Popular indigenous rapper, Remilekun Abdulkalid Safaru, popularly known as Reminisce, has recounted his first-ever rejection in the music industry.
The ‘Ponmile’ crooner said his first major rejection was when a radio station rejected his and singer 9ice’s CDs because they performed their music mostly in the Yoruba language.
He disclosed this in a recent interview with Zikoko.
Reminisce said,
“My first major rejection was with 9ice on the Island at a radio station where we went to submit our music CDs for airplay, and the feedback we got was that we would never make it.
“They said 9ice was singing like Babalawo (native doctor) cos he sings in Yoruba.
“The other guy told me: ‘Why am I rapping like a buffoon, can’t I see Ruggedman? He said that we should both go back and look for something to do with our lives and be better.
“That was my first major rejection. I will never forget it, even 9ice I’m sure he hasn’t forgotten it.”