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Nigerian rapper, MI Abaga has declared that his latest body of work isn’t mainstream material adding that he felt it was career suicide.
The self -proclaimed Mister Incredible who just released his 8th album, ‘YungDenzl: A Study On Self Worth’, noted that due to the inundation of the music scene with club songs, he never expected that his album will be well-received.
He made this known in a chat with Soundcity
“This album is actually very niche. Right before it came out I felt it’s career suicide because everybody is making songs for the clubs, for the radio.
“This project I felt like I really needed to speak to the kid dealing with self-esteem issues, to the black man that’s frustrated with the world, to the person that’s heartbroken, to the person that’s struggling to find self-belief, to the person that’s dealing with depression.”
The Chocolate City Chairman also revealed that the lady’s voice which makes up a great deal of his latest project was from a real therapy session.
“When I was doing the Tutu fellowship a couple years ago, there was a lady there, Karen Solomon,” he said.
“She had a session there where she spoke to us about our make-up, adult-child-parent.
“In the middle of it I started asking her questions and this lady just started unlocking things.
“She was like ‘when you were five…’ and I was like ‘Yo!’,” Abaga recalled his amazement of her accuracy.
“When we went to London to do the final session, I asked her if I could record her for an hour.
“She’s super busy but she came through. We sat in one of those dingy, quiet bars and I just brought out my laptop, brought out my microphone and just recorded her.
“Then I came back, I cut it up into pieces and I sent it her way and she approved it.”