Weekend Recap: Here’s What You Missed Over The Weekend

The Nigerian media was filled with news from the entertainment space, specifically from the Afrobeat and Nollywood scene, from possible collaborations with the government, to Mother’s Day drama, and a possible music ‘beef’ between new age singers. 2Baba in talks with Defense Minister on using music to curb violence among Nigerian youths Innocent Idibia, popularly... Read More

The Media Blog

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October 10, 2023

Watch | Ayra Starr Releases Music Video For Her Smash Single, Rhythm & Blues

Beautiful Mavins record label signee Ayra Starr has taken the world by storm with her angelic voice as she’s become one of Nigeria’s most successful international artists. Having just concluded her tour, Ayra dropped her single Rhythm & Blues to remind her fans (Mobstars) there is more to creativity. The MTV VMA nominee has received... Read More

The Music Blog

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June 25, 2017

The Thread: “See this fool!” “He is the greatest” | Twitter NG goes asunder over D’banj’s career status

Gone are those days when PR was a big deal for Nigerian celebrities. These days, they follow every comment, then they pick a “scape goat”. The story behind the Twitter NG reactions for D’banjs‘ clapback did not start today. Many Nigerians have talked about the duo of Don Jazzy and D’banj getting back together just... Read More

Opinion

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December 22, 2016

Falz will be the man of the night + 4 other things we expect to see at the Headies tonight

The 2016 edition of the Headies is set to hold tonight – as organizers, performing acts and nominees prepare for the show, we also look forward to a very eventful night if we decide to judge based on last year’s show. This year, however, there is already a buildup of controversy as organizers recently announced... Read More

Thinking Through

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December 5, 2015

Flavour, Tiwa Savage, Davido, others nominated for KORA Awards 2016

KORA All-Africa Music Awards, the African continent’s first and premier award ceremony in the musical arts has announced the nominees in the 26 categories for her 2016 edition. The award ceremony taking place at the Windhoek Country Club in Namibia has partnered with SoundcityTV Africa as official Broadcast Media. The Award Ceremony which is set to take... Read More

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November 27, 2015

The 10 biggest hit songs produced by Don Jazzy in the last decade

Few others know their onions and the average Nigerian music consumer, like the musically adept Michael Ajereh Collins a.k.a Don Jazzy. He has built from scratch two great music groups- Mo’Hits and Mavins- that have earned countless commercial successes. The prolific producer, who has won himself various accolades and awards, became one of Africa’s biggest exports after he contributed production... Read More

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November 26, 2015

Mavins release ‘Jantamanta’ video in honour of Don Jazzy’s birthday (WATCH)

Supreme Mavin Dynasty boss, Don Jazzy became a year older today and in commemoration of that, the visuals for the new single Jantamanta, has been released. JantaManta is the 4th single from the Mavins after the groundbreaking Dorobucci, Adaobi and Looku Looku. Below is the creative music video, directed by Mex.

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November 11, 2015

BREAKING: The Mavins to hold an almost-free concert in December

It may as well have been free. The Mavins made a big announcement on Wednesday, at the Intercontinental Hotel, Lagos, where they revealed their plans to hold a Christmas concert. The event, which is set to take place on December 23, will cost only N500 to attend. But hold on, you don’t have to run... Read More

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September 7, 2015

D’prince’s baby boy is totes adorbs!

D’prince joined the list of celebrity fathers when he welcomed a baby boy with his girlfriend in June. The proud dad shared the photo on Instagram and wrote “Can’t wait to take walks with you.”.

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July 17, 2015

#MTVMAMA2015: Who deserves the ‘Song of the Year’ award?

In the lead up to this year’s MAMAs, YNaija will be profiling the biggest categories in the event. Yesterday, we checked out the Video of the Year, today, we look at the ‘Song of the Year’ category Cassper Nyovest: “Doc Shebeleza” (South Africa) The high energy track and tribute to South African Kwaito... Read More

Featured

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April 14, 2015

You can call her petty… but Gbemi will crop you out of a picture if you’re no longer friends

by Chinwe Okafor She said so herself. So a little incident happened recently when Mavins A&R manager and glorified trust fund kid-man, Bizzle Osikoya, posted an old picture of the Mohits crew. The photo should have naturally included D’banj but didn’t and we only knew this because the missing person from the picture which is... Read More

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March 8, 2015

Winners, shockers and memorable moments of the #AMVCA2015

by Chinwe Okafor Currently named Nollywood’s biggest and most recognised party, the AMVCA’s for the third time, lived up to its new nickname as the event brought together the best in TV and film alike, both old and new, experts and upcoming under one roof to know their fate- for those anticipating but first, all with... Read More

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March 3, 2015

American producer, Teddy Riley can’t wait to work with Don Jazzy

by Anike Jacobs Hey music lovers, we bring you another good news from the House of Mavin. Chairman of the Mavin Records, Don Jazzy just announced that Teddy Riley, the man who produced late pop king, Micheal Jackson’s song, Remember the time is dying to work him. Riley sent a video message to the Mavin boss saying,... Read More

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February 28, 2015

Mavin crew releases their yearly group photos and they’re simply awesome!

by Anike Jacobs Let us (re)introduce you to Don Jazzy’s Supreme Mavin Dynasty. Made up of Tiwa Savage, D’ija, Dr Sid, D’Prince, Reekado, Korede, Babyfresh & Altims and the Don himself, these guys are on a roll and nothing can stop them. Here are photos from their recent photo-shoot. Tell us what you think.

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February 20, 2015

The Mavins are out with a new video, ‘Looku Looku’ (WATCH)

by Anike Jacobs While we are yet to get over the buzz ‘Dorobucci’ generated last year, the Mavins have dropped another all-star video. The new video ‘Looku Looku’ features Don Jazzy, Tiwa Savage, Dr SID, D’Prince, Di’Ja, Reekado Banks and Korede Bello. Within an hour of release, the video has received almost 10,000 hits. Watch video (HERE) and tell us what... Read More

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July 24, 2014

“Dbanj is somewhere sh__ting himself” | See the top 10 tweets about the ‘Dorobucci’ video

by Kolapo Olapoju Yesterday, the Red Sea was opened Mavin – Nigeria’s hottest music label at the moment – released the video to the monster, viral, hit (put in your own adjective) song ‘Dorobucci’. We are not yet sure what we think about it, but Nigerians surely had a lot to see. We take our... Read More

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