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.