Blaq Jerzee

Blaq Jerzee isn’t just a stage name. It’s who Okhuofu Isaiah Oshoriameh is, and has been ever since high school. “When I was a kid, I had to go to school in uniform. You needed to have five or six days’ uniform you could change into, but my family could only afford one or two,” the Lagos producer-songwriter recalls. “So I had to do laundry all the time.” This meant turning up to social gatherings, church groups or music practices not in school clothes like his friends, but in sportswear.