Aug 4, 2010
It was party all night till the early morning at one of Lagos’s reigning hang out spots last Saturday. Standing in the VIP corner of Rehab was the First Lady of Rap, Sasha, Banky W, Sound Sultan, Naeto C, YQ, Djinee, many other stars and the African American himself, Sauce Kid.
Rehab was definitely a place to be as young professionals, entertainment industry players and a cool cache of fun-seekers gathered together to celebrate Sauce Kid. In a first-of-its-kind, fans were seeing buying CDs at the gate in twos and threes, as if they had waited all their lives for this release!
Beat FM’s Olisa Adibua was at hand to pilot the night at 35 degrees room temperature. YQ opened with his I love girls girls declaration, and then Naeto C performed his Kini Big deal song, and one of the songs on his new album Duro. Sauce Kid was next, thrilling the crowd for 30 minutes with hit song after hit song from the new album titled African-American thrilling the crowd.
The event ended with DJ Neptune unleashing beats until dawn.
The long awaited album is now out for sale in stores around the country after four years of tireless studio work and it attempts to show the many sides of Sauce kid. The 20-track album features industry best such as such as Eldee, Ikechukwu, Naeto C, Sasha, Ghetto P and General Pype.
Sauce Kid’s first single Na me be fine boy, which was dropped 3years ago stayed on the air waves for a long while and is definitely a pointer to the future for his new album.
The album has some very personal tracks such as Nejee’s Daughter and then his collaboration with emerging RnB singer and producer Meaku which will certainly leave all the ladies satisfied. On tracks such as Distribution and Diamonds he stays true to his core Hip Hop foundations while Under G and Sinzu is Sinzu show a fusion side where he is embracing his Yoruba culture and those rhythmic grooves to deliver a new fusion on these stand-out songs produced by Don Jazzy and Eldee.
“The African–American Album has something for everyone, from infectious grooves to serious mood music, from wordplay to rhyme skills,” Tola Odunsi, one of the directors of the label, Storm 360 said, “And in Sauce Kid Nigerian Hip Hop has another contender for the throne: let the people decide, we already know his talent and cannot wait to share his album with the world.”