Pop star talks ‘Ojuelegba’, new mixtape and international recognition on FADER Magazine

Wizkid has been interviewed by international magazine FADER.

In the interview with FADER, the Starboy CEO talks about his numerous collaborations including writing with ColdPlay’s Chris Martin on a song for Rihanna, a collaboration with Tinie Tempah, an unreleased song called “African Bad Girl” with Chris Brown and more.

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See excerpts from his interview below.

On ‘Ojuelegba’: I knew it was a good song but I didn’t expect it to blow up the way that it did. My parents still live there. We have a house there.

On awards: My real fans know I am not really about that kind of thing. That was not the reason why I fell in love with music.

On house music: I like the way house music is produced. In Africa, house music artists are the ones most likely to cross over internationally. There are very few African artists who can do that

On his upcoming EP ‘Sounds from the Other Side’: I’m a perfectionist. I can listen to the music now and tomorrow I’ll be like, ‘Yo, I feel we need to change this’, and then we have to go back to the drawing board.