He made this known during a special
interview with Julie Adenuga to mark his
feature as Apple Music’s ‘Up Next’ artiste for
July.
Mr Eazi said: “When I first met him, he just
asked me what I wanted and I’m like ‘give
me an offer‘ and he said ‘I’m not going to
give you an offer‘.
“He said ‘tell me exactly what you want‘ and
I said ‘I don’t want any money from you‘ and
he replied saying, ‘What do you want‘. And
I’m like ‘I want us to work together as a
family ‘.
“And that is what it is [till today]. I’m
operating how I like and putting out music
whenever I like. It’s a sweet thing.”
The ‘Skin Tight’ singer also spoke on how
Wizkid once offered him a beat that he was
about to lay his vocals on.
“In The Morning, a record on the mixtape,
was supposed to be a Wiz record.
Legendary [music producer] had played the
beat and Wiz was about to record when I
just strolled into the studio,” he said.
“I told him, ‘Yo, I have an idea, let me try it‘
and when he heard it, he said ‘I don’t think
this is for me anymore‘. Two days later, the
record drops and that was the point where
I knew we were really up to something.”
Mr Eazi whose musical influences are Fela
Kuti and Dcotor Alban, says he enjoys
watching Wizkid record in the studio.
“I like the way he feels free,” he said.
Harping on his early stints in the
entertainment industry while in the
university in Ghana, Mr Eazi said he saw
himself more as a show promoter, not an
artiste.
His first popular track, Mr Eazi says, was
‘Pippi Dance’, a fusion of Azonto and Ragga.
The singer who calls himself a ‘travelling
nomad’ said he came up with the Banku
genre of music after making a song called
‘Bankulize’.
Mr Eazi also revealed that he has recorded
about twelve songs with Diplo, an American
record producer/artiste, who reached out to
him via Twitter.
The Nigerian singer will be hosting a culture
festival at London’s Roundhouse in
September.
