I Spent 6 Years In Studio Before My First Single – Olamide

Before Olamide brand 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.