Before Olamide become a success story in indigenous rap music he had to pay some sacrifices and learn the ropes.
The YBNL Bossin an interview with
Andre Blaize, My Africa podcast said
that he had to spend six years in the
studio with his former producer and
mentor, ID Cabasa learning how to
churn out hit songs.
Growing up in Bariga, the rapper and
singer from a humble family
background had to decide on what he
wants from life early and that was
music even against the wish of his
family.
“I approached ID Cabasa with my group
of a song that we were doing but he did
not have time for us as he was busy
with other artistes. I met Lord Of Ajasa
at the Coded Tunes studio.
Having loved music from church, I felt
music was it for me and I hung around
at the studio watching how songs were
made. At a time, I practically lived in
that studio having left home for good.
It took me six years in the studio
learning and being tutored all I could
from ID Cabasa before I finally dropped
Eni Duro.
I never knew it would be accepted. We
just did it and dropped it at the Sound
Cloud and good comments were made of it.
Someone asked us to change the beats
and not spoil the song with the beat that
it came out with initially and ID Cabasa
listened and the single became a hit.
The road to success doesn’t come
easy,“says Olamide. Olamide is building
an army in his new label YBNL (Yahoo
Boy No Laptop) with Lil Kesh, Adekunle
Gold, Chinko Ekun, Viktor and others
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