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sharing his brilliance with the rest of the world. Yung6ix collaborated with Percy on "First Class", the third single from his album. He also released a music video for the song which earned him a "Best Hip Hop Video" nomination at the 2013 Nigerian Music Video Awards. 6ix's debut full-length studio album,
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news, Yung6ix recalled, "My love for music was so deep and I just kept on going till it got to a level they had to accept me for who I am. Funny though, the first song I recorded at school was used with my WAEC lesson fee to pay for the instrumentals and remember always having to trek from school to
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In 2013, Yung6ix floated his imprint "Kash Kamp" which houses Percy as well as talented producer Otee Beatz. On 4 September 2013, Yung6ix's camp welcomed a hand offered from "Trick
Billionaire MusiQ" for both parties to partner with the end-result of taking Yung6ix and his brand out of Africa and
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on "Follow Me", a track from his debut studio album. Following the release of the song, an accompanying music video was filmed; it was directed by Bobby
Boulders. In September 2011, Yung6ix released the fourth track from his
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was originally slated for an April 2011 release; however, it was finally released on 26 December 2011. The music video for "Oh My Gosh", which was directed by Bobby
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studio for close to 2 hours or more. It was really tough back then at school too as we weren't allowed to do our thing like we would love to but our passion just kept us going stronger & tougher."
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