Where is odie working now

In high school, a friend was writing music our sophomore year. Ideally, Ya'qob and I want to be the next Outkast, the next duo that has really contrasting styles, Ya'Qob is an artist himself.

Everyone has their own specific reality. If we pretend nothing is real, you just start to say fuck it and do things. What if all my friends that I met are God? If there really is no reason to anything and there really is no purpose for anything in life then the only purpose for me to live really is for me to have a purpose to live.

And the only purpose that I can find for me to live is to just do things. Let me jump and take a leap at things. It was about taking a step forward. On that same song, you ask if you can trade all your lows for a little high. Was that part of the relationship narrative? Or addressing what you've overcome to reach today? He train-hopped all through Europe to get to this country. We are the definition of the American dream, being able to come from Nigeria, and my parents being able to work hard enough to have me in Canada.

There were troubles, struggles, but I've been through them and now I'm just being Odie, trying to have one point in time I can actually feel happy, feel like I've earned something. Once when I was a kid, then a couple years ago for a funeral, but both times were amazing experiences.

People in Africa live regular lives just like we do. I was about 12 years old. I used to hear [ S ings ] "We are going to San Francisco! I think the biggest thing for me is learning the amount of entitlement that's here. The Constitution guarantees some degree of entitlement. Learning how to carry myself like that was the biggest thing for me.

I was so accommodating growing up. Do you feel responsibility for your art to hold some sort of political weight? Is that expectation unfair? The only responsibility anybody has as an artist is to be true to yourself. On your song "Crescendo," you say you fear the lonely mind.

Can you speak to that? I fear being in my head too much. You just start to overthink things, rational becomes irrational to a point in that it just ruins your life. What scares me most is uncertainty. The cover art for that song, it looks like you're falling.

What role do you play in your visual presentation? We do pretty much everything ourselves. Growing his audience, in the meantime, is key to their plan.

As they supply current fans with new transitional material, they also want new listeners to discover his older music and dive into his catalog on Spotify. EMPIRE has been one of a small group of labels testing out this new audience development feature and providing feedback to make sure Discovery Mode is a valuable tool for artists in all stages of their careers.

With Discovery Mode, artist teams select music they want to prioritize in our algorithmic recommendations, when Spotify uses a variety of signals to pick the next track for listeners to hear. Our algorithmic recommendations are a powerful tool for reaching potential fans on Spotify who are interested in finding new music.

For ODIE, turning casual listeners into big fans is also about sharing relatable experiences with the world, making the personal universal — just like his idols have done.

People will be able to grow with me and evolve with me.