00:00If not be you, me no want no other.
00:02If not be you, me no want no other.
00:04Ah, Jesus!
00:06In Lagos, where music is everywhere,
00:09from the street to the global stage,
00:11African sound is taking over.
00:14But what does it really take to become a Nigerian music superstar?
00:23Luck, talent, or something deeper?
00:25Today, in this episode of My Hustle, we will find out.
00:30My name is Angelika Eine,
00:31popularly known as Angelika Bell.
00:33I'm an artist, I'm a performer,
00:36I'm a songwriter from Lagos, Nigeria,
00:38and this is my hustle, Boomba.
00:41So, let me take you through the journey of my creative process and everything.
00:45Such a nice setup here.
00:47So this is also what it takes to be a superstar.
00:49You have to wake up and look straight to your studio every morning.
00:52Let's say I just wake up and then I want to go into recording.
00:55I have like little vocal warm-ups I do.
00:58Okay.
00:58So I can do like,
00:59Ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma.
01:01Ma ma ma ma ma ma ma.
01:03Ah, you're guessing?
01:04Yeah.
01:04How do you make your music?
01:06I listen to the sound over and over again.
01:09Like, I kid you not, since I got this beat this morning,
01:12I've been playing it.
01:13Wow.
01:13I just play around the house and then,
01:15as soon as I pick up a random melody that stays,
01:19I just come and then put it down here.
01:21So this is what the beat sounds like.
01:23It's my type of...
01:32So it sounds like a hum.
01:33You can get like a hum.
01:39Hey, you hear the melody.
01:40Oh my god.
01:42So it's...
01:42So what can I...
01:43If no be you, me no want no order.
01:45No order.
01:46Me cross the seas and the seven borders.
01:48Let's rehearse it together so...
01:50Okay.
01:50You can...
01:52Because it's not just me that wants to be welcome.
01:54If no be you, me no want no order.
01:57Me cross the seas and the seven borders.
02:00You can pull your head for me little shoulder.
02:03If no be you, me no want no order.
02:05If no be you, me no want no order.
02:09If no be you, me no want no order.
02:09Me cross the seas and the seven borders.
02:12If no be you, me no want no order.
02:14Okay. Let's go from beginning.
02:16If no be you, me no want no order.
02:18Me cross the seas and the seven borders.
02:21You can pull your head for me little shoulders.
02:24Baby, don't you cry.
02:27Let's hear. Let's hear.
02:29Yeah.
02:31Wait, you just, you collect this one now?
02:33Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:33Like, now.
02:43Are you an African artist or Nigerian artist or a global artist?
02:49I'm an African global artist.
02:52So that's why I posted, because this is very important to talk about.
02:55So he's a reggae b-boy, you hear me say he's done in another pigeon.
02:59So I try as much as possible to infuse African style into my music.
03:05So basically you mean adding the beat, adding the African language is what makes Afrobeat the Afrobeat.
03:12Yes, exactly.
03:13And how challenging is it for you as a female artist?
03:15It has been a lot. Generally, being a female, you know how it is in every field, especially as an
03:22African woman.
03:23It's not easy because they always feel like women are places in the house or, you know, business.
03:29And after you make your music, like you said, you guys always go for different shows, right?
03:33Is there any show that you guys are having that is coming on soon?
03:36Oh, soon, yeah. We're supposed to have on Sunday.
03:38Is this something that can follow you to the event?
03:40Oh, yeah, sure, you can.
03:42Wow, you're looking gorgeous, like.
03:44Fabulous.
03:45And the loud urban choir, what are you guys made of?
03:48We're like friends that came together to do something. We're an Afrobeat choir. There's no Afrobeat choir. We're the first
03:56Afrobeat choir. I could say that boldly. And, yeah, so we plan to take it across. We plan to spread
04:03that, okay, because normally when people come, they're like, oh, choir people are always, you know, confined to the church
04:09and everything. But then, now we're an Afrobeat choir and we're moving like Afrobeat artists.
04:26Beyond everything, I think African culture isn't just one thing. Maybe it's diversity and unity.
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