Asake recounts embarrassing and bitter experience after copying Fela Kuti's stage performance style.

Ahmed Ololade, commonly known as Asake, a Nigerian singer, has disclosed an unpleasant experience in his early music career while impersonating Nigerian Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti.

According to the artist, he once tried to mimic Fela Anikulapo Kuti's legendary stage performance style by rushing the stage wearing only his pants and a saxophone.

However, the audience booed him on stage for performing with barely dressed girls while wearing only his pants.

He went on to explain that the audience had booed him and that he had been attacked at the event.

He said: “Before I got the attention, I strived till I graduated from the university. I strived for like [another] two years before people like accept me.

“So, there’s this performance. I wanted to perform Fela, so I was on pants and saxophone. I packed like six girls on stage. I asked them to be half-n+ked. You know, one thing about Nigerians is that once people are naked, they just forget about all the thing that is happening and just focus. But these people [at the concert] stubborn o.

“Those girls just walked in, then me too. I just walked in majestically as a star boy. I did not know where the first clap come from. The audience was like, ‘No, no, no.’ Everybody, like 9,000 capacity, clapping that they don’t want it”