Douglas Jack Agu (born 19 August 1989), higher recognized by his stage title Runtown, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and producer with a various musical fashion mixture ofhip-hop, R&B, reggae and rap.[2] After transferring to Lagos from Enugu State withPhyno in 2007, he began doing underground collaborations with artists like J-Martins and Timaya. In 2008, he partnered with Phyno to type a file label known as Penthauz throughout which he launched his first two singles “Party Like It’s 1980” and “Activity Pikin”.[3] He collaborated withDavido on his tune “Gallardo” which introduced him extra consideration. Few months later, he signed a multi-million Naira contract with Eric-Manny Entertainment owned by Prince Okwudili Umenyiora, the C.E.O of Dilly Motors.[4]

Runtown was born on 19 August 1989 inEnugu however grew up partly in Abuja and Lagos, the place he completed his main training. After the dying of his father, he moved to Abuja together with his mom who was working within the Ministry of Health. While rising up, he had the goal of being knowledgeable basketball participant. In 2005, he relocated to Enugu after his mom developed curiosity in politics; he went on to complete his secondary faculty training in Enugu State.[5]

Runtown is presently learning Fashion Management at a trend faculty in New York.[6]

Runtown launched his first single titled “Runtown” which was produced by Soge in 2007. His 2010 single titled “Forever” had a video directed by IvanEdd movies.[8]

In 2012, Jamaican/American singer Laza Morgan featured Runtown on a tune titled “High on You” which did massive on the Caribbean charts. J. Martins featured Runtown on a tune off his Elevation album titled “Tonight”; he additionally labored with Phyno on a tune titled “Anam-Achi Vers-Achi” which was produced by WizzyPro. In an interview with NotJustOk.com, he mentioned he acquired his musical inspirations from Sean Kingston, Bob Marley and Kanye West.

On 29 January 2014, Runtown collaborated with Davido to launch a tune produced by T-Spize titled “Gallardo” which received the Best Collaboration of The Year award on the2014 Nigeria Entertainment Awards.[9] He later launched the video which acquired over 418,000 views on YouTube in its first 2 months. The video options cameos fromPatoranking, Skales and Phyno; it was shot in Nigeria and directed by Clarence Peters.[10]

Runtown’s profession took an enormous step after he signed a recording contract with Eric-Manny Entertainment via his buddy, releasing “Successful” and “Domot” which acquired frequent airplay.[11]

Runtown was featured on WizzyPro’s “Emergency” tune which additionally featured Skales and Patoranking. The tune was produced by WizzyPro and launched on 2 November 2014.[12] The music video for “Emergency” which was directed by Patrick Elis was launched on 19 January 2014.[13]

On November 23, 2015, Runtown launched his debut studio album titled Ghetto University. Ghetto University featured appearances from DJ Khaled, Phyno, Wizkid, Uhuru and Anatii. The album made him listed within the “Top 5 Most Streamed Artist” in Nigeria, producing over N35 million flip over on MTN Music Plus.[14]

In 2014, there have been stories within the media that Runtown wrote “Aye“. In an interview with The Nigerian Tribune, Runtown mentioned “A lot of people have been asking me that question. Davido has had a number of interviews where he addressed how the song came about. So if you want to learn more about Aye ask David or read his interviews”.[15]

On 31 May 2016, Runtown terminated his contract with Eric Manny Entertainment upon an injunction obtained by the file label from a Federal High Court in Lagos stopping Runtown from acting at occasions or recording songs on allegations that “he signs up, concludes and attends musical shows without the knowledge of the label”.[16][17] Runtown nonetheless denied the allegations in an unique interview with Joey Akan of Pulse Nigeria.[18] In the aforementioned interview, Runtown revealed that he stop the file label as a result of breaches within the recording contract, risk to life and extortion.[19]