Speaking in a recent interview with OAP Andre Blaze, Awon Goons Mi and boss of YBNL records Olamide revealed that his parents never allowed him to listen to late Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s music because they thought Fela was ‘too crazy.’
“My love for music came from influences from my neighbors and my parents. My parents listened to music a lot. You know all these Yoruba people nao, jaiye-jaiye people. They like faaji. So they play music a lot like Wasiu Ayinde back to back, Sunny Ade and all that. The only thing my parents never allowed me to listen to like Fela’s music. It’s crazy; they said Fela is too crazy. But they do listen to Fela’s music. They think Fela smokes, this and that, so they don’t want us to get influenced by that. Majority of my neighbors back then used to attend Catholic churches and they used to be in the choir so sometimes their choir members come to their place for rehearsals. While they are doing all that I’ll just be somewhere in the corner watching them so I actually fell in love during all that process.