Nigerian singer, Ahmed Ololade, popularly known as Asake has narrated an unpleasant encounter in his early days in the music industry after wearing pants to a show.
The ‘Joha’ singer shared this in an interview with the Ginger Yourself podcast, where he described being booed off the stage.
Asake recounted how he decided to wear only pants like the late Fela to perform alongside scantily-clad ladies in an attempt to gain attention and popularity.
Instead of accomplishing his purpose, the action backfired catastrophically, and he was kicked off the stage.
In his words;
“Before I got the attention, I strived till I graduated from the university. I strived for like [another] two years before people like accept me.
So there’s this performance. I wanted to perform Fela, so I was on pants and saxophone. I packed like six girls on stage. I asked them to be half-naked. You know, one thing about Nigerians is that once people are naked, they just forget about all the thing that is happening and just focus. But these people [at the concert] stubborn o.
Those girls just walked in, then me too. I just walked in majestically as a star boy. I did not know where the first clap come from. The audience was like, ‘No, no, no.’ Everybody, like 9,000 capacity, clapping that they don’t want it.”
Watch him speak below,
