“I feel like it cannot be accident that I just woke up this morning without an alarm it can’t be.”
Nigerian highlife singer, Omoba Adekunle Kosoko better known as Adekunle Gold in an exclusive interview with Sahara Reporters revealed that he believes there is a supernatural being somewhere controlling the affairs and direction of the world.
“There is God” a track on his recently released album, Adekunle Gold sang about the wonders of the world and how people tend to doubt the existence of a superior being. In the song, he referred to people who say there is no God as “Alagidi” a Yoruba word for “Stubborn”.
In the interview with Adekunle Gold, Sahara Reporters sort to know why he made the song and his view on who God really is.
Here is an excerpt from the interview:
Sahara Reporters: The track “There is a God” in #About30 album what is the story behind it?
Adekunle Gold: “I feel like it cannot be accident that I just woke up this morning without an alarm it can’t be.”
Sahara Reporters cuts in “It can be your subconscious”
Adekunle Gold: What is subconscious? What controls it? Is it some chemical?
Sahara Reporters: “You are your subconscious. It’s in the inside of you”
Adekunle Gold: “So what creates that standard? I don’t want to go too deep Just think about it. It can be normal that you put something in the ground and it just grows. You think about it. You are in the sky, it so vast and the plane you are on it just going just floating and speeding. The sun rises and it sets. They tell a woman she does it have womb and all of a sudden she has a child. A lot of things just happen miraculous. What is that miracle? It has to be something behind it.
Sahara Reports cuts in “So who is that God? Is it the Christian God or Muslim God?
Adekunle Gold: I think there is a God. There is a God that controls everything it does not matter if it is Christian or Muslim God or anything. There is that supernatural being and the only way we can describe him is God.
Speaking on working with Seun Kuti, the son of Fela Kuti Adekunle Gold he described him as an amazing man with an amazing “stream of knowledge” and that he had a great time working with him. He said “I learn from him a lot. You can sit with him and he would quote from every book he’s read. We booked our studio time and we finished the whole studio time just gisting. He went into the boot to write his verse in just five minutes.”
Adekunle Gold also described the process he goes through when he makes music. According to him, God blessed him with a sharp mind and he gets inspired by things around him. He said “I could just be on the road and I could just see any word. If I see 58 that’s song. That’s how I function. I feel like most times, I just need to book a ticket to fly to write because I write mostly on the plane. I love social media a lot I’m not going to lie. On the plane, that’s where I don’t get to press my phone. I write a lot on the plane that where I get to sit and think about what I want to talk about. So I think and then come up with words. Sometimes I get the melody first and I will just record on my phone just like I did with “Sade.”
In 2014, Adekunle Gold gain wild popularity when his song “Sade” which was a cover of One Direction’s “Story of my life” became a romantic anthem. Following the success of the song, he signed a musical contract with YBNL nation – a record label owned by Hip hop artiste, Olamide. After the expiration of his contract, Adekunle Gold started a band he named “The 79thElement”.