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Death is unavoidable, although one hopes to live a long time on earth. Sadly, some notable figures in the entertainment industry had their lives cut short in their prime, some by natural disasters and others by terminal illnesses. Despite the fact that they passed away in their prime, the entertainment industry will always remember the part they played in its growth. In this article, we present…

12 Years After His Death, Rapper Dagrin Has Been Proclaimed Needed By Police In Sierra Leone

Twelve years after his agonizing demise, Oladapo Olaitan Olaonipekun prominently known as Dagrin has been announced needed in Sierra Leone. A few years back, the Nigerian music industry lost a youthful, very skilled symbol, Dagrin who kicked the bucket in a fender bender. Review that his vehicle’s crashed into a fixed trailer (rock solid vehicle) before Alakara Police Station, off Agege Motor…

In Memoriam: 5 Da Grin Songs We Will Never Forget

On this day, 11 years ago, the death of Nigeria’s promising rapper, Oladapo Olaonipekun Olaitan, popularly known as Da Grin, shook the music industry to the core. He sustained critical injuries that left him unstable after his car ran into a stationary truck in front of Alakara Police Station, Mushin on April 14, 2010. The rising act succumbed to the injuries and died on April 22, 2010, at the…

How Nigeria failed Dagrin – Photographer Toni Payne

Nigerian Photographer Toni Payne has narrated how the Nigerian health care system failed the late Veteran Rapper Oladapo Olaitan Olaonipekun, professionally known as Dagrin. The visual artist who said that she sometimes thinks about the rapper because of his originality took to her Instagram platform to share how the rapper struggled for his life due to the doctors on strike. Sometimes I be…

LET’S DISCUSS!! Is Dagrin Really A True Legend? (A MUST READ)

The above are the words of Sean “Diddy” Combs, on Burna’s Grammy-award-winning LP, “Twice As Tall” from last fall. Sounds gibberish at first, but perhaps the 50-year-old American rapper has a point? Because it really is important that people understand the state of mind of an artist, the life they live, where they “at right now.” It gets to a point where all that matters to an artist is the…