00:00Yes, sir. Wild 94.1, wild94.1.com, Joey Franchise, Papi Shampoo, and Lagos is outside in Florida.
00:07Cheese!
00:08Tampa for the first time, bro.
00:10Yeah, bro.
00:11How you like it so far? You just got here, so.
00:13Yeah, I just got here for there.
00:13So you haven't really got the full-on experience of what we have to offer.
00:16Nah, no, too.
00:17Oh, but listen, it's great weather, women, you name it. Everything's out here. Food, you name it, dawg.
00:22I'm ready, man.
00:22It's on point. It's definitely outside, dawg.
00:25It's outside for sure today.
00:27We here, man. Got my man, Philz.
00:29He's got the crazy record, Finesse, doing numbers. It's all over social media.
00:35First off, like, super producer, now artist, two artists as well.
00:40You've worked with so many guys, Alameda, Davido. I mean, the list goes on.
00:45So tell me a little bit about your background, man.
00:47Like, you know, this record really took off super fast.
00:49I mean, but you're a producer, so you already had that, you know, being in the studio with a lot of these guys
00:54and just kind of knowing what it takes to make a hit.
00:56So were you surprised at all to see Finesse doing what it's doing?
01:00Yes and no.
01:02I knew it was a monster when I made it, but I had no idea I was going to, you know, be this big this fast.
01:09I just knew I made an amazing song and I just put it out there.
01:12It's been crazy since then.
01:14It's so wild because I saw somebody, I think it was on Instagram reel, when they're like,
01:19when you know you have the biggest record in the world.
01:21And it's everybody singing the song, dog.
01:25Wow.
01:26Is that, like, blow you away sometimes?
01:28Because, like, now this is you doing your thing, producing your own music, you know, putting that out.
01:33So, like, does it ever just kind of, is it ever surreal to you to kind of see that?
01:37Yeah, man.
01:38I mean, doing something like the O2 Arena in London two days after release and having, like, 20,000 people sing back to me,
01:46you know, something I just dropped two days ago.
01:49Like, bro, I've had, you know, series of unreal moments, man, and it's just been a blessing.
01:55Just been a blessing.
01:56That's an amazing feeling, too, when they do that.
01:57Because, I mean, being a DJ, like, even when I'm in the club and, say, I'm playing, like, your record and then cutting off the music
02:03and just letting everybody just go, it's the best feeling in the world, dog.
02:07So, tell me a little bit about yourself.
02:09I mean, this is the first time we're connecting.
02:11How'd you get into music?
02:12You know, you're from Lagos.
02:14Tell me a little bit how you got involved in producing and, you know, leading up to where you're at now.
02:19Music for me started in Lagos in church.
02:22Church in Lagos is different.
02:24Church in Nigeria is, you know, yeah.
02:25Explain.
02:25It's very energetic and the music is very, you know, in the heart of the people.
02:32So, you know, I can still remember being five years old and walking into the church and seeing, you know, what music does to people.
02:40Encountering that experience for the first time and how it made them, you know, cry, how it made them laugh, how it made them surrender.
02:46I can remember me feeling that way and saying, I want that.
02:50Like, I want that power.
02:51I saw it as power then.
02:52Wow.
02:52Like, oh, this is.
02:53Let me do this.
02:54And since then, it has been, like, I'm 6'5 and I didn't play any sports.
02:59Yeah, that was going to be my next question.
03:02And I just did music from a young kid, man.
03:05And, you know, just started producing, making music for my parents, for church, writing, people.
03:11And, you know, yeah, just growing.
03:12That's awesome.
03:14Now, I got to ask, because I got a chance to experience Kanye's Sunday service, I think, like, I want to say in Chicago when they did NBA All-Star Weekend.
03:23And it was, like, it was, like, all that energy that you're talking about.
03:28So, is church out there, like, similar to that?
