Obimo was inspired by a conversation I had with my doctor. I went for a check-up, and my doctor said I needed to watch my sugar level. When he said it, it was a 'light bulb'

moment for me. I thought about starting the song with exactly that line. Ragee (the producer) and I just started working on some ideas. Then he sent me the beat for Obimo. I

had some top lines, some melodies, some words that were written by Banks. When I heard it, I knew it was the one. The beat reminded me of how I felt when I heard the guitar

on Orente, so I decided to write the song about my love. I got in the studio, and of course, the first thing I said was “Doctor say make I watch my sugar level, your body

turn me into rebel”. I wrote the song with all the joy in my heart because it's really true to me. When I finished, I called my guitarist to play on the song cos I wanted it

to be live. And that's how I made Obimo.

This song was a moment of reflection on a beautiful day. I just thought about every single thing that I've been grateful for over the years and my journey even in music,

especially my career, my family, my friends and everything. The privilege to be able to share the music I make to the world and then for it to also mean something to the

listeners and you know? Them being able to see themselves in what I do. So it was that type of day of reflection and those words just came to my heart, you know, the “look

will I fathom” line was just like a moment of genuine awe that just like shook my core at the moment. That was like the first line that I came up with actually, which ended

up being like the first line of the song. So genuinely, it was just that, a moment of reflection and I decided to write the words. Seeing it be one of my biggest songs is so

humbling because those words are so true to me and then I know that for everybody that listens or for everybody that achieves every milestone in their lives, this song would

mean something to them. So from reflection, to the studio and the beautiful record that we have now, gratitude.

Initially, when I made “Somebody Like You”, the intention was to create something different, compared to what was already out in the market for Afrobeats. I just was sifting

through different like beats with SARZ, just trying to find something that I felt was kind of unique in a sense. Then he played the beat for Somebody Like You, and I

instantly just gravitated towards it. It just felt very nostalgic. I think the lyrics kind of just followed in that same direction. Once I started singing to it, the first

thing that just came out of my mouth was; “summertime in Abuja… reliving the simpler days”. I just kind of built the idea from there. It actually took a while to finish

because after I created the first verse, I had other ideas for a chorus and everything. I revisited the song sometime after, and when I did, it just felt like everything I

needed to say in the song had just come. So I kind of scrapped everything and started with just the first verse and just entered into a new vibe with the song. The song kind

of made itself in a way, because over time, I think it was just a reflection of all the things I was feeling based on the nostalgia the instrumentals was giving me and

everything. I just felt like I knew what and who I wanted to talk about with that song. And that (person) was my first love. It all ended up being Somebody Like You.

I was at Millennium Park, a well-known spot (in Abuja), filming a visualizer for a song I had just released. In the middle of the shoot, a group of local musicians playing

traditional Hausa music passed by and unintentionally interrupted us. My videographer was understandably frustrated and wanted to ask them to leave, but instead, I suggested

we do something spontaneous. I invited them to freestyle with me. I even mentioned, half-jokingly, that if the video we made together got a certain number of comments when I

posted it, we’d work on a full project (the video went viral on social media). That impromptu moment ended up sparking something special, and we created this incredible song

together. They took the hook of the song and added extra percussions on the project.

I wrote “Arike” in 2023. At this time, I was doing a lot of songwriting for other musicians, and it was while doing this that I met The Kazez (credited producers). After I

played some of my writings for them, they advised that I make my own music. They helped install FL Studio on my laptop and gave me a recording preset to try out at home

because there wasn’t any electricity at the time. I went to a friend’s studio and started the production with FL Keys and simple drums. I layered the intro and wrote the full

song on that. The recording and writing took about seven hours! Initially, I hated how the vocals sounded, and I was close to deleting the whole thing and just sticking to

songwriting. I said a little prayer and left the studio to get food. When I came back, it sounded like a new song! I woke the engineer in the house, and his eyes were teary

hearing the first demo. I sent it back to The Kazez, and they invited me over. While they were beefing up the drums and adding other elements, I had the inspiration for the

vocals you hear under the chorus. I shared it with them, and we recorded it. At that point, I knew we had done something really special.

The story of this song starts with the story of how I met Omah Lay in the first place. I found Omah Lay on YouTube... I stumbled on a song in 2019 and I started looking for

him all over the place. This was before we went into lockdown (COVID-19). It was before I left Nigeria for my tour in 2019. Anyway, finally I connected with somebody and they

introduced me to Omah Lay. When we met at the studio, he came late and I was one hour late to my flight. So I was like, damn I really like this guy, but this international

flight is not a joke. You know what, damn If I miss the flight, I miss it. I would wait for this guy. Long story short, Omah Lay walked in and said, “ah boss, you know, I’ve

been trying to reach you. I've been sending you DMs.” So we started talking, you know and I said to him, I have a question for you, who are you? Why are you so talented? Tell

me your story. He told me all of his plans, you know, we chopped it off. Great guy. Then we left. Thankfully I didn’t miss my flight, it was delayed. When I got to the USA, I

was on tour but we kept sending ideas. Then the lockdown happened. That was how we made a song, “Tonight”. That was one of the first songs he ever released, around when he

put out his first tape. After the lockdown, we tried to work on different records. There was a time me, Fireboy and Omah Lay made a record. For some reason that record never

came out. Then Omah Lay and I worked again and made “One Call”. After we made One Call, something just kept tickling me. I felt someone else needs to join us on this song. I

think what tickled me was the fact that the song with Omah Lay and Fireboy never dropped. That song is a hit! I don't even know how to explain it. We were going to get back

to the studio to finish it but it just didn’t happen. After we made One Call, I kept thinking, who would be right to join us on this song? Then I remembered Tyla. I tried to

feature Tyla in 2021 on a song with Lucky Daye but we never put it out. I’ve always seen Tyla as a special pop voice. I had already submitted the song for release, just the

version with Omah Lay. I called my team a week later as said let’s withdraw. Then we finally put Tyla on the song. She also liked the record, it's easy when an artist is also

a fan of the record. Omah Lay had a great reaction to it because they have a good vocal synergy. If you look at the vocal combinations of Omah and Tyla, their voices fit each

other. I'm grateful for the reception on the song. It’s one of those records that stands on it's own for the sake of music forever.

Legolas, is some real sh*t. Real life thing. You know when you're on the come up, you're inside the maze, you cannot really see it. Back then, all those babes used to do me

shege (dirty) because I didn't have money. I used to be angry at them. But coming to realization right now, on Legolas, I'm like, bro, why are you even in a relationship when

you don't have money, bro? I was in Atlanta when I made Legolas. I was with DND Section when I recorded it. We were in America, during my tour. It made me realize that you

are now the property of this period, down to your immediate circle, your family, everything. No matter what anybody is saying about carrying your guys along, like “if you

carry them, it will be slow”. All those things are fallacy and whatever I'm doing, everything has entered by God's grace. Legolas, fictional character, Lord of Rings, never

missed. He was an archer. Never ever missed. Never.

So for context, I don't usually make songs with already made beats. How I started making a lot of my records is via melody so I have a melody in my head and then I might

start a rudimentary production and send it to someone that is better at drums for instance because I'm not really good at drums. So in December, Yinka (Bernie) sent me a pack

of four instrumentals and coincidentally, we had been listening to some of the same things at that period of time. One of that similarity was Zamrock. You know, both of us

had been listening to a lot of it as I had recently become acquainted to Zamarock. I also listened to a lot of rock, psychedelic, African music specifically. So when I heard

the pack, one of the instrumentals really stood out to me, and it wasn't the one for Keep On Loving Me. It was another record that I made, which is a Hausa song. So time

passes, and we're in the new year, and I say, let's go back to this pack that Yinka sent to me. Also because I was kind of down, and I needed something to let go of how I was

feeling. So I went back to the pack and then I listened to all and then immediately I listened to Biko Biko I just started to sing. I got the first riff “so many fish in the

sea, but I still choose you…” My laptop was already in front of me so I connected it and I started singing. I didn't actually write, I just sang how I was feeling because I

was down. And so I went to the chorus and the way the chorus was designed was to slide in rhythm with the guitars. So I was like, oh, it'd be cool if the melody just like

sits with that. So when I started singing, “when you keep on loving me” I didn't necessarily think it would work, but then it sort of did. The reason I added the Biko Biko

was because I still wanted it to feel like home. You know, I still wanted people to think of it as a Nigerian song because it's influenced by African rock rhythms, but also

the guitar sounds very much Northern. It sounds like it could be influenced by the Sahel region, you know, I'm from the North. I finished the first verse and then I went back

to it another time and I just completed it. It is always important to me for people to feel like it's a Nigerian record, like it's from Nigeria. That's why it was created the

way it was.

Shake Body came at the moment when I had issues with my former label. They had a vision, they wanted me to just rap. For me, I was more than a rapper, I could do other

things. I remember me and Jay Pizzle (the producer) worked for two, three years. We were just looking for hits because I didn't know how to make songs that made people dance

and that was my target. So me and Jay Pizzle just focused on that. I remember one day, he called me and told me he made this exciting beat, saying he knows that's what I've

always told him about - because I’d always tell him that I wanted to make something that would make the world dance. So he sends me just the intro of it in a voice note - I

think it was 2013. I was like, wow. Remember that time, I'd left the label already and I was on my own, I was homeless and staying with some friends. So I told my friend that

I heard this beat and I really believe in the beat. I want to go meet Jay Pizzle because if I don't go, I think he might give it to somebody else. So I took a cab and I

remember the cab broke down on our way by a bridge around Surulere so we had to trek down to his studio. He played it for me, and I heard the beat. I was like, this beat is

too special. I don't want to rush it, let me take it home. So I remember taking it back home to where I was squatting with my friends, and I started recording. I still didn't

get the idea but I already laid the “oya shake body” line on it. I wasn't really feeling it but anyways, I left it like that. Some things happened and I had to like relocate…

So I moved into Timaya’s house. It was in his house I recorded most parts of the song. Fast forward to my birthday in 2014, in April, one of my friends hosted me in his

house, he had a pool, and he was like, “oh, it's your birthday, man, you need to be excited” because I was going through a lot at that time. He wanted me to feel better, so

he threw me a little house party. I invited my friends, like Victoria Kimani, Osagie my manager at that time was there too. I remember I was like the DJ, so I was playing

random songs from my laptop and blending my songs into them, because like I said, I wanted to just make music that makes people dance and feel good about themselves. So

accidentally, Shake Body just entered the rotation and everybody just said, “whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa… who’s that, what song is that?” So they made me play it again and

again. And yeah, everybody was like, man, this is a hit. This is such a smash. I remember Osagie looked at me and said, we're dropping this and it was just a SoundCloud link

that Osagie uploaded initially. The rest is history.