Salami Oluwasesan Abbas (born 26 November 1988), better known by his stage name Sess, or Sess the Prblm Kid (stylised Sess the PRBLM Kid), is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and music producer. He is known for solely producing Falz the Bahd Guy and Simi's joint EP, ''Chemistry''. He is notable with the mainstream sound watermark, "Sess, the Problem Kid", on his produced

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Early life and education

Salami Oluwasesan Abbas is from

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, a town in the state of

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. He was born into a family of four children in Sagamu, Ogun State before moving to

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, Kwara State. Sess attended the University of Ilorin Staff School for elementary education before moving on to Best Legacy International High School then Thomas Adewunmi International college for secondary school. He then went on to study law at University of Ilorin, and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2012.

Career

He primarily produced Falz's second studio album ''

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'', and the entirety of the collaborative EP ''

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'' by Falz and Simi. In 2016, Sess was nominated for African Producer of the Year at

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. In 2016, ''Stories That Touch'' won Album of the Year at the

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. In the same year, he won the New Discovery Producer of the Year and Afro Hip Hop Producer of the Year awards at

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. In 2018, he primarily produced the album ''

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'' by

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Discography

Production

Albums, mixtapes and EPs

*''Omo Murda'' *''Spotlight'' (EP) *''Prblm'' (Mixtape)

Singles

*"Original Gangster" by Sess featuring Adekunle Gold and Reminisce *"Don't Worry" by Sess & Spax *"To Match" by Sess and Teni *"Revival" by Sess

Awards and nominations

References

{{authority control Living people 1988 births 21st-century Nigerian singer-songwriters Nigerian male singer-songwriters Nigerian record producers People from Sagamu Nigerian male pop singers Nigerian hip-hop singers