that’s how little clout Obama has these days(it’s on his 2022 Summer playlist)
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 11:14 (one year ago) link
different EPs tho, “Vibe Out” is from last year’s one, “Free Mind” is on the one before that.
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 11:16 (one year ago) link
Vibe Out is such a jam.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 12:37 (one year ago) link
"free mind" is great, but it's weird for an album cut from years ago to take off like this. seems like it's just a product of mainstream fans digging into a newly-popular artist's back catalog and landing on a gem.
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
delightful:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1idqvGdCitUZinoleesky ft. Tiwa Savage • Jaiye Foreign(produced by Pheelz)
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 11 August 2022 12:16 (one year ago) link
hey, the guy partly responsible for the best track of the 2010s just dropped a new song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYAiEtyoAE0L.A.X • Para
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 11 August 2022 12:17 (one year ago) link
Jaiye Foreign: A+
― rob, Saturday, 13 August 2022 14:46 (one year ago) link
let’s count down the Naija hits, shall we?
.@fireboydml’s “Bandana” with @asakemusik spends a third week as the No. 1 song in the country while the viral ode to Wizkid debuts at No. 21. @fireboydml Bandana2. @carterefe__, @TigaBerri Machala 3. @burnaboy It’s Plenty4. @asakemusik PBUY5. @burnaboy For My Hand pic.twitter.com/9pEsKGgYBU— TurnTable Charts (@TurntableCharts) August 12, 2022
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 14 August 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
love this slice of Tanzapiano, so pretty:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmv_0Fpw5zkMarioo • Dear Exthat is some seriously smooth beatmaking
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 14 August 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link
Kreyòlapiano?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9QJ4-SjJM4Mickael Marabou ft. Davido • Mwen Love Ou
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 15 August 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
yep
https://musictalkers.com/latest-news/92-featured/8397-mickael-marabou-davido-teams-up-on-new-upbeat-romantic-pop-hit
Mickael describes the genesis begin with both her and Davido’s willingness to take a risk. “Once we decided to collaborate, we sent Davido two songs he chose this “Mwen Love Ou”, it was an honor to have them choose this one because it was in my native tongue Creole” Mickael explains. She continues on, “So it was great working with him on a sound that’s not his usual Afrobeats sound, it is more of a mix of house music techno mix with Afrobeat, which is called “Amapiano”.
Born in Brooklyn from Haitian parents, Mickael Marabou
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 August 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
AfroKreyolapiano it is then
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 19 August 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
*not done chanting:*following up “Finesse”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhS0aKygDwwPheelz ft. Davido • Electricityfollowing up “Omo Ope”, “Sungba”, “Sungba (Remix)”, “Palazzo”, Peace Be Unto You (PBUY)” and “Bandana”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrIP_igi76UAsake • Terminator
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 19 August 2022 17:59 (one year ago) link
Ooooooooooo! New Asake!
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 19 August 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link
Those are both great! But lol they're not exactly deviating from the formula are they, though I appreciate the ambition in Terminator. Electricity kind of just evaporates
― rob, Saturday, 20 August 2022 14:30 (one year ago) link
I have nothing positive to say about Asake - find him tacky, don't like his voice and "arena" effect, and this aside he brings nothing new. Bullshit mediocre artist.
― Nabozo, Saturday, 20 August 2022 17:59 (one year ago) link
He will be forgotten fast
peace be unto you
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 20 August 2022 18:06 (one year ago) link
lol
― rob, Saturday, 20 August 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
peace be unto you― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, August 20, 2022 8:06 PM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
16 rounds I'll be King Kong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmidK8z4YzE
― Nabozo, Saturday, 20 August 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link
still lolling at Nabozo's draconian Asake verdict, dude has put out what, 4 singles? mang
Anyway, BNXN's Bad Since '97 EP is so good y'all, lots of beautiful deep bass to get lost in. If you liked "Kenkele" upthread, definitely take 20 minutes to listen to this. Wizkid's great on it, Olamide sounds like a random weirdo wandered into the studio to growl into the mic but it works, etc
― rob, Thursday, 25 August 2022 13:55 (one year ago) link
right on time, there's a vid for the jazzy title track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amsNoH8Uuyc
― rob, Thursday, 25 August 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
am right in the middle of this. track 2 is great. and, man, “Many Ways”: Buju 😍 Wizzy 😍 Juls 😍
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 25 August 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
definitely a highlight! As much as I love autotuned smoothie Wizkid, he sounds so good over more acoustic productions too. I listened to Made In Lagos for the first time in a while the other day, and it struck me what a jazz-like approach to singing he has, he's a real crooner
― rob, Thursday, 25 August 2022 17:14 (one year ago) link
also a new dj tunez song ft wizkid, tay iwar & alpha p
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omJwK3hfQ5M
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 25 August 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
i can't remember if i posted about this but i really like the tay iwar single from earlier this summer, "bad4u"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1NtUYN2-cw
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 25 August 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
wow, didn’t realise today was my birthday!
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 25 August 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
xp
oooh, “Majo” has the piano 🎹🎹🎹!!!
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 25 August 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
wiz has been posting about the imminent release of new music pretty much all year including w/in the last week or two but the combo of these new features + the video for the chris brown single also coming this week leads me to believe that we're getting quite close
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 25 August 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
breastcrawlPosted: 10 December 2014 at 23:28:37And this is Uhuru feat. Speedy with the remix for "Ungowami", now also featuring Wizkid. True loverman anthem!
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 25 August 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
i'm maybe more in between nabozo and the hivemind on asake but the new song is nice
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 25 August 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
made in lagos becoming a micro genre unto itself makes me very happy
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 25 August 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
Haha, I had initially dismissed him with my first sentence, and then since I trust my wife's judgment, I asked her on the spot what she thought of Asake, and boy she doesn't mince her words. I think she added overhyped too. Giddy with excitement about new Wizkid music, haven't had a chance yet to listen !
― Nabozo, Thursday, 25 August 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
― J0rdan S., Thursday, August 25, 2022 3:09 PM (twenty-one minutes ago)
otm, that was my other takeaway from revisiting it: that album *really* set the agenda for a lot of stuff that came after
Re: Asake, tbh I like PBUY and the Sungba remix a lot, but I'm less hyped on the rest and I straight up didn't like Bandana (possibly cuz of Fireboy though!)
Majo is very cool. Not gonna fall for "new Wizkid album coming soon" talk though, I've been burned before :)
― rob, Thursday, 25 August 2022 19:44 (one year ago) link
after Joeboy scored the biggest hit of his career last year with “Alcohol” (later retitled to “Sip”), he thought it a good idea to follow it up with the straight-to-TikTok “Cubana”. it bombed, unsurprisingly. but he’s mended his ways and is now back to the straight and narrow with an absolutely brilliant track, produced, just like “Sip (Alcohol)” by Tempoe. loving both these video approaches:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dptz4nVbaEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0BiX7Mt4yoPS we can discuss the lyrics later. or not.
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 25 August 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
speaking of Tempoe: has anyone besides Nabozo and me been listening to the Omah Lay album?my expectations weren’t all that high, because of the drop in quality of the singles after “understand”, and the first half of Boy Alone seemed to confirm that. everything sounded nice and good but nothing stood out. when “understand” came up as track 7, I was like: man, what happened to those hooks you used to made? but the next track, “never forget”, gave me one of the biggest musical shocks/jolts in recent memory. what a breathtaking song/production/performance. and the adventure didn’t stop there: “soso”, “how to luv”… some real deep tracks there. I’ve been digging this album for several weeks now and the first half of the album has revealed itself gradually as well in the light of what follows behind (“i’m a mess”, “temptations”, that bassline!)anyway, “never forget” is one of my two songs of the year so far, and I have no hesitation in saying that for me it’s one of the best Afropop songs ever.(to come back to Tempoe, he produced most of the tracks, but “never forget” is the work of Semzi, best known here for thread favourites “MJ” by Bad Boy Timz and “Fall For Me” by Laycon and YKB)
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 25 August 2022 20:16 (one year ago) link
I never got around to checking that out but def will now.
In the meantime, that Joeboy track is dynamite!I'm not sure I followed the lyrics really, other than the Fela shout-out and the fact he won't share his charger
― rob, Thursday, 25 August 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
ok yeah "never forget" rules. Semzi has a real flair for bass. "safe haven" now sounding pretty great too, kind of a deep oceanic take on the "anthem" Last Last/Asake sound (do we have a shorthand for this?)--but my ears are worn out for the day so I'll have to come back to this
― rob, Thursday, 25 August 2022 20:32 (one year ago) link
interesting take on “safe haven”! I never made that connection
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 25 August 2022 23:03 (one year ago) link
the "anthem" Last Last/Asake sound (do we have a shorthand for this?)
you rang m’lord?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pvVyHyX2ZgOlamide • We Outside
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 25 August 2022 23:09 (one year ago) link
The Omah lay has been on constant rotation, it's my favorite release behind Rema this year, and I'm constantly returning to 'Soso' and 'Never Forget'. They're both lighter than air as well as grave and murky. Nigerian pop really likes to use inebriation as romantic metaphor for alienation, youthful doubt, fear of being numb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfxkBWJNihg
― Nabozo, Friday, 26 August 2022 08:25 (one year ago) link
Well, surely not just metaphor, I'm sure they like their drink a little too much
― Nabozo, Friday, 26 August 2022 08:28 (one year ago) link
aiui palm wine is pretty important to Igbo and Yoruba culture, and it figures in their folklore and more contemporary culture (e.g., Amos Tutuola). Most relevantly there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm-wine_music
― rob, Friday, 26 August 2022 12:33 (one year ago) link
Omah is more of a cognac guy tho
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 26 August 2022 14:42 (one year ago) link
lol sure I just meant stuff like this and Joeboy's "Sip" might be tying more into traditional themes than you'd expect (or not, sorry if I'm 'splaining here)
― rob, Friday, 26 August 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
rob be sipsplaining
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 26 August 2022 15:49 (one year ago) link
Tekno has got his groove back (thank you, Kiss!) and it’s a joy to behold:“After Party”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aDjFAWJzB4also a nice new twist on the anthemic chorus line thing
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 26 August 2022 23:33 (one year ago) link
Since the UK afro thread is not the most active, I might as well post this here. We've been enjoying playing this, and for once, the French feat is good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHLesr_8Y0QNSG & MHD - In Da Car
― Nabozo, Sunday, 28 August 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
“In Da Car” is some good shit!besides 4Play, there’s two boss Dutch producers involved in that one: Diztortion and Spanker.if you’re looking for a super cho French rap feature, look no further than this one, one of my crucial 2022 jams:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lp9clJSB7EAya Nakamura ft. Damso • Dégaine(I’m cheating of course, this one being French on French)
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 29 August 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link