.The 5th year anniversary of Late DaGrin’s demise would be celebrate this April, Family members and colleague have confirmed. The iconic hiphop act would be remembered in a memorial that would take place on the 22nd of April at Spice Route, Lagos. The late rapper’s cousin, Tee Blaq would be leading a handful of Nigerian act.
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Dagrin died at 6:00PM on Thursday, April 22 – exactly eight days after he was involved in a ghastly accident in front of Alakara Police station, off Agege motor road, Mushin, Lagos. He survived a serious head injury, as a result of the crash….
years after, things seem to have changed, Dagrin’s death suddenly inspired a whole lot of rappers to hit the studio spitting in Yoruba language. Dagrin didn’t pioneer Yourba-rap, (props to UK based act AY and former Coded Tunes rapper Lord of Ajasa) but he made it popular. So there you had the likes of Olamide, BaseOne, Tipsy, Jyhbo, Seriki spring up, obviously inspired by the general himself Barack O’grin….
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