We Miss You O'Grin
He repped meiran till death. .

Few things you never knew about olaitan olaonipekun aka da grin formerly Green Face

On this day, April 22, 2010, the unforgettable
rapper, Dagrin died after he was involved in a
ghastly motor accident.
What no one will tell you about Dagrin’s life,
death and burial;
- The Rapper attended Meiran community
primary school, Roseille Nursery and Primary
School, Meiran Community high school and
Egbado College.
- His father lives at 43, Kola Oretuga Street, off
Meiran Road, Iyana Meiran bus stop, Agbado
Oke-Odo LCDA. He was the fourth child in a
family of nine.
- Dagrin’s mother, Mrs. Olaonipekun, was the
second of his father’s three wives.
- His father’s nickname is Nelly. He has a music
store located at Meiran bus stop, ‘House of Nelly
sounds’ store where he used to stay before
moving to Surulere.
- His Twitter ID was @Dagrinfimile, Facebook
was Dagrin fimilejo. He had 4,930 friends on
Facebook.
- He was a Yoruba lyricist inspired by the likes
of Lord Of Ajasa and co
- He had two albums to his credit, titled: Still
on the matter and Chief Executive Omoita
- He got the nickname Barack O’Grin from the
remix song he did with General Pype titled
‘Champion’.
- He had three videos to his credit, titled:
Kilowale –ft PK, Rap rules and Ponponpon
- He was 26 years old when he died in a car
accident.
- His ill-fated car, Nissan Maxima was a 2008
model and carried the number plate, DAGRIN 03
- He planned to buy two other cars, to be
numbered Dagrin 02 and Dagrin 01
- There were underground speculations that
Dagrin had a baby outside wedlock which he
refused to accept responsibility of before he
became a rap star.
- Artiste manager, Sunday Are and
comedian, Tee A were part of logistics support
team
- The unfortunate incident which would later
claim his life happened in the early hours of
April 14, 2010 after his car collided with a
stationary trailer (heavy duty vehicle) in front
of Alakara Police Station, off Agege Motor
Road, Mushin, Lagos.
- He was initially admitted at Tai Solarin
Hospital, Mushin before being transferred to the
Lagos University Teaching Hospital, (LUTH) Idi
Araba, where doctors made serious efforts to
save his life.
- The late rapper was admitted at the Intensive
Care Unit and operated upon, and later moved
to the private wing of the hospital where he was
pronounced dead.
- His father’s speech at the candle light
ceremony was the rap he did to the song he was
featured in by YQ, titled: ‘Efimile’….
-. Candle light procession in honour of the late
rapper started from his former home at
Emmanuel Dada Street, off Bello Road, to Ojez,
National Stadium, Surulere at about 6pm on
Thursday, April 29, 2010
- The late rapper’s body was brought into the
cemetery for burial in a black Ebony Escalade
Cadillac ESV 2007 model.
- His body was left for Twenty Four hours before
embalment. The late rapper was buried at the
Ebony Millennium Private Vault, Atan cemetery.
- The late rapper was buried, wearing white
hand gloves, white belt and a white T-shirt;
black waist coat, black bandana around his
neck, a black trouser and a black fez cap.
- The slabs on his tomb were four in number. His
body was brought into the cemetery at 9.00am
on Friday, April 30, 2010.
- His casket was coloured brown, with a touch of
gold
- He died 6.00 pm on Thursday, April 22, 2010,
eight days after his car crashed, and was buried
eight days after his death.
- Desperate fans almost tore down the Ebony
gate at Atan, when they were initially prevented
from getting in; and refused to leave after his
burial.
- The burial was originally designed to have only
150 people in attendance, but thousands
stormed the cemetery to pay their last respect.
- Two months before his death, Dagrin moved
into Block 10, Flat 3, at the Sunshine Estate,
Oko Oba in Lagos
- Websites like www.thenet ng.com and
questionma rkmag.com jammed because of huge
traffic, following news of the rapper’s death.
- The bandana on the late rapper’s neck for
burial was the same as the one on his
Manager, Tunde Peters, Zeez, YQ and his close
friends.
- Sources at Ebony Casket says his casket cost
N150,000
- His email address was
sendmimore@yahoo.com. Striking doctors at the
Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LUTH
resumed work the same day he was buried.
- Touts were seen at the burial, smoking Indian
hemp and selling Dagrin T-shirts.
- The late rapper had three nominations at the
coming Hip Hop World Awards. His parents were
both absent at his burial.
- Julius Agwu and Omo Baba anchored his
Candle Light ceremony, held at Ojez, National
Stadium, Surulere on Thursday, April 29, 2010.
- He died of severe head injury
- He was finally interned at about 10.45 am on
Friday, April 30, 2010
- At the time of his entombment, there was still
a vacant tomb, opened beside his vault. Apart
from mortuary expenses, the total bill incurred
during his stay at LUTH was about N800,000
- The last time he logged on to twitter was on
Thursday April 8, 2010.

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Continue to rest in peace Dagrin. I personally miss u