I Spent My First Night In Lagos At A Police Station

Afrobeats superstar Folarin Odunlami, popularly identified as Fola, has shared the complicated abilities he confronted when he first arrived in Lagos to plod his tune career.

Twinny News stories that the artist published that on the very day he relocated to the city in 2018, he changed into arrested and had to exercise the evening at a police station.

Fola defined that the incident left him melancholy and almost pushed him into abandoning his musical shuffle.

Despite the tough launch and the challenges of adapting to life in Lagos, he mentioned his decision helped him earn his scheme in the industrial.

The singer rose to reputation after joining Bella Shmurda’s Dagbani Republik in October 2024.

His tune “On my own” opened doorways for him in the tune scene, resulting in collaborations with principal Afrobeats names including Wizkid and Kizz Daniel.

Speaking in a recent interview with The Beat 99.9 FM Lagos he mentioned: “I relocated to Lagos in 2018 to pursue my tune career. It has been tough nonetheless… I wasn’t born here, so it changed into so laborious first and predominant nonetheless I in point of fact possess adapted to both the living instances and the hustle.

“The very first day I came to Lagos, I belief arrested. I slept on the police station. It changed into a protracted chronicle. I don’t want to be unsleeping it. I almost gave up.”

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