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Fu’ad Lawal is definitely one of the brightest minds in the Nigerian media space. From understudying the game at Pulse with Osagie Alonge and then transitioning to Big Cabal, he
Yoruba – indigenous – rap became ubiquitous in the 2010s, but it wasn’t always that way. Nigerian hip-hop has constantly been at unrest with its identity from the start point,
Popular media personality, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, has announced that he is set to anchor a new Nigerian reality courtroom TV show. Obi-Uchendu, famous for his role as the host of Big
The increasing democratization of Nigeria’s music space means that artistes who deliver entirely or significantly in local dialects will always have a path into the mainstream if their music connects
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The farther you look away from the Nigerian mainstream, the more cohesive and symmetrically attuned the music starts to feel and sound. The new Yinka Oshodi single, On Your Way,
Ladipoe is observing the trajectory of the sun carefully. He takes some photos half-heartedly but belatedly motions to a position on the balcony where he thinks the sun could align
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by Michael Kolawole It’s effective to think of Brymo’s music in each of these ways: as affirmations of deep-rooted personal ideology, enigmatic and beautiful lyrical poetry, equations of balanced ribaldry