Ace rapper and Chocolate City Boss, M.I Abaga, in a new interview with Saturday Beats,
has revealed why he took him so long to drop a new music project.
“The truth about it is that the CEO work has been harder than I thought
and it has taken a lot of time from me. Also, when you become a brand,
you have brand commitments as well. My contract with Glo expired this
year even though I have been working with them for seven years and I had
been their ambassador for five years. We had to go for interviews,
tours, shoot commercials, then you come back and you do the same thing
for Martel. Then, I have friends that would want you to feature in their
concerts. So, as a brand, it became tougher. Once an artiste gets to
the point where he becomes a brand, it becomes tougher for him.
“I have about five projects in my heart that I want to do because I am
getting older and once I am done with that I would probably leave,” he
said.
On effortlessly remaining relevant in the industry and being compared to the successful younger acts in the industry, he said:
“I am ten years in the industry since my first song came out in Lagos in
2007 because that’s when Crowd Mentality was released. It is an
ultimate compliment for me to be compared with the likes of Olamide,
Phyno, Ice Prince and others that came out after me. If you think about
my first five years, I was really hot but as you get older, you get
tired of saying some things. It is very hard for me to write a song
about being in the club. If you hear some certain artistes sing about
being in the club, you would say that you’d prefer a younger artiste to
sing about that,” he said.
