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About the Asake 2026 Tour

Ahmed Ololade was born in Lagos, Nigeria and grew up between the mainland Lagos neighbourhoods that have produced most of the city's defining street-pop voices. He studied theatre arts at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife in Osun State, where he leaned into dance as much as into singing — choreography, movement, and stage presence were part of his training before the music caught. He recorded as Asake from the late 2010s, posting freestyles and short videos to Instagram and YouTube through 2018, 2019, and 2020 without a label deal, building a small but loyal Lagos following on the strength of his Yoruba-language wordplay and the dance clips that travelled faster than the audio. The first viral moment came with Mr. Money, a 2020 release that started circulating on Instagram and pulled the attention of Olamide, the YBNL Nation founder who has functioned as Nigerian street-pop's most consistent talent scout for more than a decade. Olamide signed Asake to YBNL in early 2022 and re-released the catalogue under the label. Sungba, the first single under the new YBNL banner, arrived in January 2022; the Olamide-featured remix dropped weeks later and detonated. The pattern — log-drum amapiano bedded under Yoruba choral hooks, a back-of-the-throat fuji-inflected delivery, and gang-vocal chant choruses recorded with full choirs rather than stacked solo overdubs — became the Asake template across the rest of 2022. The Mr. Money With The Vibe EP and then the full-length album of the same name landed in September 2022 and carried Peace Be Unto You (PBUY), Joha, Terminator, Organise, and Dull alongside Sungba into the year-end Nigerian charts. Work of Art followed in June 2023 with Lonely at the Top, Yoga, Amapiano with Olamide, 2:30, Basquiat, Awodi, Mogbe, and Olorun anchoring the cycle and pushing the orchestral choral-arrangement direction further. Lungu Boy in August 2024 added international collaborators — Travis Scott on Active, Stormzy on Suru, Wizkid on MMS, Central Cee on Wave — and broadened the catalogue's reach without diluting the foundational sound. The headline touring picked up at the same pace: Mr. Money With The Vibe Tour through European arenas in late 2022 and early 2023, a North American leg through 2023, and increasingly larger rooms across 2024 and into the Lungu Boy cycle. Asake remains signed to YBNL Nation with international distribution through Empire.

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