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Grammy-winning Nigerian singer, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, has revealed that she was prepared to face grave consequences when she ditched afrobeats the famous genre in the country to do R&B.<\/p>\n
Tems said she so much believed in herself that she didn\u2019t bother if she never become \u201canything or anyone\u201d with R&B.<\/p>\n
The \u2018Essence\u2019 hitmaker said she \u201cjust wanted to get a message out.\u201d<\/p>\n
She disclosed this in a chat with American rapper, Kendrick Lamar, published in the latest volume of Interview Magazine.<\/p>\n
Tems said, \u201cI was prepared to die. I believed in myself so much that I didn\u2019t really care if I never became anything or anyone. I just wanted to get a message out. I wanted to get my frequency out. And I was like, \u2018Even if ten people hear this, it\u2019s fine.\u2019 But also along the way, I used to listen to a lot of Nigerian music and I wasn\u2019t getting a lot of spiritual\u2014I love Celine Dion, so, I love that intense feeling of, I\u2019m about to jump off a cliff. That\u2019s how I want my music to feel all the time, and Afrobeats wasn\u2019t necessarily giving me that type of stimulation.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said everyone she asked for advice from back then, urged her to do afrobeats, saying, \u201cThe only way you can do this is Afrobeats. It\u2019s not that your music is bad, it\u2019s just that it doesn\u2019t fit in Nigeria. Nigerians don\u2019t like this.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Oscar-nominated singer said she refused to give up because money was not her goal. She added that she is \u201cchasing a frequency.\u201d<\/p>\n
Source: graphic.com.gh<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n
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