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WHO THE FUCK IS SLAWN?

by Ehinosen Egbadon
September 1, 2021
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Who the fuck is Slawn? Now that’s a question I’m pretty sure would never be
answered but what Slawn is, is a skater, brand owner, artist and Motherlan
co-founder. Olaolu ‘Slawn’ Akeredolu is one of the most incendiary talents to
come out of London… from Lagos. I’ve followed Slawn’s work off and on since 2019
after coming across him on SV’s instagram, a rapper whose music I had simply
become obsessed with and it was in his music I first heard the word Motherlan
uttered. Slawn at this point was already an artist but not in the sense of his
art works that now reign supreme in the underground; that he did not start until
the lockdown in 2020 to occupy his time, “…drugs wasn’t doing it for me” he
said. It was more about his person. As an amateur skater when I stumbled on his
gram and found EDWARD a skate film by Onyedi Iriele named after their friend
Edward who had passed, I was sucked in. His disruptive behaviour, his indie
films, his skater swag, his merch designs, it was all too punk! I craved it.
This was someone worth my attention.

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SV & SLAWN

Slawn’s Motherlan was born at WAFFLESNCREAM, a Nigerian skate brand founded by
Jomi Marcus-Bello in Lagos where Slawn worked with his bros and Motherlan
co-founders Onyedi and Leonard Iheagwam. Motherlan has been described by Slawn
as a bunch of niggas who skate and design, although that’s somewhat apt, that
description has never felt whole to me. Its hard to put in words the effect
these guys have had on Nigerian counterculture and when the alte niggas started
going on about “raging” I couldn’t help but suspect Slawn’s influence, I might
be wrong but it’s right up his alley. Motherlan as a collective remind me of
Tyler’s ODD FUTURE (ODD FUTURE WOLF GANG KILL THEM ALL), another collective from
Los Angles that started out skating and ended up becoming one of the biggest
influences of the internet rap era. Now I could draw up a shit load of
similarities between Tyler the Creator and Olaolu Slawn, even down to their
attitudes towards interviews but this isn’t about Tyler, I just want you to
understand the kind of person Slawn is. He’s vulgar, he’s provocative, he’s
confident, he’s Slawn.

LEFT TO RIGHT: LEO, ONYEDI & SLAWN


In 2020, HighSnobriety and LYST named Motherlan along side MOWALOLA, a known
associate of Slawn as one of the Top 20 brands to shape Youth Culture in 2021
and I think Slawn is doing just that. Fast forward to 2021 and we see afropop
sensation Rema gifting the Don Gorgon – Burna Boy a painting by Slawn before
thousands of fans at the London O2 Arena and it’s a beautiful sight.

REMA GIFTS BURNA BOY AN OLAOLU SLAWN PAINTING ON STAGE AT THE O2 ARENA, LONDON
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Okay now rewind a few months back and Slawn is a different Tyler – Tyler Durden,
laying down rules for his Fight Club. Fight Club (1999) is a top tier,
testosterone heavy flick about a discontented insomniac enmeshed in the
consumerist lifestyle of the capitalist system but who is then awoken from his
discontentment by the rule breaking anarchist embodied by Tyler Durden. Slawn is
our rule breaking anarchist and he has awoken us from our discontentment. Read
about Slawn’s Fight Club here

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Slawn has caught the attention of some select individuals and brands and this
has made a very significant impact on his career as an antiestablishment brat;
Creative director, filmmaker and Homecoming founder – Grace Ladoja, Louis
Vuitton‘s artistic director and CEO of Milan based label, Offwhite -Virgil
Abloh, former Supreme brand director and creative genius – Angelo Baque who
currently runs his own street wear brand Awake NY and rappers Skepta, Lil Uzi
Vert, A$AP Rocky and most recently Frank Ocean who are famous for being standout
guys and fashion killas have all cosigned Slawn. He has been associated with
these individuals and brands like Converse for reasons including skating, film
making, art direction and his graffiti style art works collaborating with them
to further self expression.

SLAWN MODELLING FOR SUPREME

Slawn relocated to London from Lagos officially in 2020 and works out of his
studio in East London. Here Slawn is surrounded by creatives and they fuel each
other, it’s a beautiful scene to behold, young niggas living it up and doing
their thing with a freedom living in a third world country doesn’t allow. Slawn
has sighted Rick Ross and Jim Jones as some of his inspirations, how
unconventional but still on brand. Slawn has been known to refer to Motherlan as
a cult and it might not be the typical cult Nigerians like to imagine but he has
definitely gained a cult following in the past few years and that’s just Slawn.

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