R&B is the unofficial theme music for the month; it is to February what Christmas songs are to December. We are still in the month of love, and there isn’t a genre...

Olamide took the fourth edition of his annual OLIC concert to the mainland for the first time; it’s obvious that the rap superstar has outgrown Eko Hotel’s overused Convention Center.

The period I like to call the twelve days of Christmas concerts in Lagos is over, and now we are able to look back at the year in its totality.

Through the years, Nigerian artistes have endured a love-hate relationship with Alaba distributors - cutting deals with the same group of people pirating your music is akin to dining with the devil...

Everwhere you turn in Lagos, there’s a story just waiting to be told. This year, two conceptual rap albums were released with the sole purpose of trying to tell them, albeit from two very different perspectives. Olamide – a man so revered by the streets that when he momentarily revoked Don Jazzy’s visa to the…

Death really does come in threes. Last month, in barely a week, three young men lost their lives after reportedly partying like rockstars, and, in Davido, their deaths were linked to a very big one.

MI is employing a variant of the same throwing rocks and hiding your hands tactic, the legendary MC took a swipe at an entire genre on the eviscerating “You Rappers Should Fix Up Your Lives”

As the curtain fell on her second Live In Lagos concert, Eko Hotel felt like the latest stop in a decade-long victory lap for Asa. Supported by a majestic 30-man orchestra, the singer put together a strong contender for concert of the year, and it was only April.

At least two schools of thought have emerged on lyricism within Nigerian hip-hop. One lays all the blame for the lack of intelligence in lyrics at the foot of the listener.

Just like those devastating hurricanes with oddly normal names like Harvey and Maria, the current wave of Afropop music might as well be named Mr. Eazi.

There are some interactions between artists and the media that you just know will become important parts of music history, like when Kanye West barked “you don't have the answers” at Sway Calloway or when Birdman walked out on the Breakfast Club for not putting ‘respek’ on his name.

President Muhammadu Buhari returned to Aso Rock last Saturday after 103 days away on medical leave. His return brought a period of intense uncertainty to an end, although we’ll know in a few weeks whether the president is back for good or if Nigerians....