Olawale Ashimi a.k.a Brymo is no doubt one of Nigeria’s highly talented singers.
The musician who was ensnared in a legal tussle with his former record label, Chocolate City, has opened up on how he leveraged on that cloudy part of his career to make good music.
Many naysayers thought it was over for him till he resurfaced with new sounds
Speaking in a recent episode of Culture Diaries, he said:”In 2013, when I decided to sort of evolve my sound, I knew it was going to be difficult to be accepted because at that point in time, everyone was leaning toward making contents that were more commercially acceptable”.
“Infusing poetry into all of that melody was going to be tough, and fortunately I had a scandal to ride on, so I feel like without all of that drama, it would have been more difficult to sell the sound”.
When asked how he was able to cope with the fear and apprehension he experienced during the legal tussle, he said:“Fear is the tool you need to grow, at some point, I just took all of that fear and whenever the anxiety was at its peak, I would just pick up a pen and write down some lyrics.
“It felt like the longer I lived with the fear, the more I got used to it. At some point, everything just started to wear off.
“Fortunately, the very first album I made independently, I could not release on time. It took up to 4 or 5 months before Alaba could release it.
“We were getting petitions from iTunes to put the album down, so all of that, I think as soon as I passed that phase, nothing could stop me again.”