{"id":58880,"date":"2025-01-03T18:44:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T18:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58880"},"modified":"2025-01-03T18:44:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T18:44:38","slug":"basketmouth-shifts-focus-to-music-filmmaking-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/03\/basketmouth-shifts-focus-to-music-filmmaking-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketmouth Shifts Focus to Music, Filmmaking in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Alexis Uchendu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian comedian Bright Okpocha, popularly known as Basketmouth, has announced plans to fully transition into music and filmmaking in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with Pulse, he revealed that comedy was never his initial career goal, as he originally pursued music before stumbling into comedy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m taking music more seriously in 2025. I want to create EPs and collaborate with certain artists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMovies, however, remain my top priority. I\u2019ve always preferred filmmaking over comedy, but I just haven\u2019t made a movie yet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Basketmouth recalled starting as a rapper before switching to comedy when music didn\u2019t go as planned. \u201cRap was my thing, but it wasn\u2019t working out. Then I tried comedy by chance, and when it clicked, I knew it was the right path.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite early struggles, he credited his resilience for his success in comedy. \u201cThe beginning was tough, but once I figured it out, my career took off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With this new focus, fans can expect fresh music and film projects as Basketmouth embarks on his next creative chapter in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexis Uchendu Nigerian comedian Bright Okpocha, popularly known as Basketmouth, has announced plans to fully transition into music and filmmaking in 2025. In a recent interview with Pulse, he revealed that comedy was never his initial career goal, as he originally pursued music before stumbling into comedy. \u201cI\u2019m taking music more seriously in 2025. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":58881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58882,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58880\/revisions\/58882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}