Cameroonian Afrobeat hiphop/rap artist, Nassi B has joined the increasing list of music artists and talents from Africa who have Finnish citizenship. Some of the music artists and talents from Africa who have the Finnish citizenship also have their original country’s passport but for Nassi B, he had to dump his Cameroonian passport for Finnish because Cameroon only allows single citizenship.
Nassi B had plans to travel to the United States but due to the Covid-19 restrictions, he couldn’t make it. He travelled to France in early October, which was his second time. He got the Finnish citizenship a year ago. He said he dumped his Cameroonian passport for Finnish passport because he intends embarking on foreign trips to enhance his musical career and more importantly, overcome the challenges confronting non Finns in their careers.
In 2018, he was invited to the United Kingdom for the Cameroon Diaspora Music Awards where he won an award and also performed.
Nassi B
While in the UK, he met fellow Cameroonian artists who came to the event from other countries. According to him, ” They had no issues in their trip and services available to them because of the European passports they were holding.”
During his trip to the UK, he had issues with his papers which made him to stay beyond the days that the organizers of the event had arranged for him and he had to pay more at his own cost.
According to Nassi B,
“Having the Finnish passport will help me a lot in my musical career because in 2022, I will travel to some places. I missed out on several invitations because of the issue of traveling with my Cameroonian passport.”
Presently the artist has 8 tracks streaming online with 3 videos. His first hit, “ChopNoko” is the most streamed followed by “Sweetest Girl”
He was supposed to do a video for “Sweet Girl,” but when he was about finalizing the kind of video he wanted, that was when he had issues with his manager which made them to split. Nassi B splitted with this manager sometime ago and he has been pushing his music by himself. Despite the split, Nassi B still has the right to use the Daily Hustle Entertainment logo and platforms to push his music. The Daily Hustle Entertainment is fully registered in Cameroon.
He suggested that all the Afrobeat artists in Finland should network together. Support each other in order to push Afrobeat forward. On the attitude of fellow Africans living in Finland, he noted that the support needed from Africans is not forthcoming. When an artist post a song on his or her social media platform the people that will comment and share the post are people who don’t even know the artist but those who knows the artist will not comment nor share it, he remarked. Some of them will come to your inbox and tell you that “Oh bro that song is dope.” This is not what we want. If you want to show support let It be open, do it openly so that the fan base will grow, he opined.
