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Davido Always Wanted To Be A Rapper, Shares Why He Chose Afrobeats With The Recording Academy

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New piece of information coming out from Davido; he started out wanting to be a rapper.

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Suprised? Join the club. The Afrobeats star recently in an interview with the Recording Academy shared he started out as a young kid growing up in Atlanta wanting to rap like 50cent and the rap icons of that era.

 

“I used to want to be a rapper, I used to love 50 Cent, I used to have all the G-Unit clothes, I used to have the video game. I was more of a rap type person. I don’t think that molded my music in any way. But with my style, I liked the urban style. I dressed like a rapper anyway.”

However, when he came to Nigeria, he listened and fell in love with Afrobeats.

“I just fell in love with African music. I was like, ‘Yo, I think I want to do African music. And it worked out. If I would have rapped, I’d probably still be at home”

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Speaking further on how he became and Afrobeats star, Davido shared his journey from college in America to Nigeria, doing music

“I went to college at around 15. I went to this Christian university in Huntsville, Alabama. I was there for about two years and then I didn’t go back because I went back to Nigeria and I fell in love with African music. So I was trying to stay in Africa and do the music. The deal with my parents was I had to graduate. So I was like, “Cool, let me do the music. I go to school.” So I was going to school, but I got too far footed in school. So I started doing home classes. They used to put me in classes alone because my music blew up and people couldn’t concentrate if I was in the class.

On his upcoming sophomore album, “A better time” Davido shared;

First of all, I think making album number two, the good thing about it is you learn a lot of mistakes from the albums you’ve previously dropped. So the first thing I went into with this album was planning. I had to make sure I had proper planning. The reason I called the album A Good Time is because we just had a good time making it. I remember my first album, I had a deadline, so I had to record songs that didn’t take time to make. I didn’t take my time on them. With this second album, I had more time and more creative space to create.

 

Read the full with Davido interview HERE

 

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