Nigerian singer, Adedamola Adefolahan, popularly known as Fireboy DML, has revealed that he rejected a couple of deals from heavyweight artists and music executives before inking his signature for rapper, Olamide’s YBNL Nation in 2018.
The ‘Peru’ crooner disclosed this in a recent interview with Billboard News in Los Angeles.
He said he accepted Olamide’s deal because he knew it was “the right decision.”
Nigerian singer, Adedamola Adefolahan, popularly known as Fireboy DML, has revealed that he rejected a couple of deals from heavyweight artists and music executives before inking his signature for rapper, Olamide’s YBNL Nation in 2018.
The ‘Peru’ crooner disclosed this in a recent interview with Billboard News in Los Angeles.
He said he accepted Olamide’s deal because he knew it was “the right decision.”
“I rejected a couple of deals from big artists that wanted to sign me. But when Olamide came, I knew it was the right decision. And that process has really helped me in making decisions going forward,” he said.
Recall that Fireboy DML signed to YBNL Nation in 2028 and released his debut album, ‘Laughter, Tears and Goosebumps’ the following year.
ICYMI: ‘Afrobeats just vibes, lacks pure lyricism’ – Fireboy DML
Nigerian singer, Adedamola Adefolahan, aka Fireboy DML, has claimed that the Afrobeats scene before his emergence was just “vibes” and lacked “pure soul and lyricism.”
Speaking in a recent interview with BET, Fireboy explained that he created his own sub-genre of Afrobeats because he knew his sound was “different.”
He argued that his genre, unlike mainstream Afrobeats, has “some depth.”
He said, “The Afrobeats scene before I came in. It was built on vibes. But I realized that there was something lacking, and that was pure soul and lyricism in our music. That was what I brought into the game. That’s why I call it Afro-Life — it’s Afrobeats that has some depth to it.”
Fireboy said listening to artists like Elton John, James Blunt, Celine Dion, Wande Coal and 2Baba while growing up inspired the kind of music he makes.
