Wizkid looking super fresh in new photos

The photos were taken from an interview the singer had with The Fader. He talked about music and what inspired him, where he was born, his hit single, Ojuelegba and more. See more photo after the cut..

 “Ojuelegba” is named after the heaving suburb that connects Lagos’ mainland with the Victoria and Lagos Islands. Fela Kuti’s seminal “Confusion Break Bones” referenced its ungovernable chaos as a way to call out Nigeria’s leadership. That was in 1990, the same year Ayodeji “Wizkid” Balogun was born. “My parents still live there. We have a house there,” he explains. “Ojuelegba,” sung in a voice that sounds like it hasn’t fully grown up, recounts his attempts to break into music as a teen, as he navigated the city among traders, tailors, sex workers, commuters, and area boys. The joyful feeling when he sings on the hook, I can’t explain…, is so infectious that he doesn’t need to.

 

 

 “My real fans know I am not really about that kind of thing,” he explains, speaking from a hotel room in Amsterdam. “That was not the reason why I fell in love with music.” Beyond the MOBOs, he alludes to an incident in June when he snubbed the BET Awards and dragged the event on Twitter for not airing the award for Best International Act: Africa during the live broadcast. For the record, he’s previously taken home trophies from both shows.