Asake

CTL-E-5807 · Person · musician · 1995–present

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VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-01233 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-P-0214 + build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5807. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

Asake, born Ahmed Ololade on 13 January 1995 in Lagos, Nigeria, is a Nigerian singer, rapper and songwriter whose stage name is his mother's name. He studied theatre and dramatic arts at Obafemi Awolowo University and built his sound from Afrobeats, fuji, amapiano and Yoruba street-pop. Olamide signed him to YBNL Nation in February 2022; his debut EP Ololade and the breakthrough single "Omo Ope" followed the same month. His debut album, Mr. Money with the Vibe (2022), set the record for the biggest opening day for an African album on Apple Music at the time and debuted at No. 66 on the Billboard 200, a peak his second album, Work of Art (2023), matched. His third album, Lungu Boy (2024), became his third consecutive No. 1 album in Nigeria and the longest-running No. 1 in Nigerian chart history. He earned Grammy nominations for Best African Music Performance in 2024, for "Amapiano" with Olamide, and in 2025, for "MMS," his collaboration with Wizkid. In February 2025 he left YBNL and launched his own label, Giran Republic; his fourth album, M$NEY, was released on 1 May 2026.

The record

• Also known as: Ahmed Ololade, Mr. Money
• Role(s): musician

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 2 — 747 Program, Wave 8; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Asake entity in the live graph at 3,523 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5807 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 489 (World Music Singers list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Nigerian Afrobeats — African/diaspora scope. Vital status: LIVING — fourth album M$NEY released 1 May 2026 under his own Giran Republic label, with 2027 Grammy submissions reported in October 2026 (Wikipedia; Afri Post). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Mr. Money with the Vibe (2022) and Work of Art (2023) each debuted at No. 66 on the Billboard 200; Lungu Boy (2024) is the longest-running No. 1 album in Nigerian chart history; Grammy nominations 2024 ("Amapiano") and 2025 ("MMS") — Wikipedia / Broadway World label-press biography, accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and label/press photography of this subject exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5807-asake.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio; the subject's recordings are third-party copyrighted material). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings are third-party )

Relationships

• Wizkid — collaborated with
  Wizkid features on Asake's "MMS" (2024), nominated for Best African Music Performance at the 2025 Grammy Awards.

Referenced by

• Mr. Money with the Vibe — authored by → this record

Sources

• Broadway World (label/press release), "Asake" artist biography (October 2026) — two-time Grammy nominee; Mr. Money with the Vibe the highest-charting Nigerian debut album at its release; Lungu Boy the longest-running No. 1 album in Nigerian chart history; nominations for "Amapiano" (2024) and "MMS" feat. Wizkid (2025); vital-status evidence — https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmusic/article/Photos-Blaqbonez-Announces-NOMADINHO-4TH-PRIME-Album-Reunites-with-Asake-20261002 (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, "Asake" — born Ahmed Ololade, 13 January 1995, Lagos; Obafemi Awolowo University theatre studies; YBNL signing February 2022; debut and second albums each debuted at No. 66 on the Billboard 200; Giran Republic launched February 2025; M$NEY released 1 May 2026 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asake (build store)
• Music In Africa, "Asake, the breakout pop star from Nigeria who owned 2022" — stage name is his mother's name; fuji/amapiano/street-pop blend; Yoruba-language songwriting — https://www.musicinafrica.net/fr/node/247692?destination=node/247692 (build store)
• https://hiphopcanada.com/asake-nigeria-star-owned-2022/ (verification source · master store)

Evidence note (master store)

Asake, born Ahmed Ololade, is a Nigerian singer whose sound blends Afrobeats, fuji, amapiano and Lagos street slang; his debut album Mr. Money With The Vibe was released in September 2022 (per article by Sanya Osha, University of Cape Town, originally in The Conversation, republished by HipHopCanada).

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