"I’m on same level with Davido, Wizkid" -Yemi Alade boasts|Street Magazine
Mr vybs
Street Magazine
Nigerian
pop artiste, Yemi Alade has boasted that she is operating on the same level
with David ‘Davido’ Adeleke and Ayo ‘Wizkid’ Balogun.
Speaking
on last Tuesday in an interview with Hot FM (98.3), the ‘Johnny’ singer said there
was no number one. “I
respect everybody, we all inspire each other in this industry… there is
actually no number one because your top five artistes in Nigeria that are the
biggest in Africa can shut down the exact same capacity". she says.
“The
same capacity Wizkid holds down in Africa, I hold it down, the same capacity
Davido holds down in Africa, I hold it down, the same venues, we all shut it
down." She added
“So
there is no number one, and that is the truth but not everybody will agree to
that, people will say Yemi shut up but that is the truth. Why don’t we go ask
the promoters, the people who know the numbers?” She said.
Alade
made emphasis on her tour which had a large turnout saying “I just concluded my
13-city European tour and the turnout was amazing.
“I
have pretty much been touring for over three years, it’s a big privilege for
me.
“For
me now, I think it is beyond the music, I think people also come out for what I
stand for, the fact that I stand for Africa unapologetically and originally as
I can.
”What
I have done with this kind of career that puts you in the limelight and keeps
you vulnerable to everybody’s opinion, is I just have to make sure my opinion
is paramount, it is number one.”
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