Spending his early years in Lagos before moving to Abuja at 17, Nigerian vocalist ODUMODUBLVCK (born Tochukwu Gbubemi Ojogwu) established himself throughout the 2010s and 2020s, emerging in 2018 with his debut EP, The Trenches. His early material spanned genres from local and global spheres, jumping between trap, Afrobeats, grime, and Afropop in the late 2010s as he created the basis for his musical career. After pioneering his country’s take on drill with the collaborative EP TaDE: The Afro Drill Experiment, he coalesced his disparate sounds on 2021 sophomore EP Time & Chance, followed in 2022 by sequel EP TaDE: The Afro Drill Experiment II and the single “Dog Eat Dog." He signed to NATIVE in 2022 and closed out the year with his first charting single, “Picanto,” before moving into 2023 with further successes “Declan Rice,” “Dog Eat Dog II” (with Cruel Santino and Bella Shmurda), and “Firegun” (with Fireboy DML).