Ladipoe

North Carolina · connectedBorn 1985

Nigerian rapper and singer (born 1985)

Studied at North Carolina
Studied at University of North Carolina

singer, songwriter, rapper, pianist

Quotations with a citation

I know who I am; I know that type of artist that I am. I am very confident in that and I don't have an identity crisis.

You walk past the window, you want the shoes, you want the outfit. You go in. They tell you the price. Your body calms down. The difference with music is that nobody tells you the price when you're deciding to pursue it. Here you're not told the price. You go for it, and along the way you discover the cost: the loss of family time, the disassociation from yourself, even your own self, what you give up to create.

The thing about this time is everyone is under pressure to feel like they're being productive and they're not wasting time but I feel like that pressure has become unhealthy for me. I'm just ensuring I channel it in the right way.

Recorded without a firm citation

Kept here, labelled, rather than mixed in above.

To me, I will always make music with the person who can take the song to another level. That will never change.

If America taught me how to rap, moving back home showed me what I should be rapping about, what I should be talking about in my music. That's where the stories were, the real stories, my stories, a lot of my music is about relatability.

It is not always the people that are recognised to be the number one that really are number one. But the thing is that, as an artist, that is not what you should be in it for, you need to be in it to create impact... I disagree that if you're not charting, you're less creative. It's a big lie.