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Top 10 Popular Songs by Sound Sultan That Will Forever Live in our Heads Rent-Free
Veteran Nigerian singer, Sound Sultan, was a man of many talents and a singer of many songs – they were conscious, funny, political, intuitive, and social and still popular Sound Sultan, aka Naija Ninja is one artist who had sang and made many popular songs of different genres, and at the same time, has worked…
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Break Into Bella Shmurda’s High Tension 2.0 EP with These 3 Electrifying Records
The second half of the year in the Nigerian scene music can be likened to the preceding hours before a huge owambe from a prestigious family; a flurry of activities with little camps of rising steam hovering over tasty meals in different stages of preparation. With several statements to make, these meals are made with…
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From Bella Shmurda to Seyi Vibez Here are 12 Street-Hop Musicians Redefining the Sound in Nigeria
The Nigerian-birthed street hop subculture has come a long way since it was created some 6 years ago through a blend of indigenous rap and Afropop. This blend is one largely credited to being pioneered by indigenous rap veteran, Olamide. Back then, it was a musical affair characterised by beats faster than the already up-tempoed…
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Here are 15 Nigerian Musicians to Celebrate Father’s Day With Today
Every third Sunday in the sixth month of the year, June is always a doubly special year, not because it happens to indicates the almost achieved half-year milestone but because it is the time of the year when fathers the world over are actively and officially celebrated for embarking on the arduous journey of love…
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From ‘Wiz Party’ to ‘Dumebi’, Here Are the Nigerian Summer Jams of the Decade; 2010 to 2020
As Nigerian music continues to grow into a larger export with each passing season, importing ears and eyes from all over the world into the country’s sound and culture, it has become even more important to examine the sounds that have served to shape the scene in different seasons with different elements. In the spirit…
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The Timeline of Tiwa Savage and Seyi Shay’s Beef Before the Chaos
In the mid-afternoon hours of the 8th of June 2021, a video of Nigerian singer and queen of afrobeats, Tiwa Savage, angrily lashing at colleague and Nigerian Idol judge, Seyi Shay at a swank hair salon where they both seemed to be getting their hair done. The vitriol Tiwa Savage had hurled at Seyi Shay…
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6 Ways The Twitter Ban Affects the Nigerian Music Industry as We Fight to #Keepiton
Despite being birthed by a country with more retrogression and problems than progress and actualised solutions, the Nigerian music industry has achieved a great deal. Single-handedly putting the country on the map for great things and good news, unlike many other sectors, Nigeria with sights on Lagos, has come to be known as the African…
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Talented Cinematographers Behind Your Favourite Nigerian Music Videos
Music videos have always served to entertain and bring our favourite musicians so close to us that at times it feels like they’ve performed for us right in our living rooms. They also add to the success of a song and seal it further in our visuals-inclined minds. Yet one conversation that isn’t had enough…
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From Joro to Shedi Bala Bala, Here are Top 7 Nigerian Music Social Social Media Challenges of 2021
As the world continues to evolve and shrink thanks to technology, so do human methods of interaction and entertainment through social media. One of such latest internet-bound phenomena is the short-form, video-sharing app, Tiktok which allows users create short videos on any topic of their choice. Having blown up to global usage levels, the app…
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May Wrap-Up: DavidoAt10 and Other Notable Events That Happened in the Music Industry
As we get into the sixth month of the year and the world begins to open up following the Covid-19-induced lockdown that swept the world, things in the entertainment industry continue to pick up. Here’s a rundown of some notable events that took place in the Nigerian music industry in the month of May. ALSO…