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| The GDA meets Adigun Alapo Meji |
In this concluding part of the memoir
like encounter with Hip-Pop Music icon, Alexander
Abolore Ajifolajifaola Akande aka 9ICE
( We ran first Part couple of weeks back)we went deep to unearth his
background, his rumored Iya Agba Loke
Aro, his father’s pedigree, his street life, his broken marriage, his new
marriage, his philosophy and many other things you will find interesting about
the artiste. All for you by your soar away African number 1 Celebrity encounter
blog asabeafrika. Enjoy the
excerpts.
like encounter with Hip-Pop Music icon, Alexander
Abolore Ajifolajifaola Akande aka 9ICE
( We ran first Part couple of weeks back)we went deep to unearth his
background, his rumored Iya Agba Loke
Aro, his father’s pedigree, his street life, his broken marriage, his new
marriage, his philosophy and many other things you will find interesting about
the artiste. All for you by your soar away African number 1 Celebrity encounter
blog asabeafrika. Enjoy the
excerpts.
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| 9ice explaining a point to the GDA |
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| 9ice to Asabeafrika…’I couldn’t buy Cortina Sandal in School even though i cherished the brand so much’ |
Story of my Poor family…
9ice opened this chapter of his encounter
with Asabeafrika with the
story of his troubled childhood “Life was
challenging and it got to a stage, when I talk about my life people will say
“Ah,
ah, Se bobo yi nikan lo jeya ni. Ko jeya to emi naa” (Is he the only
one that suffered as a kid, I equally suffered). “But it
is a story we have to keep telling so that young people can learn and equally
have the hope to succeed” When asabeafrika asked him to give a
picture of his childhood experience, he went thus “It was like this, you see your mother, you see your father, they are
there, they are not dead but you know they can not help your situation and yet
you are not angry with them. You will go out and fend for yourself. In fact it
is from the earnings you bring home that they will have their own share and you
will never be angry with them because
you know that is what life has chosen for you at that time. That was how bad it
was when I was growing; they (Parents) can not even afford to pay for your
school fees, you can’t even come back home and say ‘Ah, won ni ka’a ra text book lola o’ (We are asked to buy text
book tomorrow) ‘o ti mo pe won o ni fun e,
o kan waste ito enu e ni’ (You know they can not afford the text book, you
are just wasting your saliva). “So, I had
to work to survive in school. I often leave school before 2’oclock in order to
go and work as a laborer on building sites”
with Asabeafrika with the
story of his troubled childhood “Life was
challenging and it got to a stage, when I talk about my life people will say
“Ah,
ah, Se bobo yi nikan lo jeya ni. Ko jeya to emi naa” (Is he the only
one that suffered as a kid, I equally suffered). “But it
is a story we have to keep telling so that young people can learn and equally
have the hope to succeed” When asabeafrika asked him to give a
picture of his childhood experience, he went thus “It was like this, you see your mother, you see your father, they are
there, they are not dead but you know they can not help your situation and yet
you are not angry with them. You will go out and fend for yourself. In fact it
is from the earnings you bring home that they will have their own share and you
will never be angry with them because
you know that is what life has chosen for you at that time. That was how bad it
was when I was growing; they (Parents) can not even afford to pay for your
school fees, you can’t even come back home and say ‘Ah, won ni ka’a ra text book lola o’ (We are asked to buy text
book tomorrow) ‘o ti mo pe won o ni fun e,
o kan waste ito enu e ni’ (You know they can not afford the text book, you
are just wasting your saliva). “So, I had
to work to survive in school. I often leave school before 2’oclock in order to
go and work as a laborer on building sites”
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| The GDA and the Alapo Meji King sharing a joke |
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| The Alapo Meji Kings listens attentively to the GDA as he prepares to react to our questions |
How the Army broke my will…
Speaking further on his troubled childhood, the
Afro Hi-Hop music genius recollect
with nostalgia how he once loved after a particular sandal shoe but couldn’t get it due to
poverty “There was a time when I was at
CMS Grammar School, we had this strike
that went for a long time and the military government ordered military men to
man the gates of each secondary schools
in Lagos State and we (Students) were forced to close at 4 O’clock as against
our normal 2 O’clock. I cried those days. Why? Because I used to leave school
at 1pm or 1:30pm before the official closing hour of 2 O’clock. Why? I have to
visit building sites to enable me work and carry clay soil to fill German
floors. Those were my survival strategy and I had projects that I have
collected money for and to execute them became a big headache because that is
where I make my money from. Those projects were lacking. I can remember that
terrible period in Nigerian history; students of secondary schools were even
encouraged to join the army and become army cadets and we were being forced to
close at 4pm. It was really, really terrible”
Afro Hi-Hop music genius recollect
with nostalgia how he once loved after a particular sandal shoe but couldn’t get it due to
poverty “There was a time when I was at
CMS Grammar School, we had this strike
that went for a long time and the military government ordered military men to
man the gates of each secondary schools
in Lagos State and we (Students) were forced to close at 4 O’clock as against
our normal 2 O’clock. I cried those days. Why? Because I used to leave school
at 1pm or 1:30pm before the official closing hour of 2 O’clock. Why? I have to
visit building sites to enable me work and carry clay soil to fill German
floors. Those were my survival strategy and I had projects that I have
collected money for and to execute them became a big headache because that is
where I make my money from. Those projects were lacking. I can remember that
terrible period in Nigerian history; students of secondary schools were even
encouraged to join the army and become army cadets and we were being forced to
close at 4pm. It was really, really terrible”
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| 9ice to Asabeafrika…’I sold a large portion of my pepper to King Sunny Ade’s Mom’ |
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| 9ice to Asabeafrika…’The story of my childhood is an interesting episode of my life’ |
How I sold pepper for King Sunny
Ade’s mum
Ade’s mum
9ice gave Asabeafrika his routine
after school hours during his CMS Grammar School days “I usually leave school by 1:30 pm, go and carry fillings at building
sites between 1:30pm and I must finish by 4pm because by 4pm I have to go and
hawk pepper. So, I have to do my own runs first; It was an agreement between me
and my mum that I had to do my own before I do her own. So I will leave school
by 1:30pm, I already have an extra clothe with me alongside my school uniform.
I will change into my working uniform and start carrying the clay soil. If it
is one room I can feel for the entire day, I will feel that room so that the
owner of the house will come and see that I have done something and pay me. And
by 4 O’clock I will go back home to hawk pepper and I will do that from 4pm
till 7pm in the evening. King Sunny
Ade’s mother was my customer. KSA’s mum ( late Mama Adesida) was my biggest
customer; if I fail to sell for her that mean I won’t make good sales that day
because at times she buys half of my pepper. Anytime she buys from me I am
happy for the day because she will buy in large quantity. So, that was the way
life treated us and you dare not get angry
with either your father or your mother because you are not the only one, we are
like ten or eleven in the same house. We had cousins living with us and you
discover that despite your poverty profile, you are still better than some of
them. They will say “Lo duro pelu awon people yi; so that to ba wa pelu awon
people yi, o possible ki iwo naa soriire” (Go and stay with these people it is
possible that you will be successful with them). So, we had some of our cousins
living with us and we are even better compared to some of those family members.
Some are Omo Egbon, Omo Aburo Baba, Omo
Aburo Mama living with us and hoping for survival”
after school hours during his CMS Grammar School days “I usually leave school by 1:30 pm, go and carry fillings at building
sites between 1:30pm and I must finish by 4pm because by 4pm I have to go and
hawk pepper. So, I have to do my own runs first; It was an agreement between me
and my mum that I had to do my own before I do her own. So I will leave school
by 1:30pm, I already have an extra clothe with me alongside my school uniform.
I will change into my working uniform and start carrying the clay soil. If it
is one room I can feel for the entire day, I will feel that room so that the
owner of the house will come and see that I have done something and pay me. And
by 4 O’clock I will go back home to hawk pepper and I will do that from 4pm
till 7pm in the evening. King Sunny
Ade’s mother was my customer. KSA’s mum ( late Mama Adesida) was my biggest
customer; if I fail to sell for her that mean I won’t make good sales that day
because at times she buys half of my pepper. Anytime she buys from me I am
happy for the day because she will buy in large quantity. So, that was the way
life treated us and you dare not get angry
with either your father or your mother because you are not the only one, we are
like ten or eleven in the same house. We had cousins living with us and you
discover that despite your poverty profile, you are still better than some of
them. They will say “Lo duro pelu awon people yi; so that to ba wa pelu awon
people yi, o possible ki iwo naa soriire” (Go and stay with these people it is
possible that you will be successful with them). So, we had some of our cousins
living with us and we are even better compared to some of those family members.
Some are Omo Egbon, Omo Aburo Baba, Omo
Aburo Mama living with us and hoping for survival”
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| 9ice to the GDA….’Relations depended on us for survival while we depended on God for survival’ |
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| 9ice to the GDA…’Our situation got to a level that it is from what i bring home that the entire family will survive’ |
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| 9ice to the GDA….’People think i exaggerated the story of my childhood experience’ |
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| 9ice tells the GDA ‘Yes, i relocated my family from Ago-Owu, Bariga when fortune smiled on me’ |
Why I relocated my family from Bariga
In one of his tracks “Anytime” in the album Tradition,
9ice
narrated the story of how he decided to take his “Iya Agba” (Old woman) from his Bariga neighourhood (Ago Owu) and
how folks accused him of being ungrateful to his root, Bariga. Asabeafrika
asked 9ice to narrate the story of that decision and why it generated
so much uproar “We left Bariga when
success came, I had to move everyone of my family away from the old place and
people were complaining “Aaah, O ti gbe Mama e kuro nibi, talo fe ma wa ki nibi
bayi nisiyi? Aah! koni wa moo, ko sawon eyan e nibiyi mo. Mumsy e ti kuro
nibiyi, step mum e, oti gbe won kuro nibiyi’ ah, Ile won lago Owu yen gan, am
sure ko te ni debe mo tori awon to le mu wa sadugbo yi niyi (Oh, he has
relocated his mom from here, he wont ever come here again. He has equally taken
his step mother away, we wonder what will make him ever come to this area again
because these are the people that make him come around). “People complained that I relocated my family from our Ago Owu quarters
in Bariga. But truth is when success come you must let it affect your family.
Let them enjoy the liberty of good life and that was exactly what I did when I had
my breakthrough. I built a new home for my family and moved them away from the
old place”
9ice
narrated the story of how he decided to take his “Iya Agba” (Old woman) from his Bariga neighourhood (Ago Owu) and
how folks accused him of being ungrateful to his root, Bariga. Asabeafrika
asked 9ice to narrate the story of that decision and why it generated
so much uproar “We left Bariga when
success came, I had to move everyone of my family away from the old place and
people were complaining “Aaah, O ti gbe Mama e kuro nibi, talo fe ma wa ki nibi
bayi nisiyi? Aah! koni wa moo, ko sawon eyan e nibiyi mo. Mumsy e ti kuro
nibiyi, step mum e, oti gbe won kuro nibiyi’ ah, Ile won lago Owu yen gan, am
sure ko te ni debe mo tori awon to le mu wa sadugbo yi niyi (Oh, he has
relocated his mom from here, he wont ever come here again. He has equally taken
his step mother away, we wonder what will make him ever come to this area again
because these are the people that make him come around). “People complained that I relocated my family from our Ago Owu quarters
in Bariga. But truth is when success come you must let it affect your family.
Let them enjoy the liberty of good life and that was exactly what I did when I had
my breakthrough. I built a new home for my family and moved them away from the
old place”
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| The Alapo Meji King shares a joke with the GDA |
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| 9ice to Asabeafrika….’When fortunes smiles on you, you need to move your family to a new level’ |
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| The Alapo Meji King shares another joke with the GDA |
Untold story of Iya Agba L’oke Aro
Asabeafrika asked the very gifted composer to
tell us the story of the mysterious “Iya Agba loke Aro”, who is this Iya
Agba 9ice keeps referring to in his album and he told us the story
for the first time “Yes, you heard me
sing Omo Iya Agba loke Aro, when
poverty was biting hard we had to move from Bariga, that is Ago Owu
in Bariga which is my father’s personal property. I am the only son of my
father that didn’t live in that house for one day. I have never slept there for
one single day. So, we had a big house and I could have gotten one room for
myself and if possible sub-let it, as a Yoruba
boy. But I never did and I even followed my step mum, not my mother to another
abode. I left my mother there and followed my step mother because she is the
one that always takes care of me anyway. So, I followed her and we moved away,
we moved away from Bariga and we
moved to Agbado-Oke Aro, and that is
why I was mentioning Agbado-Oke Aro
in my album. My step mother is the
mysterious Iya Agba I often refer to
in my album. I love her; it was from Agbado
Oke Aro again that I moved her away to Ibadan
because she is aged. I said ‘E pada sile, e lo si Ibadan ke’e lo joko, Ke’e kan
ma jeun Omo loku’. (Go to Ibadan and rest so that I can be taking care of you).
So, the Mama Agba I am talking about
is my step mother because my mum was the last wife and I didn’t know she was my
real mother for a long while. You will be surprised that against the backdrop
that step mothers always maltreat their step children, my own case was
different as my step mother never maltreated me for once. In fact she cared for
me like her own child and like her last born. In fact she is the one I call “mother”, I call my real mother ‘aunty’ because I never knew my mother
was my real mother; I taught she was my aunty; thinking my step mum was my
mother. Because that is the way my father structured our family. There was
peace, O o too be, who born monkey? Everybody eat in the
same room, nobody dare say this is my mother or that is your mother. We were
all regarded as brothers and sisters with no preference for one mother above
the other. In fact, in the house, we generally call my mother “Aunty” because my mother was the last
wife, and she was so young. Even me, I call my mother ‘Aunty’. It is not quite long ago that I started calling her
“Mother”. I call my mother “Aunty” because I didn’t know, I didn’t know who is
who?. I call my step mother “Maami” because anytime ti mo bade, eni
ti mo ma lo kii niyen, eni to ma gbonje fun mi niyen. Eni to ma so fun mi pe o
ya lose bayi niyen (She is the one I first go greet when I return from an
outing; she is the one that gives me food and order me to carry out chores in
the house). “My step mother’s name is Aishat, she is just enjoying now. I am
not the only son in the family but between my mum and my dad, I am the only
child. Every other person is my half brother or sister but if you see us you
will think we are of same mother, same father”
tell us the story of the mysterious “Iya Agba loke Aro”, who is this Iya
Agba 9ice keeps referring to in his album and he told us the story
for the first time “Yes, you heard me
sing Omo Iya Agba loke Aro, when
poverty was biting hard we had to move from Bariga, that is Ago Owu
in Bariga which is my father’s personal property. I am the only son of my
father that didn’t live in that house for one day. I have never slept there for
one single day. So, we had a big house and I could have gotten one room for
myself and if possible sub-let it, as a Yoruba
boy. But I never did and I even followed my step mum, not my mother to another
abode. I left my mother there and followed my step mother because she is the
one that always takes care of me anyway. So, I followed her and we moved away,
we moved away from Bariga and we
moved to Agbado-Oke Aro, and that is
why I was mentioning Agbado-Oke Aro
in my album. My step mother is the
mysterious Iya Agba I often refer to
in my album. I love her; it was from Agbado
Oke Aro again that I moved her away to Ibadan
because she is aged. I said ‘E pada sile, e lo si Ibadan ke’e lo joko, Ke’e kan
ma jeun Omo loku’. (Go to Ibadan and rest so that I can be taking care of you).
So, the Mama Agba I am talking about
is my step mother because my mum was the last wife and I didn’t know she was my
real mother for a long while. You will be surprised that against the backdrop
that step mothers always maltreat their step children, my own case was
different as my step mother never maltreated me for once. In fact she cared for
me like her own child and like her last born. In fact she is the one I call “mother”, I call my real mother ‘aunty’ because I never knew my mother
was my real mother; I taught she was my aunty; thinking my step mum was my
mother. Because that is the way my father structured our family. There was
peace, O o too be, who born monkey? Everybody eat in the
same room, nobody dare say this is my mother or that is your mother. We were
all regarded as brothers and sisters with no preference for one mother above
the other. In fact, in the house, we generally call my mother “Aunty” because my mother was the last
wife, and she was so young. Even me, I call my mother ‘Aunty’. It is not quite long ago that I started calling her
“Mother”. I call my mother “Aunty” because I didn’t know, I didn’t know who is
who?. I call my step mother “Maami” because anytime ti mo bade, eni
ti mo ma lo kii niyen, eni to ma gbonje fun mi niyen. Eni to ma so fun mi pe o
ya lose bayi niyen (She is the one I first go greet when I return from an
outing; she is the one that gives me food and order me to carry out chores in
the house). “My step mother’s name is Aishat, she is just enjoying now. I am
not the only son in the family but between my mum and my dad, I am the only
child. Every other person is my half brother or sister but if you see us you
will think we are of same mother, same father”
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| 9ice to GDA….’My Dad enforced a very strong discipline in our household that no one could differentiate whose mother is who |
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| 9ice to the GDA….’I used to call my mum ‘Aunty’ while my step mum acted the role of my mother’ |
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| 9ice to the GDA….’My father’s level of challenge as a kid was very small to ours because he lost his mother after birth’ |
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| 9ice speaks to the GDA |
My Mystery Dad…
9ice shared the story of his unknown Dad
with us “My father passed through a lot
in life. In fact, his own level of poverty is worse than ours. Our own was
enjoyment compared to his but I still see it as poverty because you cannot
compare my life with other students of that era because I saw people who came
to school with school bags but I didn’t have one. I had poly bag. I had a black
poly bag that I normally take to school; I never had the privilege of having a
school bag. So, if I compare my level with other people that have school bags,
I will say I was not privileged. There was this shoe called Cortina from Bata in those days, most of my friends had that shoe but I was
unable to buy one; that is still one of my greatest regrets till date because I
was never able to buy one; I never own a pair of that shoe; I longed for it all
through my day in school that ‘Kemi naa
t era bata yii’ because the shoe is so bad!. When you wear white socks
along with that shoe yee!, you are a hot cake in school. But I never had the
privilege to own a pair till I left school. So, if I compare my own level of
poverty with my colleagues I will be joking but dad’s own level of poverty was
even worse. When his mother gave birth to him the woman died immediately and he
was the only child. So, his father just threw him to one of his elder brothers
‘O ya tele Egbon mi yi lo seko’. His family is Christian but on getting to
Lagos, his father’s brother converted him to a Muslim. So, he ended up being
the only big man in the family because my father was the only one that had a
house. He was born as David but when
he was converted to Muslim, he was given a new name, Azeez. So, today, he is known as Alhaji Azeez. He is still alive and he will be 70 very soon
with us “My father passed through a lot
in life. In fact, his own level of poverty is worse than ours. Our own was
enjoyment compared to his but I still see it as poverty because you cannot
compare my life with other students of that era because I saw people who came
to school with school bags but I didn’t have one. I had poly bag. I had a black
poly bag that I normally take to school; I never had the privilege of having a
school bag. So, if I compare my level with other people that have school bags,
I will say I was not privileged. There was this shoe called Cortina from Bata in those days, most of my friends had that shoe but I was
unable to buy one; that is still one of my greatest regrets till date because I
was never able to buy one; I never own a pair of that shoe; I longed for it all
through my day in school that ‘Kemi naa
t era bata yii’ because the shoe is so bad!. When you wear white socks
along with that shoe yee!, you are a hot cake in school. But I never had the
privilege to own a pair till I left school. So, if I compare my own level of
poverty with my colleagues I will be joking but dad’s own level of poverty was
even worse. When his mother gave birth to him the woman died immediately and he
was the only child. So, his father just threw him to one of his elder brothers
‘O ya tele Egbon mi yi lo seko’. His family is Christian but on getting to
Lagos, his father’s brother converted him to a Muslim. So, he ended up being
the only big man in the family because my father was the only one that had a
house. He was born as David but when
he was converted to Muslim, he was given a new name, Azeez. So, today, he is known as Alhaji Azeez. He is still alive and he will be 70 very soon
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| 9ice meets the GDA at a public event |
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| 9ice shares a dance with the GDA and journalist Kunle Rasheed at a show in Lagos |
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| 9ice & the GDA |
My worst fear in life
Talking
about what drives 9ice, the gifted artist noted “My motive has always been to succeed; I don’t want to be a failure
because if I look back, I see poverty and failure. I know it was part of my
background and I had to fight it hard and defeat it because I don’t want to go
back to it. So, for me not to go back, I have to be a success in whatever I
do. And because when you have little
success in life, there will be so many obstacles. In fact my song “Pete-Pete” when I released it,
somebody said I stole his song. And I
was quite shocked and I asked “Where were you when I was writing this song?,
how can you say it is your song? And I later learnt that it was a style people
were using at the time for popularity; to say that you stole their song so that
attention can be drawn to them and I discovered people could be so desperate
especially as regards to success”.
about what drives 9ice, the gifted artist noted “My motive has always been to succeed; I don’t want to be a failure
because if I look back, I see poverty and failure. I know it was part of my
background and I had to fight it hard and defeat it because I don’t want to go
back to it. So, for me not to go back, I have to be a success in whatever I
do. And because when you have little
success in life, there will be so many obstacles. In fact my song “Pete-Pete” when I released it,
somebody said I stole his song. And I
was quite shocked and I asked “Where were you when I was writing this song?,
how can you say it is your song? And I later learnt that it was a style people
were using at the time for popularity; to say that you stole their song so that
attention can be drawn to them and I discovered people could be so desperate
especially as regards to success”.
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| 9ice and Image Manager Don-T Anifite sharing a joke with the GDA during the encounter |
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| Don-T, GDA & 9ice sang a song together |
9ice spoke further “If you listen to the song “I
don’t care” (Another track on the
Tradition album) I was talking to them, that it is not even you, because I have
so many things at home that I am facing; your own is just by the way. “Eyi
to wanile ga’an a shi nfa, o tun wa fi
tie kun” (We have not finish fighting the battles at home and you are
bringing an external one to it) “So, it
is normal in life that when you come out and become successful you just started
a new set of warfare. When you are nobody you wont see anybody that will curse
you or anyone to struggle with you over something. But the moment you become something, people
will start attacking you”
don’t care” (Another track on the
Tradition album) I was talking to them, that it is not even you, because I have
so many things at home that I am facing; your own is just by the way. “Eyi
to wanile ga’an a shi nfa, o tun wa fi
tie kun” (We have not finish fighting the battles at home and you are
bringing an external one to it) “So, it
is normal in life that when you come out and become successful you just started
a new set of warfare. When you are nobody you wont see anybody that will curse
you or anyone to struggle with you over something. But the moment you become something, people
will start attacking you”
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| L-R; GDA, a guest, Don-T Anifite and 9ice |
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| 9ice speaks with the GDA as Don-T, his Image Maker & Brand Consultant looks on |
Why I married a new wife
When the topic of his new wife surfaced 9ice felt
very restrained to talk about the issue. but
after few persuation from this blogger, he decided to talk let the cat
out of the bag “Let me just tell you this
and I pray it will be reported the way I said it to you. It is true that I have
a child; it is true that I am with someone named Olasunkanmi Ajala and
she is the mother of my child. That is the truth of the story; and if you check
my instagram page, you will see my daughter Michelle there. She is there, her name is Michelle Abolanle Akande
and she is there. So, it is not something you can hide for long. How can you
hide a good news like having a child? it is a joyful thing, so, you can’t hide
such”.
very restrained to talk about the issue. but
after few persuation from this blogger, he decided to talk let the cat
out of the bag “Let me just tell you this
and I pray it will be reported the way I said it to you. It is true that I have
a child; it is true that I am with someone named Olasunkanmi Ajala and
she is the mother of my child. That is the truth of the story; and if you check
my instagram page, you will see my daughter Michelle there. She is there, her name is Michelle Abolanle Akande
and she is there. So, it is not something you can hide for long. How can you
hide a good news like having a child? it is a joyful thing, so, you can’t hide
such”.
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| The GDA sets to give 9ice a book gift |
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| The GDA gives 9ice a book authored by ex-Nigerian Minister of Science & Technology, General Sam Momah titled ‘Nigeria: Beyond Divorce |
Why my first marriage didn’t work
So, what is different between 9ice’s
old and new relationship?, 9ice had an answer for asabefrika
“If anybody is saying that there is anything that I have done to them,
it is because I disolved my first marriage and why did I disolved the union? It
is between peace of mind and marriage. The only way I can have my peace of mind
is to stay alive; that was why I was able to do the “Tradition” album, that was why I was able to do “Bashorun Gaa” and “Versus”. “If I am dead, nobody will be privileged to hear those
works. Won a kan sukun osu mefa ni o de pari sibe niyen (They will only mourn
for six months and it ends there): So, I had to go back and say “Ok, kini mo fe
fun life mi? (What do I want for my life?) ‘Idunnu, Ifokanbale’ (Peace and joy)
‘kii se gbogbo nkan lowo’ (Not everything is all about money). Everything is
not money but once I have my peace of mind and I can take care of my children
and say ‘Eyin omo mi, Michelle iwo gba, Maya iwo gba, Liya, iwo gba; awon naa
de le dagba won de le woo pe Baba awon ree, not that pe won dagba, won wa ni wo
picture baba e; Olorun ma je a rii’ (I want to be able to say to my children Michelle, Maya, Liya, take and let
them equally grow up and see me and play with me, not that someone will be
showing them my picture. God forbid evil). ‘Oh, see your daddy when he was
alive, no I don’t want that. Emi naa fe dagba, komo gbeyin mi. so, (I want to
age gracefully and see my children inherit my legacy) it is all about my life”.
old and new relationship?, 9ice had an answer for asabefrika
“If anybody is saying that there is anything that I have done to them,
it is because I disolved my first marriage and why did I disolved the union? It
is between peace of mind and marriage. The only way I can have my peace of mind
is to stay alive; that was why I was able to do the “Tradition” album, that was why I was able to do “Bashorun Gaa” and “Versus”. “If I am dead, nobody will be privileged to hear those
works. Won a kan sukun osu mefa ni o de pari sibe niyen (They will only mourn
for six months and it ends there): So, I had to go back and say “Ok, kini mo fe
fun life mi? (What do I want for my life?) ‘Idunnu, Ifokanbale’ (Peace and joy)
‘kii se gbogbo nkan lowo’ (Not everything is all about money). Everything is
not money but once I have my peace of mind and I can take care of my children
and say ‘Eyin omo mi, Michelle iwo gba, Maya iwo gba, Liya, iwo gba; awon naa
de le dagba won de le woo pe Baba awon ree, not that pe won dagba, won wa ni wo
picture baba e; Olorun ma je a rii’ (I want to be able to say to my children Michelle, Maya, Liya, take and let
them equally grow up and see me and play with me, not that someone will be
showing them my picture. God forbid evil). ‘Oh, see your daddy when he was
alive, no I don’t want that. Emi naa fe dagba, komo gbeyin mi. so, (I want to
age gracefully and see my children inherit my legacy) it is all about my life”.
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| 9ice to the GDA…’I have finally found peace in my marriage’ |
No regret from my first marriage
On what 9ice regretted about his first
marriage, the artiste reacted promptly by saying “I dint regret anything in my first marriage. I didn’t regret anything;
I think it wasn’t meant to be. Because Obirin ti iwo ko sile pe ko da, elomi a
fe. O ma so fun pe aaaa!, Almighty ohun leleyi. (The woman you reject that
is not good for you, another person might see her and he will say ‘oh, she is
my almighty) “So, I think she brought out
the bad side of me and I brought out the bad side of her. Another person will bring out the
best in her and another person is bringing out the best in me”.
marriage, the artiste reacted promptly by saying “I dint regret anything in my first marriage. I didn’t regret anything;
I think it wasn’t meant to be. Because Obirin ti iwo ko sile pe ko da, elomi a
fe. O ma so fun pe aaaa!, Almighty ohun leleyi. (The woman you reject that
is not good for you, another person might see her and he will say ‘oh, she is
my almighty) “So, I think she brought out
the bad side of me and I brought out the bad side of her. Another person will bring out the
best in her and another person is bringing out the best in me”.
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| 9ice to Asabeafrika….’I had to take a second marriage because i don’t want to grow and someone will be showing my picture to my children’ |
Benefit of my new marriage…
On what 9ice found with Sunkanmi Ajala the mother
of his child, Michelle, he reacted with a broad smile “I have my peace of mind. Ti n ba mu gari ni sin yi, gaari yen moju mi
dan, ti mi o ba so fun yin pe garri ni
mo mu, mo wa ok, afi tin ba bi or tin ba po ni everybody ma mo pe garri nii
bobo yii mu. But kin je salad constantly, tin baru ke gun, ee ti mope aah, bobo
yi o gbadun life e, e woo bo se ru. Beeni, te ba ti rimi, ee ti mope aah, bobo
yii o wa ok; pelu gbogbo owo to ni. Se, kole jeun to da ni?”
of his child, Michelle, he reacted with a broad smile “I have my peace of mind. Ti n ba mu gari ni sin yi, gaari yen moju mi
dan, ti mi o ba so fun yin pe garri ni
mo mu, mo wa ok, afi tin ba bi or tin ba po ni everybody ma mo pe garri nii
bobo yii mu. But kin je salad constantly, tin baru ke gun, ee ti mope aah, bobo
yi o gbadun life e, e woo bo se ru. Beeni, te ba ti rimi, ee ti mope aah, bobo
yii o wa ok; pelu gbogbo owo to ni. Se, kole jeun to da ni?”
(With Sunkanmi Ajala, if I drink Garri,
the Garri makes my face shine and my body healthy. Unless I tell you or I
vomit, you won’t know I drank Garri. But if I am eating Chicken and Salad
constantly and I have no rest of mind, people will see it in my gaunt body and
they will complain) “ So, emi gigun,
Alafia ati ifokan bale ni eyan le fi lo ile aiye, kii se oye owo ta’a kojo”. (It is peace of mind and long life that
one need to travel through the journey of life not money or wealth) “Eeri bawon politician was en ko owo joo to,
won o ni Alafia, won oni fokanbale. Owo ta’a ma ni, tao ni ni ifokanbale,
Olorun maje ka’a ni”. (See how our politicians keep amassing wealth, yet
they don’t have peace of mind. My prayer is that the kind of money that will
steal my peace of mind, may God never give us)
the Garri makes my face shine and my body healthy. Unless I tell you or I
vomit, you won’t know I drank Garri. But if I am eating Chicken and Salad
constantly and I have no rest of mind, people will see it in my gaunt body and
they will complain) “ So, emi gigun,
Alafia ati ifokan bale ni eyan le fi lo ile aiye, kii se oye owo ta’a kojo”. (It is peace of mind and long life that
one need to travel through the journey of life not money or wealth) “Eeri bawon politician was en ko owo joo to,
won o ni Alafia, won oni fokanbale. Owo ta’a ma ni, tao ni ni ifokanbale,
Olorun maje ka’a ni”. (See how our politicians keep amassing wealth, yet
they don’t have peace of mind. My prayer is that the kind of money that will
steal my peace of mind, may God never give us)
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| The Nice One and The GDA |
