Afrobeats superstar Davido is the rakish cover star on Australian fashion and culture magazine L’officiel Fashion book for its September issue.
For the cover shot, Davido was styled in a Bottega Veneta trench coat, Fendi turtleneck, trousers from Alexander McQueen and a Giuseppe Zanotti pair of kicks
The artist spoke on a number of subjects including the #EndSARs protests, his feature on TIMES, his recent albums and more.
On his “Fem” song becoming the #EndSARs anthem
It’s crazy because we didn’t record that record. EndSARS hadn’t even started yet. We dropped that record two weeks before. The record’s already gone, it was huge already. Then there was a little rally where this government official was speaking to the people and then somebody played the song.
They played the song, everybody’s singing. He’s trying to talk, but everybody is singing the song instead. Then somebody got the video and it just went crazy. From there, it became the anthem of the whole– I almost got in trouble. I was like, “Yo, I did record that song, but–” It was nice to see them use a song of mine to be instrumental in how they felt.
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On appearing on TIME100 NextGen 2021
Of course, internationally it gives us, apart from being acknowledged, which is a great thing as well, it’s also spreading the story of what’s happening back home to the people over there. That, of course, we can’t knock that.
There are so many people involved in this that did so much more than me that weren’t mentioned there that were way more instrumental than me. That’s why I’m really careful. I ain’t trying to take all the credit and stuff like that. You feel me
On his albums “A Good Time” and “A Better Time”
It’s crazy because my favorite thing to do is perform. Out of being an artist, that’s probably my favorite part of being an artist is performing. Not being able to perform took a toll on me. Things are opening back up. I just did a Yam Festival in the UK, performed all my new songs, they sang them word for word. That was really exciting to see. It made me feel like, “Okay, this album really ain’t going to waste because I already know like, nowhere you can’t go nowhere if they f*cking with this type of sh*t.” That was amazing to see. I’m bout to drop one more project I think in February 2022.
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