‘Oluwa gbe from the slum to the top,” sings Asake on Awodi, the second track from his second album. It’s a typical Asake lyric, in that it suddenly switches from Yoruba to English in the middle of a sentence, a linguistic tic you could view as a bullish refusal on the part of the 28-year-old Nigerian to water down his music for western audiences. It’s also a line that acts as a neat summation of Asake’s career.
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