Flavour has dropped the video for his song ‘Wiser’ which features M.I Abaga and Phyno.
The joint was produced by Masterkraft, off Flavour’s last album ‘Thankful’.
The video was directed by Clarence Peters.
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Masterkraft has released the official video for his song titled ‘Finally’ featuring Flavour, and Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie.
The video was directed by Clarence peters.
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Olamide and MI are some of the nominees battling for Best Hiphop video. Photo: Filed
Organisers of the annual Nigeria Music Video Awards have released the nomination list for the 2015 edition of the awards and one of the categories that will be stiffly contested for is the Best Hiphop Video.
Olamide’s visuals to his popular single, ‘Awon goons mi’ will be going head to head with MI’s ‘Bullion Van’, Chidinma’s ‘Lorry’, ‘Indomie’ by Mastercraft, Dotman’s ‘Melo’ and ‘Karishika’ by Falz.
Who will walk away with this award?
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Yemi Alade has debuted her track titled ‘Mama Africa’ with the first performance of the track, on the eighth episode of Coke Studio Africa’s third season.
‘Mama Africa’ is also the expected name of her anticipated second album
Masterkraft and Kenya’s king of Genge Jua Cali, aided in the successful performance of ‘Mama Africa’.
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Nigerian music producer, Masterkraft covers the great Bob Marley classic titled ‘Satisfy My Soul’ (originally released back in 1978).
The award winning beatmaker, comes correct on this joint.
To listen to the song, Click Here.
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Tunde Ednut has new tune. Photo: Filed
Tunde Ednut has released a brand new tune titled ‘Kosowo’.
Tunde sings about always having money and keeping up with the time, good life and luxury lifestyle.
The song was produced by General Records boss, Masterkraft.
To listen to the track click here
Tunde Ednut and Shizzi.
This time, the beef goes legal!
Yea, you read that right. Nigerian music producer, Oluwaseyi Akerele otherwise called Shizzi is very pissed. The serial hit-maker is claiming that singer, Tunde Ednut allegedly stole his beat/instrumental to make his latest song titled ‘Kosowo‘ which is produced by MasterKraft.
Wasting no time, Shizzi has had his lawyers formally write Tunde Ednut and Masterkraft to promptly take-down all the download links for the song and desist from all promotion of it.
According to Shizzi, he made the beat for another artiste way back in May 2014.
NET diggings reveal that the said beat was made for Wande Coal, who at that time freestyled on it before parting ways with his former manager, Bankulli.
Sources tell NET that Tunde Ednut may have heard the beat from Wande Coal and had another producer re-work it for him.
NET however reached out to Tunde Ednut to hear his side and he simply told our correspondent, ‘No comment’.
CDQ.
Indigenous rapper, CDQ has just signed a management deal with 323 Entertainment, a company owned by Mavin singer, Tiwa Savage and her hubby, Teebillz.
Now, don’t get it twisted, CDQ still remains signed on to the MasterKraft-led, General Records, but 323 Entertainment will handle his management affairs. Just as Tiwa Savage is signed to Mavin and managed by 323 Entertainment.
CDQ confirmed the new deal saying, ‘Woss Wobi… New year, New goals… Big up Teebillz my new 323Management family’. Teebillz also said, ‘May God help me with the success that my heart desires for this Undeniable Talent CDQ as I welcome him to the 323 Family’.
As Nigerian singer, Yemi Alade prepares to drop her second studio album titled ‘Mama Africa’, she’s shared the official full track list for the record.
The album is scheduled to drop this month of March, and according to the track list she released, it’s a 14 track project with collaborations from African pop stars like Psquare, Sarkodie, Sauti Sol, Selebobo, Dj Arafat, Flavour and Rotimi Keys.
Producers who worked on the album include Selebobo, GospelOnTheBeat, Masterkraft, Chidoo, Rotimi Keys, Beatz By Emzo and Philkeyz.
The new album is a follow-up to her debut studio album ‘Kings of Queens‘ that was released in October 2014.
It’s a brand new single #TGIF (Time No Dey) off DJ Neptune’s forth coming album, featuring Africa’s King of high life music Flavour Nabania.
Produced by Master Kraft with the mixing and mastering done by Indomix.
To listen to the song, Click HERE!
By Adeyinka Oluwamayowa
The past week has been quite impressive in the Nigerian music scene. A number of songs were released and truth be told, the sound quality, and content game is fast improving.
Let’s start with Falz who has transformed from a pure singer into music-comedic act – and released this week ‘Bahd Baddo Baddest‘ featuring the big cheeses of the industry; Olamide and Davido. ‘Bahd Baddo Baddest’ sees Falz (The Bahd Guy) rapping about his prodigious talent hilariously, Olamide on the other hand cracks about ladies flocking after him and wanting his hand in marriage, while Davido tells us why he’s being referred to as Baddest with his recent accomplishments. ‘Bahd Baddo Baddest‘ is a combination of good talents, you should check it out.
Veteran singer, Marvellous Benjy returns to the music scene with ‘Locked Down’ featuring SolidStar. As much as many people might have forgotten Marvelous Benjy as an artiste, this single proves to us why he’s legend and one of the foremost dancehall/reggae singers in Nigeria. Listening to SolidStar’s sonorous voice on this track gives amazing expression of the single.
Wizboyy is still having a swell 2016 with his songs. The urban highlife singer kicked off the year with ‘Chigeji’ that is still enjoying great love from fans. The Fortrail Empire recording artiste releases yet another infectious, dance tune christened, ‘Gimme Ur Love.’ The new single sees heavy percussion with a hint of the talking drum – a rare element that only Wizboyy can pull.
Iyanya picks up his initial calling, RnB and came out of his very short hiatus to release another spanking RnB single in April. ‘Type Of Woman’ is one of the best music from the TripleMG act. With his well-placed vocals, Iyanya resonantly serenades with his quality lyrics, well arranged verses, and captures our heart by proving to us that he’s still got the slows, rhymes and blues in him.
Kiss Daniel’s vocal sound is fast becoming very addictive. Each time he sings, we love him more. Having delivered chart-topping singles since his debut, bagging notable nominations and awards for his craft, Kiss is definitely one artiste that has successfully created his brand and left his signature on the hearts of his fans. His new single is just another boundless single. ‘Mama‘ was produced by ‘The Wicked Producer,’ Young John and Kiss Daniel delivered amazingly, an expressive song with well-arranged technical productions.
VJ Adams has efficaciously positioned himself above other DJs/VJs who have ventured into singing as solo artiste. VJ Adams is one of the few VJs who actually sing and drop some verses on their songs. The remix of his widely-accepted ‘Gbemisoke’ single featured Gabriel Afolayan who uses rich indigenous Yoruba language on the track and Pasuma who also featured earlier on the single. VJ Adams gave us a proper rendition of what remix used to sound like in the past; fresh vocals/lyrics, improved beat, and more flows to outshine the original version. Thumbs up for VJ Adams for this!
Music producer and sound engineer, Otee Beatz released sultry RnB single, ‘Take Me Away’ featuring two of the best voices in the industry, SoJay and Lynxxx. Otee has worked with various top artistes to create record-breaking singles. He also dropped one of the most outstanding singles by a music producer, ‘Dangerous’ featuring Charass in 2015. ‘Take Me Away’ assisted by two titans shows us Otee is indeed innovative.
As much as Adekunle Gold has gathered much momentum from his previous singles, before the release of ‘Ready,’ most of his fans were excited when he made the announcement of this single. However, forthrightly speaking, there’s absolutely nothing outstanding in ‘Ready.’ The Urban Highlife singer brought to the table what he’s been presenting to us since he started having attention. Despite enjoying creative strings by Fiokee, solid production from Pheelz and fine-tuned mixing and mastering by singer Simi, Adekunle Gold delivered but failed to impress us on this joint. No doubt, ‘Ready‘ is a good single with good lyrical content and production, however, we need more of that ‘extra’ touches that got us hooked to Adekunle Gold’s songs.
Surprisingly, CDQ came out in another dimension which is totally different from what he’s known for on ‘First Come First Serve (FCFS).’ The rapper keeps trying out new appeals with his magical music producer, Masterkraft. CDQ didn’t do strictly Yoruba raps; he mixed Pidgin English with Yoruba as he blesses us ‘First Come First Serve’ – a slow-tempo single which will get you rocking eventually.
Last week, it was Eedris AbdulKareem who delivered conscious music; this week, we are happy to have legendary Modenine doing the same thing in ‘My Country’ single. ‘My Country’ gives insight on the current state of Nigeria which is threatened by corruption, violence, social injustice and more. The song features Amuta Stone and Uchie The African Rockstar.
Top 10 Singles (Recap)
CDQ – First Come First Serve (Prod. By MasterKraft)
Adekunle Gold – Ready (Prod. By Pheelz)
VJ Adams Ft. Gabriel Afolayan & Pasuma – Gbemisoke (Remix)
Falz Ft. Olamide & Davido – Bahd Baddo Baddest (Prod. By Sess)
Marvellous Benjy Ft. SolidStar – Locked down (Prod. By Marvellous Benjy)
Iyanya – Type of Woman (Prod. By Mystro)
Wizboyy – Gimme Ur Love
Kiss Daniel – Mama (Prod. By Young John)
Otee Beatz Ft. Sojay & Lynxxx – Take Me Away
Modenine Ft. Amuta Stone & Uchie The African Rockstar – My Country
G-Worldwide Entertainment artiste, Kiss Daniel releases the visual for ‘Jombo’, a song from his New Era album.
The song was produced by Masterkraft and the video was directed by Ani James for Aje Filmworks.
Without Tee Billz‘ 323 Entertainment managing him, rapper CDQ is forging ahead with the release of his debut studio album, Quality.
The rapper who is signed to Masterkraft‘s General Records and has had moderate success with his singles, ‘Woss Wobi’ and ‘Salaro’ stated his intention to move on from Billz’ management in May.
READ: CDQ cuts ties with Tee Billz’ 323 Entertainment
He has slated Quality for an August 2016 release date.
Coded Tunes boss ID Cabasa was the producer behind Banky W’s R&B smash hit ‘Capable’.
Puffy Tee produced Mayorkun’s debut single ‘Eleko’.
Tee Y Mix produced Immaculate’s hit song ‘Osanle’.
Did you know Yeankeys was the producer behind Deebee‘s ‘Collabo’ from back in the day?
He is more famous for working with Davido but Shizzi before then produced Maye Hunta‘s ‘Ekaette’.
Sara was the surprise producer behind Niniola‘s hit song ‘Soke’.
Spellz produced the unlikely duet between fuji legend Pasuma and Tiwa Savage titled ‘Ife’.
Remember the Peelola song titled ‘Only You’ featuring Wande Coal ? That song was produced by Don Jazzy.
Masterkraft is the producer behind this song by Flavour and Sarkodie.
You probably already knew this but Pheelz produced ‘Pick Up’ by Adekunle Gold.
Check out 2face Idibia‘s album covers and tracklists, in celebration of his 41st birthday.
Album- Face2Face
Release year: 2004
Guest Artistes- Freestyle, Natives, Lil Seal, Blackface
Producers: OJB Jezreel
Record Label- Kennis Music
Tracklist
1 Intro (Skit)
2 Nfana Ibaga (No Problem)
3 Ole ft. Freestyle
4 Right Here
5 Holy (Skit)
6 U No Holy Pass
7 African Queen
8 Police (Skit)
9 Keep On Rocking ft. Native & Lil Seal
10 Thank U Lord
11 Odi Ya ft. Blackface of Plantashun Boiz 2face Idibia
Album- Grace2Grace
Release year: 2006
Guest Artistes: Soul E, VIP
Producer: OJB Jezreel
Record Label- Kennis Music
Tracklist…
1 Intro (Skit)
2. One Love
3. No Shaking
4. I Dey Feel Like
5. See Me So
6. Skit (Store)
7. E B Like Say featuring Soul E
8. True Love
9. 4 Instance
10. If Love Is A Crime
11. OCHO
12. My Love featuring VIP
13. Outro Skit
Album- The Unstopables
Release year: 2008
Guest Artistes: R Kelly, Sound Sultan, Cartier, Melissa Briggs, Lil Ehi Idibia, Chakademus, Pliers, Nats, Sway, Wyre
Producers: J Sleek, Jiggy Jegg, Mic Tunes, Ozzy, Spanky, R Kelly
Record Label: Hypertek Entertainment
Tracklist…
Intro
Enter the Place (featuring Sound Sultan)
Take It Back (featuring cartier)
Outside
Can’t Do Without You (featuring Melissa Briggs)
Free (Lil Ehi Idibia)
Pako
So Proud (Remix) (featuring Chakademus & Pliers)
Flex (featuring R. Kelly and Nats)
Oh Papa
Go Down There (featuring Sway)
Excuse Me Sister
Appreciate It
Jungle Don Mature
Feeling You
I Sing
See It Coming (featuring Wyre)
Fly
Outro
Release year: 2010
Guest Artistes: M.I, Omawumi, Cobhams
Album- Away & Beyond
Release year: 2012
Guest Artistes: Naeto C, Huma Lara,Terry da Rapman, Dammy Krane, Rock Steady, Becca
Producers: J Sleek, Femi Ojetunde, Clutchie, Spellz, Kiki Banson, Kaywa, DJ Willie O
Record Label: Hypertek Entertainment
Tracklist…
1. Higher (spiritual healing) ft Huma Lara
2. Omo tosan
3. Bother you ft Terry da Rapman
4. Spell bound
5. Steady steady
6. Dance in the rain
7. In your eyez
8. Freedom in life
9. Rainbow
10. Dance floor
11. Keep pushing
12. Ihe neme
13. O.N.D (omo no dulling) ft Dammy Krane & Rock Steady
14. Bad man, bad girl. ft Becca
15. Chemical reaction. ft Naeto C
READ: 2face – Away and Beyond [Album Review]
Album- The Ascension
Release year: 2014
Guest Artistes: Machel Montano, Vector, Bridget Kelly, Rocksteady, Dammy Krane, Sir Victor Uwaifo, Iceberg Slim, Kim Almarcha, Shurwayne Winchester and Fally Ipupa
Producers: Leriq, Alton Berti, Bolji Beats, Dezay, Dnyce, Fabio Litto, Femdouble, G$Ol, Jay Sleek, Kodjo, Masterkraft and Rolly
Record Label: Hypertek Entertainment & 960 music group
READ: 2face’s ‘The Ascension’ isn’t bad, just not boundary-crossing [Album Review]
Tracklist…
1. Go ft. Machel Montano
2. Aproko
3. Holiday
4. Cant hear you ft. Vector
5. The best i can be ft. Iceberg slim & Rocksteady
6. Let somebody love you ft. Bridget kelly
7. Kiss of life
8. Hate what you do to me
9. Confessions ft. Rocksteady & Dammy Krane
10. Close to where you are
11. International loving ft. Kim Almarcha
12. Boulay boulay ft. Shurwayne
13. Diaspora woman ft. Fally Ipupa
14. Jeje
15. Lesse passe ft. Sir Victor Uwaifo
16. Ife dinma with Tony One Oeek
17. Not a surprise
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After the release of his single ‘Serve You’ a few months ago, Lynxxx is back with a new single titled ‘CharaCha’ which translates to ‘clean and pure’ or ‘quality’.
Produced by Masterkraft, with whom Lynxxx delivered his hit song ‘Fine Lady’, this single has the feel to become another wedding favourite.
Listen to the song here.
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This is the difference between a Nigerian girl and a western girl: Yemi Alade: If you like me you buy me Ferrari Sia: I don’t need your money. I love cheap thrills That was a joke I wrote on Twitter weeks ago. As expected, many boys retweeted. Girls ignored, or voiced dissent. Some females agreed — if retweeting is endorsement.
Ms. Alade may seem like an undeserving scapegoat of my joke but she isn’t. If anything in recent times, she has enforced this idea of the Nigerian woman — or African woman — as a cash grabbing machine whose sole purpose is to look good enough to attract a man. The supreme example of her materialism is ‘Ferrari’ in which her love and body come at the price of a Ferrari. She’s above your league clearly. Carry your Toyota out of the road and make way for a corrupt politician. This self-acclaimed Mama Africa is not here for your lyrics.
READ: Wizkid, Yemi Alade win big at 2016 MAMAs
She doesn’t care for her own lyrics either. Her second album is a model of repetition saved occasionally by the brilliance of producer Masterkraft. Shortly after reviewing her album here, I stayed up to catch reports of the MAMAs. She was triumphant.
As a Nigerian, I am quite happy to cheer my compatriots doing great things in other countries. But her Mama Africa album still is fraudulent, as I wrote: ‘…the geography is as dodgy as the {Yemi Alade} image is a fraud. While the album is high-mindedly subtitled, “Diary of an African woman,” a number of songs carry the specifically vapid materialism of the stereotypical Lagos girl. The flesh may scream selfless-Africa but the spirit is greedy-Lagos. There’s the luxury car required for love on ‘Ferrari’. There’s the thirst for cash on ‘Ego’: “See my baby, e name na ego” (My baby’s name is money).’ ‘These are songs having words with meanings. Other times, the album goes through the motions, employing all kinds of sounds (tumbum-tumbum, kom-kom, toronto-toronto) perhaps to avoid the trouble of actual words.’
Yemi Alade had quite a career before the success of ‘Johnny’. But that success ruined her. To be sure, Ms. Alade has never been a great lyricist but at the time, she seemed committed to those weak lyrics and her spunky naive honesty was endearing. Her previous promoted singles suggested her yearning for love was untouched by ‘unbridled materialism’, as a friend put it. Today that materialism is mostly all there is to her music.
In some ways, she has become the female P-Square, the guys who have encouraged women to ‘chop their money’—except that where they were telling men to make enough money so that clubbing may be easier. Ms Alade is building a country of female dependents. Irrespective of where a person lies on the feminist debate, it is quite the case that many people prefer a working woman over the leech that the music of Ms Alade seems intent on encouraging. And she hasn’t just started on her cash crusade this year. ‘I like your money o,’ she sang on her debut album Kings of Queens on one of the songs without a video. ‘I want your money o. You will buy me motor. You will buy me Gucci. You will buy me Prada.’
READ: Yemi Alade goes from Mama Africa to Caribbean girl in ‘Want You’
The question is this: Is Ms. Alade representing the Nigerian woman as she is or is she endorsing the parasitic tendencies of a certain kind of woman? The relentlessness of her vision suggests the latter. What is frustrating with Ms. Alade is that these statements of materialistic purpose aren’t backed by witty lines or any knowledge that a woman should bring something, anything to either the boardroom, the studio or the bedroom. The Alade type of woman is nothing more than a demanding dumb pretty chick.
Unlike her colleague Tiwa Savage, Alade doesn’t even suggest any agency in sexual concerns. All she has is a body—no brain, no initiative, and no carnal skill. Her new song continues the material theme from its title, ‘Gucci Ferragamo’. A better song than her recent efforts, it gets good production work from Maleek Berry.
This time there is a variation on her eternal pursuit for designer clothing and such things. On the surface, it is just as bad as she is basing the worth of women on accessories. Yet there is something of a lyrical depth on this one that is absent from her recent work. As with her most uncreative choruses, this song features a phrase repeated till it needs saving by the song’s beat. Fortunately, her subject hasn’t been covered by contemporary Nigerian pop. And this is where the new song works. It has a novel theme.
READ: Yemi Alade rants about gender-biased critics who don’t research properly
Ms. Alade has tapped into a common story in many a neighbourhood gist. You have probably heard the neighbourhood gist about a young girl who has discovered her sexuality and thus attracts gifts from men. The new situation gives her enough confidence to believe she is superior to older girls in the ‘hood, ‘the big girl’ referred to elsewhere on the song.
The song itself is relayed by one of these big girls who is either speaking out of bitterness or out of knowing how it is to be flavour-of-the-week for a while. It is a bit of a bullying song in how aggressive bits of it sounds. It is a feel-good song but it does have something extra in the way Ms Alade’s voice goes from jolly to threatening. You can almost see the scene in which the big girl talks to the curvy usurper. ‘Gucci Ferragamo’ will be an average song for a better artist — if only because it is marred by the repetitive part of the chorus that can cause a headache. But the bar for Yemi Alade is so low that ‘Gucci Ferragamo’ can be considered a great Yemi Alade song. This low pass-mark perhaps tells the tragic story of much of the recent music released by Ms Alade.
Oris Aigbokhaevbolo tweets @catchoris. In 2015, he won the All Africa Music Award for Music/Entertainment Journalism.
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Yawa Sound songstress, Belinda releases a new single titled ‘For the Road’.
Listen to the song produced by Masterkraft here.
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