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YBNL

Released12 November 2012LabelYBNL NationProducerPheelzTypeAlbum · 20 tracks

The first release on his own label, and the album that turned an acronym into a movement. After leaving Coded Tunes, Olamide named the project after the imprint itself — Yahoo Boy No Laptop — and spent twenty tracks proving the bet wasn't bravado.

Singles "Ilefo Illuminati," "First of All," "Stupid Love" and "Voice of the Street" did the heavy lifting: Headies and Nigeria Entertainment Awards hardware followed, and by mid-2013 the industry had stopped treating YBNL as a side project. Guests from Davido and Tiwa Savage to Reminisce sketched the alliance map that would define the next era — street-hop with a wider stage, still speaking in the city's own tongue.

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“It doesn't ask for a seat at the table. It builds a new one.”

The mission statement of a label that had just been born — infrastructure carrying his name from now on.

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Audiogram · 2012Voice of the Street
“The song that made the label's acronym sound like a constituency.”

Less a single than a roll call — YBNL as place, people, and politics on one beat.

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