Ajebo Hustlers, a Nigerian musical duo, revealed that several of their friends and family members recommended them to stop performing music because they weren’t generating a lot from the industry years after they started it.
The Port Harcourt-born singers claim that because of their fight for fame, they have had to live with a number of family members and acquaintances. At one time, they even lived with musician D’banj’s younger brother, K-Switch.
On the most recent edition of the Shopsydoo-hosted Afrobeats podcast, the “Barawo” singers made this revelation.
They said, “We squatted with K-Switch in 2016. I’m not playing. 2017 nothing was popping. It was 2018, we were still trying to push and then we made a record in 2019 with King Perry. I think we were squatting somewhere then.
“That time we were squatting because music was not working and you now have friends that are telling you, omo, thus music is not working, you sure say you try enter street,”
Ajebo Hustlers is a Nigerian Afrobeat and Highlife group comprising of Knowledge (Isaiah Precious) who is a rapper and Piego (George Dandeson) who fills in as the artist and snare ace.
The two talented and creative singers experienced childhood in Old GRA, Port Harcourt, River State Nigeria and they both met in 2010 while working in an eatery together.
According to a report by Boomplay, Piego put his first piece of work in 2014 just after the two collaborated to frame the name ‘Ajebo Hustlers’ in 2014 and accordingly delivered their first single titled “Bole And Fish”.
Following the progress of “Bole And Fish” the team pulled in a joint effort with top performing artists like Kayswitch who was featured in their 2015 single “Buruku”.
Ajebo Hustlers delivered their first group of work, an Extended Play project labelled “New School Oldies” in 2017, with appearances from Yung6ix, Soma, Terry Apala, Major Bankz.
The team has drawn in the consideration of one of the most respected Nigerian Hip-Hop heads and YBNL chief, Olamide on their 2020 delivered single “Barawo”. The single additionally appeared on Apple Music Naija Hits playlists.