Grammy 2025: Seyi Sodimu Shares How His Song ‘Love Me Jeje’ Was Rejected In 2004

• Seyi Sodimu recently shared an old video explaining how he promoted his hit song ‘Love Me Jeje.’

• It is now known that Tems used a sample from ‘Love Me Jeje’ in a song that won the award for Best African Music Performance.

• News of her achievement has gone viral on social media, with fans, fellow musicians, and loved ones joining in the celebration.

Nigerian singer Seyi Sodimu recently shared an old video explaining how he promoted his hit song ‘Love Me Jeje.’

It is now known that Tems used a sample from ‘Love Me Jeje’ in a song that won the award for Best African Music Performance.

News of her achievement has gone viral on social media, with fans, fellow musicians, and loved ones joining in the celebration. Yet, some critics argue that Tems was ungrateful for not acknowledging Seyi Sodimu, the creator of the sampled song.

 In an interview, the singer revealed that his song was rejected back in 2004 when he attempted to market it in Los Angeles. He was told he appeared American but sounded African.

Just before he left Nigeria, the song gained popularity on Ray Power FM and was featured at almost every wedding happening then.

Watch the interview below:

@abiolaabdul02: “Amazing. Love Me Jeje was a big hit while we were growing up. AIT made sure to play it every day on TV.”

@olamidebaron: “Wow ! Just wow 🤩… a million points to take home from this … Billions in fact.”

@_urbandj: “Took man 20years, sometimes success takes time.”

@osanyinstepz: “🔥🔥🔥 Documenting things and being able to recontextualize them for such amazing events 👏.”

@adegonzalez101: “Lobatan! Na Tems and Conditions get the Grammy last last. Let me go twitter gonread banter.”

@tha_lyricalgeologist: “You’re an afrobeats god.”

@mcbiod: “The stone that the builders rejected become the chief cornerstone.”

@smoothlyrugged: “The times, they are changing. Congratulations ❤️.”

@enyola: “He won at the end of the day. The jewel was right in their palms but they couldn’t recognize because they are in the dark. @seyimusic won in the end. Congratulations Seyi and @temsba.”

@askforken: “There are so many songs and artistes that we have had over the past decades with international awards worthy songs if only the international industry that time – especially the 1980s/1990s/00s were open to African music. If only we had streaming technology the.”