Seun Kuti, son of famed Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, was enlisted by the female Nigerian cinematographer, Blessing Uzzi who is making her directorial debut with the upcoming Movie.

Omawunmi Dada, a prominent Nigerian Singer and actress who acted in the film “Ayinla,” also appears in the film.

Seun Kuti shared a trailer for the film on his Instagram page on October 10th, 2021, with a plot that revolves around him being the lead character and having an army of children.

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Accompanying the trailer, he wrote:

NO MANS LAND First look at “No Mans Land” the movie featuring Myself. Excited to share this teaser with you guys.
Produced and Directed by @blessinguzzi

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We try to keep our fingers on the pulse of music from all over Africa and beyond, bringing you exciting songs from talented musicians who are constantly pushing the boundaries of artistry with their music.

Wizkid – Essence (Remix) feat. Justine Bieber & Tems

Nigerian Afrobeats star WizKid tapped Justin Bieber to help remix “Essence,” the song he and Tems released earlier this summer to great acclaim.

The un-remixed song is currently at No. 54 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Yemi Alade – Queen don come EP

Nigerian prolific songstress Yemi Alade has announced that her new EP will be dropping sooner than we expected.

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The vocal powerhouse who got into the limelight after winning the Peak Talent Show in 2009, today on the 13th of August 2021, took to her Twitter account today to announce the dropping of her new EP titled ‘Queen don come‘ next week.

Omawunmi – Love deep, High life (Album)

As a follow-up to In Her Feelings EP, Omawumi drops this beautiful ode to the beautiful relationship of marriage, the attraction of love and the greatness of peace.

The Lawyer, singer, wife, and mother makes music that suits her current standing in life and offers young artists an insight into the beauty of her life

Wurld – Spunk and Stamina

Songwriter, singer, and producer, WurlD has given us the perfect weekend vibe with two new singles, Spunk and Stamina.

This is a great comeback from the singer after going silent for a while and now returns with one Afropop and Amapiano jam.

Vector – “Licence”

Talented rapper and singer, Vector storms the scene with a brand new single titled, License.

This new single comes as a follow-up to the remix of his smash hit, Crown Of Clay featuring Khaligraph Jones of Kenya, Dip Doundou Guiss of Senegal, and Ashs The Best of Senegal.

Ayra Starr – “Bloody Samaritan”

Not many saw Ayra Starr coming, but when she arrived, she did so in stunning fashion, showing an appreciation of the alchemical fusion of sounds across generations to create new expressions within pop music.

Her Ayra Starr E.P. put her on a pedestal and it is a position she is aware of on “Bloody Samaritan,” the lead single of her debut album, 19 & Dangerous.

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Falz – “Mercy”

Over the last year, without pulling off gimmicks or excessive posturing, Falz has been one of Nigeria’s consistent performers, soundtracking the earlier months of lockdown with “Bop Daddy” and seeing out the year with his Niniola-featuring “Squander.”

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Those tracks have shown an ability to reach into other music styles and put a spin on them to accommodate his often humorous delivery.

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Musical storytelling, which often goes by the name “program music” or “tone painting,” is simply an attempt at depiction through music, without the assistance of words.

In this installment of Milestones of the Millennium, we examine the different ways composers have told stories with music

Top 5 storytelling songs of Nigerian Afropop musicians

Falz – Child of the world

Child of the world is a single off the 27 albums by Falz, where he narrates the perilous life of a young girl who is molested by her uncle, and eventually grows up to be some sort of a nymphomaniac.

She gets mixed up with a group of girls who do anything for money and they introduce her into the life of getting paid for getting laid.

After she is diagnosed with H.I.V she finds herself and redirects her steps, going forward to help others and sensitize the youth on abstinence and responsibility.

Omawumi took this song as an opportunity to speak on some of the hidden perversion existing in modern society.

A typical example is a story she tells of a family consisting of a father, mother, and daughter who sees the mother travel, and Omawumi noticing questionable activities between the father and daughter.

of course, the presentation of the subject matter is a bit amusing, but she calls attention to the disturbing habit of some fathers molesting and also impregnating their own daughters.

Mode 9’s Monalisa of Song is one of the most powerful Nigerian hip-hop songs of all time which tells two different stories with each first.

Verse 1: the story of university sweethearts who got married, but the husband went on to become a drunk and the wife was home and miserable. She got pregnant and on her delivery date, the drunken husband drove in a rush to meet her and got into an accident, leaving his wife a widow and the newborn baby boy fatherless.

Verse 2: Tells the story of two childhood friends ending up in the same university but joining two different rival cults. The gang rivalry flung them against each other and when there was an eventual showdown, they both died by each other’s trigger fingers. This verse will literally give you chills when you listen.

Timaya- Dem Mama

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The Odi Massacre was a mass killing in Odi, Bayelsa state where civilians were killed by the military in response to a high tension conflict involving oil resources.

As Timaya tells it, civilians were raped and killed, children were victims as well as parents of children who were orphaned.

Dem Mama had vibrant beats and a heavy tempo, making it sound like a club banger (which it actually was), but the message was a tragic report of the violence that tore families apart and claimed lives.

PSquare- Oga Police

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PSquare came through on this one to speak the minds of the average Nigerian who has experienced Police harassment either as a motorist or as a local beer and Nkwobi joint customer.

Verse 1: Crusing down the road with a chic in the passenger seat and police tries to cramp your style and harrass you for paper.

Verse 2: Chilling at the joint with homies from abroad while chics are ordering Isi Ewu and Turkey and the cops come through on buzzkill patrol.

Following the death of eastern Nigerian artist MC Loph, Flavour who was a friend and affiliate released the tribute single where he expresses his personal grief and that of MC Loph’s family.

He narrates the story of Loph traveling to the east with his brother as they took a new car home to their mother.

The heartbreaking vocals and the deep lyrics that state the consolation Flavour offered to Loph’s mother, make this one of the deepest Nigerian songs of all time

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Waje appears to prepare the way for the new era, influenced almost all newbies, creating a vocal trend to the Nigerian Afropop female artists.

On the other hand, she has proved her vocal ability, addictively striking a chord across several songs which always carry a whole part of a song.

Also, the only divergence was her era being on deck in the CDs era, no internet, obviously, the spread of Afropop into the global scene like it is now and in effect, the global bridge accord with the rise of the internet and smartphone usage in West Africa.

The majority of the new generation Nigerian Afropop female artists shares a common characteristic originated from Waje.

Also, In the Nigerian music industry, female artists with such ability and power are very few, which includes, Omawunmi, Ego (Lagbaja‘s Backup vocal), Chidinma, Simi, Seyi Shay and few others.

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It might seems inditrct but they can deny the atom of the qualities in their craft, she appears to prepare the way for the new era, influenced almost the whole Nigeria music industry.

In a time, Afrobeats as a term stops serving the core traditional style and with its constant genre-unifying, interpolating and resurgence, the most meticulous term to describe the wave of music circulating out of Nigeria and Ghana is Afropop.

Origin

Aituaje Iruobe, known professionally as Waje, is a Nigerian singer whose vocal range covers three octaves.

In music, an octave sometimes called the diapason is the interval between one musical pitch and another with double of the frequency of the previous pitch.

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Apparently, she first gained recognition after being featured on the remake of P-Square’s “Omoge Mi”. and was also featured on the duo’s 2008 hit track “Do Me”.

Moreover, she contributed vocals to Banky W‘s “Thief My Kele” and M.I‘s “One Naira”.

In 2016, Waje was one of the four judges in the inaugural season of The Voice Nigeria.

Overview

However, Waje is undoubtedly one of the greatest vocalists of this generation in the Nigerian music industry, her vocal dexterity is something to behold, simply uncommon and unbelievably relaxing.

In stand alone performance, Waje standout as one of the best live vocal performer in the nigerian music industry.

Waje performance in her solo songs aggravated to the point of her impact and influence in the industry.

Waje‘s recent  5-track project with 17 minutes of playback time titled ‘Heart Season’ exemplifies the fusion of coordinated R&B, Afropop, and a touch of Reggae.

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Check out Omawunmi “Bullshit” Lyrics below

Omawunmi – Bullshit Lyrics

Most people are giving you bullshit
Your government is saying bullshit
And it is not like you don’t want ’cause you sef you are taking that bullshit
Influencers are spewing bullshit
Lagos traffic is entirely bullshit
So I don’t see anything wrong to write a song and title it bullshit

It’s another year,
Leave me alone
I’m tired of having an opinion
Whatever rocks your boat, you can carry on
And as you like to do, you can do your own
The elders go say the youths are talking rubbish
The youths are getting tired of doing nothing
It’s either you are getting f#@ked or you’re doing the f#@king
Everything na wash, it’s all bullshit

Most people are giving you bullshit
Your government is saying bullshit
And it is not like you don’t want ’cause you sef you are taking that bullshit
Influencers are spewing bullshit
Lagos traffic is entirely bullshit
So I don’t see anything wrong to write a song and title it bullshit

Last year (ahn)
We dey soro some
This year las las we will be ok
If I decide to stay naija and suffer with you
Or I decide to relocate nothing concern you
If I decide to wear my pant and my bra and snap
Or I decide to put injection for my breast and yansh
This year, this place no judgement zone
Pack your bullshit, make I pack my own

Most people are giving you bullshit
Your government is saying bullshit
And it is not like you don’t want ’cause you sef you are taking that bullshit
Influencers are spewing bullshit
Lagos traffic is entirely bullshit
So I don’t see anything wrong to write a song and title it bullshit

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However, Waje is undoubtedly one of the greatest vocalists of this generation in the Nigerian music industry, her vocal dexterity is something to behold, simply uncommon and unbelievably relaxing.

Waje on the other hand has proved her vocal ability, addictively striking a chord across several songs which always carry a whole part of a song, practical examples can be deduced from MI Abaga‘s ‘One Naira’ and ‘Do Me’ by the defunct music duo P-Square.

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Also, In the Nigerian music industry, female artists with such ability and power are very few, which includes, Omawunmi, Ego (Lagbaja‘s Backup vocal), Chidinma, Simi, Seyi Shay and few others.

The 5-track project with 17 minutes of playback time exemplifies the fusion of coordinated R&B, Afropop, and a touch of Reggae.

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‘Hold My Hands‘ as an Afropop serves as a great introduction to a happy atmosphere with a feel-good vibe while transcending the R&B journey down to the remaining bliss, the Magic beats produced track ushers a groovy transition from the start to the finish.

‘Call On Me’ is one of the best track in the project, most addictive vibe and typical mid-tempo cracker, the track is fused with a familiar melody and vibe.

‘Baby sho ma lagbaja…Konkonbilo ka ma fera wa’  astonishing hook slightly sampled and referenced from Lagbaja that brings the pure African vibes.

Waje’s Heart Season EP expresses love in general, relating to heartbreak or love letter tailored towards unending feelings, ‘Naked’ signs out as radiating comfort sound.

Ratings:

Mid = 0.00

Average = 0.01

Good = 2.5

Excellent = 2.5

Conclusion:

Mp3bullet gives the project an 80% (Excellent) general rating

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Omawunmi has taken to social media to respond to claims that she allegedly did butt surgery to enlarge her butt.

She put up a picture of herself standing in the rear on Instagram, with a counterclaim.

In contrast to what the claims are, she reveals her butt is natural.

Although she reveals she has some areas of her body she will like to arrange, but that’s for another time.

“I was told that my bumbum was a topic of discussion the other day…(whether it was surgically enhanced)… Whilst there are areas of my body I would like to arrange when the time comes, The bumbum na natural o! Ask my cousins @ibanifemale and @eresudeekae  !” 

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What is an album? Albums are the compilation of recorded tracks, supplied as a unit on any digital means, such as CD, Data, and other electronic devices, in the Nigerian music industry, album culture has been a thing.

Album culture is simply the traditional style of how an artist publishes their records to the audience, at a given pace, depending on their personal or managerial preference, Artiste either publish Singles or Albums,

Note! Albums are not just a bunch of irregular tracks and/or perhaps a random“hits songs” collection, rather a sonically coordinated piece with a directed theme, a smooth album must have a unique flow, sounds, and arrangement, in this context; a unique sound doesn’t connote monotonous sound, it simply the connection from instrumentals to balance the chord, harmonizing from the intro to the outro of a project.

At the early stage between the 2000s and 2010s, the industry literally embraced the album culture, producing sonically cohesive projects at various random.

This was the case in the early 2000s to late 2000s with artists like African China, Danfo Drivers (Moutain Black & Late Mad Melon), Olu Maintain, 2Baba, Timaya, Faze, Rooftop MCs, 9ice, P-Square, D’banj, Lagbaja, Mode 9, Banky W, Omawunmi, Wande Coal, Flavour, Edris, Eldee, Jazzman, all embracing the album culture.

In the early 2010’s artists like Duncan Mighty, Wizkid, Olamide, Burna Boy, Phyno followed suits with the traditional style.

Single’s style of record publishing in the Nigerian music industry gradually became a thing during the CDs to electronic medium evolution, around the first quarter of the last decade, with Tekno leading the movement.

However, an artiste may wake up and decide to share his work, or officially announce a released date for a single, even without making it a promotional
copy of any forthcoming project.

Mainstream artists that dominated with singles include Tekno, Runtown, and Davido partially. Tekno‘s debut album was released in 2020, almost 6 to 7years after gaining prominence.  At the time of his entrance into the music scene he released about 10 hit singles, the reason is best known to him or his management.

Runtown, on the other hand, wasn’t an album artiste basically, Having released his first album in 2015, his next project was released in 2020.

Davido was also known for his singles regardless of his debut project, reasons were because most of his records did well independently as a single and not as a whole, for example, Dami Duro, IF, Fall were all singles from his album that made serious wave independently, he broke the jinx with back to back release of two projects ‘A Good Time‘ and ‘A Better Time‘ in a consecutive year (2019/2020).

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The second half of the last decade was dominated by single releases, such as songs like Pana by Tekno, Mad over you by Runtown, If, Fall, Fia by Davido, Manya by Wizkid, Wo by Olamide, and so on.
It became a norm and trendy that made releasing an album looks like time-wasting to up and coming artists,

In 2019/2020 was a revolution for the Nigerian music industry, all the artists stormed the scene with projects, artists like Burna Boy, Davido, Wizkid, Tiwa Savage, Tekno, Olamide, Phyno, Flavour, Timaya, Runtown, Yemi Alade, Fireboy, Brymo, Patoranking, 2baba, L.A.X, Moelogo, Rekaado Banks dropped a project (EPs and Albums), embracing the album culture wave.

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It was indeed a cultural reset for the industry which yielded and encouraged the up-and-coming artists to start thinking about publishing projects.

Albums or EPs dish out the depth of a creative project, it touches every part and shows the full artistic prowess of a musician.

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Nigerian Songstress Omawunnmi takes to social media to hint fans at a possible new album.

On her Instagram page on January 20th, the singer put up a picture of herself in the studio with a short note.

She described how she loses herself when it comes to music, with a question asking her fans what they want on her new album.

Her post;

“I loose myself a lot when it’s all about the music… Who do you want to hear on my next album?” 

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Omawumi known for her groundbreaking song “Bottom Belle” has so far released three albums.

The latest titled “Timeless” was released in 2017.

However, she has released an EP titled “In her feelings” in 2019, which is her most recent project.

It is imperative to note that the singer is yet to announce what and what will comprise her new album.

However, coming out of the blue after a couple of years is something her fans would greatly appreciate.

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