Offica
Irish rapper
Tomas Adedayo Adeyinka (born September 2000), commonly known by his stage name Offica, is an Irish rapper of Nigerian descent. During a youth soccer career between 2016 and 2019, he released his debut single "No Hook" in 2018, going viral following the release of "Naruto Drillings" in 2019 and "Plugged in Freestyle" alongside drill collective A92 in 2020.
Early life
Tomas Adeyinka was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 2000. At the age of six, his family moved to Drogheda, Ireland, where he currently lives. Tomas' sister, Victoria, is a social media personality, and has been accredited by The Irish Times as "the most popular TikTok creator in Ireland". He is a Christian, and is studying global business at Maynooth University.
Prior to his musical career, Tomas played for Drogheda United F.C.'s under-17 team as a midfielder in the 2016–17 season; he appeared in 21 games. He joined its under-19 team in March 2018; by 2019, he played as a substitute, having appeared in 11 games (as well as one game for Drogheda United in the 2018–19 Leinster Senior Cup) in the 2018–19 season.
Career
Offica released his debut single "No Hook" in late 2018, at the age of 18; the single gained over 100,000 views on YouTube. In an interview with Hot Press, he stated that
"Around that time, I had college, music and football to juggle together...but I got a lot of injuries, and I was doing decent in music – which made my decision to pick music easier."
In 2019, he released his breakout single "Naruto Drillings", later releasing a remix with British YouTuber KSI, which gained 900,000 views the day after its release on YouTube.
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