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John Eriomala

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John Eriomala disagrees with your GOAT rapper. He writes too.

Our Celebrities Have Gone Mute Again

Our Celebrities Have Gone Mute Again

If it seems like every other day, another Nigerian celebrity creative succumbs to alarming depths of vacuous thought and action, even as we face multiple crises, then it is because this is our current shameful reality.  Somewhere along the pop culture highway, the pedestal-ed few, from film to music and literature, collectively abandoned the reins […]

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Our Celebrities Have Gone Mute Again

If it seems like every other day, another Nigerian celebrity creative succumbs to alarming depths of vacuous thought and action, even as we face multiple crises, then it is because this is our current shameful reality.  Somewhere along the pop culture highway, the pedestal-ed few, from film to music and literature, collectively abandoned the reins […]

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2 days ago

Our Celebrities Have Gone Mute Again

The Thing Around Tobi Amusan’s Neck

We hold this truth to be self-evident: That more often than should be, Nigerian athletes, and by extension, African sports persons, are subjected to undeserved scrutiny. This ultimately translates into micro and macro aggressions and outright witch hunts with no basis in factual accuracy. It’s not always immediately obvious. But these detractors bask in the […]

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1 week ago

The Thing Around Tobi Amusan’s Neck

One-Listen Review: KFMD, Qing Madi “Barely Legal” EP

When she released her eponymous first project, Qing Madi EP, in November 2023, it was to an audience seeking the next set of female Afro-pop stars. The dawn of the 2020s had seen Ayra Starr and Tems emerge into global acclaim, vocal powerhouses whose songwriting and performance abilities raised the ceiling in the house built […]

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2 weeks ago

One-Listen Review: KFMD, Qing Madi “Barely Legal” EP

PURPLE Lagos and the Illusion of Sincere Outrage

On 6 April, 2026, X aggregator page, Album Talks, posted promotional content for an event, garnering 7.7k views. Come 11 May, they made a similar promotional post for the same event. Just like before, the engagement was minimal: 2 Quotes, 1.9k views, and a smattering of positive comments. Two days later, when they followed up […]

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3 weeks ago

PURPLE Lagos and the Illusion of Sincere Outrage

One-Listen Review: activ.boizzz, YKB’s NVR LZY III EP

Amid allegations of switching up his style and deliberately withholding music from fans, afro-pop singer YKB has returned with a 4-track EP, NVR LZY III, under his “active.boizzz” alias. Like Wizkid’s Soundman Vol. 1, generations of Hip-Hop producers, and most notably Madlib’s many side projects, this is a subversion, if not an extreme one. We […]

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3 weeks ago

One-Listen Review: activ.boizzz, YKB’s NVR LZY III EP
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