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Although the thundering baritone of the Nigerian rapper Odumodublvck seems to be predestined for the reinforcement, he was initially not looking for music – the music found him. Before a serious injury, he had hoped to become a professional footballer. Then he moved to the economy and acquired a degree at the University of Lagos.
When a good friend of him broke off the college to become an artist, he asked Odumodublvck to become his manager. One day in the studio, his friend encouraged him to accept something himself. “He said,” You have the voice. You should try to make something out of it, “recalls the 31-year-old Odumodublvck via zoom
his girlfriend’s house in Lagos.
In 2025, this “something” now comprises a DEF-JAM deal, cooperation with the newcomer colleagues Shallipopi and Black Sherif at the AfroBeat anthems “Cast” and “Wotowoto Seasoning” as well as a brave contribution to Davido’s catchy tune “Funds”. Odumodublvck, with a bourgeois name tochukwu Gbubemi Ojogwu, grew up with two officials in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria.
Although his mother and father had hoped that he would go into her footsteps professionally, his mother didn’t mind when he began to give music priority around 2017. His father, on the other hand, was skeptical. Does Odumodublvck have the distinctive sound in which he speaks, raps and sings, inherited from one of them? “My mother likes to say that, but she couldn’t have been,” he says to me. “I think it’s just to God.”