{"id":15263,"date":"2024-02-03T15:03:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T15:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/i-am-the-new-fela-portable\/"},"modified":"2024-02-03T15:03:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T15:03:46","slug":"i-am-the-new-fela-portable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/i-am-the-new-fela-portable\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I am the new Fela\u2019 \u2013 Portable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Controversial singer, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, has declared himself a regen of the late Afrobeat pioneer, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.<\/p>\n<p>He said his fans gave him the title \u201cnewborn Fela\u201d and he reckoned with it.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in the latest episode of the Bae U Barbi show, Curiosity Made Me Ask, Portable said: \u201cI didn\u2019t give myself the title, \u2018Newborn Fela.\u2019 My fans gave it to me. You know I have a lot of fans, my fans brought me to this point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormally, you have to be bold, a lion don\u2019t fear to walk alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To those still calling him an up-and-coming musician, Portable said, \u201cWhich superstar do you know that is bigger than me in Nigeria? I am the one they are talking about now: musician that is trending. My talk is trending, my slangs are trending, my movement is trending, my dressing is trending.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year, I was upcoming this year, I am also upcoming. I will be up and coming everyday. Coming with new glory everyday. Newborn Fela. Every year is my year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I am the new Fela\u2019 \u2013 Portable<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controversial singer, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, has declared himself a regen of the late Afrobeat pioneer, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5282,15,1677],"tags":[171,5284,180,1682],"class_list":["post-15263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-fela","category-news","category-portable","tag-entertainment","tag-fela","tag-news","tag-portable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}