The grass to grace story of Olamide Baddo

OLAMIDE ADEDEJI known professionally as Olamide was born march,15, 1989, is a Nigerian hip-hop, raggae, afro-pop recording artist. He records mostly in Yoruba, his native tongue. In 2011, he released his debut studio albumRapsodi while signed to Coded Tunes. YBNL, his follow-up album, was released under his label imprint YBNL NATION/

Now lets get to his grass story.

Early life and musical beginning

The boy had his elementary and high school education in Lagos. However, when it came to higher education, Later, he studied mass communication at Tai Solarin University.He hustled and hawked phones at the popular Lagos market, market. computer village, there was a time he visited the market when he rose to fame tho

This was his hustle ground back in the years 2009 to 2010.

however he sometimes visits a studio owned by the boss of a record label( CODED TUNES) popularly known as ID CABASA. Back then he used to be a erand boy.

OLAMIDE CAREER AND SUCCESS

Everything began in 2010 when the musician released his ever first single. The song became an instant hit all over Nigeria, and everyone wanted more of this artist. In 2011, Olamide released his first album titled, “Rapsodi”.

The tracks featured some huge stars of the Nigerian artists, and the album was a success immediately. This fact has inspired Olamide a lot, and in 2012 he released the second album titled “YBNL”. The album was named after his record label (YBNL NATION) own record label which he founded the same year the album was released.

In 2013, the star released “Baddest Guy Ever Liveth” album. It included a couple of popular hit jaw breaking singles like, esu pofo, Anifowose, King shi, Sitting on the throne, Eleda mi, Turn up and so on

In 2014, he expanded his recored label and signed four artists (viktoh, Chinko Ekun, Adekunle Gold and lil kesh) which was a huge success. And the whole of is fans has turned it to an habit of Olamide to drop album yearly. so here came another album titled “Street OT” with smashing it singles like falila ketan, 1999, real mvp, skelemba ft Don Jazzy goons mi, oga nla amongs others.

The year 2015 was super creative for him, as he released two studio albums that year, he released the collaboration album with phyno titles “2 Kings” and “Eyan Mayweather”. and that year, he became the first artist to organise a concert show in Nigeria where thousands of people attended what a great year/

In 2016, Olamide released another album“The Glory.” After "The Glory" the musician created a collection of the very best songs he has ever written. This collection was titled “The Best of Olamide”

2020 he released an album titled '999' where he showcased his real rap lifestye

So to cut the story short. A long list of his awards is one of the most prominent Olamide biography facts. He has won the title of the artist of the year and album of the year awards many times. He has also won awards for the best single several times. He probably needs a separate room in his house to store all the awards he has and the ones that are to come.

OLAMIDE'S FAMILY

The musician has been in a stable relationship with Aisha Suleiman Adebukunmi since 2014. These two met even before Olamide turned into a superstar of Nigerian music. The couple always look happy. Thy already had two aons by now, namely Batifeori Maximiliano Adedeji and Tunrepin Myles Adedeji

FACTS ABOUT OLAMIDE

I. The musician has numerous awards and nominations. He has won numerous awards and continues to do so.

ii. Olamide likes collaboration. In spite of what he says about his success which surpasses the achievements of some other artists in Nigeria

III. He is a very humble person that helps in the music industry and outside the insustry. whch makes many successful Nigerian artists indepted to him

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