Irapada: how 9ice’s collaboration with Junior Boy earned hit song

Before the hit song, Irapada was released in 2017, little was known about the young artiste Junior Boy.

At that time, the music industry had a handful of Young artistes from different record labels like Marvin Records, DMW, X3M, StarBoy to name a few.

A music label, Obimzy Records founded by a music conscious and passionate man, Abel Egbarin had been forged before then and in strategic mode looking for talents to invest in.

Enter the unassuming but creative artiste,
Ephraim Bababo with the stage name, Junior Boy who was looking for expression. By sheer coincidence, his meeting with Abel Egbarin brought light his way.

Irapada being one of the songs in his repertoire was chosen as the entry to the coming of Obimzy Records to limelight as it is in the music terrain- hit songs promote the record label of the artiste.

It took popular artiste, Abolore Akande known as 9ice to give life to the song, Irapada as the unknown artiste, Junior Boy gained fame after the release of the single and visuals, refixed and mixed by Chilly Ace.