Damini Ogulu, award-winning
Afro-fusion sensation better known as Burna Boy, has revealed how ‘Ye’, one of
his biggest hits, was made at Quilox in Victoria Island, Lagos.
The Grammy nominated-rapper
brought this revelation to light during a chat with with Elliott Wilson and
Brian “B.Dot” Miller on TIDAL’s Rap Radar podcast.
Burna Boy revealed that he was
catching fun at the club, owned by Shina Peller, lawmaker representing
Iseyin/Itesiwaju/Iwajowa and Kajola federal constituency at the house of
representatives, when Peller approached him to put up a song.
The music star said he earlier
laughed off the idea, but the lawmaker insisted, after which he later agreed.
He disclosed that he then went
inside a recording studio situated inside the club alongside his producer where
he made the song under 10 minutes.
“It’s so funny. I had finished
doing the ‘Outside’ album, and then I had just bought a Bentley, so I was in
the club almost every other day,” he said when asked how he came about the
song.
“Right. I was in this club called
Quilox; the owner is my friend, named Shina Peller. He just comes up to me and
he knew I was gone already. So he pulls up on me and he’s like, ‘You my guy,
upstairs just made this beat, I’m telling you, this is yours.’ I’m like, ‘Bro,
you should not have brought up this rubbish.’
“Yeah. It’s while the music is
everywhere and he’s telling me this in the ear, like this, you know. He made
them put the beat on his phone.
“First we go outside of the
restaurant and he plays it in my ear, because I got hungry. Everything was in
the club, you know. There’s a restaurant right there, the studio is upstairs,
it was a nice setting.
Released on August 6, 2018, ‘Ye’
which was the sixth single from ‘Outside’, the singer’s third studio album, has
enjoyed a remarkable run, racking up several awards.
Rihanna, Barbadian singer, was
among those who expressed delight with the song, after she was spotted jamming
to ‘Ye’ in September.
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