Gidigeek:
umm, thanks Brainee
for honoring our invitation to be our
man crush Monday personality. So tell us about Brainee and how the name came to
be?
Brainee:
umm Brainee is
just a cool dude, I am a hip hop artist, rapper, I could also sing , am a lover
of music in general, just a young dude trying to make waves for himself. While the
name Brainee was back in the secondary school, when umm, well basically I was a
brilliant child in secondary school, I was this kinda ‘ITK’ I too know’ person
in school and some teachers would be like this child is brilliant, then one day
in class someone made a comment saying this boy is Brainee, and then there was
this crew in school we had back in secondary school, we use to drum, sing and
dance. We formed a crew and I got called myself Brainee, so that’s how the name
came to be.
Gidigeek:
when
did you decide to make music your career?
Brainee:
well, I started
professionally last two years have been doing music since my secondary school
years
Gidigeek:
challenges you
have as a student &rapper &poet?
Brainee: am a student, rapper, poet,
basically me trying to prioritize my TIME,I find it hard to manage my time, to
set prioritize, sometimes I would have a
school work, and as an artist I would have shows, interviews, shoots, anything
could just come up at anytime and the ability to get things done at the right
time is hard, things always overlap my time, stuffs comes up at every moment
and time.
Gidigeek:
what has been
your biggest achievement yet?
Brainee: biggest achievement ,been signed
to sulcalaent ,it’s like the biggest youth empowerment stuff in Nigeria, am
under them, and they are managing me right now, it’s just the biggest
achievement for me to be signed under them.
Gidigeek: if you weren’t doing music what
would you be doing?
Brainee: if I was not doing music, I will
study, philosophy, then law, be a lawyer, buy a land, buy a house get married.
Gidigeek: I know you have a lot of
popularity about now in unilag, where else is your brand now?
Brainee: well my brand has spread across schools
in Nigeria like unilorin, funnab, convent university, north America university,
babcock, lasu, uniben, Afe babalola university, Ghana.legion.
Gidigeek:
won any award yet?
Brainee: no notable award yet.
Gidigeek: how much did the Pepsi competition
add to your career?
Brainee: well it gave a lot of leverage,
and the fact that I went into the competition and won, I get reference, people
walk up to me and recognize me and say they wanna work with me because of the
fact that I won, so ;people believe am good at what I do.
Gidigeek: your role models in the game,
someone you wanna work with?
Brainee: I respect M.I, vector, mode 9, in
the foreign scene I respect Drake, J cole, Jay Z and people I would love to
work with is patoranking, Wizkid, vector, drake and J.cole.
Gidigeek: what has been your biggest
strength, what has set you apart from other rapper?
Brainee: well my ability to sound like me,
not trying to sound like any other rapper, like I want to be myself, sound like
myself, I get influence from established rappers, but I still sound like myself,
so when am also established other rapper would be influenced by me.
Gidigeek:what
would you leave music for?
Brainee: heaven.
Gidigeek:
define yourself?
Brainee: umm, ifeanyi is an easy going person,
I like people who have positive aura around me, no sad time, I also have sad times,
but I don’t allow it get to me, because if you allow it, it might define the
way your day go, how the week goes, month and year, I believe the energy you
have around you defines the way your life goes.
Gidigeek:
most embarrassing
moment?
Brainee: yh, when I was asked to perform at
moremi hall week, and they told me they didn’t know who I was, ermm, that was
year 1 second semester, so they said they won’t allow me perform in the grand
finale , because other popular artist would be performing.
Gidigeek:
I heard about your new signing gat anything to say about it?
Brainee: it’s basically a blessing because
in unilag, they were people before me, it’s not like I’0m claiming to be the
best but I’m claiming to be the best in what I do, some people see me as the
best, I ain’t bragging but everyone has
a bragging right.
Gidigeek:
have any special
person you wanna shout out to?
Brainee:
yh, my mom, she
is one special person in my life right now, she has always been the most
special person in my life, and she would continue to be.
Gidigeek: you call your fans brainiac you
gat anything to them?
Brainee: to my fans or brainiacs am just
gonna tell you, you guys should keep on believing in me, I would continue to do
good music, like I write every day, I won’t let you guys down, I promise.
Gidigeek: any new thing coming out soon like
an album or mixtape?
Brainee: yh, yh, i have dropped two tracks
from my mixtape album, first track you dey
madt or what second track jokin
sturvs the mixtape has 20 tracks in it, has a lot of features in it, Basically
the mixtape drops in mid August and will also have a listening party, will be strictly
by invitation, no gate fee, it’s gonna be for the real brainiacs
Gidigeee:
Gat any last word?
Brainee:
Last words, every day I need more fans, I never
get tired of having fans, I like when people tell me they like what I do, it
gingers me to do more, it gives me
motivation and wants me to do more
.
motivation and wants me to do more
.
