The Music Blog: Yemi Alade is doing the sex thing and it’s quite exciting

There is a thing that happens with women in Nigerian music who reach a moderately successful level of popularity. They seem to always wait out the glory of their highest peaks before petering into irrelevance, never trying anything new, or doing anything differently. There are two plausible explanations for this phenomenon. The first is what... Read More

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Mama Africa, Yemi Alade

Femi Kuti says Obasanjo is a bad leader and a failure as President | YNaija.com

April 11, 2017

The Music Blog: The man from Shrine

It’s hard to miss the energetic atmosphere around The New Africa Shrine whenever heir to Afrobeat throne Femi Kuti is in the building. The transplanted Kalakuta Republic is the new symbolic location of Fela’s original Mushin home and recording studio raided and destroyed by the soldiers from Surulere barracks in 1977. In the last four... Read More

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afrobeat, fela, Kalakuta Republic, New Afrika Shrine, The Shrine

April 10, 2017

The Music Blog: Where is the music of outrage for #OtodoGbame?

Earlier last month, Sound Sultan released a mash-up single featuring a slew of artists who decidedly built their careers off music deeply ingrained in the struggle of the streets. The single, titled “Ghetto Love” features nostalgic appearances from African China, Marvellous Benjy, Baba Fryo, Daddy Showkey and Danfo Drivers, who all come under the umbrella-moniker,... Read More

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Otodo-Gbame

April 6, 2017

The Music Blog: On the political origins of hip-hop and why rappers brag so much

“If you don’t have a mind of your own/ don’t be disappointed, this is fine, be a clone” The first two lines of M.I’s debut single, “Crowd Mentality” are soaked in inherent sarcasm for obvious reasons; rappers pride themselves on innate distinctiveness and unquestionable self validation. Hence as M.I implies in the song, the alternative... Read More

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Drake, Hip Hop, M.I., rap music

April 4, 2017

The Music Blog: Wizkid’s Tease Me and that summer I fell in love with my best friend

I have followed Wizkid’s music since April feverishly placed one bud of her earphones in my ear with “Tease Me” playing. April was one of my closest friends in high school in part because she sat in front of me through most of senior class but mostly because our mutual love for good music made... Read More

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Music, Tease Me, wizkid

April 3, 2017

[The Music Blog] What do you do when you become the kind of artist that calls out Don Jazzy on live TV? | The Glory of Olamide

What do you do when you become the kind of artist that calls out Don Jazzy on live TV?, when you come from being a street myth to becoming the kind of artist rubbing hands with highly ranked politicians. Or perhaps when you’re sending Lagos into a frantic panic for last-minute tickets to your annual... Read More

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Don Jazzy, glory, headies, Olamide

The Music Blog: Yemi Alade is doing the sex thing and it’s quite exciting

The Music Blog: The man from Shrine

The Music Blog: Where is the music of outrage for #OtodoGbame?

The Music Blog: On the political origins of hip-hop and why rappers brag so much

The Music Blog: Wizkid’s Tease Me and that summer I fell in love with my best friend

[The Music Blog] What do you do when you become the kind of artist that calls out Don Jazzy on live TV? | The Glory of Olamide

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