British rapper and self-described “child of Grime” Stormzy has released his third studio album This Is What I Mean. It comes three years after the 29-year-old’s sophomore album, Heavy Is The Head
Before Asake there was Small Doctor, Qdot, Zlatan, Lil Kesh, Barry Jhay, and Naira Marley, the last of which was recently compared to Asake by online fans of both artistes.
An aged character in John Steinbeck’s short story, The Leader of the People, annoys another character by talking about “one thing” all the time. Far from deliberate, the character does
In his newly released sophomore album, 5 Star, King Promise features two of Nigeria’s finest: Omah Lay and Patoranking, the former in 10 Toes, the latter in CHOPLIFE. In my
Like many of his colleagues in the Nigerian pop music scene, Fireboy DML has made a living off of female-centric songs. There’s always a woman to be pined after in
Burna Boy’s sixth album, Love, Damini, is as bulky as a doctoral thesis. Comprising nineteen songs, by the time you reach the last track, the Shackleton Ice Shelf would have
We’ll get round to reviewing Falz’s new album in a minute. First, I’d like to talk (extensively) about how keenly Falz understands how to do rap music in Nigeria. I
Asa’s new album, V, would have one reflexively think about Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta. But Asa’s V more likely stands for Valentine. And truly, Asa is smitten with her
Nneka contradicts Nietzsche, her compatriot, on Love Supreme, her fourth studio album. In This Life, the album’s fifth track, the Nigerian-German sings, “Your God is not dead,” inverting Nietzsche who