My Songs are Based on Realities – Bad Boy Timz

Mary Nnah

Nigerian singer, Olorunyomi Oloruntimilehin, popularly known as Bad Boy Timz has revealed that his song is inspired by the realities of life, especially those that have to do with his personal life.  

Speaking during a media parley recently in Lagos, the afro beats singer who revealed that though he was inspired by ace-musician Olamide’s selflessness at some point, noted, “There is no box to my inspirations. I get inspiration from my life and other people’s lives and their stories. There are even songs that are inspired by abstract stories. Sometimes my songs are freestyles, sometimes I write the songs without having any instrumentals for them.

“There is no formula for the way I make my music. It’s based on my reality, other people’s reality, and social awareness. I also sing about youthful stuff because I’m a youth and that’s what my people want to hear.  My aim is always to be able to write music and make it work”, he added.

Hinting on his yet-to-be-released, album, which he said aims to remind people of old Afrobeats songs, he noted, “I’m working on a new album but I have not picked a title for it yet. I am just working with the mindset that I am producing an album soon. The goal of that album is to remind people of old Afrobeats songs.

“I have seen that many people are sampling international songs but barely sample the old Afrobeats songs. That’s one of the things that I’m working on for my new album, sampling songs by veterans that includes Lagbaja, Obey amongst others”, Oloruntimilehin said.

So, for this album,  he stressed that he is sampling a lot of old Afrobeat music and some popular abroad music, adding, “I’m trying to sort of represent abroad music in an African way. So, it is a mixture of Afrobeats and popular music. I am  collaborating with both local and international artists in this work.”

Having grown up in a family where the father is a musician and owns a band, Oloruntimilehin has always been around the music.

Recalling how he was inspired to join the Nigerian music scene, he noted, “I made a freestyle video in 2017 for Davido’s ‘If’.  I posted it on my page but it didn’t go viral. Someone else posted it and it went viral because he tagged Olamide who in turn re-tweeted the post and it went viral.

“I reached out to Olamide and told him I wanted to take music seriously but I didn’t have a direction yet. He invited me over and I did a backup of some songs on the album ‘Lagos Nawa’.

And after I made the freestyle video for Davido’s ‘If’ in 2017, I started dropping more freestyle covers and some singles.”

After ’MJ’,  a song that brought him to the limelight, he recalled that Olamide who was compiling his album invited him to be on it.

Oloruntimilehin finally got a record deal in 2019 and dropped an EP and some singles but went off for one year because of some issues he had with his former record labels. But right now, he is back and re-branded.   He is presently working under Shock Absorbers Music, an independent label owned by him.