🐯 Hi, it’s Mark. It’s been way too long, hasn’t it? I’m sure you’ve just come from watching the “Ready or Not” performance. Since this song means so much to me, I was absolutely thrilled to be able to share it with all of you. (..)
“i can see myself striving as far as i wish to go as a solo artist and being very accurate with like being very specific with the path that i wish to go on. so it’s not just about being like ‘i wanna be successful’ or ‘i wanna be rich.’ it’s like specifically speaking i wanna do this with the influence that i have.”
mark’s speech for the world, at the world environment day 2026
“hello everybody, my name is mark lee. it is an honor to be here today. thank you so much for inviting me to world environment day and to Azerbaijan here in Baku. it is a beautiful city. before i sing you guys a song, i would like to tell you a short story.
i visited kenya earlier this year, and at that time, i was going through a very important time in my life. i had to make a very important decision for my career and for my life. and so i had a lot of people giving me advice, asking me questions that i didn’t really know the answer to. i was going through a strange, confusing period of time.
but i was in kenya and so i went on a safari. i saw so many beautiful animals, and i saw a lion. and at that moment, i kind of realized that sometimes its not really important to know the answer to all these questions or to know if you’re perfectly ready for everything, but rather whether you’re willing to take the next step toward real change.
so i made this song in kenya. its called “ready or not” and if i am correct and if we’re all getting the same memo, i do believe that our planet is asking us the same question. not whether we’re ready, but whether we’re willing to raise our voices and take this step. whether we’re willing to care enough to create real change.
i believe our souls all have this longing for a better world and i think thats one of the truest pieces of evidence there is that a better world could exist for everybody.”
MC introduction of Mark🥹
“Our next guest belongs to a generation that understand something important. The influence carries the responsibility. Today he joins us not simply as an international artist, but as a voice supporting global movement…
mark wrote “Ready or Not” while in Kenya!! 🥹
🐯: “before i sing you a song, i would like to tell you a short story. i visited kenya earlier this year, and at that time i was going through a very important time of my life. i had to make a very important decision for my career and for my life. i had a lot of people telling me a lot of advice, asking me questions i didn’t really know the answers to, and so i was going through a strange, confusing period of time. but, i was in kenya, so i went on a safari and i saw so many beautiful animals and i saw a lion, and at that moment i kinda realised that sometimes it’s not really important to know the answer to all these questions and to know if you’re perfectly ready for everything, but if you’re willing to take this next step for real change… and so i made this song in kenya. it’s called “Ready or Not””
mark said he wrote this song when he visited kenya earlier in the year in a period of his life where he had to make a lot of decisions about his career which was a bit strange and confusing but when he went on a safari tour and saw so many beautiful animals like a lion, he realized it’s not really important to know the answer to all these questions as long as you know you are ready to make a change, even if you are not perfectly ready