"Mr Oreo" (also titled "Mr Orio") is a song recorded by Nigerian singer

Iyanya Iyanya Onoyom Mbuk (born 31 October 1986), better known as Iyanya, is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Calabar, he rose to fame after winning the first season of ''Project Fame West Africa''. In 2009, Iyanya released his de ...

. It was released on 4 June 2014, as the second single from Made Men Music Group's compilation album '' The Evolution'' (2014). The song later appeared on Iyanya's third studio album, '' Applaudise'' (2015). The song was produced by Selebobo.

Background and release

On 29 May 2014, Iyanya's record label Made Men Music Group released the

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'' The Evolution'', which also included this track titled as "Mr Orio". On 4 June 2014, the song was released commercially on

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as the album's second single (the first single, "Say Yeah", was released in April 2014). "Mr Oreo" also appeared on Iyanya's third studio album, '' Applaudise'', which was released in September 2015.

Music video

The music video for "Mr Oreo" was directed by Mega Boi and filmed in

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, New York City. While talking about the filming in an interview with

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, Iyanya said; "I was on tour and found that everyone started spitting the words of the song left right and centre everywhere and we just thought yeah people like the song so let's just do a video but let's do something different because we are in the States, let's take it easy and simple". The first images from the video shoot were released online in August 2014, while a behind-the-scenes video was released on 15 September 2014. The music video premiered on 23 September 2014, via Iyanya's

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channel. An official lyrics video was uploaded to his Vevo channel on 20 February 2015.

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