In this episode, Tay sits down with Fola, Afrobeats singer-songwriter and one of Nigeria’s fastest-rising voices, for a conversation about patience, faith, and staying grounded while the world starts paying attention.
From singing in secondary school to working as a cashier at a betting shop back home in Ibadan, Fola takes us through the long road to this moment — the cousin who pulled him to Lagos, the almost-deal with Kizz Daniel before fate pointed him toward Bella Shmurda and Dagbana Republic, and the three-hour phone call it took to convince his team to let him drop his breakout single, Alone, before it was “ready.” He opens up about his sold-out UK tour and his stop at the Indigo at The O2, the excitement building for Canada, and why Caricature — a song he almost left off the album — became the fan favourite. He also gets into what fame has actually funded, from building his mother a church to getting his dad a duplex, and weighs in on whether Afrobeats is really facing a decline.
There are funny moments, honest reflections, and plenty of stories from an artist who’s still writing his own beginning — Fola style.