‘‘Wizkid begged to be featured in my song’’ – Asake claims

Sunday, August 11, 2024 - Nigerian singer, Ololade Ahmed, popularly known as Asake, has revealed that his colleague, Wizkid was the one who reached out to him to be featured in his song ‘MMS’.

He explained that he had someone else in my mind but the producer, P. Prime played the song for Wizkid and he asked to be featured in it.

Asake disclosed this during a recent interactive session with fans on Instagram.

‘‘I didn’t know I was going to put Wizkid on that song to be honest. I had someone else in mind for that song, but I think P.prime played the song to wiz, and wiz said “I f*ck with this song, I want to jump on it’,” he said.

‘MMS’ was released on Friday off Asake’s third studio album ‘Lungu Boy’.

The song broke the record for the biggest first-day streams on Spotify Nigeria with 870,000 streams.

The record was previously held by ‘IDK’ by Wizkid featuring Zlatan Ibile (626,000 streams).

Meanwhile, Asake’s ‘Lungu Boy’ has broken the record for the biggest first-day streams for an African album on Spotify.

The album garnered 9.42 million streams on the Global Spotify Chart on its first day.