Things You Don’t Know About Reminisce A.K.A Alaga Ibile

Firstly we will like to wish Reminisce a HAPPY
BIRTHDAY .
Things You Don’t Know About Remenisce A.K.A
Alaga Ibile
Remilekun Abdulkalid Safaru, known by his stage
name Reminisce aka ALAGA IBILE is a Nigerian
singer, rapper, and song writer from Ogun State .
Reminisce decided to use the name Reminisce
because the first 4 letters is a short form of his
first name “Remilekun”, and the word reminisce in
English language means “Indulging in enjoyable
recollection of past events”; his dream has always
been to make music that people will reminisce
about in the future. He grew up in Lagos , studied
purchasing and supply at Kwara State Polytechnic,
and is a versatile rapper, singer and song writer.
He sings in English and his native language,
Yoruba. The prolific producer ID Cabasa discovered
him alongside his friends like Jahbless, 9ice &
Lord Of Ajasa and Olamide. His album, recorded at
Coded Tunes studio, was never released.
Reminisce has had a flair for music since
childhood. He grew up listening to various genres
of local and foreign music which helped form his
versatility in his music career. Back in secondary
school, he was performing at various school
activities; little did he know he was on a path to
great things. He has always wanted to be a rapper
and his favourite rappers growing up were Nas, Jay
Z and Snoop Dogg. He developed his rap skills by
listening to and mimicking the rap legends.
Reminisce later had his big chance to record his
fist ever studio song in 2006. He later went on to
record a full hard core rap album that was never
released because he took a break from music,
completing his tertiary education at the Kwara
State Polytechnic, where he majored in purchasing
and supply. However in 2008 Reminisce made a
return to the music scene, when he featured on a
track titled “Bachelor’s Life” off 9ice’s sophomore
album titled “Gongo Aso”, where he did a rap
verse, and from that year, he has never looked
back on his music career. He went on to record
his own singles, and the dream of an album then
became very real. He dropped “Ever since” where
he featured 9ice, a story about his life till that
moment, he afterwards dropped “If Only” a love
song produced by Dtunez, where he showed his
versatility as singer and a rapper. Both songs
established Reminisce as a force to reckon with in
the Nigerian music scene, and it was only a matter
of time before the force became a reality.
Book Of Rap Stories is the first album by
Reminisce and was released on 31 March 2012, He
started recording the album since 2010 after
linking up with the studio producer Sarz at Edge
Records Studios, They gave in to recording several
songs which made him carve a niche for himself
and create the album in a difference dimension
with local language and English. He went on to
release the track Kako Bii Chicken, a commercial
song which is recognized as the breakout single
and establishing the brand Reminisce, after this
other songs like ‘If Only’, ‘2mussh’ were released.
The album was a 13 track album with production
credits to Sarz, Legendury Beatz, Joshbeatz, Jospo
and PastorChild, The album did well commercially
in the south part of Nigeria.
His second album, ALAGA IBILE , was officially
released on 15 November 2013. This album is one
of the most anticipated records of 2013 from a
Nigerian rapper. The album will feature acts like
wizkid, naeto c, davido, olamide and Sossick. This
album is already an instant breakthrough album
with hit singles like Eleniyan, featuring Wizkid, Fela
Daddy featuring Davido, Fantasi and 3rd World
Thug , worked with Sossick, who produced 80% of
the album, Sarz, chopstix & Jospo.