why i left storm record

What have you been up to lately?

YQ      Have been inside the studio recording working on my next album and working on my next video to my single titled  “TONIGHT and i have also been travelling outside Lagos

You are no longer with STORM RECORDS, what happened?

YQ      Nothing, STORM is my family, storm did a lot for me. it was a platform for me and I respect Obiasika so much, that man has made believe in a lot of things. We are still good and my contract expires, in life things happen for one reason or the other. No grudges.

What is your relationship with 2CONEPT Entertainment?

YQ    2CONCEPT is owned by my childhood friend and we had a very strong relationship, I am still repping  too concept, i am not under any label right now,  I am working on my own kind of movement called industry music, it is like a team, like we have the g unit, so this what I am trying to create  cos you need to  take a bold step, most of the big acts have to take a bold step to get to where they are today. I am hoping on GOD to make a positive move.

What would change if given a chance to change something in the Nigeria music industry ?

 YQ  the structure, the structure is not there, apart from  that, apart  from that Nigeria music has come to stay, our music is doing well outside Nigeria. 

HOW WOULD YOU DEFINE YOUR STYLE OF MUSIC  ?

Music is a universal thing right now, we see  American artiste experiment on African music, I do r n b, hip hop but Nigeria music is generally referred to as`afro  beat world wide, am just playing along, I am still young in the  game, i  am still working on my second album, I still have a lot to learn, I do afro with pop but if am on the street i call it rhyme and tungba  because their has to be some kind of  Africa beat that is the tungba.

What is the greatest lesson you have learn coming up in the industry ? 

YQ:  the greatest lesson I have learn is to be me, to just stay real, there is nothing like been original , i am not trying to take act up, i am staying humble , you have to be ready to take anything cos a  lot of people would insult you, a lot of people would not lke you but you just have to keep doing you. You would be at some places and some people would purposely get on your nerves, so what I have learn is to be patience .

THIS DAYS A LOT OF NIGERIAN ACT WANT TO BREAK INTO  AMERICAN MARKET, WHAT IS YOUR  TAKE ON THIS TREND AND WHICH  WESTREN  ACT    WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO A  COLLABORATION WITH.

 YQ : I am hoping on God, back in the days, i have always wanted to do a song with akon, I would love to do a song with chris brown, if i want to do something with a rapper it would be nas, there are also a lot of Jamaican act I would love to work with. I am just waiting for GOD time and I am still working , I want to do something with wiz kid, saucekid, i have a lot of things coming my way