The popular Nigerian Afro-Pop singer, Yemi Alade, said she
ignored popular American singer, Beyonce‘s email for two months.
The sensational singer disclosed this in an exclusive
interview with OSG, during which she talked about how she nearly lost out on
her collaboration with Beyonce.
The singer was later unveiled as a collaborator on Beyonce’s
“Black Is King” visual album, a sequel to the 2019 “Lion King: The Gift” album.
Speaking with OSG, Yemi said she ignored “Queen Bey” for two months, thinking it was from fraudsters.
She said, “We thought it was a scam email… I wasn’t the one
receiving the emails, my management was and the thing is that, you have to be a
crazy beyond fan like me to know her company’s name is “Parkwood”, So you’re
getting emails from “Parkwood” about a collaboration with Beyoncé?!… My manager
was telling me that he keeps getting these messages from Parkwood. He sounded
very irritated and he was thinking of maybe blocking the email… and I asked him
what did you say? Did you say “Parkwood?” I said (screams) that is
Beyoncé!!!!…”
Speaking on how long it took for them to actually respond to
the email, Yemi Alade said “it took a while.. we were at the end of the
collection like..they’ve been working on this for a while, maybe a month or
two, I think even someone at some point came to Nigeria and they were trying to
meet me but you know how some people are, they don’t want some people to meet
some people.”
Immediately after learning of her manager’s error, the
‘Johnny’ crooner immediately boarded a plane to Las Vegas, and made her way to
Beyoncé’s studios.
“I had no idea what was coming. When we were done with the
meeting, I went back to my apartment. I just woke up the next morning I
couldn’t talk, definitely could not sing. I had no voice, I pushed and I got
something out of it,” the 31-year-old continued.
When asked about her disposition towards people in the
western world and the kind of vibe they give. She replied thus:
“When I try to just envision every country that I’ve been
to, I realize that human beings are just human beings, some come with good
vibes, some come with bad vibes and then you can never know who really has
ulterior motives or not, they just keep…. like an onion peel… they just keep
opening up and showing you and showing you and revealing everything… so I would
just say human beings are the same everywhere, naija, outside naija everybody.”
See the full interview below:
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