Bella Shmurda Appreciates Poco Lee and Olamide as he Hits Career High
Award winning Nigerian singer, Akinbiyi Abiola Ahmed, popularly known as Bella Shmurda, announced today, Wednesday, January 26, 2022, that he has achieved over 550 million streams across all music platforms.
His E.P, High Tension 2.0, had been well received by fans after it garnered over 100 million streams across all streaming platforms after just two months of its release.
Bella Shmurda, who rose to fame with his hit track Vision 2020, on which he later featured multiple award-winning rapper Olamide on the remix and expressed his gratitude to the rapper for giving him the chance and opportunity to work with him. He also did not forget to thank popular dancer and hype man Poco lee for his unrelenting support and encouragement to take on music and pursue a career in it.
I now worth over half a billion streams
— Yxng Alhaji 💐 (@fineboybella) January 26, 2022
(550millions streams to be precise)
I for still Dey lasu Dey wine and dine with carry overs and stranded with nothing in my pocket... forever glad I did my thing. ❤️💐
Bella Shmurda expressed his gratitude for taking the risk oF pursuing a career in music, despite the fact that things appeared bleak from the start.
Thank God I was stubborn and I never got to pass those exams then. Big thanks to @Poco__lee for telling me to do that vision2020 viral video, shoutout to @Olamide for his listening ears and open hands for upcoming acts.
— Yxng Alhaji 💐 (@fineboybella) January 26, 2022
Aside from being the only Nigerian artist to be inducted into the YouTube Foundry Program, Bella Shmurda has also bagged notable awards like the “Next Rated” and “Street Music of the Year” with the hit song “Cash App” featuring Zlatan at the City People Entertainment awards within a short span of his music career that kicked off in 2018.