\u201cA lot of people think I just came out of nowhere, but I have always been here. I have been actively working behind the scenes. But when I started popping, I didn\u2019t joke with it. I started as the online guy. People love to go to the internet; I was just one of those guys that try to make people happy. Even if it was 5,000 people, I make myself responsible to make them happy in that space, till it got bigger. After a while, I just started working on other stuff. I think I have just been a growing human; I have never been static; I have just been exploiting every opportunity I get.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking about how he found his way into skit making, he shared, \u201cI think my downtime and depression made me get into the online space. To be honest, I didn\u2019t like online popularity before. While I was in school, I was like top 2, in the whole 35,000 students in my set, I really liked entertainment, I started hosting amphi-shows while I was in 200 level facing 7,000 students. I liked doing stuff, but I don\u2019t know how to post and have people comment, I just wanted to work on the street and be the popular guy. I had that kind of life for 6 years in school. I, Blaqbonez, Chinko Ekun, and Asake were just a set of guys moving towards having a good life, but we weren\u2019t mainstream. After graduation was when life really hit. We didn\u2019t know life was different outside school.\u201d He went on to share how he started making videos online and how that created a path for him to establish an online presence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He shared further on his relationship with Asake, and his growth story, \u201cMy greatest achievement for 2022 is Asake. We have been together for 13 years. I was at his concert in London and I cried fire.\u201d Yhemolee shared his humble beginning with his friends, and how he had introduced Asake to Olamide. He narrated the unfolding of events, and how Asake got signed into YBNL record label. \u2018After the signing, we still felt like, signing is nothing. You can sign an artiste and you don\u2019t know what to do. We didn\u2019t know what was going to come. But Asake is a mini-god, he knows that apart from this music, there was nothing else. He had been working on this moment for years. He doesn\u2019t like to drop songs because there was no platform to push it. So, he would rather record the songs and keep them. So, when Baddoo asked him to send some of his songs, Baddoo was like, Asake had enough songs to kick off three albums. He dropped the EP three weeks, after the signing. He also shared how Asake landed Burna Boy on the remix of his song Sungba<\/em>. And how it all came back to him and made him cry, seeing Asake in his concert in London. \u201cI could see that his life has changed. If you see Asake you go think say you dey see Drake. <\/em>You know he has a deal with Empire so, he moved from YBNL to Empire, which was an international space. I could see everything, and I felt it\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt got to a stage that I couldn\u2019t enter backstage. In Lagos now, I can go to any backstage, but I couldn\u2019t do that in London. So, I got to the show past 9. I didn\u2019t have a ticket, and I didn\u2019t buy it. [I had thought that] it\u2019s my guy\u2019s show, I\u2019d just call them to come and pick me. But that didn\u2019t happen, I was very cold. I was so angry because I had told his manager that I was coming. I have never been to London before and I came when the cold is killing. Asake come go give information say \u2018my brother dey outside, make una go carry am come. When I got there, I was looking at him for about 15mins. I was already seeing him as a pop star. Even I couldn\u2019t talk to him\u2026everything has change, you can\u2019t have access to him, you can\u2019t talk, you have to calm down,na him go come talk to you<\/em>. It was like \u20136 and this people came to watch this boy under my nose, you can\u2019t tell me not cry, he added.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n While talking about bringing his parents together after their seperation, he shared, \u2018I mean I saw myself and my sister through school, and they separated at a point where they could have damaged our lives. My parents were well to do, and I went to the best schools. I mean as a \u2018butter\u2019 child, everyone knew our parents were responsible for us until they separated suddenly. Well, my mother is enjoying her life. But for my dad, being that guy that messed up and separated from mum for years, [it wasn’t the same]. I mean I\u2019m the first child, I\u2019m his son. And the man is sorry after all. When he left, he was constantly checking up on us even though he did something wrong to my mum. I decided to do a reunion to get them into the same space. It was so bad that when he tells people he is my father, they do not believe him. While my mother is called, Iya <\/em>olowo eko<\/em>. If you go to her shop in Ikorodu, my picture is there, on a banner like this. But my father has to explain to them, \u2018dem go say na lie. That boy wey I dey see so wey dey for Megamound, you dey for ibadan here<\/em>\u2019. Personally, it was paining me. And what can I do? Even if I send him money, he\u2019s still there. So, I relocated him. On my mum\u2019s birthday. I didn\u2019t tell her I was going to call him. So, they just met in my parlor. and they\u2019re good now, they\u2019re very good\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Singer, nightclub Influencer and actor, Adeyemi Idowu, widely known as Yhemolee sits with Chude Jideonwo on #WithChude to discuss how he first \u2018blew up\u2019 on social media, the growth and explosion of himself and his friends including Chinko Ekun and Asake and how he brought his mum and dad together after years of separation and hurt. \u201cA lot of people think I just came out of nowhere, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[4409,4410,4411],"class_list":["post-10153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","tag-asake","tag-chinko-ekun","tag-yhemolee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/modusoperandum.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Yhemolee-on-WithChude.png?fit=1335%2C717&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modusoperandum.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modusoperandum.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modusoperandum.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modusoperandum.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modusoperandum.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modusoperandum.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10155,"href":"https:\/\/modusoperandum.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153\/revisions\/10155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modusoperandum.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modusoperandum.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modusoperandum.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modusoperandum.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}