I Wrote Over 300 Songs During My 2-Year Jail Term In US Prison – Rapper Sinzu Opens Up!

Sinzu has granted his first ever interview  on his life in a US prison and return to Nigerian music biz.

Starting from his return to Twitter after two years of saying nothing, to getting signed to Davido’s record label – DMW – rapper Sinzu is ready to show Nigerians he’s got some vibes left, even if most of his new songs would probably be about his prison life and adapting to the new world. ”In my first year, I was locked up for 22 hours in a day, I wrote a lot of raps… I wrote like 180 songs in my first year and another 120 in my second year,” Sinzu told Ovie of NotJustOk in his first interview in a long-time. Sinzu’s first single, “Omoge,” featuring Mike Okri was released in 2005, and the track was followed with his most popular mixtape “Best of Both Worlds: Money Long The Mixtape,” that dropped 2006.

“I don’t even know if there is Nigerian hip-hop at the moment, I know there is Afrobeats, I know there is Afro Pop but I don’t think I have heard anything that I consider Nigerian hip-hop… There isn’t Nigerian hip-hop at the moment,” he noted before teasing studio works with rapper – Falz and Ycee.

Sinzu formerly known as Sauce Kid – real name Babalola Falemi – was recently released from a United States prison following his two-year jail term for $15388 credit card fraud at the Treasure Valley. Talking his newly found freedom, he said: “I got incarcerated, I had a 24 months sentence and I ended up doing 20 months out of that… on paper I got out last month but, I have been out since, earlier like February 20.” On May 28, Davido unveiled Sinzu as DMW’s new signee during a surprise performance in Washington, DC. DMW houses Davido himself, Mayorkun, Dremo, Peruzzi, Yonda and Idowest.

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