Banky W Speaks On Wizkid's Ordeal As A Struggling Artiste Before Fame

Popular music executive and singer, Olubankole Wellington, best known as Banky W, has opened up on Wizkid's struggle before fame.

Recall that Wizkid started out under Banky W's record label, Empire Mates Entertainment, EME

Speaking in a viral video on Wizkid's struggle before fame, he described the singer as a studio rat. He explained that Wizkid was always hanging around various studios due to his inability to afford studio sessions at the time.

He stated that Wizkid was always around any studio with the hope that engineers and producers would offer him the opportunity to sing for about 15 or 30 minutes for free.

"Wizkid for a long time in his life was not fortunate enough to afford studio time.

“So he was a studio rat as he will go to any studio where they will let him hang out and he will hang out all day waiting, hoping and praying that engineers and producers to just pity him and say oya, come and record for 15 or 30 mins because he could not pay for his session.

“So, all day long, he would be working on hooks and melodies and just coming up with things in case he was given the opportunity to jump on the mic for five minutes.

“He didn’t have time to think about what to write at the moment, so that became his process.

“And now he is one of the fastest songwriters that I have ever encountered in my life, he will just sit, listen, and start freestyling a melody that would become a song that the whole world would want to sing. That is where the name Wiz started from."