Life After The Freshmann Mixtape

Indigenous rap artist, ‘Fiddy the Rapper’ (Fesse Amunyela) put out his first mixtape titled, ‘The Freshman Mixtape’. The tape which has 15 tracks, is an accumulation of some of his hit singles like Hookah, Snapchat, and 061 streets to name a few. We sat down with ‘Fiddy The Rapper’ to ask him how his career changed after his mixtape dropped.

Well definitely! I receive requests from producers daily from around the world with beats submissions and beat sales as well, I am exposed to more opportunities from people locally and internationally although not too many people are willing to pay me yet so I have to focus on adding more value so that people are willing to pay the cost of experiencing my music.

‘Fiddy The Rapper’s’ advertising team has done a pretty good job so far in terms of promoting his music we asked him how his mixtape streams did.

My current Mixtape streams are at 1271 plays although my total streams are at 5 344 streams, 4 525 of which came during the last 12 months and since I only dropped one project last year I can assume that most of those plays came from singles from the project

It’s rare to find someone who drops a mixtape and ends up performing in Washington DC just after a few months, Fiddy explained how people in the USA view Namibian hip hop and how the experience was for him.

A brilliant experience to be honest. Meeting different creatives showed me that Namibian rappers are not as far off as we think, I believe I stood out and left a good impression, I made some valuable connections and realized I’m closer to my next checkpoint that I initially thought. Also, the audience was really responsive as well

Fiddy The Rapper also explained why he’s and independent artist and does not have any ties with a major label.

I am independent and it is hard although I am up for the challenge. I only plan on signing if it allows me to reach more people and grow a real community of dreamers and doers.