Me, you know.
I got the beard, got the shades on, shape up.
I’m spreading the African culture worldwide.
The release, I attached it to a dance challenge called Drogba challenge.
That’s what made it like spreading to different territories.
Bit by bit.
So it started off in the UK, started to hit France, different European countries and eventually
spread to the Middle East and 2019 it’s like hit America now.
That’s why I’m here.
Genius. Afro B.
I was Dj’ing with a group of friends.
We called ourselves All Star Entertainment.
It was Kenny All Star and Rick All Star.
Kenny was the dancehall DJ, Rick All Star was funky house.
And I was just like Afro Beats, African DJ.
That was like 10 years ago.
No one was like, no one really showed love to the genre.
I would have like five minutes sets, two minute sets and people just tell me to come off because
it’s not the music they want to hear right now.
A beat that was meant to put in the DJ mix, I ended up jumping on with an artist called
OMO Frenchie and Tribalman.
And we made a song called “Oh My,” which I’ve deleted everywhere.
It’s terrible but it was good at the time.
At first it was like why is this DJ making music, and eventually it was like “oh he
can make music.”
And then, now it’s like “Oh he’s an artist that can DJ as well.”
Do you know what I’m saying?
You know like in every intro of the track whoever the rapper or whatever they would
like mumble something or get you hyped up.
That’s like my way of hyping up people my slogan.
Like give it to them, give them the energy.
Let’s get it, let’s go.
Joanna is a girl that’s playing me yeah?
And her busy body is like she’s my type of body innit?
There’s a lot going on, you know, she knows she looks good.
And she’s looking good tonight.
Do you know what I’m saying?
“Make you no dey dull me tonight” is broken English that means like, don’t hurt me,
don’t leave me.
Don’t leave me sad.
Like dull, D-U-L-L.
Roll with me, you know what I’m saying.
I’m trying to talk to you.
Why you playing hard to get?
Joanna, she’s playing hard to get.
I’m trying to talk to her.
I’m showing her that I’m interested.
She knows she’s good looking.
So she’s using that to her advantage, but I’m trying to be persistent and asking her
why she doing that to me.
You know what I’m saying.
I’m a cool guy.
Come through, you know what I’m saying?
Okay so part of the Afro Beats or Afro Wave culture is to, we tend to mention female names
a lot.
So there’s Carrol, there’s Diana.
My choice was Joanna this time around.
I think the song is a happy vibe man.
It just makes you smile, just so unites all cultures and different demographics all in
one place.
So yeah, it just makes you more happy than angry.
Drogba is a top soccer player.
He used to play for the team called Chelsea.
Drogba is an icon from Ivory Coast.
I’m from Ivory Cost as well, Côte D'Ivoire.
So I wanted to represent where I’m from.
Because a lot of people think I’m either Nigerian or Ghananian because I’m singing
in English.
And you know, the native language in my country is French with different dialects.
So I just wanted to make that clear.
Drogba big up yourself.
“Mandem” we use that in the UK, so that means like a guy.
So I’m saying you the guys are into you.
Like all the guys are just into this girl.
Like she’s one of the girls all the guys talk about like “oh she’s nice.”
She’s peng, that’s another thing we say.
She’s beautiful or whatever, yeah she’s a ting.
Know what I’m saying?
So goody bag, you’re not actually meant to know what’s inside the goody bag.
You’re meant to get to know the them.
Give me you goody bag, let me get to know you.
Let me see where your head’s at.
She’s dancing like she’s probably trying to wine on me now she’s just turning me
crazy.
I don’t know who to handle her dance.
She just teasing me at the moment.
Sometimes when they don’t like you, you just have to leave it.
It is what it is.
You know?
There’s more fishes in the sea but unless you’re persistent and then she eventually
lets you take her number or whatever.