Olamide’s new animation keeps his own name for last. Six faces from the label he started in 2012 come first, each in a scene of his own, before “Baddo” flashes across the screen and all seven end up walking toward a building with YBNL lit up on its roof. He posted it to Instagram on November 10, 2026, with a two-word title for the night: “The Reunion!”
The show is on December 18, 2026, at Oasis Ground on Coastal Road, Victoria Island, Lagos, under the Future Fest ’26 banner, with DJ Enimoney, Pheelz, Fireboy DML, Young Jonn, Lil Kesh and Adekunle Gold on the bill beside him.
Reunion is the right word, because most of them left by design. Olamide signed Lil Kesh and Viktoh, two acts from his own Bariga neighbourhood, in April 2014 on two-year deals. When Kesh’s ran out in 2016 and he started his own label, YAGI Records, both men went to Instagram. Olamide signed off “YBNL FamilyForEver,” and Kesh wrote, “YBNL is family and will always be till I go 6ft under the ground.” A year later Adekunle Gold left on the same terms. “Olamide signed us for two years, so that by yourself, you can hustle and make things happen,” he said.
The sound came from the people in the room with him. Pheelz met Olamide when both were working under ID Cabasa, and he has said they “pretty much came up with the idea of YBNL” there; he became Olamide’s go-to producer on the 2012 album YBNL. He is also the reason Adekunle Gold got a deal. After hearing “Sade,” Pheelz recalled, “I found his address, went to his house, and dragged him to meet the YBNL crew.” Adekunle Gold already knew the label from the design side: he had designed the YBNL logo, the same four letters glowing over the building in Olamide’s flyer. Pheelz brought Young Jonn over from Hit Factory Studios, where Olamide recorded, and Young Jonn has said they “didn’t put out anything till we made ‘Story for the Gods,'” in an interview. DJ Enimoney was billed as YBNL’s official DJ when he released “Diet” with Slimcase, Reminisce and Tiwa Savage in 2018. That same year Olamide messaged Fireboy DML on WhatsApp, and “Jealous” came out on the label compilation YBNL Mafia Family.
The animation casts each of them as who they became. Pheelz, who has since stepped in front of the mic himself with songs like “Finesse,” plays an electric guitar; Young Jonn, another producer turned singer, sits in a white suit while someone brushes on his makeup. Fireboy wakes up in bed with his sunglasses still on. Lil Kesh dances in the middle of a crowd on a street, and Adekunle Gold sings into a vintage microphone in front of an orchestra, eight days before he plays The Greatest Showman at the National Theatre with the MUSON Orchestra.
Olamide gives himself the slow scenes. He walks a bridge alone, paints, and sits at a chessboard, which is where the film opened, under the Future Fest ’26 title.
On March 25, 2027, he headlines The O2 in London. The flyer names the ground and the date, and it has no ticket details yet.
Watch the reel on Olamide’s Instagram.