For fans who are waiting to hear legendary Nigerian rapper, Mode 9 to take to his mother tongue of Yoruba in rapping, they might be waiting for the proverbial Gordot as the rapper has exclusively revealed to Showtime that he’s afraid of stiff competition in that area.

When he was asked if he would ever rap in Yoruba, he answered, ‘No, I can’t do that, you know why? If there are people doing something and they can do it better than you, there is no point in doing it too because they are already way ahead of you.

It is harder for me to write a Pidgin English song than a normal English song. I can rap in English effortlessly. I don’t just write anything, I try to be clever with words like when I said, ‘They be bungalow brains, nothing upstairs;’ it’s a punch line, but it was done in Pidgin English.’

On his relationship with Olamide, Phyno and Reminisce, he quipped, ‘Reminisce and I are good. I believe if you visit someone, and you’re seeing the person’s kids and wife, it’s all good; you can consider yourself being good with the person, right?

But as for Olamide, I just know him in person. We see, have handshakes, but I’m not really close to him, though I do know him, but we don’t hang out. That’s the same thing with Phyno. Phyno even made a beat for my album, but he couldn’t come up with a hook on time so the album just came out without it.’