{"id":1144,"date":"2025-12-27T08:17:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T08:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2025-12-27T08:17:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T08:17:23","slug":"wizkid-is-my-boy-i-accommodated-him-years-ago-american-rapper-wale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wizkid-is-my-boy-i-accommodated-him-years-ago-american-rapper-wale\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wizkid is my boy, I accommodated him years ago\u2019 \u2013 American rapper, Wale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian American rapper, Wale has revealed the role he played in the career of Nigerian Afrobeats singer Wizkid.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-11\">\n<div class=\"JC-WIDGET-DMROOT\" data-widget-id=\"a294226aacc9140b01ca0c5d86fe7701\" data-observe=\"true\" data-load=\"true\" data-id=\"1766823208003\">Speaking during a livestream with Carter Efe, Wale explained that he played a critical role in Wizkid\u2019s career, specifically introducing him to international audience.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He also revealed that he once he once accommodated the singer, whom he referred to as his \u201cboy\u201d in\u00a0Beverly Hills, California.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-11\">\n<div class=\"JC-WIDGET-DMROOT\" data-widget-id=\"a294226aacc9140b01ca0c5d86fe7701\" data-observe=\"true\" data-load=\"true\" data-id=\"1766823207999\">\u201cI have been following Nigerian music; there are so many Nigerian artists that I like listening to. I don\u2019t know some of them, but I like listening to their music.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThere are some I know personally like Wizkid. Me and Wizkid have been cool for almost 10 years now. I remember taking him to his first BET Awards show.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-11\">\n<div class=\"JC-WIDGET-DMROOT\" data-widget-id=\"a294226aacc9140b01ca0c5d86fe7701\" data-observe=\"true\" data-load=\"true\" data-id=\"1766823208006\">\u201cThat is my boy. I once accommodated him at Beverly Hills for a whole summer. We were just writing music. We made a lot of songs together like \u2018Drop for me\u2019,\u201d he explained.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian American rapper, Wale has revealed the role he played in the career of Nigerian Afrobeats singer Wizkid. Speaking during a livestream with Carter Efe, Wale explained that he played a critical role in Wizkid\u2019s career, specifically introducing him to international audience. He also revealed that he once he once accommodated the singer, whom he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[160],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","author-urbanafrica"],"authors":[{"term_id":160,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"urbanafrica","display_name":"URBANAFRICA","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-FFB50F59-0D6C-491C-BACA-64123F72D056.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-FFB50F59-0D6C-491C-BACA-64123F72D056.jpg"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}