‘My name in Afrobeats Hall of Fame’ – Rema

Divine Ikubor, aka Rema, said he has already done a lot to earn a place in the Afrobeats Hall of Fame.

The 23-year-old singer stated that he has no plans to retire from music anytime soon, but that if he did, his name would still “be on the Afrobeats bible.”

He claimed that if an Afrobeats bible existed, he would be on the front page of the “New Testament.”

Rema appeared on the cover of the fourth edition of i-D Magazine’s The New Wave issue.

“I’m not saying I want to stop. But if I say I want to stop right now, my name is still going to be on the Afrobeats bible, if there is an Afrobeats bible to be dropped. I’ll literally be in the New Testament, on the front page,” he said.

The ‘Calm Down’ crooner also recounted how he was mocked because of his Bollywood-soundtrack-themed sound when he hit stardom in 2019.

He said, “Everything they doubted, everything they laughed at me for, I built on it. They called me Indian Boy; I went to India. I’m the first artist to shut down four cities in India, 5000 capacity and above. No one can deny that I’ve impacted Afrobeats on a global scale.”