Category: The Music Blog
[The Music Blog] Buzz Review: D’banj reinvents himself as “El Chapo”
At this point, we all have to agree with D’banj’s opening declaration on “Emergency”, that no one ever sees him ...
The Music Blog: About Yemi Alade’s strategic reinventions and the pop star pitfall
In the summer of 2013, Effyzzie Records released a low-budget video for Yemi Alade’s global hit single, “Johnny” off her ...
[The Music Blog] Street Ti Take Over: Of public rants and myopia
Maybe it’s the internet, or maybe it’s rate at which things are changing globally, but Nigerian music has never been ...
[The Music Blog] The NBC wants to keep our airwaves clean, but the conversation is elsewhere
The NBC’s has made an annual duty of announcing songs that have been banned from the airwaves. Earlier this week, ...
[The Music Blog] M.I seems like a great guy, so why do you love-hate him?
Okay that question is a bit of a misnomer. What that headline should say instead is why won’t we ever ...
[The Music Blog] Dammy Krane: free man or jailbird?
Dammy Krane‘s troubles with private American airline, TapJets seem to have come to an end momentarily, but the horizon is ...
[The Music Blog] The floating stage between Kanye West and Cassper Nyovest
Earlier this week, South African MC, Cassper Nyovest made an appearance on Power 105’s The Breakfast Club show in New ...
[The Music Blog] Olamide returns to the streets with “Wo”
“Wo n’ lo miss wa n’ gboro”, Olamide yelps, on the first verse of “Wo”, his latest single following a ...
[The Music Blog] Buzz Review: “Calm Down” by Zilla Oaks
Hip-hop is mostly celebrated for its flamboyance and braggadocio, but a few rappers have shown they are still capable of ...
WO! The streets called and Olamide answered
Won ni won wa wa n’igboro | Won ni won ti miss wa n’igboro Translation: They say they’ve been searching ...
[The Music Blog] Gist from The Native: What exactly is the international sound?
“What is the international sound all of you are talking about sef?”, Shina finally asked from the corner of the ...
[The Music Blog] Here is a 5-track ‘Letters From Home’ playlist from us to Buhari
As Nigerians continue to fawn over the details of President Muhammadu Buhari‘s absence, a familiar sense of nostalgia from the ...
[The Music Blog] Buzz Review: Simi’s Joromi is a masterclass of many ideas
It’s hard to imagine Simi herself does not know she’s one of the most prolific Afropop songwriters of her time, ...
The Music Blog: Anticipating Davido’s great Sony album
A few hours ago, Davido shared a Snapchat photo with a caption that suggests the singer is finally wrapping up ...
The Music Blog: Is anyone else curious about the ‘UK Afrobeat’ scene?
As African popular music continues to segue into radio playlists all over the world, much is heard but little is ...
The Music Blog: Handling Fela’s legacy with care
Two decades have passed since Abami Eda was first laid into the soil in Ikeja, Lagos but the years that ...
[The Music Blog] What everyone (including Wizkid) got wrong about Sounds From The Other Side
“That’s one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind”, I think of first-movers like Wizkid in the ...
[The Music Blog] Davido’s new single, Pere is infectious but will not gain him new fans
Davido just like Wizkid is making international moves. He has released a new song with Rae Sremmurd and Young Thug ...
[The Music Blog]: Chester Bennington’s death reminds us that the mental health topic remains crucial
Chester Bennington was the stuff of dreams. His music was the first introduction of a lot of millennials into rock ...
[The Music Blog] Meet Jacob Banks, the British-Nigerian singer who deserves massive support from us
While he was born in Nigeria, Jacob Banks moved to Birmingham in England at the age of 13. Right now, ...
Music Review: Wizkid’s Sounds From The Other Side is versatility at its best
Wizkid’s Sounds from the other side mixtape dropped onto the world and it was a beautiful thing. The project is ...
[The Music Blog] What makes a person a One Hit Wonder? | The curious case of Morachi, Gino and Klever Jay
The Summer of 2007 brought with it the super catchy and super sexual Hapuya like that. Released by industry newcomer ...
[The Music Blog] Is Small Doctor the new voice of the street?
All hail Small Doctor – Omo Iya Tisha. Temitope Adekunle aka Small Doctor might just be the new voice of ...
BREAKING: Court dismisses Shi’ites’ suit against Nigerian Army
A Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna on Thursday struck out a violation of human rights suit filed against Nigerian ...
[The Music Blog] Jay Z’s 4:44 album is a carefully curated project that does everything right
Shedding the private tag that the Carter Knowles family is known for, the last albums from Beyoncé and Jay Z ...
[The Music Blog] Wizkid is not a Young Fela
Because we love to look for the next Legend or “New X”, we sometimes demand a lot of things from ...
[The Music Blog]: After a long silent spell, hear 9 new tracks from rapper Milli on ‘Childish’ EP
Milli announced his Childish EP nearly three years ago. However, due to problems at Chocolate City his label at the ...
Buzz Review: “Ukwu Nwata” by Flavour ‘Nabania
Flavour underrated ability to build melody with breezy romantic undertones is unmistakable on this lone high-life-infused track off his recently ...
[The Music Blog]: What Nigerian music entrepreneurs can learn from the failure of Sarkodie’s clothing line
Earlier this week, Ghanian tabloids broke news that Sark clothing, a clothing line owned by rapper, Sarkodie’s would be shutting ...
[The Music Blog]: Making sense of Sauce Kid’s jail-term sentencing
As the media continues to wait for updates from Dammy Krane’s recent row with TapJets over accusations of credit card ...
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