General News | 19 May 2024 13:41 CET

Veteran, ID Cabassa Opens Up On How He Felt When Olamide Left His Record Label

By Oluwarantimi Oludase

Popular Nigerian veteran record producer, Olumide Ogunade, best known as ID Cabasa, has gone down memory lane on how YBNL boss, Olamide left his record label ‘Coded Tunes’ in 2012.

The veteran producer, who was on a recent episode of the ‘Afrobeats podcast,’ stated that he got emotional and was moved to tears after the now YBNL boss announced that he was leaving his record label. “I tried to make him stay, but he insisted that he had to leave," he said.

The veteran shed more light below;
“Olamide was 13 years old when I met him. He came to my studio with a friend who wanted to feature him on a song. His friend was not good musically. Olamide was quiet and unassuming. I gave him a beat, and he did 16 bars that changed everything. Olamide became more like a son to me.

“When he was about to leave my record label, we sat down to discuss it. It was painful to me. It wasn’t the pain of not wanting him to progress; it was the pain of seeing someone you love leave. I cried.

“I said, ‘Olamide, you should’ve waited o!’ He said, ‘Bros, I want to do something, and I’m sure, by your code, we might not be able to do some of them.’ We didn’t have a fight. I gave him my full blessings.”

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