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Odeal caught up with Zoe Spencer & Jerah Milligan at R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players 2025.

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00:00Odile! How you doing tonight?

00:02I'm doing good. I'm feeling good. How about yourself?

00:04I'm okay. I'm doing very good.

00:06Very good. Very good.

00:08So, you know, you're being honored as the African Rookie of the Year.

00:11Yep.

00:12Tell us a bit about how you're receiving this honor.

00:14I'm just grateful, to be honest.

00:16Since the beginning of when I started making music,

00:18my only goal was to merge two genres in one

00:21and bring all the places I've been together into my music.

00:24And right now, from the awards I'm getting and from everything,

00:27MOBO, best R&B in Seoul, best newcomer.

00:30It being like So-So, which is like an Afro beats and, you know,

00:33so an R&B record, I'm so grateful.

00:35So, yeah, man, I'm just grateful that I'm at this point.

00:37I can't wait for more to come, to be fair.

00:40You know what I mean?

00:41Your album, The Summer That Saved Me, from what I heard,

00:43it was inspired by like 2016 when we were outside having a good time, right?

00:47A hundred percent.

00:48I feel like it's been an introspective project and an introspective summer.

00:52I learned a lot about myself traveling around to loads of different places,

00:55meeting new people, you know,

00:57and how different people are, you know,

00:59interacting with the project, feeling from the project.

01:01It feels like this project's done what it needed to do.

01:04So, yeah.

01:05Like, yeah, definitely.

01:06Yo, you're here with us right now.

01:07It saved me for sure.

01:08Like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:09Love the accent, by the way.

01:11Accent.

01:12Isn't that a UK?

01:13Yeah, a UK accent.

01:14I like, governor.

01:15Why do you do the accent nesting me, man?

01:16I got an American.

01:17Hey, no, but we should swap.

01:19I mean, hey, listen, bro.

01:21If you teach me, I will teach you how to say American stuff.

01:24I just do deep voice.

01:25Yeah.

01:26That's what I'm talking about.

01:28Oh.

01:30Oh.

01:31We be rolling.

01:33We just be like.

01:34Sorry.

01:35I'm going to say, I'm going to get in there.

01:37Odell.

01:38Your latest album is titled That Summer Saved Me.

01:41Yeah.

01:42Is there someone's album that saved you this summer?

01:44Ooh.

01:45Whose album saved me this summer?

01:46That soundtrack?

01:47I'm not going to lie to you.

01:48Justin's album was great.

01:50Uh-oh.

01:51Bieber?

01:52Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:53That was a good album.

01:54That was a good album.

01:55Hit me in the city.

01:56That's why.

01:57But maybe you could drive a Yukon.

01:58Yes.

01:59That's a good one.

02:00That's a track.

02:01It is.

02:02Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:03Well, thank you so much.

02:04I appreciate it.

02:05Congratulations.

02:06Seriously.

Odeal Talks 'The Summer That Saved Me,' His Goal to Merge Genres & More | R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players 2025

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