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| Timaya and Patoranking |
You seem to be doing more of collaborations these days, any special reasons?
Well, I have been working on some new stuffs. Making new music everyday and making people happy. Right now, I am busy building my career to be a better musician and also at the moment, I have got many businesses to handle and you know I have a family.
Can you tell us what happened between you and Patoranking?
Nothing really happened. At some point, I felt I needed to stay focused doing my own thing. I don't want to leave my career to push his career. Truth be told, I am bigger than that. The music industry is growing bigger by the day and very soon, indolent artistes would be swept to the background. I don’t want to be a yesterday star; neither do I want to end up being a fleeting star, I want to continue being relevant. That is why I am putting everything into music and God is blessing the work of my hands. Patoranking is on another level now, I put him somewhere else, I don't have issues with Patoranking, I handled him first, paid for his Alubarika's video'.
But there have been rumours that he dumped you?
He can't dump me, perhaps I could have dumped him. Patoranking hooked up with me in 2012 and everybody knew he was with me. In mid-2013, Dem Mama Records released Patoranking's official debut single entitled ' Alubarika' and shortly dropped a video for it in August. Whether I sponsored it is however my business. Everyone knows that 'Alubarika' has been quite successful in Nigeria and other countries.
How true is it that Patoranking hasn't been talking to you lately?
Well, I won't like to be talking about that. He is still my boy.
A lot of your critics have been saying you are very controversial, maybe because of your fight with K-Solo, Empress and Nico Gravity, are you truly controversial?
I don't fight with people without reasons; I had issues with K-Solo because he was using some of my slogans on songs he produced for others. I warned him against it. Again I had to let him go because my music was beginning to sound monotonous, it was all same beat. I realized it wasn’t me anymore recording; it was the producer, so I sought to change him. I have since worked with other producers because I didn’t want to sound same. For Nico, it was shocking to hear a role model picking on me. I didn’t bother to reply to his song because I figured he needed the I wan Finish Timaya song to become relevant, after all nobody knew him. He didn’t deserve a mention.
What were the pains your went through to gain stardom?
I have said it before; I lived with a woman older than me in Port-Harcourt before I became the Timaya that you know today. I’d been singing all these while but I hadn’t made any hit. I was writing my songs and hustling between studios. The woman accommodated me after I was thrown out by my landlord. And all through my stay, she fed me. After I left secondary, I went out on the streets to begin hustling again. I gained admission to study in Port-Harcourt but left again to return to the streets. I left Port again returned to Lagos and joined Eedris Abdulkareem’s band as a back-up singer. I worked for him for about three years. I left him to begin my hustle again. But thank God for today.
So what has been the gain so far?
So many things. I have never been broke. I have always gotten accolades and love from people. I bought a Bentley two years ago and everyone started buying theirs. I'm not even sure some people know I own one. I bought my G-Wagon two years ago. Some people will buy a shoe and put it out there for everyone to see. I simply don’t fancy that. Music has made me rich and it gave me the opportunity to travel out of the country.
Any regret dating Empress Njamah?
You should not date somebody who already has a negative record. In my own case, it affected me at that time. I feel that a relationship should be between two people and not exposed to the rest of the world. Only a smart man is able to keep his relationship private.
Are you going to marry the mother of your child?
I have said it once and I would say it again. Marriage comes with a lot of responsibilities which are beyond financial or material things. God has blessed me with everything a man needs to have, a successful married life and you can bet that Emmanuella and Barbara will get the best of everything money can buy but personally, I don’t feel ready for it.
There have been rumours that you feel the mother of your baby is not good enough to be your wife, how true is this?
That is not true, as a matter of fact, I wanted to have a baby by Barbara because she is my kind of woman; the kind of woman I’d like to spend the rest of my life with and this was why I decided from the outset that I’d go the whole hog with her. But she knows that marriage is not something we will dabble into now.
What is it like, having a child of your own?
It was crazy, it was fun. The truth is; I didn’t sleep all night. It feels so good. Even the night the baby was to be brought to life, I was just pacing up and down the hallway and praying that she had a safe delivery.
Is it true that you vowed that your kids would never bear your surname, but your stage name, Timaya?
Yes, I am building my own dynasty which is why my baby and the other ones that would come after her would bear Timaya as their surname not Odom.
OMOTOLA OLAIFA
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