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Upcoming ODUMODUBLVCK Tour
Born in Lagos and raised in Abuja, Nigeria, ODUMODUBLVCK is one of the most exciting voices out of the country’s capital in the last decade. Whilst being a pioneering voice of Drill music in Nigeria, he operates under a self-defined genre he calls Okporoko Rhythms: a form of Hip-Hop that takes influences from Grime, Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat, and Progressive R&B. This musical core informs his deep, thoughtful lyricism which takes centre-stage on every track and stage he graces. “A sweet misery, a beautiful melody,” ODUMODUBLVCK says of his emotional, autobiographical mood music. Initially only getting into music after his dreams of being a footballer were cut short by an untimely injury, he quickly realised he had a natural magnetism whenever he picked up a microphone, and hasn’t put one down since. Since the release of his first single in 2017, ODUMODUBLVCK has been on a one-man-mission to be the author of his own story. As a proud African, and more specifically a Nigerian repping Abuja, ODUMODUBLVCK is determined to prove that artists from Africa can be whatever they want to be. Leader of his own Anti-World Gangsters & Blvck Sheep Music collectives, ODUMODUBLVCK has been a seminal voice in the growing music movement out of Nigeria’s capital, and he is now reaping the rewards for years of groundwork.
Read moreBorn in Lagos and raised in Abuja, Nigeria, ODUMODUBLVCK is one of the most exciting voices out of the country’s capital in the last decade. Whilst being a pioneering voice of Drill music in Nigeria, he operates under a self-defined genre he calls Okporoko Rhythms: a form of Hip-Hop that takes influences from Grime, Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat, and Progressive R&B. This musical core informs his deep, thoughtful lyricism which takes centre-stage on every track and stage he graces. “A sweet misery, a beautiful melody,” ODUMODUBLVCK says of his emotional, autobiographical mood music. Initially only getting into music after his dreams of being a footballer were cut short by an untimely injury, he quickly realised he had a natural magnetism whenever he picked up a microphone, and hasn’t put one down since. Since the release of his first single in 2017, ODUMODUBLVCK has been on a one-man-mission to be the author of his own story. As a proud African, and more specifically a Nigerian repping Abuja, ODUMODUBLVCK is determined to prove that artists from Africa can be whatever they want to be. Leader of his own Anti-World Gangsters & Blvck Sheep Music collectives, ODUMODUBLVCK has been a seminal voice in the growing music movement out of Nigeria’s capital, and he is now reaping the rewards for years of groundwork.
