How I Got Nicknamed Baddo – Rapper, Olamide Reveals as He Receives ‘The Sun Creative Personality of the Year’

Multi-award winning Nigerian indegenous rapper of Yoruba decent, Olamide Adedeji popularly known as Olamide Baddo, has last Saturday at Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, won ‘The Sun Creative Personality of the Year award’ and described it as one of the greatest things to happen to his career.

The afro hip-hop superstar who won alongside Azubuike Chibuzo Nelson, also known as Phyno, said he would forever be grateful to the newspaper for the honour bestowed on him.

He was quoted as saying:  “I feel very honoured, humbled and grateful to be recognised as The Sun Creative Personality of the Year. For someone like me coming from the ghetto, from nothing to something, to be recognised by an institution like The Sun, that also honours big politicians and big businessmen and women in the country; for me to be on the same platform with them, is a big deal. May God bless The Sun newspapers.

“Yes, this is the very first time that a major newspaper like The Sun would be giving me an award and I’m grateful. It goes a long way for a newspaper like The Sun to recognise me; you see my talent and you blow it out to the world, that for real, this guy is good; it goes a long way.

“I have been seeing The Sun right from when I was young; my daddy used to buy it. And for musicians like us to be recognised like this is not common.”