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Everyone has a podcast—or is about to launch one. From living rooms to YouTube studios, microphones are plugged in, ring lights are on, and conversations are being recorded at a dizzying pace. Podcasts flit from hot topic to hot topic, with a steady stream of camera ready guests lending instantly viral ‘insight’ to the increasingly […]
2 days ago
“Which line, let them bring it out, has had more impact than that like on Cast,” Odumodublvck asks in a radio interview with Beat 99.9FM’s Osi Suave. “Which Hip Hop song,” he continues, “has had more cultural impact, in the last 20 years? Brother in the history of Nigerian Hip Hop, no song has had […]
2 weeks ago
A significant portion of Wizkid’s imminent HBO documentary Wizkid: Long Live Lagos is devoted to excavating the suffocating grief that arrived in the wake of his mother’s passing. As the documentary reveals, on the day of his historic show at the 60,000-capacity Tottenham Stadium, his mother, Morayo Balogun, was undergoing an emergency surgery. In clips […]
3 weeks ago
Despite his embattled situation, writing Wizkid off is a bit premature, he still has a huge fanbase and the talent to command rave reviews from critics.
2 months ago
To open 5ive, the poet Alhanislam recites a spoken-word commentary on the album and the man behind it. It feels a little pretentious, rooted in the same idea that drives artists to label every new project their deepest and most personal work yet. Yet some of it does have grounding in real-life events. Alhanislam hails […]
3 months ago
The subjectivity of music is the most beautiful characteristic of the concept. We are all permitted to like what we like, giving each production beat a meaning of ours, or in other instances, unify with the artist’s intentions.
10 months ago
In an alternate reality, Oshai gazes intently at a computer screen, bathed in the sterile glow of fluorescent lights. The content of his work is irrelevant; what matters is the trappings of success that surround him. He’s a vision of corporate conformity: crisp white shirt, Windsor-knotted tie, barking orders at eager young subordinates while a […]
10 months ago
Nigerian Afrobeats star Flavour has joined forces with South African music icon Oskido and legendary Brazilian drumming ensemble Olodum on the single, Let’s Dance. This single, which is off the anticipated One Drum EP, is set to become a global dance anthem, with its infectious rhythm and vibrant energy uniting diverse listeners. Produced by Oskido […]
10 months ago
As Alté’s influence started to wane in the coming years, subtle tensions with the mainstream would surface. Outside this insidious tension with the mainstream, a number of Alté acts—dissatisfied with the scene’s diminished position, of its apparent failure to reach the towering predictions pundits had set—left the scene or turned their attention elsewhere.
11 months ago
The Oxford Dictionary defines a myth as a traditional story that particularly concerns the early history of a people or one that explains a natural or social phenomenon, and typically involves supernatural beings or events. As children, many of us were led to believe that the practice of traditional religion, which involved the worship of […]
11 months ago
What is most interesting about Ayo Maff’s style is how he is morphing the procedures of making Afro Adura music. The esoteric subgenre is slow, solemn, and reflective until Ayo Maff is on the mic. He tells his tales joyfully.
11 months ago
Fireboy rose to fame in the summer of 2019; when the Nigerian pop scene was evolving, and the ‘Afrobeats to the world’ movement was in full swing. Burnaboy’s Outside, helmed by Ye and On the Low, was spreading like wildfire, all around the world. Beyoncé, by way of her The Lion King album, was poking […]
11 months ago
Crafting her stage name by combining the first four letters of her first name with the last four of her surname, Ebun Yele was born. As an indie Afro-pop artist, she sings about love and human emotions through her music.
11 months ago
