The King of the Streets, Olamide Gbenga Adedeji, prevalently known as Olamide or Olamide Badoo, is one of the greatest and most compelling music artistes in Nigeria.
Following quite a while of reliably putting out studio collections, Olamide is unquestionably a power to deal with. His enormous break came in 2010 when he delivered the hit melody “Eni Duro”. Up to this point, he has delivered more than ten collections and has highlighted in numerous melodic coordinated efforts.
Labeled as the “legitimate road kid”, Olamide has focused his light on other melodic abilities subsequent to drifting his record name “Yippee Boy No Laptop (YBNL)”. Such a lot of that famous rap artiste, M.I Abaga showed respect for him, saying “Olamide is the best ever”.
To give some examples, Olamide has acquainted the accompanying artistes with the Nigerian music industry; CDQ, Adekunle Gold, Chinko Ekun, Zlatan, Naira Marley, Lil Kesh, Picasso, Viktoh, Lyta, Davolee, Temmie Ovwasa, DJ Enimoney, Pheelz, Fireboy DML, and a large group of others.
In this article, we talk about the main five artistes he brought to starlight.
1. Adekunle Gold
Adekunle Gold currently alluded to as ‘AG Baby’ is one of the prior recipients of Olamide’s impact. He joined the YBNL mark in 2015. Soon after, he delivered hit singles; ‘Sade’, ‘Orente’ and ‘Get’ to the pleasure of his fans.
After a year, ‘Sade’ won the Best Alternative Song Award at the Headies 2016. Notwithstanding, around the same time, he left the mark after the arrival of his introduction collection ‘Gold’ on July 28, 2016.
Upon his exit from the name, the artist expressed this of his stretch, “YBNL moved me. I had Sade before YBNL and it was at that point getting well known. At the point when I got endorsed to the name, we shot the video and it became like a sensation all over.
“Getting endorsed to YBNL took me to London interestingly. That was in 2015. Thus, YBNL made a huge difference for me. I’m thankful to Olamide for all the help and motivation.”
2. Fireboy DML
Fireboy joined YBNL Nation in 2018 close by Lyta, Limerick, Picazo Rhap and Yomi Blaize.
His marking was the most un-broadcasted of his set. One can detect his cool and quiet persona is rather than the other underwriters that were into free-form and rap music. His advancement accompanied the arrival of the “Desirous” collection.
He has since acquired such an excess of rep that he highlighted with unfamiliar artistes including English vocalist, Ed Sheeran on his hit single “Peru”.
Up to this point, he has included Post Malone, Maradonna, 6Lack and numerous other unfamiliar vocalists.
3. Asake
Ololademi Asake is currently a commonly recognized name in Nigeria.
Ahmed Ololade Asake, referred to expertly as Asake is additionally one of Olamide’s proteges. The rave of 2022 declared on Twitter that his karma changed later “one call from Olamide”.
He uncovered that a companion, Yhemolee, played his melodies to Badoo. A remix of “Omo Ope” was recorded, the music video was shot and a couple of days after the fact, Olamide asked Asake; “Will you like to join the family?”. A surprising marking into the YBNL record name.
In only a half year, Asake has delivered his presentation collection “Mr Money With The Vibe” and a few singles including “Sungba”, “Omo Ope”, and numerous others.
4. PortableAnother grass-to-effortlessness change!
Albeit not endorsed under his record mark, Olamide made the greatest tune in December 2021 with road artiste, Habeeb Okikiola also known as Portable.
Famous tune ‘Zazuu Zeh’, a remix of the first rendition, caused colossal disturbances that Portable was named as a beneficiary of the NEW ACT Award by the Headies. He was anyway excluded for ridiculous wrongdoing.
It might be said that Olamide’s lit refrain, impact and great PR made the melody and the artiste.
5. Lil Kesh
With the arrival of ‘Shoki’ in 2014, Keshinro Ololade, referred to expertly as Lil Kesh rose to the spotlight. He was previously endorsed under Olamide’s record name. Reviewing that he was only a road kid doing freestyles around optional schools in Lagos. Lil Kesh uncovered that he was acquainted with Badoo by his companion Viktoh.
Olamide siphoned Kesh’s fan base after he got Davido to include on the remix of the party jam ‘Shoki’. The adolescent delivered five singles; ‘Melodiously’, ‘Gbese’, ‘Efejoku’, ‘Shoki’ and ‘Shoki (remix)’ before he drifted his own record mark “YAGI” Young And Getting It).