Banky W Reveals How Wizkid Got His Name In New Interview

Banky W, a music executive, discusses how Grammy-winning musician Wizkid began from nothing and grew his music career into one of the most successful brands ever.

In an internet video, Banky W reminisced about his early days with the musician, whom he signed to his firm, Empire Mates Entertainment (EME), before Wizkid created his own label, StarBoy Entertainment.

Banky W remembered Wizkid’s unwavering commitment to music, describing him as a “studio rat” who suffered financially, barely affording studio time but compensating with hours spent developing his skill in any studio that would let him stay.

The musician turned politician claimed that the singer’s name “Wiz” came from being the fastest lyricist he had ever met.

“Wizkid for a long time in his life was not fortunate enough to afford or pay for studio time and so he was a studio rat as he will go to any studio where they will let him hang out.”

“He would hang out all day and just wait, hope and pray for the end of the day for the engineers and producers to just take pity on him and say oya, come, come and record for 15 mins or 30 mins because he could not pay for his session.”

So he would spend the entire day working on hooks and melodies and come up with ideas in case he was given the opportunity to hop on the mic for five minutes.”

“And now he is one of the fastest songwriters that I have ever encountered in my life, he will just sit, listen, and listen to music, he would start freestyling a melody that would become a song that the whole world would want to sing and that is where the name Wiz started from, his genius-level creation of melodies is at the spur of the moment.”