



Now, he's released his debut album, The Chief. With his Nigerian dad and Bostonian mother, Jidenna spent his childhood moving across cities, continents and boundaries. "He said, 'You were conceived in Nigeria, and then I brought you to Wisconsin to make damn sure that you and your mother - make sure you had the blue passports.' " "My father would tell the story like this," Jidenna says. So for his first full-length album, the singer and rapper found himself drawn back to his roots: Nigerian highlife singers and the story of his father, who passed away seven years ago. "He said, 'You're too perfect,' " Jidenna says. At one point, a friend's manager took him aside and said he thought Jidenna had a ton of potential as an artist - but there was just one problem. Jidenna Theodore Mobisson, mononymously known as Jidenna, is an American rapper. His look matched his sound: three-piece suits, polka-dotted ascots and red hair slicked down in a wave that would've made Nat King Cole jealous. Download Rap Instrumentals & Free Beats For Naija Songs 2018. The 2015 hit " Classic Man" introduced the world to Jidenna. Jidenna's new album, The Chief, is a dedication to his late father.
