Thread by @Osi_Suave

This year was one of the hardest I have had to navigate as an adult.

After church on the 1st of Jan this year i told God i wanted to attain financial freedom on a major level.. and Teni dropped in my heart

We had a meeting with the Label 5 days later.

And we had an agreement that took lawyers 3 months to sort out. We agreed for April 2019 so I had 4 months to raise 60m with my partner to pull it off.

Called an investor in London and he told me to come.

Got to London in Jan. It was cold as fuck and my investor Ghosted me

Baba just put off his phone

I was confused, angry and sad. But I never dwell on issues I always find solutions.

I came back to lagos to keep looking for bar.. everyone kept saying the same thing

Too risky
What's the guarantee
She is a new artiste
Wait until she has an album.

But I dont know how to take No for an answer.

So with every No I got I kept pushing with my partner

Teni Kicked off her world tour in may the plan was to add a lagos date in April

Then the Venue needed a deposit to be able to block a date.

With zero money coming in

I put down my rent with no idea of where it would come from when it was time to pay..

Many times I wanted to break down and cry

But crying wont raise me money. Then we got investors

Decent money

Then the Talent said we should push to December. The investors pulled out and we were back to ground zero.

I went to Newyork in May to look for investors.

Same thing

No one was seeing the vision

They would rather buy me champagne and talk big.

Oga drop this bar

It was excuse after excuse.

My partner drew up a budget and the figure knocked me out. Cos if we sold both our cars and liquidated everything we would be in the negative to about 40m

So I told him we needed to start and clear off everything as we went along.

I used to wake up with panic attacks at 2am

Confused

Cos my mentality was we needed this shit to work

I was holding down a full time job on the radio, juggling small side hustles and trying to pull this out with my partner

What this taught me was the power of resilience, the beauty of dreams and the inability to allow people project their fears on you.

I wasnt sleeping 3 months to the event

Writing strategies
Drawing up media plans
And knocking off Vendors

Stay up till 3am, sleep for 2hrs and head to work at 5ish

Then Teni Posted I'm November that the date was Dec 16th as agreed.

As soon as I saw it I ran to the bathroom to throw up

I was hyperventilating cos it just hit me that it had finally come.

Everything fell in place.. and people tried to break us

From the promoters who paid area boys to remove out banners

To the people who kept asking why we were doing it on a Monday

Billboards went live
TV ads went live
Radio ads went live
Cinema ads

Officially we had covered everything. The closer we got to the date I couldn't even sleep again

Told Teni to focus on rehearsals and we would handle the show.

Then we made history

We sold out
On a monday!!!!

Like we fucking did this

To our friends that came through for us and bought tables and paid.

God will bless you..

To the ones that bought tickets and showed up on a work day

God bless you

To Dr Dolor Ent.

Thank you..

To @TeniEntertainer

You are a star baby girl.

To @crowdkontroller @IamShody @tokstarr @wizkidayo @deejayneptune

Thank u guys for coming

To my Oga

Mr Paul O.

Na man you be

@Skiibii @falzthebahdguy @ReekadoBanks @Zlatan_Ibile

Thank you guys for the love

@TiwaSavage @brodashagi

Thank u

@deejayneptune my brother

My friend

God bless u

@IamShody

Blood forever!

It would be on record that we sold out Eko Hotel on a Working monday

People will project their fears on you

Tell you it cant be done

Tell you your idea isnt bankable.

Dont listen to them

Always listen to your gut and follow through with mad consistency and the grace of God

To the people that said we couldn't do it.

Always remember

Its God Engineering

2020 is going to be amazing

With everything we are planning

God keeping us all and shining his countenance on us.

The bar will even be higher

To our sponsors and partners

Bet9ja
Pepsi
Budweiser
Interswitch
Alat
Munch it
Natnudo
Tecno
Bardar
Fearless Energy Drink
MaxNG

Let's do this again in 2020

To @bizzleosikoya thank you for being my brother and my friend

@FayoseRogba

Na Man you be.

@TosinAshafa

For always coming through for me.

God bless you