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• Asake shares how he was booed during his first show

• Asake recounts how he was embarrassed during his first show

Nigerian singer, Asake has opened up on his first show during his OAU days and how it was a disaster that made him embarrassed.

Asake was the cover artist for the issue of Native Magazine where he opened up about his life and career and the journey and sacrifice that he made to make it happen.

Recounting his first show, Asake revealed that it was a disaster as he had decided to borrow tricks from the iconic Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. He went on stage bare-chested with a handful of barely clad ladies, hoping to successfully cover a couple of the Afrobeat maestro’s classics.

However, things didn’t go as planned as he barely had time to get comfortable on stage when well over 5,000 students started raining down boos.

“I was wearing white pant o!” he exclaims. “I gats go hide for back of speaker, but thank God for Blaqbonez that day sha.”

Asake did not go into much depth regarding his gratitude for Blaqbonez, who was also a student-artist at the time, but it does hint at the peers he met at OAU.

The “Organize” crooner admitted that the debut experience on stage at OAU shook him, but says that “I no sabi give up.”

During the photo session for the interview, he opened up on his fashion choices and why he loves wearing singlets mostly.

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“I like to wear old singlets,” he tells says.

Continuing, the singer explains; “Old singlets are always mad, e dey look dope when you snap with it. All this one now go just dey give me shape…”

Additionally, he said that the past few months have been challenging for him, but that he has adjusted to it and that it has been the answer to his prayers.

In his words;

“…I’m just finding my way around it and I dey try live my life. I think it has to be stressful, that’s the fun of it, so you know you’re working. Sometimes sha, you gats do like say you tire, make them no talk say you be machine.”