Nadia Nakai Reveals Why Her 3 Albums Under Psyfo Never Came Out
Nadia Nakai Reveals Why Her 3 Albums Under Psyfo Never Came Out! Nadia Nakai recently was on YFM’s podcast with Banques and Venom and during her interview gave a little insight into the start of her career, from when she was signed to SID Records owned by Sipho Ngwenya better known as Psyfo. The popular DJ also shared what work she did at SID Records label and how she actually met the former YoTv star.
The Naa Maan hitmaker told Venom and Banques that Sipho’s mom used to live next door to her mom and she used to bug his mom to give Sipho her demo. This all happened years ago when Sipho still had dreads and people knew him as Ajax. “Eventually he saw me on the ShizNiz show and did a poll on Twitter and his like do you guys think I should sign this artist? and I had already been bugging him and then eventually he was like come through let’s work. We did like 3 albums but none of them ever came out,” Nadia shared.
Banques and Venom both asked Nadia, why not? she explained that “it was premature, I feel like I am glad I didn’t release an album then, cause I sound completely different from who I was then and it was amazing for me because I got on really big songs like “Do like I do” was when I was still signed to SID records, it was Amantombazana remix when I was still signed to SID Records, so those are like monumental songs that are very big now for me.“
Banques and Venom then spoke up to Nadia about how some hip hop artists are shy to release their earlier bodies of work or speak on them. Nadia shared that “it was a different time, and I think Im happy that my first album was as good as Nadia Naked and I think Nadia Naked was that good because I grew up. I had to grow up into the type of woman that could make that type of music and talk about those types of stories and go through life challenges. The fact that More Drugs went Gold as my first gold plaque. I would have never been able to make a song like that when I was still signed to Sipho, I was so young I was still in varsity. I didn’t know what love was about, heartbreak pain was all about. but now because I matured, grew up I can look at Nadia Naked and go damm that’s a good album. So I’m happy it didn’t come out then.”
Nadia then shared that she might release her old songs as mixtapes but she also explained that she has never really felt the need to drop albums.
