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Coming 2 America: eLDee rates Davido’s performance as Afrobeat biggest achievement
Rapper-turned-American information technology consultant, Lanre Dabiri, better known by his stage name eLDee The Don, has applauded Afro-pop star, Davido’s movie debut in Hollywood’s Coming 2 America.
The 2021 movie, a sequel to Eddie Murphy’s 1988 classic – Coming To America, dropped in Nigerian cinemas on Friday, March 5th.
The ‘A Better Time’ singer sent fans into frenzy after he uploaded a snippet of his cameo appearance in the movie on Instagram.
In the viral clip, Davido was seen performing his single, ‘Assurance’ off his 2019 album, ‘A Good Time’.
Reacting to the singer’s appearance, eLDee dubbed his cameo as the biggest achievement for Afrobeat.
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”><a href=”https://twitter.com/davido?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@davido</a> performing "Assurance" in Coming 2 America has got to be the highest of heights for afrobeats yet….for me! 👏👏🔥🔥🔥<br><br>Thank you for all the hard work <a href=”https://twitter.com/davido?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@davido</a> 👑. You ain't really need to put in this much work but you do it anyway, for the culture! 💪</p>— eLDee (@eLDeeTheDon) <a href=”https://twitter.com/eLDeeTheDon/status/1367907687099469827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>March 5, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>
An original member of the band Trybesmen created in 1998 with rappers KB and Freestyle, eLDee left Nigeria for the United States after producing five solo albums.
In 2019, the former Afro-hip hop star declared that he did not regret quitting music as the path his career was going would not make him have time for his family.
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