How I got shot in the eye – Singer Bad Boy Timz

<p>He said Wande Coal, particularly, is the “root” of the genre.</p>, <p>africanoid_: “What if the song did not blow.”</p>, <p>Davido said instead of featuring foreign artists for free, he is now charging them $100k (N46m).</p>, <p>mr.nerooo: “I think he is talking about foreign artistes.”</p>, <p>He stated this on the Afrobeats Podcast hosted by Shopsydoo.</p>, <p>mcaboki_oap: “If I pay that kind of money for a feature, I won’t sing anything make Davido no go tell me say na me spoil the song, I go leave the song for am alone. I will just be shouting at the background shakpe.”</p>, <p>According to Fireboy: “Wande Coal and Wiz Kid are the two artistes that shaped what we know as Afropop today; they took that Afrobeat Fela sound that was brought down to 2Face and D’banj and shaped it into that ‘feel good pop’ afrobeats, and Wande then brought ‘soul’. You know, all these soulful things that me, CKay, all of us are doing now, Wande is the root.”</p>, <p>Some Nigerians took to the comments section to react as follows:</p>, <p>The ‘MJ’ crooner disclosed this in a recent chat with British-Nigerian media personality, Shopsydoo.</p>, <p>Nigerian singer, Adedamola Adefolahan, better known as Fireboy DML, has identified Wande Coal and Wizkid as the artistes that shaped Afropop.</p>, <p>I_am_wizzpro: “Na to give Portable N2 million. no time.”</p>, <p>Nigerian singer, Olorunyomi Oloruntimilehin, popularly known as Bad Boy Timz, has recounted how “assassins” shot him in the eye when he was nine.</p>, <p>He said the gunmen, who ambushed a car conveying his family in the Mushin area of Lagos, started shooting sporadically and one of the bullets hit him in the eye.</p>, <p>The Timeless musician made the revelation in a viral video of his recent interview on social media.</p>, <p>Timz, who said the assailants were never apprehended, disclosed that he will be undergoing another eye surgery soon.</p>, <p>The ‘Peru’ crooner, who described Wande Coal as “the god of afrobeats” admitted the “Bumper to Bumper” singer was his mentor.</p>,