Nigerian rapper, Remilekun Abdulkalid Safaru, popularly known as Reminisce, has opened up about how he was rejected at a radio station because he raps in his indigenous language.
According to the ‘Ponmile’ crooner, his first major rejection was when a radio station rejected him and singer, 9ice’s CDs because they performed their music mostly in Yoruba.He disclosed this in a recent interview with Zikoko.
He stated that they abused them, stating that 9ice sings like a native doctor while he raps like a buffon.Reminisce said, “My first major rejection was with 9ice on the Island at a radio station where we went to submit our music CDs for airplay, and the feedback we got was that we would never make it.“They said 9ice was singing like Babalawo [native doctor] cos he sings in Yoruba.“The other guy told me: ‘why am I rapping like a buffoon, can’t I see Ruggedman? He said that we should both go back and look for something to do with our lives and be better.“That was my first major rejection. I will never forget it, even 9ice I’m sure he hasn’t forgotten it.”
