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I can’t go out without Ayra Starr – Rema

Nigerian singer, Divine Ikubor has said he does not attend social events or parties without his female colleague, Ayra Starr.

He made this known during a radio interview with speaking on his relationship with Mavin Records co-signees.

Rema said Ayra is a ‘vibe’ and the life of the party, which is why he got to a point that he could no longer go out if she would not be going along.

The Calm Down crooner also said that he bonds well with the latest Mavin artiste, Bayanni whenever they are in the studio.

According to him, though he has a cool relationship with all the young artistes in the record label, he bonds better with Bayanni whom she shares ideas with.

Watch him speak below:

In other news, founder of Mavin Records, Michael Ajaere, popularly known as Don Jazzy, has said he advises his signees to learn from Portable’s controversial personality.

Don Jazzy said he uses the Zazuu star as an example whenever he is talking to his artistes about how to remain relevant in the music industry.

The music executive stated this while being interviewed by Joey Akan on Afrobeats Intelligence Podcast.

He also did a comparitive analysis of BNXN (formerly Buju) and Portable who both became big stars in 2021.

Don Baba J noted that at the time Portable hit the limelight with his breakout song, Zazuu Zeh, courtesy of Olamide, BNXN already had 7 songs on the charts but the controversial singer’s followers grew to a million faster.

He further explained that it is the fact he always does controversial or debatable things that puts him in the news which makes him to still be relevant even if he does not release songs.

The Mavin boss said when he’s having meetings with his team, he makes them it is not jut about dropping good music and relaxing. He said that he makes realise the algorithm will favour them if they put themselves out there and do things that will make their names come up in conversations like Portable does.