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🎶 Music (instrumentals)..... [S1] I suspected some shit <laugh> [S2] that's peculiar.🎶
🎶 Music (instrumental)... [S1] I want to see favorite I want to see Ella Ann <laugh> ([S2] seeing bitch either) I don't want to miss essential men [S3] You already know Drink Champs and Afro beat version. 🎶
🎶Music (instrumentals)... [S3] Shayo Champs..... if you can find this let's go this is history ([S4] yeah) 🎶 🎶 Music (instrumentals) 🎶
🎶 Music (instrumentals)... [S4] but you went back to Nigeria ([S3] yeah) so what makes you go back to Nigeria? 🎶 🎶Music (instrumentals)... [S5] It's here on Miami <laugh> <shout> [S3] mean while, in where I'm from.🎶
<shout, Clapping> [S3] two weeks was when I got back home <laugh> if I tell you say I love you oo <shout, laugh, clapping> [S4] davido.
[S4] what a good evening over to be with, this is your boy N.O.R.E ([S5] what up its DJ EFN) it's drink champs happy hour, Make some noise <shout>
[S4] and right now what we're talking about legend. We're talking about international legend, we're talking about you know. The boy got his own money <laugh> the real life.
[S4] coming to America <laugh> I mean the man you know was born into wealth came and back and where in grinded, grinded to get his own money. He said I'm going to do it all on my own.
[S4] Well I didn't know he was born in Atlanta, holy shit. <laugh> and he did when back and he came back and went to Alabama, holy holy ([S5] Birmingham) holy
<laugh> [S4] the man is a legend. First time I heard that name Afrobeats his name was attached to it and now this has become the biggest jambs of music.
[S4] they have a edge ([S3] hmmm [S5] hmm) so in case you don't know who the fuck we are talking about? I am going to say his name three different times davido, davido and davido <shout> <clapping> [S3] who thee
[S4] Now let’s talk about who’s selling weed In Atlanta <laugh> ([S5] go right to it) I love that, I love the fact that because they was other Afro beat Artists that was coming to Atlanta and you lived in Atlanta at a time and it was you.
[S4] It was it biggest moment. [S3] No so I was like basically the go to guy, ([S4] hmm) I was young, I was very young like 15 or 16 ([S4] alright) but obviously hmm at that time, ([S4] hmm) I had a close cousin of mine ([S4] hmm) that used to work for the biggest artist at that time.
[S3] And his name was D’banj ([S4] hmm) so he used to hype he used to be like his hype man. So any time they fly in for international shows I will pulled up, pick them up ([S4] alright) go and get them the weed and take them out at 16 ([S4] alright) you know what I’m saying ([S4] alright) take them out put them in.
[S3] And hotels [S4] what club was popping in Atlanta at that time? [S3] that time it was this club called club miami. [S4] club miami in America ([S5) go freaky, go freaky) common nigas lets make so noise for Miami <Laugh> <Clapping> [S3] but apart from that you know yeah I also would take them
[S3] to the street club and this was one of the defining moments that really made me like damn I think I want to do this ([S4] alright) music ([S4] alright) So I took them to the street club and I’ve never seen that much money ([S4] alright) been like ([S4] and [S5] thrown up)
[S4] thrown around ([S3] yeah man) yeah yeah [S3] So I took them to the street club we sat down ([S4] alright) and then he told his at the time his manager (S4] hmm) and the man the manger told me that yoh we are trying to change (20,000) twenty thousands I’m like ahhh is the music money in Nigeria
[S3) Nigeria crazy <laugh> no cause I had left for like (2) two years <laugh> ([S4] and [S5] alright) you know I will be in alabama and atlanta back and forth so I don’t know what’s going on back home ([S4] hmm right) you know until I visited nigeria for christmas and then I saw that [S5] So this was nigeria artist that were throwing this money all around?
[S3] Yes that came that show ([S5] so you were surprised about them throwing this money around? Yes ([S5] and [S4] alright, right) you know what I am saying so that’s one of the things I was Iike yoh I think I wanna do this you know what I’m saying and so. [S4] I want to get back to that but how far I’m very interested is you were seen like the blackest.
[S4] States in the world and the wildest things in the world <laugh> [S3] on a enough the fist place cause my dad, my dad is like a big christian like heavy on religion ([S4] right) [S5] so that’s the bible builder is in that ([S4] oh yeah say yeah) [S3] Yes
[S3] we seven they invented ([S4] oh yeah) so we go to church Saturdays and they have like schools into schools universities so we any time like you go to school anytime we are going to a university it must be a Christian university. So the first place he send me to was chattanooga, Tennessee
[S3] Chattanooga Tennessee ([S4] whoa and [S5] hmm) so I’m going straight from Lagos Nigeria ([S4] woah) straight to Chattanooga Tennessee ([S5] that’s compulsory shock) <laugh> yeah and then it was like a predominantly like whites school ([S4] and [S5] alright) you know what I’m saying, I don’t think they were up to twenty (20)
[S3] black people in the whole community. ([S4] Woah) so I couldn’t really you know I wasn’t really comfortable there cause I’m coming straight from Africa do you understand? ([S4] alright) so he is like okay eh your still cause my sister went to the same school, your sister went to a school in
[S3] In Alabama ([S4] hmmm) I’m going to call uncle ([S4] uncle was it?) uncle ([S4] ok) I’m going to call your uncle to drive you there to see if you will like it. So I’m like high cool ([S4] hmmm) we drive into oakwa, as soon as I get down the car.
[S3] So we walk into like the registration where you register for school. ([S5] alright) Two dread hairs just passed me smiling like weed I’m like yeah <Laugh> ([S4] is like this right, is like this right) am like, I say okay.
[S3] is like this is where I want to go <Laugh> so I register for school and then she just like to say ADC you ([S4] alright) right next door was Alabama in them ([S4] and [S5] woah) you know what I’m saying so from there I met DJ Merkins and it was a Rap
[S4] you know it was crazy to us, for us who didn’t not that black people were In Alabama ([S5] off course) like I have been born hear we know that black people were in Alabama, but we would understand that they used to be ACCU yeah [S3] it was so pleasing even when I landed and think of it I’m calling like straight.
[S3] from Lagos so even like getting to school ([S4] alright) I remember I was been asked questions like, how did you get hear? <Laugh> like do you answer cause people are not educated <Laugh> ([S5] something rude has shown) especially then <laugh> ([S4] alright) <laugh> now they is socal media people are not blind so they know that okay
[S3] late out there, ([S4] alright) <Laugh> But like then they was know social media to show anything, so I was like confusing to them. [S4] Alright, so there was just like, like how you got out hear they thought, they thought like ([S3]are you alright?) you took a camp or something <Laugh> [S5] its like, it was like. He is like keeper in the camp of the ball <Laugh>
<Laugh> [S3] only if, only if they knew <laugh> word up in ([S5] He is got first class muderfucker) <Laugh> Am up, so you know that is interesting to see like the difference, the difference in like that time
[S3] At this period in time ([S4]Alright) When now when you tell any person oh I’m Nigerian Oh I love Nigeria, that, that, that ([S4] Alright) But that experienced emm helped me a lot, especially in my career when it comes to like
[S3] Exposure you know I have lived in Lagos I have lived in America ([S4] and [S5] Alright) so I know you know what I’m saying but we’re dope though. [S4] Ah You know why I love that, that experience is because a lot of time I’m in the airport right and person would come to me and say Huum
[S4] I've been to the states and I'll be like first of all we don't call it the states that's one right cool and then they were like yeah I've been to like you know sea, Seattle and you're like okay that's cool but like you can't base the whole states on one place [S5] yes it's a big country [S4] so
[S4] I love the fact that you got two different culture shorts. You got the Alabama experience ([S5] Atlanta) [S3] Alabama, alabama, it’s alabama, atlanta lagos. Those three places ([S4] alright) like I started the grind.
[S3] To Atlanta every weekend, ([S4] alright) you know what am saying it was crazy ([S4] alright because like you can go to one place to Africa and say) No definitely not like hmm when people go to, ([S5] way different) when people go I would like oh I’ve been to Africa and they’re like and I’m like where South African African
[S3] it was like him ([S5] yeah I went to South Africa but I’m not of those country) that’s all he is really going to happen ([S4] South Africa looks) <Laugh> ([S5]No no no don’t tase done tase my home is South Africa) He’s the southy South African <Laugh>
[S3] South Africa, I love South Africa It is one of my favorite cities to be in, ([S4] hmm) but it’s is like it it’s different it looks like America [S5] ([S4] and [S5] Alright) you know, you know what am saying like [S5] Importantly for the infrastructure factor of the port side ([S3] Yeah) ([S4] Alright) part of it.
[S3] Because they stayed longer there ([S4] and [S5] right) rather than like in Nigeria where we got our independence since 1960s ([S5] right) But if you come to Nigeria like I took one of my best friend to Africa for the first time, you know me am
[S3] We went to Ghana ([S4] Hmm) We went to Lagos, if you can survive in Lagos, lagos is New York let me just tell you ([S5] Ok is that the capital) Oh no the capital, the capitals is Abuja that is where the president stays but Lagos is really like New York([S5] New York of Nigeria) of Nigeria
[S3] Nigeria you know and if you can survive in New York [S4]&[S5] right right [S3] you can survive anywhere [S4] right right I'm from New York that's right that's right, that's right [S3] so like Lagos is like from like that's how like New York is so if you go to Africa and maybe your first trip you go to like Ghana
[S4] alright [S3] Ghana is a a little bit more calm Ghana is like probably like Miami [S4] okay [S3] and the somebody that goes to Lagos will be like you it's so hetic yeah we party till twelve pm [S4] because hour in Lagos is only (erm) two classes, super super rich
[S3] there's no middle, like there there's middle class but it's not a lot do you understand me, either you're very very rich and you know what I'm saying the the gap is is really you know what I'm saying <mumbling> [S4] but I'm seeing some documentaries about it's
[S4] crazy [S5] yeah really [S4] yeah [S5] you ain't put me on there you know i love documentaries [S4] dey got a lot of oil money right and and and a lot of oil money [S3] they have a lot of oil money, dey have a lot of trabaye money [S4] there's is a tech boomer in Nigeria too [S3] yes (um) re
[S3] cently there's been a lot of like apps and tech like this this guy's just sold his app for like three hundred million dollars something somebody from Nigeria like [S4] alright [S3] their stuff, so heads up too [S4] holy shit [S3] but the whole is like whole
[S3] culture is like moving, not only music o wise tears and even like with the food that right now in york [S4] (uh-huh) [S3] one of the biggest restaurants in Time squares Lagos lounge [S4] really [S5] oh shit [S4] <mumbling> but i know he
[S4] pot it and i still <mumble> am just [S3] yeah [S4] okay [S3] and my boy owns it it's it's write, it's write by core studios [S4] okay yeah [S3] it's called Lagos lounge you know the seven Nigerian food [S4] (uh-hun) [S3] and you know it's existing to see you know the culture as a whole growing not only
[S3] music, you know fashion you go to Prada you go to Louis you see African print now on like [S4] yeah [S3] shirt's and stuff, you know what am so is the whole [S4] e even when i was in in (uh) in South Africa they were
[S4] they were saying saying Nigeria leads in terms of like music and a lot of stuff [S3] (um um) [S4] they were saying that even out there and the scamming too at one point <laughing> [S5] are you calling him a Nigerian prince? <laughing> [S4] Ah do you get those emails? [S5] is that how we got here?
<laughing> [S5] <mumbling> i gat you men, just just send me fifteen, I'm gonna give you right back then <laughing> [S3] when i when i first got to America [S4] (um) [S3] that was the narrative
[S3] that's why I'm saying it's different now [S4] right [S3] so then is like, where're you from Nigeria ohh men you all on that <mumbling & shouting> [S3] like all of that but all those thing like in the ninety's is changing and you know every
[S4] alright [S3] it's just like in America, you know what am saying how , you had your (ehh) no you had all the [S4] yeah [S3] people that were selling [S4] yeah [S3] (ehn ehn) [S4] yeah [S5] <mumbling & laughing> ecstasy
[S5] yeah we we know them dawgs <laughing & mumbling> [S3] otilor, say otilor [S5] otilor [S3] otilor [S5] otilor [S3] otilor [S5] otilor, what's that i don't know
<laughing> [S5] what that mean [S3] it's like it's <mumbling> [S5] okay godammn listen I'm going to Nigeria men i might not come back [S3] y'all definitely, y'all defi y'all definitely got to visit [S4] (uh-hun) [S3] (um) you know a lot of artist have come to
[S3] Nigeria to visit me, lil baby [S4] Lili baby stayed in your house [S3] yeah lil baby came (um) mig, the Migos came [S4] right [S3] (uhm) who else came casanova [S4] yeah i see i see him
[S4] in the video [S3] casanova was like i was so tired like imagine me being tired of going out in my own country <laughing & mumbling> [S3] but he enjoy [S4] yeah [S3] he enjoyed it like am waking up
[S3] telling me [S4] he did like he live in Nigeria tho like you know what i mean like blend in right there [S3] am waking up they're telling me yo ca cast in the hood I'm like, (uhh) nigga what you doing in the hood [S4] <laugh> [S3] <mumble> that was amazing to see and i feel like anytime they come to Nigeria and when they leave [S4] (um)
[S3] in observation for like lil baby and the Migos [S4] that's not where Meek Mill lost his phone right [S3] nah that was in Ghana [S4] that was in Ghana okay [S3] yeah that was in Ghana [S4] okay [S3] (um) [S4] (uhn) [S3] Meek Meek lost his phone cus he went
[S3] through the main entrance of the show [S4] oh yeah, oh yeah, yeh oh shit <laughing> [S3] anybody who lose his phone <laughing> [S3] the main entrance [S4] yeah [S3] but (um) yeah [S5] let me ask you
[S5] now this is gonna, i am paraphrasing, i am not (um um) what is this shit called I'm just, am just, this how i feel like Music happen right, i feel like music originated in Africa [S3] (uhm uhn)
[S5] i feel like as it was going across it got dropped off in Jamaica right when it got dropped off in Jamaica and <mumble> <laughing> [S3] shout-out to hai
[S3] ti [S4] yes it was little sprinkles but when it went to like i said I'm paraphrasing I'm like some of this shit I'm just [S5] who are you paraphrasing tho [S4] I'm just I'm just [S5] you're a freestyle, let's say you're a freestyle [S4] whatever i should have say, I'm freestyle I'm freestyle, what this is
[S4] what I'm trying to say <tongue click> we all know music and original man comes from Africa right so music everything has come from Africa at some point it hit the Caribbean let me not say just Jamaica it hit the Carib
[S4] bean, then at some point it hit America and when that's when hip-hop is discovered right, hip-hop kind of took over did whatever and then it's like do hip-hop
[S4] you got reggaeton right that came from not not not come from, yeah yeah i would i would say [S5] dancehall hip-hop i think is [S4] dancehall dancehall dancehall goes hip-hop then dance
[S4] hall right and then Uno dance before hip-hop but that's why i said it got dropped off in Jamaica you want to correct me and then [S5] that's why i was trying to make a big sense <shouting> [S4] (uhm uhn)
[S4] yeah that's where where all ties in is percussion right so what I'm trying to make is a correlation form hip-hop (oops) became became the biggest genre in the world then do hip-hop reggaeton and the from reggaeton it's like
[S4] i feel like i got a friend named Ethan [S3] okay [S4] right he's actually from synagogue but he he but that's my man in France and after i had i did reggaeton and you know reggaeton blew up and did all the he kept saying
[S4] this African reggaeton he <laugh> he didn't know how to call it afrobeat <laughing> [S4] he won't, he he knew i wouldn't understand if he <mumbling> so he would call it to me he would say to me this is African [S3] reggaeton [S4] (um) reggaeton
[S4] and he'll play me the music and I'll be like this shit is hell but i was like i don't know how i don't know how like and ten years later so right now he hit me just out of the blue [S3] i told you [S4] i totally <laugh> i was going to the path i said
[S4] y'all going to paris and then he goes yeah man i said u got i got with Davido he's like i told you <laughing> [S4] he flipped just that good and he's like did you did you feel like when
[S4] you was when you guys were starting that we're they fronting on y'all because it was a new genre of music or because you think it was coming from Africa [S3] (um) and especially for me because i was like one of the first to get like a major deal [S4] right [S3] you know
[S3] what I'm saying and I'm coming from, I'm coming from just getting I'm coming from just recording in the studio [S4] (um) [S3] telling my engineer you'll send me that [S4] Al right [S3] I'm calling my boy like yo make a (um) <mouth click> make a flyer [S4] alright [S3] i posted
[S3] it on tweeter on Instagram it's blowing up the next day [S4] because one of your homies had a studio in the college right? yeah [S3] so that's how I'm used to doing music [S4] (um um) [S3] yeah it was a, you know it's a, it was a Christian school [S4] Christian school [S3] yeah [S4] and a homie [S3] the dude that stayed
[S3] on every time i used to hear music I'd be hearing like, do you understand? and i was like (ahh) who's that upstairs [S4] right [S3] do you understand, so one day I'm like fuck the I'm about to go check, so i knocked the door and i open his name is jaymo
([S4] yeah) [S3] you know (um) he wrote me the, like yo you said my name in the interview <mumbling> ([S4] <laugh>) so his name is jaymo so he opens the door and i see like a little studio set up ([S4] alright) and then then in school like I'm getting like pocket money and stuff like this
[S3] i haven't got nothing to do with it ([S4] and then like how much you got for the studio) i said this whole set up how much is it, teach me how ro record so he actually taught me how to use pro tools logic, i was doing learning from YouTube as well ([S4] right) so i went to
[S3] guitar center I'll never forget <mumble> ([S4] yeah two thousand and they told you just you only need five hundred) i got ten Rex ([S4] you got ten Rex God damn it) <laughing> ([S4] i apologize) no I'm joking i had fifteen hundred i have eighteen hundred for studio
([S4] alright) [S3] and there was like a deal so the fifteen hundred came with like (um) interface ([S4] yeah) (uh uh uh) laptop everything was like so that's when i i restarted recording so you know over time we've, we've always been used to
[S3] just recording mixing and mastering the same day so when i got my deal and crazy story i got my deal and then the money came in I'm like yo we lit ([S4] alright) I'm thinking ([S4] this is watsony or this is wat)
[S3] sony ([S4] sony okay) same day i take all my boys to (um) <mouth click> where we go, what's that what's that (um) Nema Marcus ([S4] that's right God damn it) what'd call first day first hundred thousand ([S4] let's make some noise that)
<laughing & clapping> [S3] so listen all is not over first day hundred thousand we take trips blah blah blah so i call my people I'm like yo when we gonna recording the album they're like we got to book this
[S3] i said what you mean, they say the money they give you ([S4] you'd spent your budget) for your <laughing> ([S5] you'd spent your budget) they say the money they give you like the the furniture was you know part of way you're ment to use for the album so that was like my first oh wow ([S4] reality)
<laughing> [S3] yeah like now it's business ([S5] yeah) you know what I'm saying ([S4] alright) so from then we called in the first (um) the first (um) pro (um) project, you know they'll you know put me in the studio put me with different producers i worked with like everybody
([S5] um) [S3] but u wasn't feeling it ([S4] alright) do you understand I'm used to just being in Nigeria ([S4] alright) in a room hot sweating no AC ([S4] alright) little laptop ([S4] alright) i got the mic there's no stand i got the mic in my hand ([S4] alright) you know what am saying
[S3] everybody around me with thinking about ideas ([S4] alright) that's when the fire come out ([S4] alright) you know what I'm saying so that wasn't working out and then i remember telling (erm) you know my management team like bro like I'd y'all didn't tell me this was
[S3] you know because i work I'm comfortable I'm in Nigeria ([S4] alright) (um um) I'm what I'm twenty four twenty three I'm making, I'm I'm already making like two hundred thousand in a show ([S4] right) you know what I'm saying in in in Nigeria I'm comfortable I'm flying
[S3] to every African country you know what I'm saying [S5] that's two hundred thousand in Nigeria is the same things as [S3] dollars ([S5] two hundred thousand oh dollars) yeah ([S5] oh) [S4] and you left that to go to school this after you you left that [S3] no no no no no I've been finished school ([S4] okay it's okay okay) that's another
[S3] story you're gonna get to [S4] yeah yeah we're gonna get into that i got all the notes [S3] so so you what I'm saying coming from making so much money to you know actually signing with the major and then you know everything has to be planned you got to turn in your single week before ([S4] right)
[S3] you know what I'm saying so that was like the change for me so i remember telling them like look the producers you guys put me in with they cool but i need to go home ([S4] go home) because i was in America for like almost seven months
[S4] you got with the original producers [S3] yes so i was like to be honest like i actually woke up one day and i just got mad I'm like look i need to go home ([S4] alright) so i just actually <mumbling> got got on the plane went back home my brother
[S3] in two weeks from when i got back home <singing> 🎶 if i tell you say i love you o 🎶 two weeks <cheering & laughing > [S3] (ehn) thirty bi
[S3] llion <cheering & clapping> [S3] so like (um) by just getting home and getting back in that vibe ([S4] alright) (um) you know with my main producers and also telling them like you know I'm giving them inspiration like yo we got
[S3] a major deal now like it's about to be different ([S4] right) so we're working and then we shot the video for that particular record and at this point in my career imagine being like every artist goes goes through it ([S5] um) you know that point
[S3] when you're like you you know when you so hot you're untouchable ([S4] yeah) and then down the line you started looking like you know it's kind of it's kind of getting quiet ([S4] it's fading) ([S5] um)
[S3] you know like every artist goes to that ([S4] yeah) that's the worst thing ever you know what I'm saying being (uhnnn) and then it looks kind of you know shaky so i was at that period in my life where is like you know what I'm saying like nah nah nah i need to go back
([S4] alright) [S3]you know what I'm saying so immediately i got back home got back my mojo you know i remember going to to the label after i recorded at home playing them the music and they're like yeah this nice but they're not thinking they thinking that is how's this
[S3] gonna get on the radio ([S4] alright) you know what I'm saying but I'm like ([S4] your people's in Nigeria saying dis?) nah they're like the label ([S4]&[S5] the label) ([S4] here) I've gone to Nigeria ([S4] okay) recorded you know what I'm saying some music [S5] they're not sure how to translate that here [S3] Yes, so I'm like it's gonna
[S3] work I'm telling them I'm like they're like (arh) it's gonna work so at that point they're looking at me like you know what let's just let him do what he wants to ([S4] what year is this that) it's 2017 so i signed my deal in deal in 2015 ([S4] um um) in twenty sixteen was like a
[S3] a dead year for me ([S5] wow) that was like the year like figuring it all like oh no so 2017bgot that record shot the video we dropped it two days later i called myself
[S3] i told you ([S4] alright) so then form then they started you know allowing me have like my you know creative space and then <clap> everything just work cause [S4] holy moly croc and moly [S5] and did they know was it already being called afro

🎶 Music (instrumentals)..... [S1] I suspected some shit <laugh> [S2] that's peculiar.🎶

🎶 Music (instrumental)... [S1] I want to see favorite I want to see Ella Ann <laugh> ([S2] seeing bitch either) I don't want to miss essential men [S3] You already know Drink Champs and Afro beat version. 🎶

🎶Music (instrumentals)... [S3] Shayo Champs..... if you can find this let's go this is history ([S4] yeah) 🎶 🎶 Music (instrumentals) 🎶

🎶 Music (instrumentals)... [S4] but you went back to Nigeria ([S3] yeah) so what makes you go back to Nigeria? 🎶 🎶Music (instrumentals)... [S5] It's here on Miami <laugh> <shout> [S3] mean while, in where I'm from.🎶

<shout, Clapping> [S3] two weeks was when I got back home <laugh> if I tell you say I love you oo <shout, laugh, clapping> [S4] davido.

[S4] what a good evening over to be with, this is your boy N.O.R.E ([S5] what up its DJ EFN) it's drink champs happy hour, Make some noise <shout>

[S4] and right now what we're talking about legend. We're talking about international legend, we're talking about you know. The boy got his own money <laugh> the real life.

[S4] coming to America <laugh> I mean the man you know was born into wealth came and back and where in grinded, grinded to get his own money. He said I'm going to do it all on my own.

[S4] Well I didn't know he was born in Atlanta, holy shit. <laugh> and he did when back and he came back and went to Alabama, holy holy ([S5] Birmingham) holy

<laugh> [S4] the man is a legend. First time I heard that name Afrobeats his name was attached to it and now this has become the biggest jambs of music.

[S4] they have a edge ([S3] hmmm [S5] hmm) so in case you don't know who the fuck we are talking about? I am going to say his name three different times davido, davido and davido <shout> <clapping> [S3] who thee

[S4] Now let’s talk about who’s selling weed In Atlanta <laugh> ([S5] go right to it) I love that, I love the fact that because they was other Afro beat Artists that was coming to Atlanta and you lived in Atlanta at a time and it was you.

[S4] It was it biggest moment. [S3] No so I was like basically the go to guy, ([S4] hmm) I was young, I was very young like 15 or 16 ([S4] alright) but obviously hmm at that time, ([S4] hmm) I had a close cousin of mine ([S4] hmm) that used to work for the biggest artist at that time.

[S3] And his name was D’banj ([S4] hmm) so he used to hype he used to be like his hype man. So any time they fly in for international shows I will pulled up, pick them up ([S4] alright) go and get them the weed and take them out at 16 ([S4] alright) you know what I’m saying ([S4] alright) take them out put them in.

[S3] And hotels [S4] what club was popping in Atlanta at that time? [S3] that time it was this club called club miami. [S4] club miami in America ([S5) go freaky, go freaky) common nigas lets make so noise for Miami <Laugh> <Clapping> [S3] but apart from that you know yeah I also would take them

[S3] to the street club and this was one of the defining moments that really made me like damn I think I want to do this ([S4] alright) music ([S4] alright) So I took them to the street club and I’ve never seen that much money ([S4] alright) been like ([S4] and [S5] thrown up)

[S4] thrown around ([S3] yeah man) yeah yeah [S3] So I took them to the street club we sat down ([S4] alright) and then he told his at the time his manager (S4] hmm) and the man the manger told me that yoh we are trying to change (20,000) twenty thousands I’m like ahhh is the music money in Nigeria

[S3) Nigeria crazy <laugh> no cause I had left for like (2) two years <laugh> ([S4] and [S5] alright) you know I will be in alabama and atlanta back and forth so I don’t know what’s going on back home ([S4] hmm right) you know until I visited nigeria for christmas and then I saw that [S5] So this was nigeria artist that were throwing this money all around?

[S3] Yes that came that show ([S5] so you were surprised about them throwing this money around? Yes ([S5] and [S4] alright, right) you know what I am saying so that’s one of the things I was Iike yoh I think I wanna do this you know what I’m saying and so. [S4] I want to get back to that but how far I’m very interested is you were seen like the blackest.

[S4] States in the world and the wildest things in the world <laugh> [S3] on a enough the fist place cause my dad, my dad is like a big christian like heavy on religion ([S4] right) [S5] so that’s the bible builder is in that ([S4] oh yeah say yeah) [S3] Yes

[S3] we seven they invented ([S4] oh yeah) so we go to church Saturdays and they have like schools into schools universities so we any time like you go to school anytime we are going to a university it must be a Christian university. So the first place he send me to was chattanooga, Tennessee

[S3] Chattanooga Tennessee ([S4] whoa and [S5] hmm) so I’m going straight from Lagos Nigeria ([S4] woah) straight to Chattanooga Tennessee ([S5] that’s compulsory shock) <laugh> yeah and then it was like a predominantly like whites school ([S4] and [S5] alright) you know what I’m saying, I don’t think they were up to twenty (20)

[S3] black people in the whole community. ([S4] Woah) so I couldn’t really you know I wasn’t really comfortable there cause I’m coming straight from Africa do you understand? ([S4] alright) so he is like okay eh your still cause my sister went to the same school, your sister went to a school in

[S3] In Alabama ([S4] hmmm) I’m going to call uncle ([S4] uncle was it?) uncle ([S4] ok) I’m going to call your uncle to drive you there to see if you will like it. So I’m like high cool ([S4] hmmm) we drive into oakwa, as soon as I get down the car.

[S3] So we walk into like the registration where you register for school. ([S5] alright) Two dread hairs just passed me smiling like weed I’m like yeah <Laugh> ([S4] is like this right, is like this right) am like, I say okay.

[S3] is like this is where I want to go <Laugh> so I register for school and then she just like to say ADC you ([S4] alright) right next door was Alabama in them ([S4] and [S5] woah) you know what I’m saying so from there I met DJ Merkins and it was a Rap

[S4] you know it was crazy to us, for us who didn’t not that black people were In Alabama ([S5] off course) like I have been born hear we know that black people were in Alabama, but we would understand that they used to be ACCU yeah [S3] it was so pleasing even when I landed and think of it I’m calling like straight.

[S3] from Lagos so even like getting to school ([S4] alright) I remember I was been asked questions like, how did you get hear? <Laugh> like do you answer cause people are not educated <Laugh> ([S5] something rude has shown) especially then <laugh> ([S4] alright) <laugh> now they is socal media people are not blind so they know that okay

[S3] late out there, ([S4] alright) <Laugh> But like then they was know social media to show anything, so I was like confusing to them. [S4] Alright, so there was just like, like how you got out hear they thought, they thought like ([S3]are you alright?) you took a camp or something <Laugh> [S5] its like, it was like. He is like keeper in the camp of the ball <Laugh>

<Laugh> [S3] only if, only if they knew <laugh> word up in ([S5] He is got first class muderfucker) <Laugh> Am up, so you know that is interesting to see like the difference, the difference in like that time

[S3] At this period in time ([S4]Alright) When now when you tell any person oh I’m Nigerian Oh I love Nigeria, that, that, that ([S4] Alright) But that experienced emm helped me a lot, especially in my career when it comes to like

[S3] Exposure you know I have lived in Lagos I have lived in America ([S4] and [S5] Alright) so I know you know what I’m saying but we’re dope though. [S4] Ah You know why I love that, that experience is because a lot of time I’m in the airport right and person would come to me and say Huum

[S4] I've been to the states and I'll be like first of all we don't call it the states that's one right cool and then they were like yeah I've been to like you know sea, Seattle and you're like okay that's cool but like you can't base the whole states on one place [S5] yes it's a big country [S4] so

[S4] I love the fact that you got two different culture shorts. You got the Alabama experience ([S5] Atlanta) [S3] Alabama, alabama, it’s alabama, atlanta lagos. Those three places ([S4] alright) like I started the grind.

[S3] To Atlanta every weekend, ([S4] alright) you know what am saying it was crazy ([S4] alright because like you can go to one place to Africa and say) No definitely not like hmm when people go to, ([S5] way different) when people go I would like oh I’ve been to Africa and they’re like and I’m like where South African African

[S3] it was like him ([S5] yeah I went to South Africa but I’m not of those country) that’s all he is really going to happen ([S4] South Africa looks) <Laugh> ([S5]No no no don’t tase done tase my home is South Africa) He’s the southy South African <Laugh>

[S3] South Africa, I love South Africa It is one of my favorite cities to be in, ([S4] hmm) but it’s is like it it’s different it looks like America [S5] ([S4] and [S5] Alright) you know, you know what am saying like [S5] Importantly for the infrastructure factor of the port side ([S3] Yeah) ([S4] Alright) part of it.

[S3] Because they stayed longer there ([S4] and [S5] right) rather than like in Nigeria where we got our independence since 1960s ([S5] right) But if you come to Nigeria like I took one of my best friend to Africa for the first time, you know me am

[S3] We went to Ghana ([S4] Hmm) We went to Lagos, if you can survive in Lagos, lagos is New York let me just tell you ([S5] Ok is that the capital) Oh no the capital, the capitals is Abuja that is where the president stays but Lagos is really like New York([S5] New York of Nigeria) of Nigeria

[S3] Nigeria you know and if you can survive in New York [S4]&[S5] right right [S3] you can survive anywhere [S4] right right I'm from New York that's right that's right, that's right [S3] so like Lagos is like from like that's how like New York is so if you go to Africa and maybe your first trip you go to like Ghana

[S4] alright [S3] Ghana is a a little bit more calm Ghana is like probably like Miami [S4] okay [S3] and the somebody that goes to Lagos will be like you it's so hetic yeah we party till twelve pm [S4] because hour in Lagos is only (erm) two classes, super super rich

[S3] there's no middle, like there there's middle class but it's not a lot do you understand me, either you're very very rich and you know what I'm saying the the gap is is really you know what I'm saying <mumbling> [S4] but I'm seeing some documentaries about it's

[S4] crazy [S5] yeah really [S4] yeah [S5] you ain't put me on there you know i love documentaries [S4] dey got a lot of oil money right and and and a lot of oil money [S3] they have a lot of oil money, dey have a lot of trabaye money [S4] there's is a tech boomer in Nigeria too [S3] yes (um) re

[S3] cently there's been a lot of like apps and tech like this this guy's just sold his app for like three hundred million dollars something somebody from Nigeria like [S4] alright [S3] their stuff, so heads up too [S4] holy shit [S3] but the whole is like whole

[S3] culture is like moving, not only music o wise tears and even like with the food that right now in york [S4] (uh-huh) [S3] one of the biggest restaurants in Time squares Lagos lounge [S4] really [S5] oh shit [S4] <mumbling> but i know he

[S4] pot it and i still <mumble> am just [S3] yeah [S4] okay [S3] and my boy owns it it's it's write, it's write by core studios [S4] okay yeah [S3] it's called Lagos lounge you know the seven Nigerian food [S4] (uh-hun) [S3] and you know it's existing to see you know the culture as a whole growing not only

[S3] music, you know fashion you go to Prada you go to Louis you see African print now on like [S4] yeah [S3] shirt's and stuff, you know what am so is the whole [S4] e even when i was in in (uh) in South Africa they were

[S4] they were saying saying Nigeria leads in terms of like music and a lot of stuff [S3] (um um) [S4] they were saying that even out there and the scamming too at one point <laughing> [S5] are you calling him a Nigerian prince? <laughing> [S4] Ah do you get those emails? [S5] is that how we got here?

<laughing> [S5] <mumbling> i gat you men, just just send me fifteen, I'm gonna give you right back then <laughing> [S3] when i when i first got to America [S4] (um) [S3] that was the narrative

[S3] that's why I'm saying it's different now [S4] right [S3] so then is like, where're you from Nigeria ohh men you all on that <mumbling & shouting> [S3] like all of that but all those thing like in the ninety's is changing and you know every

[S4] alright [S3] it's just like in America, you know what am saying how , you had your (ehh) no you had all the [S4] yeah [S3] people that were selling [S4] yeah [S3] (ehn ehn) [S4] yeah [S5] <mumbling & laughing> ecstasy

[S5] yeah we we know them dawgs <laughing & mumbling> [S3] otilor, say otilor [S5] otilor [S3] otilor [S5] otilor [S3] otilor [S5] otilor, what's that i don't know

<laughing> [S5] what that mean [S3] it's like it's <mumbling> [S5] okay godammn listen I'm going to Nigeria men i might not come back [S3] y'all definitely, y'all defi y'all definitely got to visit [S4] (uh-hun) [S3] (um) you know a lot of artist have come to

[S3] Nigeria to visit me, lil baby [S4] Lili baby stayed in your house [S3] yeah lil baby came (um) mig, the Migos came [S4] right [S3] (uhm) who else came casanova [S4] yeah i see i see him

[S4] in the video [S3] casanova was like i was so tired like imagine me being tired of going out in my own country <laughing & mumbling> [S3] but he enjoy [S4] yeah [S3] he enjoyed it like am waking up

[S3] telling me [S4] he did like he live in Nigeria tho like you know what i mean like blend in right there [S3] am waking up they're telling me yo ca cast in the hood I'm like, (uhh) nigga what you doing in the hood [S4] <laugh> [S3] <mumble> that was amazing to see and i feel like anytime they come to Nigeria and when they leave [S4] (um)

[S3] in observation for like lil baby and the Migos [S4] that's not where Meek Mill lost his phone right [S3] nah that was in Ghana [S4] that was in Ghana okay [S3] yeah that was in Ghana [S4] okay [S3] (um) [S4] (uhn) [S3] Meek Meek lost his phone cus he went

[S3] through the main entrance of the show [S4] oh yeah, oh yeah, yeh oh shit <laughing> [S3] anybody who lose his phone <laughing> [S3] the main entrance [S4] yeah [S3] but (um) yeah [S5] let me ask you

[S5] now this is gonna, i am paraphrasing, i am not (um um) what is this shit called I'm just, am just, this how i feel like Music happen right, i feel like music originated in Africa [S3] (uhm uhn)

[S5] i feel like as it was going across it got dropped off in Jamaica right when it got dropped off in Jamaica and <mumble> <laughing> [S3] shout-out to hai

[S3] ti [S4] yes it was little sprinkles but when it went to like i said I'm paraphrasing I'm like some of this shit I'm just [S5] who are you paraphrasing tho [S4] I'm just I'm just [S5] you're a freestyle, let's say you're a freestyle [S4] whatever i should have say, I'm freestyle I'm freestyle, what this is

[S4] what I'm trying to say <tongue click> we all know music and original man comes from Africa right so music everything has come from Africa at some point it hit the Caribbean let me not say just Jamaica it hit the Carib

[S4] bean, then at some point it hit America and when that's when hip-hop is discovered right, hip-hop kind of took over did whatever and then it's like do hip-hop

[S4] you got reggaeton right that came from not not not come from, yeah yeah i would i would say [S5] dancehall hip-hop i think is [S4] dancehall dancehall dancehall goes hip-hop then dance

[S4] hall right and then Uno dance before hip-hop but that's why i said it got dropped off in Jamaica you want to correct me and then [S5] that's why i was trying to make a big sense <shouting> [S4] (uhm uhn)

[S4] yeah that's where where all ties in is percussion right so what I'm trying to make is a correlation form hip-hop (oops) became became the biggest genre in the world then do hip-hop reggaeton and the from reggaeton it's like

[S4] i feel like i got a friend named Ethan [S3] okay [S4] right he's actually from synagogue but he he but that's my man in France and after i had i did reggaeton and you know reggaeton blew up and did all the he kept saying

[S4] this African reggaeton he <laugh> he didn't know how to call it afrobeat <laughing> [S4] he won't, he he knew i wouldn't understand if he <mumbling> so he would call it to me he would say to me this is African [S3] reggaeton [S4] (um) reggaeton

[S4] and he'll play me the music and I'll be like this shit is hell but i was like i don't know how i don't know how like and ten years later so right now he hit me just out of the blue [S3] i told you [S4] i totally <laugh> i was going to the path i said

[S4] y'all going to paris and then he goes yeah man i said u got i got with Davido he's like i told you <laughing> [S4] he flipped just that good and he's like did you did you feel like when

[S4] you was when you guys were starting that we're they fronting on y'all because it was a new genre of music or because you think it was coming from Africa [S3] (um) and especially for me because i was like one of the first to get like a major deal [S4] right [S3] you know

[S3] what I'm saying and I'm coming from, I'm coming from just getting I'm coming from just recording in the studio [S4] (um) [S3] telling my engineer you'll send me that [S4] Al right [S3] I'm calling my boy like yo make a (um) <mouth click> make a flyer [S4] alright [S3] i posted

[S3] it on tweeter on Instagram it's blowing up the next day [S4] because one of your homies had a studio in the college right? yeah [S3] so that's how I'm used to doing music [S4] (um um) [S3] yeah it was a, you know it's a, it was a Christian school [S4] Christian school [S3] yeah [S4] and a homie [S3] the dude that stayed

[S3] on every time i used to hear music I'd be hearing like, do you understand? and i was like (ahh) who's that upstairs [S4] right [S3] do you understand, so one day I'm like fuck the I'm about to go check, so i knocked the door and i open his name is jaymo

([S4] yeah) [S3] you know (um) he wrote me the, like yo you said my name in the interview <mumbling> ([S4] <laugh>) so his name is jaymo so he opens the door and i see like a little studio set up ([S4] alright) and then then in school like I'm getting like pocket money and stuff like this

[S3] i haven't got nothing to do with it ([S4] and then like how much you got for the studio) i said this whole set up how much is it, teach me how ro record so he actually taught me how to use pro tools logic, i was doing learning from YouTube as well ([S4] right) so i went to

[S3] guitar center I'll never forget <mumble> ([S4] yeah two thousand and they told you just you only need five hundred) i got ten Rex ([S4] you got ten Rex God damn it) <laughing> ([S4] i apologize) no I'm joking i had fifteen hundred i have eighteen hundred for studio

([S4] alright) [S3] and there was like a deal so the fifteen hundred came with like (um) interface ([S4] yeah) (uh uh uh) laptop everything was like so that's when i i restarted recording so you know over time we've, we've always been used to

[S3] just recording mixing and mastering the same day so when i got my deal and crazy story i got my deal and then the money came in I'm like yo we lit ([S4] alright) I'm thinking ([S4] this is watsony or this is wat)

[S3] sony ([S4] sony okay) same day i take all my boys to (um) <mouth click> where we go, what's that what's that (um) Nema Marcus ([S4] that's right God damn it) what'd call first day first hundred thousand ([S4] let's make some noise that)

<laughing & clapping> [S3] so listen all is not over first day hundred thousand we take trips blah blah blah so i call my people I'm like yo when we gonna recording the album they're like we got to book this

[S3] i said what you mean, they say the money they give you ([S4] you'd spent your budget) for your <laughing> ([S5] you'd spent your budget) they say the money they give you like the the furniture was you know part of way you're ment to use for the album so that was like my first oh wow ([S4] reality)

<laughing> [S3] yeah like now it's business ([S5] yeah) you know what I'm saying ([S4] alright) so from then we called in the first (um) the first (um) pro (um) project, you know they'll you know put me in the studio put me with different producers i worked with like everybody

([S5] um) [S3] but u wasn't feeling it ([S4] alright) do you understand I'm used to just being in Nigeria ([S4] alright) in a room hot sweating no AC ([S4] alright) little laptop ([S4] alright) i got the mic there's no stand i got the mic in my hand ([S4] alright) you know what am saying

[S3] everybody around me with thinking about ideas ([S4] alright) that's when the fire come out ([S4] alright) you know what I'm saying so that wasn't working out and then i remember telling (erm) you know my management team like bro like I'd y'all didn't tell me this was

[S3] you know because i work I'm comfortable I'm in Nigeria ([S4] alright) (um um) I'm what I'm twenty four twenty three I'm making, I'm I'm already making like two hundred thousand in a show ([S4] right) you know what I'm saying in in in Nigeria I'm comfortable I'm flying

[S3] to every African country you know what I'm saying [S5] that's two hundred thousand in Nigeria is the same things as [S3] dollars ([S5] two hundred thousand oh dollars) yeah ([S5] oh) [S4] and you left that to go to school this after you you left that [S3] no no no no no I've been finished school ([S4] okay it's okay okay) that's another

[S3] story you're gonna get to [S4] yeah yeah we're gonna get into that i got all the notes [S3] so so you what I'm saying coming from making so much money to you know actually signing with the major and then you know everything has to be planned you got to turn in your single week before ([S4] right)

[S3] you know what I'm saying so that was like the change for me so i remember telling them like look the producers you guys put me in with they cool but i need to go home ([S4] go home) because i was in America for like almost seven months

[S4] you got with the original producers [S3] yes so i was like to be honest like i actually woke up one day and i just got mad I'm like look i need to go home ([S4] alright) so i just actually <mumbling> got got on the plane went back home my brother

[S3] in two weeks from when i got back home <singing> 🎶 if i tell you say i love you o 🎶 two weeks <cheering & laughing > [S3] (ehn) thirty bi

[S3] llion <cheering & clapping> [S3] so like (um) by just getting home and getting back in that vibe ([S4] alright) (um) you know with my main producers and also telling them like you know I'm giving them inspiration like yo we got

[S3] a major deal now like it's about to be different ([S4] right) so we're working and then we shot the video for that particular record and at this point in my career imagine being like every artist goes goes through it ([S5] um) you know that point

[S3] when you're like you you know when you so hot you're untouchable ([S4] yeah) and then down the line you started looking like you know it's kind of it's kind of getting quiet ([S4] it's fading) ([S5] um)

[S3] you know like every artist goes to that ([S4] yeah) that's the worst thing ever you know what I'm saying being (uhnnn) and then it looks kind of you know shaky so i was at that period in my life where is like you know what I'm saying like nah nah nah i need to go back

([S4] alright) [S3]you know what I'm saying so immediately i got back home got back my mojo you know i remember going to to the label after i recorded at home playing them the music and they're like yeah this nice but they're not thinking they thinking that is how's this

[S3] gonna get on the radio ([S4] alright) you know what I'm saying but I'm like ([S4] your people's in Nigeria saying dis?) nah they're like the label ([S4]&[S5] the label) ([S4] here) I've gone to Nigeria ([S4] okay) recorded you know what I'm saying some music [S5] they're not sure how to translate that here [S3] Yes, so I'm like it's gonna

[S3] work I'm telling them I'm like they're like (arh) it's gonna work so at that point they're looking at me like you know what let's just let him do what he wants to ([S4] what year is this that) it's 2017 so i signed my deal in deal in 2015 ([S4] um um) in twenty sixteen was like a

[S3] a dead year for me ([S5] wow) that was like the year like figuring it all like oh no so 2017bgot that record shot the video we dropped it two days later i called myself

[S3] i told you ([S4] alright) so then form then they started you know allowing me have like my you know creative space and then <clap> everything just work cause [S4] holy moly croc and moly [S5] and did they know was it already being called afro