Freshly coronated at the struggling Headies, Teni is, without a doubt, the biggest discovery of contemporary Nigerian music in the past one year. Hence, her first EP was highly anticipated. Ambitiously called Billionaire and comprised of 6 tracks lasting 19 minutes,…
Watching Ade Bantu’s Agbero International Band at Rehearsals – Dami Ajayi
In the wake of the Afrohouse release of Ma Ko Ba Mi by Coflo and DJ Said on September 27th, Dami Ajayi remembers spending a day of rehearsals with Ade Bantu and his rambuctious Agberos. The studio where Agbero International…
Asa’s “Lucid” springs no surprises – Dami Ajayi
The release of Asa’s Lucid was a hugely anticipated cultural event. Coming at least a dozen years after her self-titled debut and half a decade after her last album, ‘Bed of Stone’, one can safely conclude that Asa is not…
Dear millennial, let me introduce you to Fela Kuti – Dami Ajayi
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti would have turned 81 on October 15 of this year, but for the fact that he has been dead for more than 22 years. The implication of this is that there is a cohort of Millenials who never…
Death and the legacy of Fela Kuti – Toni Kan
Death, many people say, can be the biggest career move and for proof, they point to Michael Jackson who was mired in debt at the time of his death but whose estate is now worth millions and millions more than…
Phyno rings in his 3rd LP with no fanfare and says “Deal with It”- Dami Ajayi
He calls this project, “Deal With It” and it is obviously more Hip-Hop in its concept as much as it is good Ole Phyno in delivery. But at 21 tracks, at a time when the album is at best a…
Who the f*ck is CKay? (Revisited) – Dami Ajayi
Those with retentive memory may remember the controversial and heated episode of Pulse’s flagship podcast, Loose Talk, where MI and Loose Kaynon came to clear the air about certain concerns with the three hosts of the show. Within a spirited…
Is Qdot king of the Mainland? – Dami Ajayi
There is a fair chance that you may not have heard the name Fakoya Qudus Oluwadamilare, but if you haven’t heard the name Qdot Alagbe, or any of his songs, then you are wrong. Qdot came into prominence about six…
Wetin Victor AD gain with “Red Eye?” – Dami Ajayi
Victor AD was one of our original discoveries last year, alongside Teni The Entertainer. The apt description would be to call them the Ying and Yang rising stars of 2018. Fast forward to 2019 and things didn’t quite follow the…
All Hail Lady Donli, Queen of Naija Alté – Dami Ajayi
Lady Donli has become the name everyone wants to drop in the Alté scene. Alternative used to be the opposite of mainstream but that was until a squad of new-school bourgeois cats with international exposure and swag came by. They…