Jidenna reveals Wizkid as his favorite Nigrian act at the moment, speaks about Nigeria

'Classic Man' crooner Jidenna has spoken up about his love for Wizkid’s music. The Nigerian-born American singer who is currently having his best career moments with his single ‘Classic man’ which became a hit and catapulted him to the top of the charts has disclosed that the Nigerian act he is feeling at the moment is Wizkid.

He said to Billboard

“I love his voice, I love his production team. I was just hanging out with them recently. I’m looking forward to what’s to come, and I love his catalog already." 

Jidenna and Wizkid performed on stage at the Africkan Festival back in July and established a connect which may produce a collaboration from the duo soon.

Jidenna also further disclosed that he is influenced by Nigeria’s Higlife music which is the first music he ever listened to as a child.

He also opened up about his upbringing and being biracial with a Nigerian-born father. In a recent interview with DJ Vlad, he details some of the dangers he faced traveling to his father's homeland simply based upon the color of his skin. A statement people considered racial until he came up to clarify his point with the statement below..

"What I said was...I was referring to my mixed heritage, and being a man who may be perceived as more valuable because you are light skinned, because you look really closer to a white man which all around the world, a white man, the white man is perceived as more valuable. Unfortunately light skinned is often perceived as more valuable. So my comments were referring to that. When I went home to bury my father it was the highest kidnapping time in our area, the area that I am from, the South East Nigeria. So my family in the village was concerned about me burying my father so they said "look you have to take extra precautions this time because one-you are a foreigner, you are coming from America, and then two- your appearance is going to make you a target"

In another interview on The Breakfast Club today alongside Janelle Monae and the group Deep Cotton, Jidenna spoke about The Wondaland's group effort 'The Eephus EP' and then revealed Nigeria is a proud country where excellence is demanded narrating an event with his father from way back below..

"Nigeria is a very proud place, and it's also a place where you try to humiliate if you don't see excellence. I always tell the story of my father. I remember coming to America, in the US you get a highest score on the test and your teacher says "bring it home to your parents. show your parents." So I brought it home to my father like "dad I got a 98 on my math exam", and he said "ah ah 98? Where are the other two points? Go there and bring them back, then I will celebrate with you"

"And that's how I grew up with everything I did, basketball, soccer, football. Everything that I played. In Nigeria its standard to try to check somebody if you see them making misstep. With the words that I said I didn't make a miscalculation in my experience, but I can see how certain people perceive that" he further said.