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Grammy Award winner, Ayo Balogun, aka Wizkid, has gifted a Nigerian indigenous rapper, Blessing Mariam Akiode a.k.a. Candy Bleakz, 20milion Naira to support her music career.
This was revelled by Candy Bleakz via her Twitter page.
The ‘Tikuku’ singer said Wizkid gifted her the money to shoot her musical video.
“A very big thank you to Wizkid, Wizzy Baba nla. Wizkid just gave me 20million Naira to use to shoot Tikuku remix.
“Make una help me thank Wizkid oh! God bless you Wizkid,” she said in an appreciate video made for the Star Boy.
TheNewsGuru.com reports that the afro-pop star signed to Chocolate City Music.
Recall that earlier Candy Bleakz, in an interview, said she came very close to giving up on her dream.
In her words:”If I no blow this year, I would quit music.”
What you need to know about Candy Bleakz
It was mid 2016 and she was just another rapper scouring the streets of Lagos for a career-lifting miracle.
A miracle she got later that year, even though she was not really expecting it.
Her career trajectory remains proof that ‘time and chance do happen to us all.’
Candy Bleakz, is one of the hottest voices in the Nigerian Hip-hop scene.
She also thrives as one of the few female rappers who have broken into the mainstream Nigerian pop-market, with her deluge of Street-Hop jams.
Since she first came to limelight in 2016, barely three months after she contemplated quitting music, Candy Bleakz has continued to thrive as a relentless wavemaker.
The Chocolate City signee constantly soars in a heavily competitive male-dominated community, where gender stereotypes silently echoes around her.
Nonetheless, Candy Bleakz is a fighter, resisting the negativity or difficulties that come with being a female Street-Hop rapper.
She prefers to call herself a ‘dragon’ mirroring her fiery persona, both as a creative and as an individual.
However, what does the magic for Candy Bleakz is her vocal control – her impressive ability to stylize her vocals to glimmer with a certain pop-appeal, yet retain its sanctity as a core rap record.
On Fire, rehashes the magic she made with the viral hit, Tikuku, which is also the EP’s lead single, soaking the record with her narratives of life on ‘the street.’
It is essentially a record about the lifestyle, the hustle, and the bustle that colours the realities of every ‘dreamer’ on the street.