Let me just say: Everyone, I mean every single person I know who is like me and watches reality TV and follows shows like Project Fame West Africa and watched Season Six and knows Olawale, the winner of that season… yes, everyone in this category was disappointed. Highly. Dude left the show with the highest […]
So, naturally, everyone sits on their couches and waits for what would become of the reality show stars they spent their time, money and emotions on. We are curious; we want to know what it is they are doing with the fame they have accrued within the time they had a platform. We want to […]
In the midst of the noise, good or bad, that rocks our clubs and bars and car stereos, there is that occasional voice that emerges like a phoenix, the one that doesn’t just move your legs but stirs your heart, irrespective of what it is on about. There is that occasional voice that you listen […]
I recently had an interesting conversation about how Soul and RnB and generally slow-songs-singing musicians in Nigeria hardly ever ‘blow’. Blow, in this context, would mean maintain a long-term relevance on the music scene for their art. They could blow because they’re exceedingly petty and cause trouble on social media; they could because they have […]
When you have a blend of an insanely creative producer/songwriter like Cobhams with a crazily hilarious rapper like Falz, what you get is just a Boosit. Simple. I was going about my business amidst the bustles of Port Harcourt when Boosit came on the radio. I kept trying to figure out who it was that […]
I have seen the really terrible cringe/barf-worthy music types from Nigerian artistes. I’ve heard songs that have made me want to bury my music player forever and just move to Venus and live there the rest of my life; songs that make me want to find the artistes and register an impactful knock right […]
When Timi won the maiden season of Idols West Africa, and then Omawunmi, the second runner-up, began to shine, and then people began to talk in whispers about how Omawumi should have won and not Timi, and then Timi began to sing some kain songs that just didn’t gel with Naija, and then folks began […]