The whole story about “My Car” was so funny actually. My first album “Morning Time” had the hit,
“Omode Meta”. People already knew me. They didn’t even call me by my name, they just hailed me as
Omode Meta. There was one particular day, I was driving through Maryland (Lagos) and a Danfo (bus)
driver actually hit my car from behind. Before I could say anything people were like you’re a star
now. Omode meta. Leave it alone, forgive him. So I was covered with shame and decided to leave the
bus driver that hit me. Some months later, the same thing happened and that day, pepper no rest for
my pocket (I didn’t have a lot of cash). People started hailing again “Omode Meta you’re a star,
leave him alone”. I just said to the guy that hit me, look, we have to split the cost half and half.
It was a Mercedes Benz 200. After everything, as I was heading home with my crew I just started
singing what became the chorus “you don hit my car, oyinbo repete, grammar repete”. So I built on
the idea with some of my friends then when I got to the studio, I met with Pasto Goody Goody
(featured artist), he was working at the studio that day. He said he wanted to try something on the
song and I said go ahead and he came up with the bridge “somebody wey, somebody wey”. The song came
out and it was boom! The first person that called me was the governor of Lagos, who is now the
president of Nigeria. Of course Tinubu didn’t hit my car, that last verse was just a playful twist.
He was nice about it, we had dinner at his house after he called and he welcomed us.
