The Obongjayar Interview with Throwing Fits

Throwing Fits

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🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Our interview with Obongjayar is completely uncut, despite his best efforts. Obongjayar—whose album Paradise Now is out now—hopped right off the plane to hit the studio and raucously riff with the boys on why he chooses to fly economy and loves plane food, our country's current moment of extreme Anglophilia, how he used to sing with an American accent and goes full Kyle mode for us, gun fever, his Youtube addiction and what’s in the queue, the IG explore page do be jiggling though, getting out of the Nigerian trenches and moving to the UK as a teen, his home country’s influence on mainstream music and where he fits in, an honest review of London’s neighborhoods and their residents, a deep discussion on why he left religion behind that turns into a light realization that hell is definitely super lit if it’s indeed real, FredAgain changing his life and how Fred leads by example, being so broke you gotta make the pizza and donuts stretch, his UK vintage spots, an education in grime, putting the vices on hold when it’s time to record, his celibacy journey and dating maturation, trying to be a better human, and much more on Obongjayar's interview with The Only Podcast That Matters™.

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0:00.0	Our guest this week is fresh off a flight from London, England, because we collectively scammed
0:05.6	his label into Paymore to get him to New York a day early so we could rip a pop before he starts
0:10.5	torn across America's East Coast and then head back to Europe in which he'll be playing
0:14.5	records from the adored by snobs, beloved by the people, an impossible to pigeonhole album,
0:19.1	Paradise Now. And if he's not a fucking idiot, he'll do an encore with his Fredigan feature. Fresh off getting that F1 money and here to chat getting Liddy and Giddy, London Vintage and realizing God his ass, Obang Jayaar, A.K.K.OBie, how the hell are you? I'm good, man. How are you? Nice to finally be acquainted, man. Yeah, you knackard. you knackard. I love how you say knackard. Nackard. I'm tired. I'm not heard. Sounds like a, it sounds like a slur. It does sound like that. Fuss bad, bro. Tired. I'm tired. I'm tired. You tired? And I had like a dangerous sleep before I came over. So I went to the hotel and I got to sleep.
0:54.7	A forbidden nap.
0:55.7	A forbidden nap.
0:56.5	I should have done it.
0:57.3	I woke up and my eyes were like puffy.
0:59.0	I'm like,
0:59.8	my glasses are on. So sorry. It's not because you're a rock star. It's because you're a knackard. I'm a knackard rock star. I'm like 90 years old
1:07.3	There's no such thing
1:08.0	as a knacket rock star
1:08.8	Yeah
1:09.1	Nah you should see fucking
1:10.8	Iggy Pop right now
1:11.6	He's like a hundred years old
1:13.7	I love you still
1:14.7	He's still going though. He's, he's, he's looking pretty... He's not, no, he's not. He's kind of like... He's melting. He's melting. He's melting. He's melting. You know, RP Ozzy, Oz. Ozzy. Yeah, let's... I know that happened today. Legend. Were you on the flight when that news broke?
1:31.3	No. Yeah, he's melting, he's melting. You know, RP Ozzy, Oz. Yeah, let's, I know, that happened today.
1:28.9	Legend.
1:29.9	Were you on the flight when that news broke? No, I was in the Uber that had a condom in the, I can open condom in the side pocket. Used, bro, inside pocket. You didn't take it, did you? I was about to you. Was the Uber only, was the, was the, wild?
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