Nigerian musician Adedamola Adefolahan, also known as Fireboy DML, has revealed that he and colleague Rema decided to collaborate to show a point to fans who expected a beef from them.
The YBNL signee claimed that they made the choice because they are top stars of the upcoming generation and because they are technologically advanced.
Speaking in an interview with Apple Music’s Ebro, Fireboy revealed said he has five proper collaborations with Rema.
“Myself and Rema are the two leading [Afrobeats] artists of our generation. We came together and realised that instead of giving the fans what they want, which is beef, let’s collaborate. Because we are too advanced for this stuff.
“We didn’t even give them a club banger, we made proper music. We have five more collaborations.”
Fireboy and Rema were subjects of comparisons on social media after hitting stardom in the same year.
Recall that Fireboy DML reaffirmed that Afrobeats is not his musical genre.
His “roots and identity,” he claimed, are constantly there in his songs.
The “Peru” crooner made an appearance as a guest on the most recent “B And N” episode of the Amazon Music podcast.
He said:
“As I always said, I don’t make Afrobeats. I just sort of like combined stuffs. I do different kinds of music so even when I am making R&B or pop, you can hear the Yoruba ‘h’ factor.
“You just know that this is not an American or British person, so you can always tell that my roots and my identity is always in my music.”
Fireboy said Nigerian artists need to take advantage of their newfound global recognition and build a structure for their home music industry.
