
In the narrative by his friend, Nigerian singer, Hotking, there was a time when Ahmed Ololade aka Asake, was homeless when he walked about, bothered about where to put his head.
Hotking disclosed also when he was speaking to his host Kimoprah on his programme, Trending on Hip TV as a guest, that the sensational Afrobeats star was almost losing hope in everything.
But according to the singer, the situation changed when he signed to Yahoo Boy No Laptop Nation (YBNL), Olamide record label, founded in 2012.
He said the multiple awards winner was moving from one apartment to the other, completely depressed.
“The funny thing is that I never knew there was depression. Now let me tell you this story real quick. In early 2000 Asake was in my room, he said he was depressed. I didn’t understand,” he narrated.
“Asake is my birthday mate. He was sleeping in my room. Then he didn’t have an apartment. So he was just shuffling people’s houses. He was in my room one night and I was like how long was he wanna do this? I was cheering him up. I didn’t know my depression was coming,” he stated.
Hotking expressed that it was always easier to give an opinion when you were not in somebody’s shoes.
He added that he felt bad when he saw people in some situations, warning that people should not judge because they didn’t have an opinion.
Going philosophical, he said no one was perfect because it was God that rendered help, saying the people being judged were not happy passing through terrible situations, adding, “Before, I was like that, but now I know better.”
Before Asake joined the YBNL record label, he had been begging Olamide, the Chief Executive Officer of YBNL to sign him on since 2020, but was eventually signed on after February 2022 after Olamide invited him to his house when both had a deal.
Asake has won the City People Music Award for Song of the Year 2020; AFRIMA Award for Breakout Artiste of the Year 2023; Headies Award for Next Rated 2023, and Headies Award for Album of the Year 2023 among others.
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