"Shey you dey whine me ni is a Christian song inspired by people who don't want me to worship God" - Austine de Bull

Internet sensation, Austine Emmanuel aka Austine de Bull has shared the inspiration behind his hit single, 'Shey you dey whine me ni.'

Speaking in an interview with The Nation, the drummer-turned-singer who is from Ogoni in Rivers state, recalled how he was discouraged from singing by friends and neighbors.

Austine further revealed that he was pushed to the point of believing that they didn't want him to worship God. The trending singer said;

"As a drummer that had no idea or connection with singing, when the call came in 2020 to be a singer it was difficult to me myself because I never know how I will start because I have not done it before I had to discuss with some of my friends about the call to be a singer and they were laughing at me that this one I am a drummer and not a singer I won't be able to do it so it was somehow to me, so I had to discuss with other neighbors who were still laughing at me so it was somehow because nobody believed in me, they were discouraging me so I was like 'so they don't want me to worship God shey Una dey whine me ni' so that's where the inspiration came so that's the inspiration".

Austine de Bull added that his hit single, 'Shey you dey whine me ni' is a Christian song with a mixture of street slang and a local dialect.

He said;

"Yes, it is a Christian song but it is a mixture of a street slang and local dialect which is the Ogoni dialect, it means in English  'who say make I no praise God shey you dey whine me ni' and in Ogoni "Mena kon ma le da badi Shey you dey whine mi?".

On how his song went viral, Austine said;

"The calling came in 2020 but I never paid attention to it so when it keep coming around until 2022 this year I decided to pay attention to it that's how it started that I came up with the song. During the video shoot, I did some behind the scenes with my phone camera so I posted it on my TikTok page just to create awareness that something big was coming though I never had any audience it was some people I had on my Tiktok that started posting and that's how it blew up."