Wizkid’s 2020 album, Made in Lagos, could be his most successful collection yet. The 14 track album produced by Star Boy Entertainment, his flagship record label, hit the top of the charts in many countries on many counts.
Within a year of its release, the album hit 1 billion streams – 322 million streams on Apple Music, 229 million streams on Spotify, 227 million streams on YouTube, over 140 million streams on Audiomack, and over 40 million streams on Boomplay and 20.1 million streams on Pandora.”
Made in Lagos, his fourth triennial, got him 2 Grammy nominations and facilitated a sold-out concert at the 02 Arena in London. Of equal essence are the sumptuous monetary rewards that have transformed the quintessential Wizkid into a Big Wiz.
The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has been nicknamed Star Boy and Wizkid by many admirers. And like the musical Wiz, his star appears to shine too with dazzling lights.
The Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba Ewuare II, while receiving the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, expressed his views on his guest’s shining credentials among other 2023 presidential aspirants:
“No doubt, your credentials, since you have come out to run for this great office, I think you are going to give a lot of problems to all the other contestants.
“There is no gainsaying that they all probably are shivering where they are because your credentials, calmness, humility and great respect for culture and being a true man of God, are frightening.”
Like Wizkid, many shining stars in Nigeria’s national politics today were made in Lagos. And a good number of them apprenticed under Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT), the erstwhile governor of Lagos State.
But in Ojuelegba, his 2014 single, Wizkid muses on his humble beginnings with Mo’ Dogg’s Studio, and his charmed “can’t explain” journey to fortune and fame.