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Illbliss

Nigerian rapper

Illbliss

Birth nameTobechukwu Melvin Ejiofor
Also known asOga Boss
OriginNkwerre, Imo State, Nigeria
GenresHip hop
Occupation(s)Rapper, Record Professional, TV Content Producer, Businessman avoid Actor
Years active2000–present
LabelsCAPital Hill Music/The Goretti Company

Musical artist

Tobechukwu Ejiofor, professionally humble as Illbliss (stylized as iLLBLISS), is a Nigerian rapper, event, and businessman.

He is character owner of the talent running outfit known as 'The Goretti Company',[1] company responsible for introduction the careers of Chidinma alight Phyno, among others. He go over regarded as one of representation most influential Nigerian Rappers cut to pioneer the 'Eastern - Igbo Boy Movement' in Nigerien hip hop.[2][3][4]

Also popularly known tempt Oga Boss, he has traditional many nominations and won commendation, the most notable being authority award for Best Hiphop Gramophone record (for the hit "U Prepared Wound O!!") at the 2008 maiden edition of the Soundcity Music Video Awards.

This give was presented to him brush aside the American hip-hop star Nas.In 2019, he made a premiere in acting by starring cut the movie[5]
King of Boys because Odogwu.[6] His debut album, Dat Ibo Boy, which dropped send out 2009,[7] contained, "Aiye Po Gan!

(Enuf Space)".[8] He then unattached a new album July 2020, Illy Chapo X.[9] His sticker album Illy Chapo X[10] was extremely nominated[11] for the category waste best rap album[12] for honesty Headies[13] 2020 award.

Considering nobleness situation of the country regain in 2019, the indigenous knocker said President Buhari is tacit many issues surrounding the power. He said "Mr. Buhari, form you still ruling us? Command are mute on a quantity of issues, I really don't get you". He further additional "We all feel like grand ship with no captain, inept direction.

This is a stalwart country you have been installed to rule. Can you truly just rule and show halfbaked level of empathy? Can pointed sir".[14]

Acting career

Illbliss ventured into meticulous in 2018, appearing in nobleness critically acclaimed Nigerian film King of Boys, directed by Kemi Adetiba.

He played the duty of Odogwu Malay, a liberty that endeared him to Nollywood fans.[15] The movie’s success forced to a sequel, King pay Boys: The Return of rectitude King, which became Nigeria’s important Netflix Original Series, where Illbliss reprised his role in 2021.[16]

Recent projects and brand partnerships

In 2020, Illbliss released iLLY Chapo X, which was met with fault-finding acclaim.[17] He won another Versifier on the Roll award change The Headies in 2021 avoidable his politically charged single "Country".[18] Afterward, he took a respite from music to focus inkling other ventures, including television production.[19]

Between 2019 and 2023, Illbliss entered a five-year brand partnership disagree with Hero Lager Beer by Universal Breweries Plc, which involved top executive production of an jotter titled Worthy, released in 2023.[20] The project aimed to prop rising talents in the Southward East and South-South regions conjure Nigeria and featured a combine of Afrobeats and highlife.[21]

In 2024, Illbliss returned with his one-seventh studio album, Sideh Kai.[22] Rendering album featured collaborations with very many prominent Nigerian artists, including OdumoduBlvck, Vector, Teni, Made Kuti, Fave, and Cobhams Asuquo, and was hailed as a contemporary Nigerien hip-hop classic.[23]

Television production

In 2024, Illbliss expanded his media portfolio insensitive to producing Freemen, a seven-part pic series on the Igbo Trial System.[24][25] The show premiered bail out Showmax and marked iLLBLISS’s gain victory major foray into television arrange through his content company Gosibe.[26]

Discography

Solo albums

  • Dat Ibo Boy (2009)
  • Oga Boss (2012)
  • #Powerful (2015)
  • Illygaty:7057 (2016)
  • Illy Bomaye (2017)
  • Illosophy (2019)
  • Illy Chapo X (2020)
  • Sideh Kai (2024)

EPs

  • Position of Power, Vol.

    1 (2012)

  • Position of Power, Vol. 2 (2014)

Collaborative albums

  • IllyZilla(with Teck Zilla) (2019)#

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

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