Singer 9ice, has opened up on his career, relationship with former label mate, Olamide and producer, ID Cabasa.
Speaking with Saturday Beats, 9ice talked about his hit song Gongo Aso revealing he never knew it would be that successful.
In his words:
“Although people believe that ‘Gongo Aso’ is my best
album, to me, my album, ‘Tradition,’ still remains my best album in
terms of content and lyrics. What you believe would sell might not sell
but it does not mean that it is not good. I never knew ‘Gongo Aso’ would
be a successful album. In fact, that was not even the title of the
album. The initial title of the album was ‘My dictionary, your diary’;
but when the song became very popular, ID Cabassa suggested that we make
the song the title of the album. The song, ‘Gongo Aso’ was not supposed
to be part of the album. I had finished recording the album when the
song came to me and Cabassa said we should destroy all the promo copies
we had made and promote the song. We promoted it and the song went
viral. It was never planned.”
On his plans to bring home the Gramy as stated in his Street Credibility track, he said:
“I am still working on
bringing the Grammy to Nigeria. Abraham Lincoln tried several times
before he became the president of the US while Buhari tried about four
times before he became president. As long as I am still doing music, I
can still get the Grammy.”
On his relationship with Olamide and ID Cabasa:
“There is no issue between
myself” Olamide and Reminisce. The reason I was not at one of Olamide’s
concerts was because I was not in the country and that was the same
reason I missed Reminisce album listening party. During the last Sallah,
I was at Reminisce’ house and that was where I ate Sallah meat. It is
just that our schedules are tighter now. I was on Olamide’s first album
and he was on my last album. I have so many songs with Olamide that are
yet to be released. I also feature in about four songs with Reminisce
that have not yet been released. I am on his recent album. The only
album Reminisce has pushed out and I was not there was ‘Baba Afusat’ and
that is because I travelled out of the country. I have been on all his
albums. It is just that I have a busy schedule now. Imagine if we want
to have a Code Tunes concert as big as all its artistes are now; don’t
you think it will be a big budget that would require lots of time to
take Olamide out of his terrain, it has to be worth it for him to come
and participate. Those are some of the factors. It is not as if someone
is fighting or angry with anybody. There is nothing like that,” 9ice
said.
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