Wizkid asked to be featured in my song. - Asake

Nigerian artist Ololade Ahmed, also known as Asake, has stated that his colleague Wizkid was the one who approached him to be featured in his song 'MMS'.

He revealed that he had someone else in mind, but when producer P. Prime played the song for Wizkid, he wanted to be featured in it.

Asake revealed this during a recent Instagram live session with fans.

"I had no idea I was going to put Wizkid on that song, to be honest. I had someone else in mind for that song, but I believe P.prime played it for Wiz, who said, "I f*ck with this song, I want to jump on it."

On Friday, Asake released 'MMS' off his third studio album, 'Lungu Boy'.

With 870,000 streams, the song set a new record for the most first-day streams on Spotify Nigeria.

The previous record was held by Wizkid's 'IDK' featuring Zlatan Ibile (626,000 streams).

Meanwhile, Asake's 'Lungu Boy' has surpassed the previous record for the most first-day Spotify streams for an African album.

The album received 9.42 million streams on the Global Spotify Chart on its first day.