Ten years is a long time in Nigerian music. Artists rise and fall, sounds come and go, but Ojuelegba has stayed. Wizkid released it in 2014 on his second studio album Ayo and it became one of the defining songs of his career — not because it was his biggest commercial hit, but because of what it said about where he came from.
The song is autobiographical. Ojuelegba is a real place — a busy junction on Lagos Mainland — and Wizkid grew up nearby. In the song he talks about hustling through those streets to fund his recording sessions at Mo'Dogg's studio, people in the area knowing his story before he was famous. That specificity is what made it connect so deeply. It wasn't a generic come-up story, it was his actual come-up story told with street-level detail.
The record won Song of the Year and was nominated for Best Pop Single at The Headies 2015. It topped Capital Xtra's Afrobeats Chart in the UK in February 2015 and won Hottest Single of the Year at the 2015 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. In July 2015, Drake and Skepta jumped on a remix that premiered on OVO Sound Radio and was later ranked 12th on The Fader's list of the 107 Best Songs of 2015. That remix was a turning point — it was the moment the wider world started paying serious attention to what was happening in Lagos.
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Wizkid – Kese (Dance) | Morayo AlbumThe music video directed by Clarence Peters captured everyday Ojuelegba life — bus conductors calling out routes, Wizkid boarding a danfo, the ordinary chaos of the area. There was nothing glamorous in it on purpose. Spotify Africa marked the 10th anniversary with a dedicated feature celebrating the song's impact. In 2025, at Asake's Red Bull Symphonic concert in Brooklyn, Wizkid was handed the mic when Ojuelegba came on and sang a line to the crowd — showing that even now, a decade later, that song still means something to him live on stage.
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