Olayemi
Olayemi Album ∙ Afrobeats ∙ 2025 Fido “ Olayemi , that’s my name,” rising Afrobeats star Fido tells Apple Music of his debut EP’s title. “It reflects on my journey from where I came from in Ogun State. All of these eight songs are about my journey from my hood to now; a famous artist in the global space.” When the singer first released “Awolowo” in 2024, he was a virtual unknown still bustling between Matogun—a sleepy border town in Ogun State—and Lagos in search of a breakthrough. The urgency of his condition animated the song, which plays as both plea to divine forces for success and tribute to the escapism offered by puffs of weed—a terse contradiction capturing the reality of millions of young Nigerians. “At the time I recorded this song, I had no money, I was smoking, I was high, like ‘What’s next?’” he says. “The moment my producer just played the beat, I was like, ‘This is the sound!’ You don’t know the plans of God and the moment I dropped ‘Awolowo,’ God just said, ‘This is you...