Aah” as an amazed response to what he actually was rapping about in the song, like him being a father and all.
Now, one of the opportunities or one lucky thing he would have to also think that obviously made his album Amara get the attention it deserved is the moment he got international attention after he sang to one of Chris Brown’s song, “Don’t wake me up.” After making the video, he was lucky enough to have the singer Chris Brown see it and even commented to it and that sparked international recognition. He said he even got to gain some more followers internationally from countries like the US and in South Africa as well, he was positioned.
Him making good of the opportunities, he went on to release the best albums in local music and that had many just tipping off their heads to especially one song that became an international hit and even got so many good reactions and reviews from many known international reactors especially on YouTube.
His Tinto song went on to gain so many views and likes on YouTube and even got to surpass many big African songs as well from renounced African artists. Another his most viewed video is also one parody song from the amapiano song Akulaleki by Sasha. Apart from the Tinto song being successful, the other one that has also become a success and also got reactions from all over was “How it feels”, that he featured sweet voiced Dato Saiko. The song is by far the most emotional song we got to enjoy but at the same time getting to relate to the problems that the star has been through. It actually may have been him telling his story, but when one sings to the chorus how it feels, you actually have that feeling of self-expression as well. The song for him was just to express himself about his background and all that he had gone growing. On the day they recorded the song, a friend of him and Dato Saiko too had passed on so it went to have those expressions that really made it a very touching song.
“I wanna leave a legacy,” said the star when asked about how much of an impact he want to make on local music. He also said that growing up he got inspired by local artist Scar, but not necessarily meaning that he wanted to make music the same way that Scar does. Motsetserepa said he believes that one needs to be unique and do music in their own way, but it has to be the best of them. He went on to say that he wants people to talk about him even when he was gone and even have to be a study in the education system one day. He went on to indicate that even one day his daughter could be proud to have him as a father. He said that he wanted to show everyone, even someone with a disability that nothing is impossible, it’s about having that mentality of I can do it no matter where I come from.
As he continued talking about local talent, music and comedy Motsetserepa went on to say that Botswana has a lot of talent and is even better than many countries in comedy and music. He said that the talent available is good enough to have an impact on the economy of the country because it does move things in Botswana. “There is so much talent that can actually get us somewhere it’s just that people at times do not know how to handle fame and they even use it for different useless things
Some young talents even get used up in the industry and have their worth undermined or taken advantage of, If things were done right the industry would be huge,” so he said.
The inspiring family man said that if there is one thing that is difficult it would be balancing family and business times. He said he understands that nothing is more important than family and love. He also said nothing can ever buy that saying and he has finally come to master to that ability to work around it, balancing his work and being the family man we all know him to be. He went on to say that at times one gets too drawn to money which is really bad, as much as of course everyone needs money.
On the issue of any project he has in the pipeline, he said that they were currently working on a huge project which is an album that he says they are still taking their time to work on because they want it to be even bigger and better than the last one. Motsetserepa also said he will keep making more vines. He went on to say that he has grown to a place that he is happy with, but said he would like to see himself having grown even in terms of personality as well and finally he is very grateful of the support he gets from everyone at large.
Duncan Sebeso