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Reekado Banks, Nomcebo Zikode, Pheelz, Teni & Youssou N’Dour Strikes a Campaign Like Effort With “Raise Your Hand”
Raise Your Hand” depicts a strong campaign song like a movement that seeks to frontier the freedom of every African child, arbitrating necessary efforts towards their education and the future of the impoverishing people in Africa. The record tracks its roots from native fermentation from the cause of Africa, housing both the west and the southern part of African people to tell culture stories, as it crosses a boundary but leaps around giving freedom to Africa and entirely the black folks. Raise Your Hand can also be fathomed as a staple of pop music that seeks to campaign as a record speaking un-behalf of the average African child. Even the entire impoverishing people per-say, as it also stands as a form of inculcating motivation, through rejuvenation on a peaky celebration sonic altitude ...
Bella Shmurda, Fully Understands Sonic Fluidity – High Tension 2.0, EP Review
Shmurda has found his star power and he has grown hotter than ever. High Tension 2.0, takes you into a crystal clear picture of how he morphed from the beginning of the initial creation of High Tension 1.0 a year ago, as this follow-up sequel designs him as a true star who finally understands his sonic fluidity and how to make it beyond measure appeal deliberately. He delivers alone and it was good. With the creation of pop-infused “Party Next Door” that was released off the project a few days ago, alongside “World”, and “Rush” some months back, Shmurda becomes a full-fledged singer with confirmations of his art staking an audience a glimpse of introspection about the world he comes from and the Lamba in between his artistry. It is wonderful. ALSO READ: “UY Scuti” Interpolates With A Speci...
The Best New Artists of The Year So Far
It is very important to keep a close watch on the new artists and follow the run that each one of them is having to be able to have an accurate and objective opinion on who is the best new artist of the year. The first half of the year has seen Blaqbonez, Ruger, Laycon, Buju, and Ayra Starr do really well for themselves. Blaqbonez first stepped into the limelight as a rapper when he won the Hennessy Artistry competition in 2016. Blaqbonez has since become very popular for his personality on social media and the creative ways in which he promotes his songs. ALSO READ: Soundgasm Samples Rema’s Limitless Creativity, Mind You, This is His Term For Sound & Org*sm This year he released his debut album “S3x Over Love“ which was critically acclaimed and popularly accepted by majority of music ...
“UY Scuti” Interpolates With A Special Dedication To Women, Which Completes The Shape Of Olamide’s Music
UY Scuti is the pop album that forms the whole interpolation of Olamide’s music, his thoughts formed together which draws from his locally made street gingering songs through rap infused pop, street hip-hop, and now he extends reach into making few love pop ballads that sturdily connotes a mild emotional balance together with genuine loving experience which makes this great deal of songs from the album. On this project, He waxes strong from every record in a way to relax his core street demography, never minding his capability to knit such beautiful local-based love songs which show his growth and natural balance to make pop music as well as experimenting with mild reggae dub, in between afro-beats. He has grown to fully express a great emotion from this album which doesn’t deny the fact t...
Twitter Ban: The Beginning Of Obscurity In The Nigerian Creative Industry
In the Nigerian creative industry to set the pace for trends begins from the popular American micro-blogging platform, Twitter, which has assisted various movements with lending them a thick tough skin that seeks to change the Nigerian society. From the Nigerian #EndSars protest which erupted like a volcano into the entire world from the platform as well as the American black lives matter, amongst other voices that rose to recognition through the platform seeks the change which our government has continued to promise and fail us. The Twitter community has grown so large that it now owns a voice for the media personalities and influencers, celebrities, and aside from the fact that Nigeria has begun to seem disjointed from the world’s most leading global voice [Twitter]; I think a longer sep...
REVIEW: Davido Makes Amapiano Experiment Alongside CKay, Who Perfects The Experiment
“La La” is a vibe, and CKay’s embellishments on the song savored its great taste; he rendered the record to an appealing height with his pristine hook whereas Davido’s take was formed nicely and was all about enhancing the vibe with his verses likened to an experiment with his vocal ability and lyricism to deliver perfectly on Amapiano on a joint with Ckay, who understands how to distinguish records with perfecting the hook & chorus. His vocals are glorious. I understood how the record relaxes to be much of an enticing collection with CKay’s chorus and his hook that never refutes exceptionality, and so I requested my friends take on the song and he confessed to greatly love it for the sake of CKay’s delivery, I asked for the reason why and my friend, Jerry said, “Oboy, CKay vocal lovel...
REVIEW: Ruger’s “Pandemic EP”, The Second Coming Of Rema
I remember vividly publishing a review sometime in April on the release of Rema’s most recent 2021 single titled, “Bounce”, which saw his music-making as creatively damned from his most creative lyrical structuring and a twist, down to his soothing vocal texture, and the manner he grabs and mishandles sonic experiences – it’s all but wonders. Rema is currently signed to Jonzing World and he is directly under the tutelage of Nigerian Omo Oba, popularly known as D’Prince who’s the manager of the subsidiary record label Rema is making music from, and with the coaching of his Brother who’s the CEO of the parent company (Mavin Records), Don Jazzy, has seen Rema’s talent transit as he has been flourishing since 2019 when he became the most wanted young Nigerian music creator, he became the Headi...
See Three West African Songs That Has Potential Influence On Pop Culture
In West Africa, music creators like Zlatan Ibile, Olamide, Burna Boy, Naira Marley, Wizkid and Davido, have curated tracks that looped into and balanced in pop culture spaces, and most times they alter our behaviors and perspectives, how we react to their music publicly and see society inclusively. In 2017, Olamide, co-inspired the mainstream success of the popular Nigerian “Shaku Shaku” dance through his street infectious records like “Wo”, “Science Student”, and more before several Nigerian acts began to embrace, and stuck with the creation of records tapping from the glories of Shaku dance that beamed between 2017, and the near end of 2018. Songs like Reminisce’s “Problem” peaked into the street numbers and raised the bar of cultural influence in Nigeria. DJ Consequence’s “Assignment” t...
REVIEW: “Sound God Fest Reloaded” Is Runtown’s Intensive Pop Reachability
Sound God Fest Reloaded, is a Runtown pop reachability to delve into the creation of few exclusive pop ballads, and making the perfect collaborations to form great appeal that would see him through his career from this moment amongst contemporaries while his ability, securing himself as the pop star is filing a great strength. “Kini Issue”, “Luva Luva” feat. Rowlene, “Body Riddim” feat. Bella Shmurda and Darkovibes, “Bad Pass Dem” feat. Minz scores an intensive pop sequel and you can testify his weightiness creating appealing pop songs on them ranging from this project that beams many pop products from almost every track on the LP. Sound God Fest Reloaded sits coolly next to his 2019 6-track extended play, “Tradition”, which was perfected and coined from self-expression, overcoming his ene...
REVIEW: Jae5’s “Dimension” Carries Cultural Expository With It, Were Afro Culture Is Significant
On Jae5’s “Dimension”, Rema’s hook and chorusing were full of self-expression and it was hot. Rema’s presence was a strong Afro-cultural significance representing a young Nigerian hustler who understands how to fend for his needs, extending the same compassion with his family. His lyrical XP relates to his hoodies (peers) he started hustling with and how most of them have been caged on various custody. He claims to come from another dimension, giving great essence to the theme of the record as He takes introspection into his past where he would never cease to forget the pains he took growing from day one to this point of his greatness. Rema’s pop significance story’s hustling Nigerians who push towards claiming the life they desire, and in between the hustle, they get to face with police b...
REVIEW: Apart From Braggadocio, Burna Boy’s “Kilometre” Is On Various Context
Kilometre can mean various contexts from Burna Boy’s music career in the midst of being one of the 2021 Grammy Award winners on the Best World Album categories. He is aware of his detractors and those who flare hate on him and his music, the greatness is what he seeks and what he has become so far so he joins braggadocio into the un-hypnotic pop levers in the successful creation of Kilometre, where he advises other musicians to learn from the teachers and tend to compare his staying power to iconic Nigerian Juju musician, Shina Peters. RELATED: LeriQ: Has Been Responsible for The Root Morphing of The ‘African Giant’ Burna Boy He claims to have walked many Kilometres, and the first context is his consistency despite the braggadocio that comes forth in the creation. Kilometre conceptualizes,...
Forget Naira Marley First, Erigga Is A Major Bad Influence His Street Music Entangles
Erigga’s music is unapologetic street music that entangles. The outcome of this entanglement after soaking your ears and mind to his music could be more harm than good. Because street music mostly beams more negative influence on indecisive listeners; then I think it should be restricted to persons below age 18, at least only to those adults who could be easily hooked by the law or crime watch-dogs when they turn out culprits, probably because they’ve been fazed and strongly entangled by the music which goes down there axle with ripple influences and manifests through their behavior on occasions. “Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.” – Ray Charles. Erigga raps and sings alongside Zlatan on their song titled, “Two Criminals”, off Erigga’s four...
